A is for Autumn

Here's an easy "A" project that we did this week.  I don't have any pictures of us doing it, since I decided to just enjoy the moment and not wield my camera.  It was kind of nice.

So, I guess we will go backwards by starting with Eli's final product.

We started this by project by painting the letter outlines with glue.  You can find the letter pages here.  The kids thought it was pretty crazy to PAINT with a PAINTBRUSH using GLUE.  Fun times.  We then took our papers outside, covered them with leaves, and finally shook the extra leaves off.  To finish, we thought of "A" words, with me making sure that "autumn" was one of the final words chosen.

And Abby's Art.  

She was much more meticulous than Eli, putting her leaves on one at a time.

We also did this with a picture of a tree.  As I have mentioned before, I can't draw, so I did a Google Image search using "tree outline" and found a nice leafless tree.  Oh the woes of the those limited to stick figure drawings.

 

All in all, this was a fun autumn art project.  

And...it was perfect for a boy, specifically MY boy, as it lasted about 60 seconds.  

Awesome.

 

Making a Water Table

Over the winter we had a big box that we filled with dry noodles and dollar store utensils.

(You can read more about our noodle-rific fun here.)

For the summer, we have bagged up all the noodles and converted our noodle box into a water table. 

A box...filled with water and bath toys...means lots of summer fun.  We did find that the kids seem to enjoy the water table more with it propped up on crates as opposed to being flat on the ground.

Yay for Summer!