Home work.

Sometimes the girls get homework at the homeschool coop we have been attending for a few years now.
In Ivana's art class they were learning about Ukrainian Artists. It is Louise Nevelson's work that the students are getting inspired by. Ivana brought home the box to be spray painted gold, she needed to find various objects throughout the house that need to be painted gold as well. In the art class this coming week they will be assembling the pieces together with a hot glue gun, and then create a tower out of individual students' boxes.
To get a sneak preview check out this link http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/7aa/7aa729.htm.

Homework for her creative writing class was to compose a short poem. That was what Tata helped her to create:

"Ode to ice cream that disappears."

Oh, Ice Cream, so sweet and light,
That my parents eat every night.
They may thnk I'm tight asleep,
But I always take a peep.

When I ask for it next day,
"fairy, they say, took it away".

Art on the beach.

When a morning shows all the signs of a beautiful day, there is no way our family will stay indoors. We have been known for eventually getting tired of the things to do and places to visit that are in the neighborhood. So our exploratory spirit keeps on haunting us.

We woke up, not so early, had breakfast, in no rush, and then around 11am decided that we wanted to go somewhere. A sunny day in the spring...Hmmm, where should be go?..Hmmm...The beach!!!

It is a bit over 2 hours drive from home to the Atlantic shore, but during those few minutes that it took the parents to ponder, the girls were saying in unison that it was SO worth the drive!
So, fifteen minutes later we were on the road!
We stopped by at a supermarket to get a few things for our picnic and before we knew it, we were looking at the blue vastness, smelling the fresh sea breeze, feeling the warm sand and trembling with the excitement of being by the ocean.
I took our mini art supply kit, so we got to paint a few shells. Even the baby was happy to participate. We all had a great time. Whether we played games, collected shells, painted, played with the waves, chased the gulls, tried to surf cast, went for a shore treasure hunt (finding a sea flee in place of a treasure), everybody felt like we had soaked up on happiness.
Happy "artsing" on the beach! Good for your heart, good for your soul, good for your spirituality.

Happy Easter!

What a beautiful, warm and sunny day we had today! I loved to see the girls dressed in their cute summer dresses!
Milana was simply delighted to find a surprise chick!

Yarn Eggs.

Making yarn eggs was a perfect example of creating something that seemed very easy in the beginning but required patience and some expertise.
Scrambled eggs for breakfast for a family of 6 and we had already a dozen blown eggs to wrap in yarn that made a great decoration for our Easter celebration.
The white glue did not work that well. The yarn slipped off the egg in the middle and we had to try a glue with a stronger bonding capacity. We decided to use wood glue and it worked better. Our wood glue was somewhat old, thick and sticky and worked just fine on the egg shell.
The girls wanted to try to make one yarn wrapped egg themselves. But after almost completing one Ivana's yarn came off and she did not want to do it all over again. I had to show her a good example and did it instead of her. And the egg came out great.
We used the whatever scrapes of yarn I happened to have. I think the eggs came out pretty, with some not so typical Easter colors.