Doing what we want

 Now that I'm starting to get the hang of homeschooling, I am starting to introduce more art and music on Fridays, when we have time. This past Friday, I had the kids do a melted crayon craft. I remember loving melting crayons together in elementary school. I didn't remember the particulars, but I knew I could make something that looked like stain glass.  So I researched on my favorite little kids website, notimeforflashcards.com, which has many cute crafts and ideas for teaching children. I found this craft for making stain-glassed leaves. I loved it because we have no real fall in Texas. The leaves don't change, because it's too hot. So here are our artificial leaves:

Step 1: Shred me some crayons with the cheese grater.

Step two: Let the kids choose from the palette of colors what they want to go into their leaf. Then put it on a piece of wax paper.

Step 3: Put another piece of wax paper on top of the crayon shreds, then use an iron to melt.

Step 4: Cut out a leaf shape on cardstock, then tape the wax paper to the back of the leaf shape.

Tada!

And we put them in our windows to add to our fall decorations.

And Ruby almost went to the store dressed like this. At the last minute, completely on a whim, she took  it off. That girl...

Good thing this is a private blog. We definitely are adopting the homeschooling unkempt look.

Elliot finished his book today called Teaching Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. We started it when he was 4...it took a while since I took a year off. But I can say that he is a good little reader.

Dottie doing her history coloring sheets.