Bree and Cate have been taking a weekly class on Outschool that gives instructions on how to draw a different kind of bird each week. It’s been a lot of fun watching them draw and their finished art is so amazing.
Category: Artwork
Moose and the Guitar
Bree is taking a class on Outschool to practice Language Arts / Grammar. One of the sentence examples that she and her teacher came up with for a recent lesson was “Moose is playing the guitar.” Bree thought that was a fun idea, so she drew a picture for the sentence and proudly showed it […]
Autumnal Eeyah
I love this picture Bree made so much. From the bird feeder filled with candy corn to the hummingbird feeder filled with apple cider (including cinnamon sticks) and the falling leaves floating in the wind. She even included the pumpkins she and Cate carved (on the chickadee feeder.) And of course her seahorse, Eeyah, is […]
Trouble Game Reimagined
The girls had a “Minnie Mouse Trouble Game” that came apart, so they recreated their own, called “Magical World Trouble.” (With their own rules, too, of course.)
Bird Correspondence
One of Cate’s assignments for her remote learning was to write her teacher a letter. I thought it might be fun for both Bree and Cate to make her a card, since they both have this teacher for different classes. And this teacher, Ms. Longtain, is one of my favorites because of how she looks […]
Watercolor Cats
An art teacher at the girls’ Homeschool Options school, Ms. Hickman, has been creating weekly watercolor tutorials for her students. All three girls did the latest tutorial together, even though only Adrianna and Bree have her for actual classes this year. I think their cats turned out great, each according to their own styles and […]
Mo Willems Doodles
Bree and Cate have been watching some of the Mo Willems Doodles videos, where the author Mo Willems talks about his creativity process and then shares how to do some of the doodles. Their drawings of Pigeon turned out great!
Trumpet of the Swan
Due to their love of birds, I’ve been reading Trumpet of the Swan to the little girls. This has peaked their interest in trumpeter swans, so we’ve also been watching videos about them and now trumpeter swans have started appearing in their drawings and imaginative play as well. For instance, they started gymnastics on Sunday […]
Cat Ponies
It makes me smile when I think about how the girls have created alternative creatures based off of My Little Pony. First, there were bee ponies, then bird ponies (“Fly, fly, fly, fly, I am a bird pony!”) And most recently “Cat ponies” have made an appearance. 🙂 They totally look like Fluttershy and Rainbow […]
Makerspace
Bree attended a beginner coding class at a nearby makerspace and was happy to learn that the makerspace was having Open Hours directly after. She saw a little heart-shaped wooden box and wanted to make one herself, so with some help, we were able to print the pieces with a laser printer. She then put […]