Butterflies to hang from the ceiling

These butterflies can be hung with ribbon or fishing line.
 We use a thick paper such as Bristol weightboard paper when using magic markers or acrylic paint.
We use water color paper for watercolors or acrylic paints.  Glitter is always a welcome choice.
Ruby and I have been making these on and off over a two year period of time.

Ruby (age 7) painting with acrylic paint on Bristol weightboard

Using the splatter technique

Ruby using the straw technique

Grandme (me) made this with magic markers

Ruby (age 5) loved making these and still is two years later

The inspiration for making these butterflies came from a mother's blog at:
http://pinkandgreenmama.blogspot.com/2010/07/butterfly-mobile-with-watercolor-paper.html

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Making Pasta Necklace

Supplies:  Pasta (fiori pasta) , tempera paint, sponge and regular brushes, Elmers Glue,
tin foil to paint from and makes it easy to remove painted pasta

Ruby (age 4) admiring her work

Stringing the necklace

After the paint dried we coated the pasta with Elmers glue which gave it a shine!

Pround Ruby on Father's Day.

Pin the Feather on the Turkey

I drew and colored a turkey with feathers on some poster paper
With construction paper I made funny looking feathers for them to pin on the turkey.

We all participated and we had feathers all over the place.
Ruby was five and Oscar was 2 1/2

Making Placemats

This is her first experience in weaving paper.  

Ruby taped each strip to the top of the poster paper with masking tape

With my Macintosh, in iPhoto, I selected various images and in the print mode created a contact
sheet and printed them out on photographic paper.  This gave her a big selection to chose from.

At the same time Oscar is making a cover for his father's loseleaf binder with drawings and stickers for Father's Day

Ruby is learning to weave

She really enjoyed concentrating on this and loved the colors

Ruby was very pleased with her results.  The picture of the house is actually a
photograph of a picture her father made when he was about 5 years old.

Ruby presented on Father's Day the placemat she made for her father.
He had this laminated at Kinkos during the week.  

On another occasion I found some picture cards of animals and Ruby decided to make a placemat with them for herself.  I covered this with contact clear on both sides instead of laminating it to see how durable it would be.

During a halloween visit I chose a large size paper from Kinkos and covered it on
both sides with clear contact sheets.  Then I decorated the sides with pumpkin stickers
and they had an assortment of sticker images to chose from to put on their individual place mats.

Making Rockets With Children

Children Decorating Rocket Fins with Watercolors and Glitter