writer at play
Posted in kids at play, random on Jun 3rd, 2010
So, Miss M. comes into the kitchen while I’m making dinner. Miss M.: How ’bout you be Cinderella and I be Snow White? Cinderella is cooking. (By now you can probably tell why I always get to be Cinderella.) Me: Yep. Working hard. Miss M: And Cinderella’s prince is mowing the lawn. (This is true. [...]
Posted in creativity, kids at play on May 18th, 2010
A few weeks ago (like in, um, April because I am just that good about getting pictures off the camera), the kids and I hauled out paper, paint and brushes for an art project. I’d picked this cute bird lesson to do and the older ones set to with a will. Here’s Miss M.’s: While [...]
Posted in drawing, kids at play on May 5th, 2010
Miss M. made these suncatchers by using an eye dropper to put liquid watercolor on paper towels. She got to work on her fine motor skills and make something pretty. (Just don’t look too closely at my desperately-need-to-be-washed windows!). Sir I. had fun using Legos, corks, forks and miscellany from the kitchen junk drawer to [...]
Posted in creativity, kids at play on Mar 23rd, 2010
Sir I. has been into rockets in a big way. Here’s the one he made at the library’s art program: Miss M. made this sun (with salt dough) when we were studying Mexico: Both older kids drawing together: This is the circle-inspired art I did for the February creative challenge at daisy yellow: Doodling, and [...]
Posted in kids at play on Feb 17th, 2010
a giant valentine for Mom and Dad Georgia O’Keeffe-inspired art sewing and stenciling stars and stripes sugar-cube and vanila frosting buildings
Posted in creativity, kids at play on Jan 28th, 2010
1. Read winter poetry (like this lovely illustrated version of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening) and paint winter landscapes. 2. Catch snowflakes on your mittens. Read books about snowflakes. Cut, draw, or make some of your own. 3. Go outside and make snow angels, snowmen (or snow dinosaurs) and ice sculptures. Have fun! [...]
Posted in kids at play on Jan 18th, 2010
Recent highlights from our homeschool: * We read an illustrated version of Robert Frost’s Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, and painted snowy trees afterward. This was the kids’ first introduction to spattering paint on purpose. * After reading several books featuring knights, the kids designed their own coats-of-arms and put them on posterboard [...]
Posted in creativity, inspiration, kids at play on Jan 16th, 2010
The tagline of this blog is “writer at play”, but my attitude towards my literary endeavors is more akin to steely-eyed clenched-teeth fortitude these days. I was eyeball-deep in one set of revisions for a couple months; I have since waded into yet another novel revision. While revisions do have their moments of mountain-high elation, [...]
Posted in creativity, kids at play on Dec 14th, 2009
It occurs to me that my last post may have come across as crotchety and Scrooge-like. Don’t get me wrong: Christmas is my favorite holiday and I love this time of year. I just came out of a fun but social weekend and my Inner Introvert is gibbering in one corner of my head. So, [...]
Posted in kids at play on Oct 15th, 2009
Back when we were studying the African savanna, the kids and I spent a morning making these cute zebras: I printed off a zebra coloring page to use as a template and cut out zebra shapes from black and white construction paper. The kids put on masking tape and paper strips for stripes. We also [...]