A great video from YouTube highlighting hand lettering by a father and son.
In other news, one of my goals this year is to redesign this site, get more participants and try and post regularly with work from my daughter and myself, plus try and highlight some other big and little art from the web. Maybe all this will happen this summer. Maybe I won't be as swamped with work then :)
I want to thank all of you who have kept this site fresh with posts!
We borrowed a library book involving shapes that become sea creatures in a cut-paper style...
and since today we integrated the letter D to our learning, we looked at the "semicircle" page...
and made our own jellyfish out of cut paper. This is TheSquirrel's, which was great for scissor practice. (The jellyfish I mean; I had to cut the fish for her)
And here is mine:
By: ErinSherman & TheSquirrel, age just4! WhiteShoes
I was actually excited that it rained today. That's because we could try this project: Drip just a little liquid food coloring (or we had liquid watercolors) on a paper plate, then hold it out or place it in the rain to watch what interesting thing the rain does to it. (I guess the paint splatters a little as the raindrops fall into it).
Then we took the textures it made to the computer and I asked the Squirrel, what does this look like? So she gave me ideas and we made these doodles:
And I made the space one above, and this flower one:
There's an old saying that the month of March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
Following a children's calendar craft, above is TheSquirrel's lion and lamb on paper plates. Below are my lion and lamb, the way I work with patterns/texture on the pieces.
By: Erin Sherman & TheSquirrel, age just turned 4! WhiteShoes
From the library we borrowed a picture book titled "The Pocket Book," in which the character has ten pockets sewn on the front of her dress. I decided to do a dress-shaped project with TheSquirrel, (gluing on) ten pockets of different textures (scraps of fabrics or materials).
Then we wrote the descriptions of them, kinda like in the book. We wrote:"A scaly one, a roughy one, a dotty one, a plaidy one, a spotty one, a stripy one, a furry one, a purpley one, a silky one, and one to match my big blue eyes!"
What child doesn't like putting things into pockets? And, Hooray for glue guns!
By: Erin Sherman & TheSquirrel, almost 4! WhiteShoes
Home Made Side Walk Paint. We've been doing a lot of temporary art, so by the time I run and get the camera, things are already dissolved, smooshed into an ambiguous blob, or (gasp!) still totally unfinished. These paints may work best in warmer weather but we did it anyway. The recipe for this is found in FEB 2008 Family Fun magazine:
Following each holiday, we enjoy turning the cards into collage art. It ends up being a joint massacre of our card collection, but it's a nice way to condense, reuse & recycle the stash. Here's our Valentine "work of art."
Here's how it works!
Grab a child in your life and let them dictate what you all will do. Work how you work so they can see what you do and how you do it. If it's on the computer, give them the
mouse to color something in or if your medium of choice is paint, have them paint. Just be creative!! You can see what I do with one of my styles
here. Enjoy your time and just have fun!
Participation is open to all.
