Creativity Catch Up Post...

The final couple of Romero Britto pieces from this postt

Click the pig to see the before ~ this is Taz's

 & DD's

And one more Picasso head...

Last week's work was based on Paul Klee's art. 
There's only 4 pieces as DD & Lilo were away staying with cousins for the week. 

TP & Minnie

Taz & Stitch

The art has been great,

 but there's also been a lot of Knex creativity going on here too, particularly over half term...

DD seems to have really got the hang of it now, 

and made these with very little, or no, help from anyone else.

Stitch made this (and a few other models I failed to photograph), 

so he's getting it too :D

It's funny how Knex has always been very popular here ~ 

perhaps it's the 'real' representation that they can achieve. 

Chip also likes to get involved in creativity, but sometimes I give him his very own 'messy play' ~ this particular day it was blue 'snow' (shaving foam and corn-flour). It was a very interesting substance to mess with ~ one second solid enough to make snowballs with, and seconds later stretching and oozing and liquidy again! Great fun!! :D

Linking in today to 

Lazy day...!

Decided that it was too hot today and I was just too tired to fill boxes last night, so in the end the kids filled their own this morning with whatever 10-12 activities they chose! I know that is seriously not the way it is supposed to be done, but Thursday is our non-book day and at least this way they have had some structure to their day - and they have been able to feel like they have achieved something! The little ones (E, C & N) have muddled in with what the others have been doing and it's worked fairly well considering I have cossetted myself away in the study (which tbh is so close to the school room that it can be considered not that detatched really) catching up on my 365 a bit more! It's been just about every 3 minutes that one or other of them has come to me with a "Muuuuummm" but that's not been so bad without the pressure of having to be with any one of them at any point. Now two bigs have gone out to practice a puppet show for the Nantwich Family Fun Day and C is 'running' (crazy boy - too hot for that) on the Wii. Nearly time for tidy up - might wait till it's just a little cooler before I tackle todays big job of mopping floors ;)

Boo did manage to make this today and when I asked her how the seats rise, she said "it goes so fast and the pressure pushes them up." - pretty good conclusion then :D Not-bad for un-schooling ;)

And then the day was topped off with this (making use of borrowed equipment!);