fall art docent

the kids helping me practice for my fall art docent project

fun friday

fun friday at the library with friends making silhouette haunted houses, even the moms participated

crafting

the spooky crafts continue...

halloween craft

went to the craft store this morning and they had a cute kids art project going on, so the kids made a spooky yarn wrapped picture frame.

watercolor

getting back into it 

practicing some boots with fall leaves and water drops. 

fall family craft

tomorrow is the first "official" day of fall, so we did a halloween craft as a family.  we picked out a 5 piece nutcracker set from the craft store and decorated them with acrylic paint pens.  

donuts and drawing

free draw and donuts at the library 

last art docent project

"dreaming of summer" self-portrait practice for my last lesson this year

watercolor

picking up my watercolors again, after a long break.  

test run

testing out an art docent project with the kids before bed

art auction

this is the art auction piece i put together from ryder's class.  we decorated various sized craft sticks with markers and i glued them to a canvas.  minimal effort and big reward!  i had plenty of leftover sticks to create a smaller piece as an end of year teacher gift.

art auction piece

teacher gift

pottery

picked up these unfinished pottery vases and the kids and i used acrylic paint pens to decorate and then i sealed them.  they turned out better than i expected!

art docent

practicing some watercolor flowers for art docent in bowie's class

painting

trying out "pour painting" and painting our balloon dog figures with my favorite crafting buddy

crafting party

bowie had the best time at her crafting birthday party!  the girls made tote bags, hair clips, key chains, jewelry boxes and picture frames.  it was a big success and she is feeling the birthday love!

prep

setup for bowie's birthday party.  she is having her closest girlfriends over for lunch and a major crafting session.  

always creating

she is always creating something!  this one is too cool!!!