stART: The Rainbow Fish

This is my first time making a stART post! We read The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, then Buzz and Boo made their own rainbow fish.

I drew the outline of a fish on blue cardstock and Buzz and Boo colored their fish in with crayons.

Then they painted over the crayon with water colors.

Once the paint had dried they added eyes, glue and glitter and tin foil "scales".

Buzz's rainbow fish:

Boo's rainbow fish:

 Bean liked the story too!

For more fun art projects inspired by great stories check out:

Homemade Nativity

I am NOT a crafty mom. I would love to be creative and crafty and make tons of fun projects with my kids, but that's just not me. Thankfully there are lots of creative mamas who blog about the fun projects they do with their kids so that no-so creative mamas like me can borrow their ideas. I saw this nativity on Pink and Green Mama and I knew my kids would love to make their own. I was right! I gave some direction, but they did most of it on their own and they had a great time. Buzz set it proudly on our entryway table for daddy to see as soon as he got home.

Buzz made Joseph and baby Jesus. Boo made Mary and the angel. They both rounded out the scene with some critter counters serving as the livestock. We had a great time working on it together and it turned out much cuter than anything you can buy at the store :)

Fall Crafts

We took a break from rowing last week to focus on the basics and do some fun fall crafts. I'm definitely not a very creative, crafty person, so I turned to the internet and some of my favorite blogs for ideas.

                             We made paper strip pumpkins

                                      Bean leaf mosaics

Paper towel roll fall trees

And falling leaves

On Saturday Daddy and the kids had fun decorating their pumpkins from our hay ride with Mr. Potato Head pieces

The kids had a lot of fun doing crafts with their very un-crafty mommy and we now have some great fall decorations.