Showing posts with label art box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art box. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Art Box 4/28



I bought a white board to use in school in the future but Crumpet found it, and he has spent hours drawing on it. He has drawn many, many pictures, but I'll just include one. This one is of "a person in the grass with another person".
And he made a tarantula one day. We spent the whole day pretending to be tarantulas after this:


Monday, April 19, 2010

The Art Box - April 19

This week, Crumpet drew a fish. I think it actually looks like a fish!
He made a snowman...because when it's 86 degrees out, what else would you be thinking about??
And, one day, he came to me requesting "socks, cardboard, and some glue". I said, "Huh? Um, ok?" He had been watching something on t.v. and was inspired to make his own doll. It's a rabbit doll:
When we opened the craft cupboard to look for glue, Crumpet found lots of other cool things to add to the doll. I think it's adorable!
(Crumpet did learn an important life lesson while making this doll - hot glue is really hot, and maybe it should be a Mommy job to work with it... He never believed me before.)

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Art Box - April 5



Crumpet has been experimenting with different media this week.

Himself:
Cardboard and lots of glue (this is a bridge):
He colored a random glass jar I had saved:
He also colored a paper Easter egg, at my request, but clearly wasn't interested:
And, we decorated Easter eggs. We got a really cool kit with tons of possibilities. He dyed the one below, then stamped it with foam stamps and paint, then glued on beads:
Mulitple colors and glitter:
He worked with stickers. This is a pirate battle scene. After I took the picture, he "blew up" the ships by peeling them off the paper and cutting them into tiny pieces.
A friend mentioned that he will probably have to draw a person at his 4 year check up so the doctor can check his development. He has drawn maybe 2 people in his life, so I got a little nervous and asked him to draw one just to see what is likely to happen. I guess he has the general idea (I asked him to add arms, his person had none...)
The Easter bunny brought some little magnets to paint.
After he painted them, he decided that he would send them back to the Easter bunny as a thank you gift for the other things which were in his basket. So he wrapped them in wrapping paper:
And mailed them! Now, um, what do I do with them??












Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Art Box 3/30



Crumpet did a bit of creating this week so I can finally link up to the Art Box again!

Here's something he created on his geoboard. He calls it "Treehouse with Rope Ladder":
This masterpiece was created by using vast amounts of glue to stick a pile of papers together. He calls it "Tent for St. Patrick's Day". (All creations are gifts for St. Patrick's Day right now, because that's the last themed crafting we did. For the month after Valentine's Day, everything was a gift for Valentine's Day. He cracks me up.)
And this was a thank you note we sent to a friend of his. He made a pirate by sticking a lot of snowman and Santa stickers together in a big heap, and then he added a personal note...
Have a great week!


Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Art Box 2/14



This week, we made Valentine's Day cards for our neighbors. We made this flock of flamingoes together. Crumpet decorated the heads and helped with the gluing. Aren't they cute??
While I was cutting and prepping, he made his own flamingo, completely by himself. Isn't this awesome? I couldn't believe it when he was done. I kept this one for myself!
He also made this heart person - the blue pipecleaners are legs. He insisted that they be the exact length of one of his marker caps and showed me how to measure by lining them up against the marker cap.
And Crumpet drew this picture. He drew a couple of things this week and told me that many of the little squiggles represented specific letters. Maybe it's time to start writing soon?
Have a great week!



Monday, February 1, 2010

The Art Box - Valentine's crafts



Well, at last, Crumpet is in the mood to do some crafts! It seems he's inspired by Valentine's Day! He's sick as can be today, but periodically, he perks up and wants to create. Here's what we've done so far:
We made these cute thumbprint heart magnets for the fridge. I found the idea on the Crafty Crow and the idea came from here. I LOVE seeing Crumpet's artwork on the fridge! It makes me smile every time.
This is not so Valentinesy, despite the heart background. Apparently, it's Darth Mal from Star Wars. My husband let him watch it - yikes - and Crumpet is hooked. Obsessed. Can't stop talking about it. So, the blue circle is Darth Mal's head, his face is black and red with some added sparkles, and the gold at the bottom is legs...
I bought some Scratch Art pages, and Crumpet loved this. He used most of the pack. I loved seeing him practice with the stencils - great practice using a pencil. The bottom left picture is a volcano. The others have no story.
Concentrating:
We used LOTS of glitter glue.
We made these cute heart people. Again, the idea came from the Crafty Crow, and the link is here. This is the first creation that Crumpet has ever been willing to part with, so we are sending one to my mom for Valentine's Day. She's going to be thrilled to finally get a gift from him! I bought a box of fridge magnets so we stuck some to the back of these. Everything is a magnet these days!

Lots of crafts after a long drought. I hope it continues! Have a great week!