Autumn Landscape Watercolor

In our Creation to the Greeks co-op, the kids are learning about the famous composer Antonio Vivaldi.

Our co-op purchased Homeschool In The Woods Composers lapbook.  The kids will be working on the time period appropriate pieces as we go through the 5 year cycle with My Father’s World.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They listened to “Autumn” from Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, and painted a watercolor autumn landscape.

I chose the the leaf-blowing autumn landscape project from Art Projects for Kids (I love her blog!).

 

The project taught them about perspective, noticing that the closer items are to you, the bigger they appear. 

Here are Kathy’s original directions.  You can click on the link above to go directly to her post.

1. Draw a very simple landscape with a tree, hill, and multiple layers of bushes. Add leaves around the tree, and at least one big and several medium size ones.
2. Trace all the lines with a black Sharpie marker.
3. Add some lines of color with crayons: squiggles for grass, lines in bushes, veins in leaves, etc.
4. Paint all with watercolor paint. I used my favorite Dick Blick brand, especially their Turquoise Blue!

The project was a hit, everyone seemed to enjoy it!

 

 

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Prehistoric Cave Art

 

I am the art teacher for our Creation to the Greeks Co-op, and the plan this year is to start at the beginning with art as well. 

I am pulling ideas off the internet and Harmony Fine Arts Ancient Art plans.

We started with a prehistoric cave art project. 

     

Items needed

1. Books on cave paintings

2. Brown grocery sack

3. Charcoal pencil

4. Chalk pastels

 

 

We reviewed the cave are books and learned a lot.

• What does prehistoric mean?
• What the art symbolized and the beliefs behind it
• What was drawn and where it was drawn 
• How the colors were made and tools used to paint

 

I made up some notebooking pages for them complete as they went through the study.

 

 

 

Then they got to work creating their own cave art on the brown grocery sack using a charcoal pencil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The drawings were then wadded up into balls to add the look of a cave wall. 

 

Once they unraveled them, they colored them with pastel chalks.

 

 

 

 

They all seemed to enjoy this project too :0)

 

 

 

 

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MFW Highlights Weeks 27&28: Japan

 

  Here are our highlights from our travels through Japan.  Sorry there was no link-up last week……Monica was so busy finishing her school year and planning her summer gardens, it slipped her mind :0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art:  Big Ladybug made a tree blowing paint with a straw.  The idea for this particular painting came from It Happens In A Flash.  I also have the The Usbourne Art Treasury book which has detailed instructions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kids also enjoyed making carp kites printed from Activity Village.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Co-op:  The kids erupted the volcanoes they built a few weeks ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And we enjoyed a trip to our local Japanese Steakhouse……yum!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to share your week using My Father’s World, link up below.  Also, I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and Monica at Discover Their Gifts will be hosting the link-up next week!

MFW ECC: Weeks 25&26 China

 

Here are some highlights of our travels through China.

 

We played Chinese Checkers and Big Ladybug made a Chinese paper cut craft from Activity Village.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science was looking at the ocean and all the wonderful creatures that live there.  We read books and went to the zoo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big Ladybug chose to learn more about China’s Giant Panda. I printed this lapbook from Homeschool Share.

 

 

 

We had fun at a Chinese restaurant with our co-op class.

 

 

 

 

 

We had fun in China and are looking forward to Japan next. 

 

 

Link up below to share your week!

MFW ECC Highlights: Weeks 14 & 15 France

 

We finished our travels through France and here are some of our highlights.

 

Bible:  missionaries in Hero Tales and their character traits.

1.      Menno Simons and his outlook on peace.

 

 

    William Tyndale, the man who gave us the English Bible.

 

 

Science:

1. Caves:  Watched a great Planet Earth video.
2. Looked at how animals adapt and defend themselves.

 

Geography:

1. France
2. Eiffel Tower (we also toured the tower through YouTube videos and saw how amazing it looks at night!)

You can print the template for the Eiffel Tower here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kids had a great time eating and making marshmallow and toothpick towers.

 

 

 

Art: profile silhouette

 

Cooking: crepes…….yum!

 

 

 

 

I hope everyone is enjoying the Christmas season!  We will be breaking from MFW, so this will be the last link-up until after the new year.  This link-up will be open until December 30, so please link-up and share as many times as you like!

The next link-up will be hosted by Monica at Discover Their Gifts on January 6!