{"id":783111,"date":"2012-09-30T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=783111"},"modified":"2012-09-30T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T21:00:14","slug":"miscellaneous-arts-and-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/miscellaneous-arts-and-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Arts and Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing some cleaning out of stuff. Part of the agreement that I made with my kids was that if I tossed some of these crafts, I would post photos on my blog for the world to see, so they will be saved for a life time now. Fortunately some of the things I came across are just too good to toss, but I still wanted to take pictures of them to share with you. So this is just a hodge podge of arts and crafts that my kids have done over the last few months. (One of them is over a year old, and that’s one of the ones that has to go.)<\/p>\n

The first two pictures are of a nature journal that we made out of paper bags. Kind of a fun idea. You can stick all the treasures (i.e. dandelions and rocks) that you gather on your nature walk into the paper bags. We did this with our Adventurer Club<\/a> at church when studying backyard habitat.<\/p>\n

\"Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/a><\/p>\n

Next up is a really great illustration JD Boy did in his nature journal when we went to the desert last winter. I couldn’t find his nature journal for awhile, so wasn’t able to post this with our other posts about that trip. (See, it is good to clean house periodically.)<\/p>\n

\"JD<\/a><\/p>\n

The gecko watercolor painting is also by JD Boy. This is definitely one of the keepers. He did this when doing a watercolor class with his grandpa. I think he did a mighty fine job.<\/p>\n

\"JD<\/a><\/p>\n

The last two are things that we did with a couple of different unit studies. The first one is a primer\/reader that we made when studying about Colonial America. It has the alphabet and the Lord’s prayer on it. The last one is a talking stick that each kid made when we were studying about American Indians. Both were fun. Both came from Hands and Hearts kits.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Colonial<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Talking<\/a><\/p>\n

Last but not least is a picture showing how much better the area looks where I was cleaning. I should have taken a before picture, but I was too embarrassed that you could not even see the counter for all of the stuff that was stacked on it. Now everything that was on it has found a permanent home whether it be in a cabinet, trash can or thrift store.<\/p>\n

\"Clean<\/a><\/p>\n

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