My body

 Ruth really enjoyed making an outline of her body and then labeling it. She wanted to write each word herself so I wrote on a scrap paper and she copied each word.
It was lovely to see how many names Ruth knew. We only put on what she could remember. When we spoke about ankles she told me that her ankle is what allows her to move her foot to walk. She then went through all the other joints in her body (including her spine) and told me how they helped her to move.
 She always enjoys painting but does not get to do it often. The paints that I mix always end up going mouldy but today I found some old finger paint that was now so runny that it worked really well with a brush.


We also had fun drawing the head outline of everyone else in the family to see how we all compare. Dad only just managed to fit on the paper.

Bubble paper

One of the activities in the "decorating paper" kit that we received from the Correspondence School was to use bubbles to decorate.

Rachel enjoyed joining in and they had a great time.

The results were really good too. Click here for full instructions on how to do it.

Collage started

Yesterday we watched the DVD the Correspondence school had sent on "Collage". Ruth was very excited to go around the house collecting "treasures".

Then she chose an egg carton to paint.

Today I made up some of the "paste" they had sent with and Ruth had a wonderful time sticking all different things onto her creation.

They also sent a pair of scissors and Ruth has learnt really quickly how to use them. They are nice and sharp (although rounded on the end) as apparently children cut themselves more on blunt scissors because they have to put so much more effort into the cutting.

And once the box was done Ruth was not. So she continued to do some cutting and pasting.
She has had so much fun and I can see that making Collages is going to be a very regular event now.

Senses part 3

The girls enjoyed the painting they did yesterday and today. The focus again was on different animals and their senses as compared to ours.

They had painted the shapes for the faces yesterday and today they attached the ears, nose and eyes (and I drew on the mouths). We stuck the ears and noses onto Styrofoam pieces so they are at least 1cm higher than the faces - so the effect is lovely (a bit lost on a photo).

Autumn painting

I know I need to give the girls more opportunities to paint so I got some paints out today and tried (yes they are not that great) to draw some leaves and things for Ruth to paint. I got the ideas from her one Autumn game.

So although my drawing is not wonderful I was so impressed with Ruth's painting. I really must give her regular painting time.

Well done Ruth.

Autumn crafts

Last week we started collecting items from the garden for our Autumn crafts. The girls were so excited to start with something, so we got busy on the acorn cups. The coloured them in and I put clear drying glue in each one.

The next day we made pretty bangles out of them and the girls were so impressed with their creations.

That kept them busy while our leaves dried in the flower press. A couple of days later we got the leaves out and the girls made place mats.

Ruth's first design of just filling the page with different colours was by far the most popular and so Rachel, Ruth and I made another one each with in that style so we could have a set of 6. The girls were so excited about using them that night at dinner.

This week we got busy on our joint project. First we drew white wispy clouds with white crayon and then we painted over that with blue.

Using the girls fingers (biggest to smallest) to create our branches.

And then sticking on the leaves. First the green one, then the yellow one with leaves starting to fall.

And then the red one with most of the leaves on the ground. We are all thrilled with the results.

Egg colouring

Ruth did a great job of blowing the egg out.

Carefully adding colour.

Very pretty.