We’ve been trying to make a habit of keeping Fridays as our music and art focus day.  So today, we did a great and really fun art project called Watercolor Collage we found at Amanda’s blog, Hearts and Trees.  It’s always great when I can find a way to combine the two, so prior to doing the art project we listened to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Movement for Spring.  Before they listened, we talked about why it was called spring, and I discussed with them that while they were listening to think up some images of springtime.  You can listen to this beautiful music on the widget in my side bar.

 

After listening, we discussed some the images we all had.  Then we used Amanda’s project to put our springtime images into artwork!

 

 

 

Alex started out working with us, but after the painting portion, we lost his attention.  He plans to finish his later;)  But Hannah and I had so much fun finishing ours and we were really impressed with the final products!

 

Hannah’s “Lawnmowing in Spring” (isn’t this awesome!)

 

Mom’s “Springtime Delight for Hummingbird”

 

Both of us used rubbing alcohol on some of our colors and salt on others.  Hannah used alcohol on her background, and I used it on the hummingbird.  Hannah used salt on the grass and bush, and I used it on my background.  This project was truly so much fun, give it a try!

 

Thanks Amanda for giving us our art and music idea for the week!

 

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