Archive for April, 2009

Hope everybody had a happy Easter:)

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Oops…some of the pics are cut off.  If you click on them you should be able to see the whole thing.

Little Artist

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Scarlet’s favorite thing to draw is DADDY!

She is surprisingly good at capturing him on paper.

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Notice they all have the signature chin hairs:)

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Does this not look exactly like him?

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Daddy LOVES it when Scarlet gives him hair!

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Check out the “rosy cheeks”.   A 3/4 view–very advanced;)

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Ha! Dad as Charlie Brown.

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I love this one!  Look at his smile and his cute little ears:)

Here are a few more she did today that surprised me:

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A little slug.  There is a story behind this one!

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And a car!

It’s so fun to see what she comes up with.

We have stacks and stacks of drawings and we can easily go through a pad of paper in a few hours (thank goodness for the dollar store!)

As for the slug story…The other night Scarlet suddenly decided she was deathly afraid of slugs.  She was screaming and crying and couldn’t stop thinking about how scary they were.  I tried to calm her down by telling her they were teeny tiny and they couldn’t hurt her but nothing was working.  She decided she needed to draw a slug but on her way to the easel she lost her nerve and rushed back to me sobbing “I can’t do it!  It’s too scary!” she cried.  I asked her if it would be okay if I drew and slug and she agreed.  I drew a mommy slug, a daddy slug and a little boy slug who was eating a leaf.  “They’re not scary at all!” she said and proceeded to draw some slugs of her own.  Then she got out a fresh sheet of paper and said “Dear Slug” (scribble, scribble).  So I asked her if she needed help writing a letter to the slugs and she brought me the paper.  Here is what the letter says:

Dear Slug,

Welcome to my house.  I am not scared of you.

Love, Scarlet

We taped it to the front door really really low so the slugs could see that they are welcome.

Sfarkle Play Dough!!!

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

SOOOO FUN!

Mix together in a glass bowl:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 Tbsp veg oil
1 cup water
food coloring to your liking (blue is Scarlet’s fave)

Mix it up real good. It looks soupy, but don’t worry.
This is the part for the adults:
Next put it in the microwave for 2 minutes. Take it out
and stir stir stir. Put it back in for two more minutes.
Take it out and stir stir stir again. If it isn’t quite set up
you can put it in for one more minute. Remove from bowl
(Be careful it will be hot!) and place on parchment paper.
Let it cool. When cool add LOTS of sfarkles (glitter).

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Time to play!