Art with Friends

Hanging out with friends at The Frist is a great way to spend a Monday--

even better when there happens to be an Ancient Egypt exhibit! 

A Village Advent

I have been surprised by how much Gerrick has enjoyed Activity Village's 2011 Advent Calendar. He has asked to print the buildings daily. Even days that we haven't been home, he's worked on them before bed: colored, cut, and taped them to the baseboards around his bedroom. He plans to leave his village up forever.

Have your children been enjoying a special countdown to Christmas?

Art Caddy

This may be the best thing I have ever done.  Gerrick makes things all over the house:  playroom, bedroom, kitchen, living room, garage, back porch...  He was forever getting angry because he couldn't find his scissors or a specific color Sharpie.  All those frustrations have vanished this past month since I made him an art caddy out of a six-pack carton!  Now he can easily carry everything he needs, wherever he goes.

I simply reinforced the bottom with some clear packaging tape and taped some other pieces of cardboard inside on the sections that had large spaces small items could fall through.  You could easily cover the box with contact paper or decoupage, but Gerrick likes the look of the barrels and pumpkins on his caddy.

Now when he wants to work on something, he only needs to find his caddy (and usually the tape dispenser).  Sharpies haven't been getting lost.  Scissors haven't been vanishing.  It really has been fantastic!

a nature walk

We went for a short walk at a local park today.

A Mermaid and a Ship

Gerrick spent two days on this drawing for a special friend.

I think she really liked it.

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