CREATIVE DRAPERS

Here are some of the things we have done to keep busy lately. 

Kenya thought it was "nice" to give Jasmin so many toys to choose from.  Wow, what a mess it made.  But she is good at helping clean up! 

 

Playing with "goo"

One day we decided to play.  I looked up a recipe and it was just cornstarch and water.  I added the food coloring to make it a little more interesting.  We did red/pink and blue and then mixed it after a while of playing with it and made purple.  This stuff was awesome.  Kenya played with it for almost 2 straight hours and I played with it for about 1 hour of that time off and on.  It reminds me kind of like quick sand.  If you slowly push on it you it is like a liquid and your figure goes right into it.  If you hit it quickly it is like a solid.  It would slowly dip out of our hands.  Kenya played with it so much that I had to add water to it 2 different times.  It was a fun and she learned a lot about water and making things liquid and solid and also mixing colors. 

She did not mind one bit getting messy.

These next pictures are what we have done this week to get ready for Kenya's birthday party.  Her birthday is Wed and her party is on Sat.  We made a pull string pinata for her birthday.  I asked her what she wanted it to look like and she said she wanted it to look like her.  So, then I let her design the whole thing.  She told me she wanted it to be a rectangle and that she wanted to draw on it with canyons.  She did it all by herself.  She even wrote her name on it by herself.

Just getting started with the project. 

"painting her figure nails"  she loves to have her hand traced and then color in the figure nails like she is painting them.

Demonstrating how it works.  So, there are 12 stings and 11 of those strings will just come right out and 1 will open the trap door.  It is really quite cool. 

Just a picture of Jasmin army crawling around trying to find a way to "help"

Look at that cute face!  She is amazing!

This is Kenya's self portrait.  The big circle on top is her head.  She then made 2 giant eyes, the red circles.  The small red dot IN the middle of her eyes is her nose.  The pink, her lip, the other circle is her body and her green legs come out of the bottom.  And yes, those are her arms coming out of her head.  The black scribbles on the left side I think was Jasmin. 

Can you find her name?  It is vertical.  

Each week we try to be make a craft and bake/cook something.  It is away to be creative and explore new things.  We really enjoy the structured time working together too.  Hopefully we will have many more success. 

This is just a video to show how big Jasmin is getting.  She pulls up on furniture and has already learned how to fall safely.