T Stands for more fun

 

 

Time to go hopping around the world to check on the T-Gang this week.  Hope you'll join us.

 

Monday night ( here is SO CAL) and the start of week two with the 8 year olds.  Here are some pictures from last Tuesday's gathering: 

  

They put Gesso on only 1/2 of the cardstock, then we use Gelatos and water color pencils to see how the Gesso effects the look of the medium. They did 3 sheets, one with the Gesso brushed on, one with the Gesso scrapped on with an old credit card and one with the Gesso dabbed on with a paper towel. They fell in love with the Gelatos, coloring, then wiping them with baby wipe to mix the colors...................oh I'm in BIG trouble and now I have to HIDE my Gelatos.......LOL!!!

 

Here are their finished mixed media picture frames.  I am so proud of them, they did such a GOOD job on them.  They chose to put a picture of them together in the frames, but their Dad's came to pick them up before I could take a picture......

 

This is the picture they chose for their frames......notice all the ink on Hannah's hand???

They also MADE their art journals for SOC.......yep, they are playing along too.

 

Of course the covers had to decorated..........................

Hannah likes the dots and circles.......................

Rachel chose some random designs.....................................

 

Then at the end of the day they were given small pictures of their art to past in a writing journal and told to write about each picture.  I thought I would get some static about this........but they were happy to do it........................now we'll see how long it lasts........*grin*

These next pictures are from today, no photo shop or water marks......Gma is just too tired tonight to go through all that.  The lighting in my kitchen is horrendous for photos as you can see.  The very first thing they had to do was make modeling paste.  They each, now, have their own container of modeling paste................................since they use up all mine last week............*grin*

 

We did marble painting with shaving foam, inks and card stock

 

This Maddy, Rachel little sister, who is 5.  She got to stay long enough to do this project.

 

Was so amazed at each paper she did.  I let her take them all home.

 

 

Once it was back to the three of us we got to work on our SOC journals......which I will post as soon as I can.

 

Todays excitement was all about learning to use a sewing machine.  They just practiced on an old sheet I had.  Hannah is all smiles..............

 

Making some practice seams........................................

 

Rachel is doing her best to make it sew straight....................*grin*
Once they had practiced a bit I had they make a roll up pencil case.  They took them home before I got a picture of them.  It was a little tiring for them to sew so many straight lines, that go between the pencils, but they did a fantastic job for never having ever used a sewing machine.
 This is the idea, but we double the fabric....like a pillow cover so no raw edges showed, and their seams were not quite as straight as the ones in the picture.

They also learned to make and cook a grilled cheese sandwich last Monday for their lunch and macaroni and cheese for lunch Tuesday....................and we didn't use boxed mac and cheese.....it was from scratch.  Friday night Rachel made Mac and cheese for her family and Saturday Hannah made her family grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch........ MY GIRLS ROCK!!

Tomorrow they are going to make a couple of bandana tops....one red one and one blue one for each of them.  Should be fairly simple after this pencil case.......nothing like starting with a hard one......LOL
These are the tops they are going to make tomorrow.

I want to thank all of you that left the girls a comment last week.......they were smiling form ear to ear as they red them.

If you leave a comment and I hope you all will.......would you please name your city or state and your country, so they know where you live?  Then we can look the place up on the 'net, so they get an idea of how far this blog will go around the world.

Okay, your all caught up on the Monday/Tuesday happenings and pictures. 
What did I do after Monday and Tuesday..........I SAT DOWN!!!!  LOL,  I also got  a lot of things ready to go for the weeks to come.  This is a summer they WILL NOT just sit in front of a TV and/or play on a cell phone!!!..............well, that's THE plan.........*grin*

Inky Hugs from where is was 107' (F) today.................yuuuuuuccckkkk!
Krisha