Halloween Art

Oh my, has it really been that long since I posted on here?!

Thought I would share the rather fabulous posters the boys made for Halloween this year. The instructions are on That Artist Woman's blog. If you haven't been there before, do stop and check it out. She has some wonderful projects for kids of all ages.

Here are a couple of progress shots:




And here are the finished articles. First up Gman (11):



I just love the little devil fella top right. He started out as an owl, but then when Gman stuck the nose on upside down, that changed! A great lesson in the art of accepting mistakes, and realising that sometimes great things come from them! Gman was especially pleased with his extraordinarily gruesome eyeball :-)

Next up, Waif (6):



Possibly the cutest, saddest Frankenstein's Monster you are ever likely to see!

An ICAD tribute to home education

When I bought a magazine this morning, I was given a complementary copy of a well known national newspaper...rather than waste it, I thought I would just start snipping words that attracted my attention and put these on my index card. It ended up as quite a tribute to the joys of home education, so I thought I would post it on here!



The boys have continued another week with the ICAD Challenge. Here's a card each from their week:

Gman -



Waif -



The rest can be found in our Flickr set here.

Halfway thru the ICAD Challenge

And Waif is celebrating with fireworks:



Check out Daisy Yellow for more ICAD fun!

Felt like making pizza

I know, it's been a while :-)

But couldn't resist sharing Waif's felt pizza with you:





We roughly followed this tutorial. I cut the pieces out but Waif did all the sewing. Very proud of him :-)

There is so much I could be reporting here. The boys have been busy making lapbooks, and writing poems and stories, and just generally soaking stuff up, but where's the time?!?!

They are still continuing with Daisy Yellow's ICAD challenge. Here's a couple of recent cards from each of them.

Gman:





Waif:





If you wanna see more, check out our Flickr set.

Waif neatly sums up the index-card-a-day challenge

More index cards

10 days in and we are still going strong with the index cards! Here's some of the boys' creations:

Gman's:





Waif's:





Check out Daisy Yellow's blog for lots of inspiration for your index cards. You have until the 15th June to get started.

Coloured Index Cards are Fun Too!

Second day of the index-card-a-day challenge. Found some coloured index cards that I bought for revision for a course I did years ago. We all had fun with these - me with my doodles, Gman and his cats, and Waif and his creatures.