Kid art

Between morning sickness, and viruses, K and I have been trying to get back into lots of art projects. Here are a couple of our recent ones. The first was using solar paper. I couldn't believe it worked as the paper is actually from when I was a kid, plus we hardly have any sun here. the 2nd one was painted using cooked noodles. K loved slapping the noodles into the paint and then onto the paper.

Socks!

Now that my Zebra is finished I was free to start something new. I'm excited to be knitting my first thing for myself! I had to buy a little book to get my started on circular needles and knitting in the round. I've only just begun but I am really enjoying it. Hopefully I'll have an updated photo soon of a completed sock.

K asks me constantly, "thats a sock?"

Knitted Zebra

I've finally finished a project that has been lingering for months. I knitted the zebra with self striping yarn which I think gave it a really neat effect. If it hadn't taken me so darn long to finish the first one I'd make another to see how totally different they would come out.

I also used pipe cleaners this time around for the legs. My last animal (the elephant) was not so lucky and he's not able to stand on his own. I'm thinking about going back and ripping out his legs to fix him.

K and I have been talking about some polar animals to add to his collection next. He is really excited about a polar pear and penguins.

Christmas Projects

We've been busy over here with holidays and I haven't had any time to get our pictures up here. So here are our projects from over the past month. I've given links for the projects that I found on the internet.

This is a picture Casey's family and the matching PJ bottoms I made for everyone for Christmas.

Homemade wholegrain cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning.

Christmas eve we had a little taffy pull.

Every year we cute fruit(lemons, oranges, limes, and grapefruit) and hang it on the tree. After the tree comes down we will cover the fruit in peanut butter and birdseed and hang them on a tree outside.

For this icicle project, K only had to squeeze tin foil, rub it in glue, and put sparkles on it. He had such a great time he made tons:http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/2007/12/advent-day-20-o.html

This is a picture of K's little group of friends. We got together over the holidays to celebrate and exchange handmade gifts. I made the kids matching fish PJ bottoms. Somehow I lucked out and got them all in one picture.

Sorry for the sideways picture. These are k's handprints to form a reindeer. He gave these away to his relatives for Christmas.

We've been busy over here with holidays and I haven't had any time to get our pictures up here. So here are our projects from over the past month. I've given links for the projects that I found on the internet.

K had a great time making these sponge lights:http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2008/12/environmentally-friendly-christmas-lights.html

Homemade gingerbread house (vegan)

We had a spent a wonderful morning making gingerbread houses with out friends. Well to be honest we made the actual houses the day before and decorated them the next day. My friend's children are allergic to milk and eggs so we used a vegan recipe for both the gingerbread and the icing. I think they turned out great! Here is her website that links to the recipes that we used.

http://doodlebugdeb.blogspot.com/2010/12/gingerbread-house.html

Bird feeder cutouts

For advent this year we rotate between activities, crafts, and little presents. Here is one crafts I came up with that actually turned out really cute.

First I cute Christmas shapes out of cardboard. Then we tied strings on to the tops of them.

Next we smeared peanut butter and birdseeds over both sides of the shapes.
Here they are in their finished state. Some of the shapes worked better then others.
Then we hung them outdoors. The birds loved them. We had a titmouse, downy woodpecker, and blackcapped chickadee visit.

Hanukkah Celebration

Last year we bought K a little Hanukkah set for the 1st day of Hanukkah. We aren't Jewish we enjoy exposing K to lots of different religions and holidays. Each year we celebrate by reading stories about Hanukkah, eating Latkes, and putting out K's Menorah.