Cowboys!

When Atlas woke up this morning, he wanted to play 'cowboys'. He wished he had a sheriff badge, so we made them. We printed out photos of badges, glued them to foam paper, added pin backing, then they decorated with stick on jewels.

Finished badges

Next we transformed our red wagon into a covered wagon. They decorated with western drawing.

Running arround, playing, the fun lasted for hours!

Cooking beans over a homemade camp fire.

Foot Mural

A beautiful day for taking off shoes and dipping them in paint!

Indiana Jones Maps

The boys played Indiana Jones in the backyard and went on a hunt for hidden treasures.

Creating maps for their adventure.

maps

Indiana Jones

Dinosaurs!

We spent the afternoon at Eccle's Dinosaur Park in Ogden.

What better evening to do a dinosaur project.

Learning about mixing colors.

Oliver painting a triceratops.

Oliver's

Atlas' long necked dinosaur, he's a happy daddy dinosaur, with a tie and black hair.

Finished Garden Markers and Butterflies

One of my favorite parts of doing ceramics projects is opening the kiln after the last firing, and seeing the colorful finished projects.

Glazing time

Oliver enjoys puting many layers of glaze onto his butterfly

Our beautiful garden markers! We finished all of our vegtable planting last week and put all of the markers in their place.

Joaquin's beautiful spotted butterfly

Oliver's thickly colored butterfly

Atlas' happy butterfly

Super Heros!

Super heros and dress up are daily themes in our household, Batman, Ironman, Flash, and Captain America are a few of my boy's favorites. This time they are designing their own heros. Atlas and Jackson (neighbor) are the Cheetah Brothers, Oliver is currently Robin, and Joaquin is a one eyed hero with fangs, name to come.

Designing masks

Finished designs

Finished masks! After designing on paper, i cut them out of a firm felt, they colored them with oil pastels, then used sticky foam letters to decorate, I finished them off with some elastic. They have so much fun dressing up in them! Joaquin is still working on his...