Ocean Masterpiece

This multi-day extravaganza was a delight to make. First Leif identified what sorts of creatures he wanted in his project, and I traced and cut patterns to make them out of colored and white construction paper. Leif glued tissue paper coral and seaweed, then glued the creatures in place. I love his sense of linear motion! He then asked me to broad-stroke crayon blue water in between. the creatures, seaweed and coral. For the bottom, he used stickers for shells.

Bird Project

This multi-day project consisted of a painted sky and ground, construction- and tissue-paper tree, and multiple birds. We had fun tracing birds out of various books and magazines, then we painted one side using q-tips, then Mom detailed them with black magic marker according to Leif's specifications. I particularly like the tissue paper of the vulture nest, that was entirely Leif's idea.

Crouching Bunny, Hidden Jellybean

Even though we will be celebrating Easter the Sunday following the traditional Easter holiday, when we saw jellybeans at the grocery store today we had to make an Easter project. I suggested a bunny, Leif said he wanted to hide the bunny in the jellybeans to protect him from 'dangerous creatures'. I cut out a bunny pattern for him, he painted it with tempera paints and q-tips, then he he glued it on green construction paper background. Lastly, he glued the jellybeans around the bunny as camouflage.

Chicks in a spring nest

Leif and decided that because spring was upon us (judging by date and not by the rains!) we should do a spring bird project. Leif fingerpainted green leaves on yellow paper, which we glued onto a brown background. Then he glued white cotton balls for chicks with googly eyes and orange paper beaks. We then used FiberOne cereal glued to a brown paper "nest".

Goldfinch

Today's project was a spring bird, Leif chose the bird because spring is coming. We google image searched to find the perfect bird to copy and viola, here's our project. We also put up a shelf today to host Leif's entire aviary. The birds all look great hanging out together!

Zoo project

This idea came right from dear Leif, he asked if we could make a 'zoo project'. I asked him to describe how we'd do it, he said he wanted to take pictures from his magazines and glue them onto a painted background. Sounds good!

He used two colors for the background using a wide brush. While it was drying, he picked various animals (and one human observer!) from his Animal Baby, National Geographic Kids, and Your Big Backyard magazines. After I cut them out, we blocked out where each animal was to go, then he pasted them on.