painting & pretty crown

The kids did school Thursday (no pics) and Friday but I didn't have time to blog about it until now. :o)

K made a very pretty crown to go with the story of Hezekiah. She chose to use fake flowers and lots of "glitter stickers" (what else?!) including glitter fish that she placed inside the crown. She's been wearing it around the house the past few days.

D painted a water color sunset scene after his history reading on Friday - the book described an evening scene by a lake with the trees outlined (appearing to be black) around the lake at sunset.

D begged to get out the poster paints and I said, no. I then realized why he wanted them - he expected the watercolor paints to perform like the poster paints - bold, dark colors. I had to explain that watercolors are designed to be softer colors unlike the poster paints. You use the water to spread the color around, but it's not going to bold and that's okay. :o)

He accepted that explanation and went on to complete his picture...using foil to be the "glittering" lake and black construction paper trees. He was very proud of it and showed it off to Daddy Friday night!