We love art at our house but I found that we didn’t get much art done this year with a baby and a toddler. I looked for resources to help us make time for art which is why I was thrilled to review the Early Elementary K-3, Book 3: Modern Painting and Sculpture from ARTisticRead more
This week I’m being featured on an Easter blog hop. You can see our fun Easter crafts at the links below. Be sure to visit the blogs that host the hop and link your fun Easter ideas! Thanks for featuring me ladies! Welcome to the third week of the Hopping Along to Easter Blog HopRead more
We created an art wall down one of our hallways using sticker picture frames. The kids drew adorable colored pencil drawings that we cut to fit inside the frames. Then they stuck them on the wall, framed by the sticker. Now I have an interchangeable kid-created art gallery that decorates an entire hallway! Curly isRead more
We had lots of fun decorating our house for Easter this year. Here are a few fun and simple crafts! Marbled Egg Art You need:shaving cream (the old fashioned foamy kind)white cardstock cut into egg shapescolored tempera paintcookie sheetplastic forks and knives We squirted shaving cream onto a cookie sheet and then dripped different coloredRead more
For Valentine’s Day my hubby downloaded some Seeds Family Worship CD’s onto my iPhone. We love them! Best gift ever! Now we drive down the highway singing Bible verses at the top of our lungs. But the best part? They are not annoying – no obnoxious music and no grating children’s voices. The songs areRead more
We love the work of Chihuly and have seen several of his designs. We recently took a tour of our local art museum which has a wonderful ceiling designed by Chihuly. The art director sent the kids home with a fun activity as part of our art class/museum tour. The kids were to create someRead more
We love learning new languages at our house and we need all the help we can get in that department! My kids are very motivated to learn Spanish because we live in an area with many native Spanish speakers. We were excited to review a new-to-us language program – Mango Languages using their Mango HomeschoolRead more
I was so organized this month. We were going to do some really fun St. Patrick’s Day crafts and art projects! I had great ideas that I found on Pinterest. So much green! I was going to use them to decorate our house. Then my hubby got approval to defend his PhD dissertation in AprilRead more
The kids made suncatchers as Christmas presents for the grandparents and then of course we had to make more of these just for us. And now they want to make them all the time to use as plates and coasters in their play kitchen! You need: Translucent pony beadsRound metal cake pansMetal cookie cutters ArrangeRead more
Although my kids take music lessons (violin and piano) and we use several things for art (See the Light Art and Atelier and sometimes Artistic Pursuits), I have not done a good job integrating artist and composer studies into our homeschool. So, I’ve determined to change that. Here’s how we study artists and composers hereRead more