by jessicaperkins | May 1, 2015 | Art with kids, drawing, preschool art, prompts
I absolutely love this little “landscape still life” Layla drew this afternoon. She set up the piano bench right by our front door to use as a drawing table. She looked outside onto the street to draw something that caught her fancy. She said...
by jessicaperkins | Aug 12, 2011 | art, artwork, crayon, drawing, picture
Buga drew this picture of a “shark” after a recent outing to the “aquary-min”. I thought it was surprisingly accurate and I love looking back on these little masterpieces.
by jessicaperkins | Apr 26, 2011 | art, artwork, book, collage, crayons, cutting, drawing, glue, homeschool, literature, picture, project, scissors, tall tall grass, tot school
We have been reading stories and doing story art projects a lot this Spring. I like that we are exploring different types of materials and relating them to books we’ve read. It helps build story-telling skills, memory, and most of all comprehension. Buga likes...
by jessicaperkins | Apr 7, 2011 | activity, art, box, car, cardboard, drawing, homeschool, imagination, play, pretend, project, School, sculpture, tot
With a little imagination, This:cardboard boxBecomes this:personal driving machineBuga found a cardboard box. She pretended to drive it like a car.So we decided to cover it in easel paper, decorate it…and turn it into a car.I added a side-car snack holder so she...
by jessicaperkins | Apr 4, 2011 | activity, book, cart, coloring, crayola, crayons, drawing, grocery, homeschool, quiet, School, time, tot, wipeable
I made these wipeable coloring sheets by photocopying some of Buga’s favorite coloring book activities – I copied them at 60% so they would be more portable. I laminated each page, hole-punched it, and bound them together with a metal ring from Staples. We...
by jessicaperkins | Mar 30, 2011 | activity, art, bug, bugs, drawing, hands on learning, home school, insect, natural play, pretend, science, sensory bin, tot school
As an extension of our Sensory Bin…and an extension of our Bug Find Game within the Sensory Bin, we decided to Draw the bugs we saw….and make up our own bugs!I was shocked by how wonderful and creative Buga was at creating these bugs. I wasn’t sure...
