Jack's Beanstalks

In a gardening mood, ready for spring! My boys all love the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, so we planted our own little beans.

Atlas' magic harp

Joaquin drawing a castle in the clouds.

Joaquin's Jack

Atlas' and Oliver's

Space Party

For Atlas' 5th birthday, he wanted to have a Paul Frank Space Monkey party. Te party was a great success, and he wants to do it again next year!

Joaquin helped me bake and decorate the cupcakes!

I sewed up fleece astronaut helmets for each of the kids and embellished with my embroidery machine.

Happy astronaut! The kids each made and ate their own pizza.

Party bags with silver sharpees.

The kids loved making and playing with alien slime!

A huge pile of guys left for me to clean off!

It was a great party!

Beading Bugs!

Tonight we used beads and pipe cleaners to make an insect diorama.

Oliver enjoyed beading and wanted to do it all by himself

Joaquin worked hard on his bugs

We used the toy box from Ni Hao Kai Lan's tree house, a perfect backround! It's too late tonight, tomorrow we will set up the diorama, hang the bugs, put up thr flowers.

Joaquin's cool spider, love the eyes!

Joaquin's Caterpillar, looks like he stepped out of Pee Wee's Playhouse.

Ollie did the beading, I did the twisting.

Ceramic Butterflies

While Joaquin was gone we made ceramic butterflies with Atlas' friend.

Jackson works with clay for the first time

Atlas loves working in clay

Three butterflies with holes for hanging. From top to bottom, Oliver's, Atlas', Jackson's

Pokemon Trading Cards

Joaquin taught this lesson, on Pokemon. They had fun making large Pokemon trading cards.

Rainbow Cookies

We colored our sugar cookie dough and rolled them into beautiful yummy rainbows!

Colorful cookie dough

Atlas shaping rainbows

Yummy finished cookies

Colorful Creatures

We used some fun stencils to draw an animal, then decorated it with oil pastels (Joaquin and I looked at Mexican Talavera pottery for ideas), then used paint to finish.

 Joaquin traces a gecko

M is for monkey!

Atlas painting his ghost monkey

Oliver uses the spray bottle to watch his paint spread

Oliver's monkey looks tie dyed!

Joaquin's gecko blending in

Atlas' monkey