Pinky is 5 years, Chaos is 36 months, and Wild One is 15 months We didn't have a specific theme this week, though art did play a large role in most of our activities. This week we started the online art class from Pineapple Paintbrush. If you're not joining in you really should be - it's a lot of fun! You can click the button in my sidebar to learn more. We started by reading Mouse Paint since this week's class is all about color. Then we moved on to a few of the activities Dani outlined in her class: Color wheel (Pinky now knows all the primary and secondary colors - so cool!) Color blending: String painting (this was our favorite by far - even I had fun making a few pictures!) Next we read the book Ish. It's a cute story about a boy who loves to draw and learns that his drawings don't have to be exactly perfect. We decided to make some "Ish" drawings. I really wanted to encourage the kids to draw, even if they didn't think they could. I was so impressed by Pinky (who is always quick to say she "can't" draw something) telling me that she was going to TRY to draw a caterpillar. I think she did a GREAT job! The caterpillar she was trying to draw Her finished drawing! The next book we read was Elmer. It's a story of an elephant who, though he looks different, learns what is special about himself. This was definitely the favorite book of both Pinky and Chaos this week. Just for fun we colored some Elmer elephants with our oil pastels. The coloring page was printed from here. For some non-art related activities: Chaos has been very interested in learning his letters lately, and Pinky has been very interested in spelling. I traced our alphabet magnets and added pictures (our rhyming cards from Dr. Seuss week) to spell simple CVC words. The kids both LOVED these. I plan to make quite a few more (these are double sided and "laminated" in contact paper). I didn't want to leave Wild One out of the art activities so she made her first ever collage using felt and contact paper. This was a great sensory activity for her too! The idea for this activity came from here on The Activity Mom. I also made her a Discovery Box (inspired by this post at The Imagination Tree) filled with musical instruments. She loved it! Her Discovery Box - most of the instruments are from our years in Kindermusik or Melissa and Doug sets. She dug right into the basket. Her favorites were the xylophone and the rainbow bottle (Pinky made it a few years back - it's simply an empty 20 oz bottle filled with beads and decorated with with rainbow tape. If you make one be SURE to secure the lid tightly). My favorite picture this week... Wild One is NOT pleased to be giving up her role as the baby in the family! I hope she changes her mind - Sprout will be here very soon! Linking up to:
