art
Painting lessons
- when you have autonomous big kids who can set themselves up, poke head in every so often
- make sure they know that the glass jar the brushes stand in is the paintbrush rinsing jar and that they shouldn’t use drinking glasses
- ditto palettes, so they don’t substitute food bowls
- choose non-toxic paints in case the above happens
- never leave toddlers unattended. Ever.
All post clean-up. The projects are stuck fast to the table due to having been quite wet. The toddler had spread paint all over the table and was happily gooping it around. Was contemplating getting a photo but opted to not have him tracking paint around the house as we were heading out.
Christmas time, mistletoe and wine, and slightly different this year
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The lovely Ursula (also known as SulaMoon) over at deviantART gave me and another friend of hers pearwood a dragon for Christmas.
I think it’s agonisingly cute. Ursula is an amazing artist.
Just on the subject of Christmas critters, I did a whole blog post on my Christmas present but that was wiped when my host got itself taken out.
Individual learning styles
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Again with the attempt to keep up recording. I have a funky silver Smiggle diary which I’m going to be using for homeschooling notes, and if I remember I’ll transpose them on here and point the relatives at it, as well as anyone else who’s interested in homeschooling or unschooling, just on the offchance :)