Penguin Height chart {Arctic and Antartica Unit sudy}

During our last unit study on all things cold I came across a cool idea to make life size penguins so the children could "measure" up against them! We looked at some books for a guide and found THIS picture too and got to work drawing some life like penguins! Sophia and Esther helped me paint them and this was the final result!!

 

 Emperor, King, Gentoo, Chipstrap, African and Fairy

Sapphire loved seeing how "BIG" she was compared to the penguins, Esther found out that she is about the same size as a King Penguin and Hannah, Sophia and Zeke are all taller than an Emperor, though they wouldn't like to actually be standing in a group of them cause they really are pretty big!!

Hannah set to work making up some labels for each one including weight, height and lifespan.
It was a great exercise for our Antarctica study!!
Smiles The Torrents'

Penguin Art fun for kids {Arctic and Antarctica Unit study}

Here is another fun activity suitable for ALL ages to go along nicely with our Arctic and Antarctica study. I found this idea HERE. 

 

 

 

 Hannah isn't a big fan of painting... but she LOVES to paint backgrounds!!

 

 All the penguins pieces ready to assemble.

 

 Sapphire's finished Penguin

 Esther's finished Penguin

 Hannah's Finished Penguin Mother and baby.

 Sophia made two, her fav is the Mother and baby one

From my youngest at 2 1/2 to my oldest at 14 everyone had a wonderful time creating their backgrounds, making their penguins and designing their scene!! It was sooo great to see them all come to life!

Smiles The Torrents'

Cave Painting for kids (History craft)

With a new History curriculum that I've just started with the children (which by the way we are LOVING!!!) We've been looking at the Ice Age and Dinosaurs and Noah and more......
It came to me that for Art this Friday we would make a cave (like HERE) and do some cave paintings!! WOW the children were soooo excited!! That of course makes for a happy homeschooling Mummy!!

 

  

 I suggested that they could "draw" under the table, similar to how early man/woman would have done it! Zeke and Sophia jumped in for that..... as did Sapphire, well she jumped on Soph more to the point!!! hee he!

 

 Sophia's finished cave art

 Zeke's Wolly Rhino cave painting

Hannah went to drawing straight on the "cave" sides.......

A cave being drawn complete with family

To finish their art off I sprayed over their hands to mark it like a signature (saw that idea HERE) The cave is proving to be a HUGE hit, even our new kitten loves the russle of the paper cave walls!! Who would have thought History could be sooo fun!!!
Smiles The Torrents'

Circus Fun {book making}

One of the blogs I follow HERE, is by the very talented, arty Gail!! The ideas she comes up with are totally awesome!!! This particular arty activity is to make a Circus book and a few weeks ago the children and I invited some friends to join us and have some Big Top Fun! The instructions are super easy to follow from that artist woman and the extra pictures we found from HERE!

 Sophia decorating her envelope to hold her extra pieces!

 Zeke getting busy drawing his trapeze artist!

 Zeke's finished tent, complete with Lion Tammer, 

he made the jump hoop and whip!!

A clever seal balancing a ball!

Mr strong man!! Ready to lift....

YAY, he did it!!

(check out that six pack!!)

My finished Tent I made for Esther!

I went with two clowns, one being the puppet and then also 

added the acrobatic to the background of my trapeze guy!

Sophia went with an all white tent...

She designed the lady trapeze artist from the original picture!

It was soo much fun putting these together, can't wait to do some more book fun with the children in the future!
Smiles The Torrents'

Mummy craft - make your own sarcophagus (Egyptian Unit Study)

One of the most fun Egyptian activities the children and I did was making our own Sarcophagus's!! It took some time (as you will note in the pictures with all the changes of clothes.... in saying that the girls do change at least TWICE a day anyway HEE HEE!!!!) but the end result was totally worth every minute!! I saw the idea HERE. Each of our precious treasures added their own wonderful arty style and learnt loads along the way on how Egyptians bury their dead.

 

 first you need to trace your body shape

 then you get to paint your main colour and add the finer details

(Sophia is doing her face part first)

 Costume change.... now drawing in the eyes....

 Sophia is helping Hannah with her necklace

(this is a new day with more costumes!!)

 LOVE the stripes Zeke gave his sarcophagus!

 Final details being added, it did get a bit tedious!!

 The finished Sarocophagus'!!!

  

 Hannah then Ezekiel's

 Sophia's and Esther's (I did the hieroglyphics)

 Sapphire's: made by Mummy!

We are now wrapping up (HEE HE) our Egyptian study but I still have a few more things to show you!!

Until then,

Smiles The Torrents'

Polar bear art {Arctic animals}

We had sooo much fun with our Arctic animals. I found this amazing blog HERE with all things to do with art and children and in the list was this fabbo art project on Polar Bears.
Hannah loved it (which was wonderful as it's not one of her favourite subjects) and was super impressed with her background!!!
Each step was really well explained and my treasures had the best time seeing their project come to life!!

 

 

Esther added ALL the details including a smile for her bears

Hannah decided to leave her Polar bears as silhouettes

Zeke went round all of his to finish it off (like the example!)

and Sophia added a little detail but not too much!

I find it soooo interesting how different all their "Art" ideas are! Soooo wonderful to be involved in!
So thanks HEAPS Gail for your wonderful step by step instructions and templates to make these fantastic projects!!!!
Smiles The Torrents'