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Fresh food makes me feel better, especially when it's also beautiful. Today's unintentional art brought to you by these carrots from @hungryharvest which is helping to feed us in these strange and scary times!
Love this!
Today was our second day of distance learning. Auggie's teacher has the patience of a saint. I appreciate her more than ever in this time. The kids in Auggie's class are getting the hang of muting during the video chat and we learned how to pin the teacher's picture so that it doesn't just insanely flip through all of the kids every second. Baby steps, friends, baby steps. Right now Auggie is having a FaceTime playdate, which I'm grateful for because he craves kid time. I was in the kitchen when a ladybug landed on my green shirt, I went into the living room to show Auggie and the ladybug realized that it had misjudged this weird tree and flew off. We found it again on this pillow. How perfect is that? I've decided it's definitely a good sign!
Today we officially started distance learning. Auggie got to see his teacher and classmates in a video conference. He also worked on some math and maps from his distance learning materials. My contribution was that he learned about mantis shrimp (they are INCREDIBLE! Google mantis shrimp if you don't know how fantastic they are) and we made sushi. Auggie helped to read the recipe, he measured ingredients, followed directions, cut the avocado, and assembled his rolls. Hurray for learning!
Today we set up habitats for all of Auggie's animals. Neil is fully free range, but likes her kitty habitat.
Tonight I'm cooking these beautiful Eye of the Goat beans (thank you @rancho_gordo) and as I was washing them I thought about how they look like someone went through and hand painted them. They are so simple and so beautiful.
Today in #quarantineartforkids we made a map with stamps. You could make your map with anything, crayons, pencils, cut out pieces of colored paper etc. Auggie loved it and was occupied for a long time with planning out the forest, the houses, the traffic, and more.
Here's a very easy art idea using stuff you probably already have. We used charcoal pencils to make the mountains, and colored pencils for the details. Start by putting two pieces of paper over each other and fixing the top. Use a clipboard or tape. Tear a bit off the bottom of your top sheet to makes your smallest mountains. Then draw along the tear. If you have pencil or charcoal smudge it down. Keep tearing the top sheet and adding layers. Then add castles or other cool stuff to your mountains.
Today we are using my 1932 stamp set made by the Creative Educational Society in Mankato, Minnesota.
