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
Dachshund Koozie
I got to open one of my gifts early tonight. Cate made me a dachshund paper Koozie for my Diet Cokes.
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!
Avatar
Now that the little girls are a bit older, we are rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender series as a family. It has been enjoyable to have family movie nights so often and the girls are really into the show. They get excited, laugh a lot, and all three girls groan when there’s even the possibility […]
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 […]
Fashion Show
One of the art classes that the girls take at their homeschool electives program contains creative art projects. This week, Bree and Cate brought home “Fashion boards” that contained a study on the human form. The girls made a “Fashion Show” on the table, that included additional art, pencils and markers stood up on end […]
Dancing With the Birds
Knowing the girls’ love of birds, we watched Netflix’s new documentary, Dancing With the Birds. It was all about birds’ courtship rituals, from dancing to elaborate nest building. The girls loved it! And then I saw this interesting picture on our whiteboard the following day: I asked Bree what the two birds were doing, and […]