Archive for the ‘handicrafts’ Category
Posted on November 11, 2008 - by
The Thanksgiving Tree
I was talking with a friend of mine recently when she mentioned this idea she had seen and I decided Kate and I just had to do it! (All of that to say, this wasn’t my idea! 
Thanks for sharing, Sandra!)
Kate and I decided to celebrate Thanksgiving by thinking of things we are grateful for all month long. And to write these things down, we’re posting them on our “Thanksgiving Tree” on our pantry door.
We took a few pieces of newspaper and taped them together on the back, then drew a large tree trunk and some branches with crayons. Then we drew some different kinds of leaves on another piece of newspaper, cut them out as stencils, and traced and cut many more out of yellow, orange, and red construction paper.
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Posted on August 22, 2008 - by
What Do I Do with ALL that Artwork??
When you live with a budding artist, you live with piles and piles of artwork. And ALL of it is special. And NONE of it can be thrown away. At least, that’s what my 5 year old tells me constantly. And as gung-ho as she is about recycling, I still can’t manage to convince her that we can recycle some of her artwork, too.
So, instead of living with the masses of piles everywhere, I started looking for ideas of what to do with it all to help contain it and keep it from taking over my entire house. I came across several great suggestions like these:
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Posted on August 21, 2008 - by
Photography as an Art Form
My 5-year-old is an artist. She loves to color. She loves to draw. She loves to paint. She loves to cut and paste. She loves to bead. She loves to write cards. She loves to stamp. And she loves to take photos. Not only does she have her own kid-friendly camera that she uses non-stop until the batteries run out, but she also loves to grab her daddy’s iPhone and take photos on it. She’s gotten relatively good at it (we have several photos of family members that she took that are part of our collection), but the most recent addition to her collection is particularly interesting. It’s obvious that she blurred whatever it was that she was shooting. BUT, the resulting image was just too beautiful to delete. We’ve printed out a copy and framed it to put in her room and I’ve got it set as my desktop pic on my computer, too.
Makes me wonder what other gorgeous pictures she could get by purposefully blurring the image…
I’m not sure if Charlotte Mason would consider photography a ‘handicraft’, but I’m thinking that in this day and age it’s most definitely an art form! And one that I want to encourage in my artist-of-a-daughter, too.
Posted on August 20, 2008 - by
Crafty Ideas
Are you looking for cheap, crafty things to do with your kiddos to keep them from driving your batty? I stumbled across this blog the other day and thought it had some great and creative ideas for doing artsy types of things with kids and for repurposing all sorts of things around the house, too… Check out scrumdilly-do and have hours of fun!!!
