Jennifer thought to take on hair styling. During school. She was allowed with scissors and I was helping her brother with reading and I could see her at the corner of my eye. But I was not paying attention. Her punishment was a full haircut by me. And she was embarrassed by it. But many have flattered her vanity since then, and she has recovered.
We have been doing "drawing lessons" every week. I am the teacher and we are kinda flyin' with two different books and styles of learning. And one day I was ambitious and allowed painting. It was kinda fun...for as long as it stayed clean. The rule was, you had to "copy" something, or use part of something in your painting.
Jennifer chose roses.
Evelyn chose..well, Evelyn is Evelyn and had no rules. She did, however, painstakingly cover every inch of her paper. So carefully done I was impressed!
Matthew liked a snowman off a card. And added a lot more to the scenery for people and action.
Melanie wanted to do a horse. But they are hard to draw and she tried several times and was not happy with it...and didn't even break out the paint...but I guess she drew. ;)
Nathan had trouble deciding what to do. What to be the subject? Where to put the subject? Eventually he decided on mountains with the road fading off into the distance. The deer on the road was omitted because it was too difficult-especially seeing Melanie's trouble with the horse! He too didn't get much paint on his brush, if any.
Big long work table. Did I mention I got that table for $1. Actually, 1.36 I think. But really, it was a friend who found it for me, all I had to do was pay and pick it up.
Daniel made Noah's ark. Plus a dock (I think?) for the disciples to tie their boats. Yes, on the same page. Once he noticed I wasn't enforcing the rule of "copy" Daniel decided it was actually a good idea, got a picture, saw the older kids drawing in pencil first, and followed suite.
Jennifer also drew a girl at church whose house we were to go to that week. With lots and lots of buttons on her shirt. I'm still not sure she made the whole thing herself, but who knows, maybe she did!
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It's so much fun to see the kids doing different things. Their personality comes out in excersises like this and that is fun to see. I noticed Evelyn's picture on one of the photos and at that point she had half or so of the page painted. I was struck by how evenly she was painting. It will be interesting to see what she does with that preciseness in the future. I enjoyed Daniel's "fearlessness" in this project. Good for him! Thanks for sharing this day with us!
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