A fun lesson in mixing colors!

We had some fun mixing colors! First we filled a jumbo muffin pan with shaving cream, then added different food colors to each one,


Then added MORE color... etc, until we ended with this!


She sat in the tub and played with it a bit...




before washing it all away.


Look at all the pretty colors! :D

Tabbi turns 8

I took Tabbi to get her hair cut on her 8th birthday. This is the "before" picture.


And this is after they cut 13" off! She donated her hair to Locks of Love and got her picture in the newspaper!


I made her this set of gnomes. I got the tutorial from HERE.




This is her sandcastle birthday cake. No artificial colors!


And I had to show you the "Hello Kitty" hat her big sis, Charity, made for her. She hardly took it off for the next few days!

Ox Cart Man

We read the book "Ox Cart Man" today, then made some beeswax candles. Tabbi's is the pink one, mine is white.

Bird count

Tabbi counted birds one day. She made tally marks in her nature journal for the birds she saw on the sunflower feeder and on the suet feeder.

Licorice wanted to watch the birds, too!

Tabbi's new bike

Wow, has it been over a month since I posted anything? Well, we went shopping on Black Friday and bought Tabbi a new bike for her birthday!

Thistles and Milk Weed

Tabbi, Becca and I went out today to look for thistles for the Outdoor Challenge. We found some, but they were pretty far gone already. We did however get to pull what was left of the flowers apart and see the fluff.

We also found some Milkweed pods that were split open. The seeds were spilling out and the wind was taking them away. So silky, the girls liked the feel of the soft fluff.

Collecting leaves

We collected some leaves, ironed them between wax paper and added them to our nature journals.

Mailbox

I found this mailbox at a thrift store in town. I cleaned it up for Tabbi to play with. Today, she and Becca, her niece, played with it all afternoon. I gave them some paper and a stack of old envelopes, and they wrote LOTS of "letters" to each other!

Leaf painting

We used some pressed leaves for our art project today. Tabbi painted lots of fall colors on the leaves and then pressed them to a piece of paper.

Chalk picture

We found a tutorial on line and decided to try using chalk to make a Marsh picture. Our chalks weren't exactly the right colors, but I still like the way they turned out. The turtorial is here: http://www.hodgepodge.me/2011/07/marsh-a-pastels-tutorial/

The finished project.

Nature walk today

Today we took a walk looking for contrast.

We found some different types of tree bark.

And used a ruler to show the different sizes of fungi we found.

We also took lots of "just for fun" nature pictures!

Some red leaves.

The end of a log.

Part of a log.

And of course the cat and dog had to go along, too!

Licorice

And Kermit! (Love this picture! lol)

Christmas Ornaments

And here are the ornaments Tabbi made, after two days of drying!

Tabbi making a Fall tree painting.

The finished picture!

This week...

Becca and Tabbi made a dessert with chocolate animal cookies, whipped cream, and banana slices!

Tabbi LOVES to collect eggs! She goes out two or three times a day to see if there are any more.

Tabbi decided she wanted to make Christmas ornaments today... guess it's because of the cold weather! She used glue and glitter to trace shapes. We have to wait for the glue to dry to see how these turn out.

Then she made a glue snowman! He turned out kind of cute... but his glue has to dry, too!

Nature walk

On Wednesday, we collected different colored items, to see how many fall colors we could find. Our trees are mostly bare already, so there weren't a whole lot of colored leaves.

This is the chart she colored to show many different fall colors.

Tabbi found a feather, too.