One of my New Years resolutions this year was to get back on track with making art with the Woog. It is freezing here and it snowed so we probably won't venture out for a few days. Yesterday morning we did a quick project and made ice ornaments. She used a collection of colored beads, paper and glitter while I mixed together some previous work illustrations.



By: Holli & Walker, age 5
a girl who creates

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Grab your little pumpkins and get to junkin!



Shena made it a family affair!! Check it out here.

Labels: holli conger, pumpkin junkin, Shena Leonard

The Squirrel and I set out to make a stencil. I grabbed a file folder because of its thickness. She drew a cat on it and I cut it out.

The file folder worked out great for a stencil because of the way you can set the paper inside it-- the bottom edge helps with aligning and keeping it in one place.

And when we decided to do a second color (the cat's stripes), I could easily trace the shape onto the back of the folder when closed, then open it up and cut out the stripes...

...and if she aligned with the folder's bottom edge when painting the second color, it turned out pretty good.
By: ErinSherman & TheSquirrel, age 5.5
ErinSherman's blog

Labels: cat, Erin Sherman, folder, stencil

I love it when an activity devised for Rylan (1) ends up being a crowd pleaser for the big kids too. Kenzie kept asking me to paint on this day, so I finally obliged her with this craft activity I'd "earmarked" as a Rylan-pleaser.


Homemade sidewalk chalk paint recipe:
2 tbs. water
2 tbs. cornstarch
4 drops food coloring


Mix different colors in a muffin tin. & Be on the ready with refill ingredients. This was a big hit.



By: Stacy, Kenzie (5) & Rylan (1)
Mama's Doodles

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Homemade body paint:
2 tsp Cornstarch
1 tsp cold cream
1 tsp. water
3-4 drops food coloring.
Mix together in an egg carton or muffin tin, apply with paintbrushes.
We used the garden hose for clean-up!!



By: Stacy, Kenzie (5), & Rylan (1)
Mama's Doodles

Labels: stacy d.

Holidays are over but it's still winter :) We made these fun snowflakes with Q-tips.
We cut a piece of white paper plate: hexagon or circle. We glued six Q-tips onto it, (low-temp hot-glue is easiest if you can). A button pressed into the center even helps finish it. TheSquirrel thought it was so cool she could use the Q-tips for something.


Her bedroom has a tree with removeable apples (via Velcro)... so we put Velcro on the backs of these snowflakes, to decorate her "tree" with them in the Winter. (For the Fall, we have autumn leaves to stick on there, and this Spring we'll stick blossoms on there.)

By: ErinSherman & TheSquirrel, age almost-5
WhiteShoes

Labels: Erin Sherman, snowflakes

Just a little bit of snow today but we were still able to make our own snowman, just in a different way! Mine is on the right, her's is on the left.

By: Holli & Walker, age 4
agirlwhocreates

Labels: holli conger