Melted Crayon Art

Inspired by the blog paintcutpaste.com we tried out this fun melted crayon art. 

Avigayil went for the relaxing, playing, abstract technique. 

Aderet used oil pastels to create the classic rainbows and flowers.

Naropa Community Art Studio

Our dear friend, Merryl, runs a program, at the Naropa Community Art Studio, on Thursday afternoons and has very graciously invited me to bring the kids. It's an amazing opportunity for the kids to have access to a huge amount of art supplies (clay, paint, pastels - pretty much everything you can imagine) as well as to watch some very gifted adults model how they work with different mediums.

Here are some pictures from this past week:

 Aderet working on her heart plate with her name in Hebrew.

 Aderet's plate with the glaze painted on before it gets fired for a second time.

 One of the artists brings her parrots every week.

 Avigayil in action.

 Avigayil had a really hard day and I think her painting captures that perfectly. But I love that the girl in the painting still has a smile.

Long Lake Hike

Aderet found this very cool caterpillar. Turns out it's a Spotted Tussock Moth.

After we got home from the hike we did some research on Teddy Roosevelt and his work to establish the National Parks. That brought us to a really quirky history cartoon called Histeria that the kids really like.

Everyone spent sometime drawing in their journals.