Adventures in My Father’s World Week 2 -Jesus Suncatcher

Filed under Blogging, Homeschooling, Kid Fun by Mrs. O on October 5, 2011 at 8:30 pm {no comments}

We are loving Adventures in My Fathers World. The Bible portion starts with Jesus, His birth, on to when he starts preaching. We are also learning the different names of Jesus. During week 2 we got to make a Jesus suncatcher. The was fun and easy. This final result is pretty!

You need Wax Paper, crayon shavings, glue, scissors, construction paper, an iron and newsprint.

Cut out 2” letters from construction paper

Arrange the letters on wax paper and sprinkle on the crayon shavings, be conservative.

Place another sheet of wax paper on top, cover with newsprint and iron on low. Be sure to have paper under the wax as well.

We added construction paper border to match our letters.

hanging in the window

We will definitely use this technique to create other projects in the future. I am thinking maybe a Mayflower silhouette with blue and white crayons shavings, with yellow for a sun.

Kick-Off: Let Fall School Projects Begin

Filed under Blogging, Homeschooling, Kid Fun by Mrs. O on September 23, 2011 at 7:32 am {3 comments}

Love this time of year! Who doesn’t, really? I think I write about it every year, unlike the other seasons. Just something about the Fall. It officially starts today, yay! Thought we would kick off the many, many Fall activities we will be doing this season, so excited! We started by doing a leaf study. I purchased this really cool kit from the Used Curriculum sale at my local Homeschool Convention.

The kit includes many samples of leafs, each in their own plastic sleeve and label. The Tree Finder book has every kind of tree you can find in North America, comes with illustrations and descriptions. The workbook, guides you through lessons on trees and all their parts. Yesterday I let the boys look through everything in the kit. We will start the lessons on Monday.

The next project we worked on was leaf rubbings as seen here on Pinterest, which is where I saw it. It is originally posted on this blog.

We collected leaves from around our neighborhood.

pretty leaves.

Then we taped the paper down to the table with masking tape. We used crayons that had the labels taken off so we could rub properly. I stressed to the boys the importance of holding the bottom of the paper tight once they placed their leaves under the it.

After the leaf rubbings we read 2 books about Fall. One is a family favorite about all seasons but it seems best for Fall it is called The Acorn and the Oak Tree. The other book, of course, was Clifford’s Leaf Season. All in all, this was a great start to celebrate my favorite season.

Happy Fall!

Art Time with the Boys

Filed under Homeschooling, Kid Fun, Uncategorized by Mrs. O on September 8, 2011 at 5:36 pm {one comment}

This year we are doing Adventures in My Fathers World, included in that is “I Can Do All Things” art lesson book. We did assignments out of there to start off our homeschool week. The lessons are good but it starts out with coloring and drawing and my boys were dying to paint something. So I headed over to Pinterest and searched for Kids Painting, got so many great results but one piqued my interest. It was a paper with swirls, dots, waves and stripes. I thought it would be a perfect, easy and fun lesson with the boys. The original post is here at Be a Fun Mum.

I set the table up while they were all on break. I usually have them share paint and brushes but that never turns out the way I imagine it can. This time, everyone got their own palette and a variety of brushes.

I asked them to watch me paint the different items and then told them they could make any kind of painting they wanted as long as they used dots, stripes, waves and swirls.

mommy’s sample

They liked being able to have freedom with their painting, I liked that they actually incorporated the items into their creations.

Oliver painting the Solar System

Preston creating a Robot

Adam’s is ocean waves, fish “and the red part is a force field” -lol

Samuel immediately mixes all his colors up and made this masterpiece

Preston’s Robot (sideways)

This was fun! I even got in on the action, what a blast! Thanks to “Be A Fun Mum“!

Back to School Pictures

Filed under Blogging, Homeschooling, Inspiration by Mrs. O on August 26, 2011 at 9:00 am {no comments}

School Pictures! Looking around the web I found some great ideas! My middle child is not in this round, he was not in the mood so I didn’t push it. I will get him though! He will be next, may take some bribery.

got this idea from Pinterest. I showed him the picture and asked if there was anything else he would want people to know about him and he added “MarioVideo Game Master Player” – *too funny*