Here's a sampling of her latest artwork
On the swings
A picture for me she made at day care
A turtle
She took some art classes this summer thru Community Ed, and they were great. Just an hour on Friday, and you could sign up for them individually, so I picked the ones she'd enjoy the most.
Baking clay
A cat - there was an artist they learned about too (don't remember his name)
We checked out a beginning reader book from the library - "I Go Up". She made this book all on her own - didn't ask for any help. I just helped her assemble it once she was done - she wanted to put the cover on like she was wrapping a present.
The F is for front
So she copied the whole book and drew pictures that went along with each page. I was so proud of her - what a precious girl.
One Sunday Calvin and I both fell asleep on the couch, and Jocelyn of course didn't want to nap. I was half awake listening to what she was doing. She made this sign for the dogs. "Ellie is the best" is what she wanted to write - I think she felt guilty and added Ginger too. When I woke up and was cleaning up, I noticed that she had taped it to Ellie - her fur was stuck to the tape. What a patient dog she is!
I love Pinterest. I could literally spend hours wasting time on Pinterest. But I really have found a lot of cute ideas there. So, I've decided I'm going to actually try some of the projects. What a novel idea! This was our first one - a cute doll that Jocelyn made herself (mostly). She drew the pattern, cut it out, helped pin it on the fabric, I cut the fabric, and with my help sewed the face on! She was really good with the needle - I was impressed. I don't have lacing cards, so I wasn't sure how she'd do, but she did really well. After that she got a little bored, so I stitched around the doll with my machine, and put the hair in then as well. But she came back to stuff her, and then I finished off the hand stitching of the stuffing hole. Her best comment - "I didn't know people could make dolls!" Guess we need to do more sewing projects!
Another idea - making bird feeders with gelatin and birdseed. It worked great - was relatively mess free, and easy enough for her to do a lot of with little help.
Today was our last Monday before 4K starts. I kept asking her what she wanted to do, but she couldn't come up with anything she really wanted to do, so we just had a fun project and hang out day. While I was making breakfast she went outside and chalked.
Her mermaid
House
Heart with a "bone and arrow"
Me and my precious girl
We colored a pillowcase with fabric markers
We went on a bike ride to the park and found lots of treasures along the way. She really likes finding acorns, and the park we went to has a ton of oak trees. I had read about this idea in a magazine, so we decided to give it a try. We found lots of treasures, and made a book with them. We used zipper plastic bags for pages to keep the treasures in and I made her write the words. It's so neat to see her spelling and how she sounds out words. She thought of the title for her book and was so proud of all the hard work she did!
A sampling of the book - each page started out 'We saw'. We had 6 baggies of leaves...she decided she wanted to write 'We saw 13 leaves' and put all the baggies after that instead of writing 6 pages of 'We saw leaves'. Pretty smart!
This was her last page, and her best idea. I had found this stick and thought it was cool because it looked like a Y. She thought it looked like a 4, and said for the last page she wanted to say that she was 4 when she wrote the book! Her little mind is so amazing to me. I know she's almost 5, but she still seems tiny to me, and way too young to be thinking like this. Kids can do way more than we give them credit for!
This was from Friday, and has nothing to do with artwork, but I love this picture!
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