Wax resisit

Art Monday has proved to be such a great idea as the children have come up with so many lovely projects. Even if I have not organized something for them to do, they look up in their art books for projects they would like to have a go at. This wax resist turned out really well.
First they drew the picture with wax crayons.
And then they painted over with watered down acrylic.

Niamh was very pleased with how it looked, and thought it looked very much like a pastel picture.

Maths mad!

A lot of people ask how it is possible to school 5 children of different levels at the same time. Although they are all at different levels they pretty much follow the same subjects each day. So they will all do their maths together, and then all do spelling, handwriting, grammar, science etc etc. Most of the time Ciara and Ayla play a lot together, and I am sooo grateful that they love each other's company as much as they do, but often I get to read to the younger two while the others are stuck into their workbooks.

Two little munchkins.
Jude absolutely loves maths, and it is not uncommon for him to do two hours of maths everyday - that is computer work and workbook work combined. It always takes up the majority of his school day.

Fall trees made with egg shells

Another fun fall project using eggs.
Firstly the eggs get painted with acrylic.
These are then stuck down to black card with modge podge - the eggs crack as they are pushed down to glue them down. Once the glue dries, the card is cutting into lots of leaf shapes.
An autumn tree is painted and then the leaves are stuck down, a really effective picture.
Eden's tree.

Salt dough leaf prints

The kids had a lot of fun with this multi stepped autumn project.
First make salt dough, and find some leaves to make leaf imprints into the salt dough.
Niamh got really creative and made a frog.
Jude even got stuck in with the painting.

Niamh enjoyed putting the finishing touches on her frog - perhaps a paperweight ?


Niamh finishing it off with some modge podge.
Which seals it off nicely and gives it a nice shine.

An Autumn Batik

I always get soo excited when we learn a new art technique. This one is called Batik.
Firstly the picture is drawn on material, and then the picture is glued with washable pva.
The material and picture is then painted over with acrylic paint.


The end pictures - above is Eden's, below is Niamh's. Note how the tree is totally covered over.
Once the painting is dry, the material is placed in hot water so that the glue(which covered the trees) comes off, and pulls the paint off with it.

To reveal the lovely autumn tree pattern below.
Niamh's tree.

Gecko colour wheel watercolour

We finally got some transparency paper so the girls could finish off the geckos they started a while ago. This was a really fun craft, as they had not done anything like this before. They made a colour wheel which went behind the picture and as they spin it the gecko changes colour. The transparency paper is for the geckos black markings.


On art day Eden also did a sketch of a Komodo Dragon, a reptile she is utterly fascinated with.

Autumn watercolours, with acrylic

We continue with our Autumn inspiration for Art Day on Mondays. Eden and Niamh enjoyed doing these watercolour autumn trees, and finished off the leaves with acrylic paint.
Niamh's painting.

Eden's painting