Finally a Woogie Wednesday to post. Our projects together this summer have been abandoned or on going but today we did a short project. We dyed our hair. We previously tried Kool-Aid but it pretty much all rinsed out afterward so we went with semi-permanent color. She went with pink and I went with purple. Unfortunately (or fortunately as a 30 something mother of 2) my purple bangs are more subtle and don’t really show up in a photograph.

Not a bright as she wanted but I wasn’t going to bleach her hair and I didn’t want to leave it on too long so this will have to do and will hopefully be gone buy the time school starts.

Just kidding. He’s such a good sport to entertain & put up with us all!

A tie-dye kit was in the “summer fun kit” I gave the Woog at the end of the year and told her she’d get one at the end of every school year to keep her busy all summer. She’s been wanting a tie-dyed dress for a while, so yesterday we made one. The colors on the shirt and hat turned out really vibrant, but the dress wasn’t as bright and I wished it would be. I’m sure the fabric type had something to do with it.

This week, the hero of the week in the Woog’s class is Vincent van Gogh, so we did a little Woogie Wednesday project to learn more about him. Starry Night is my favorite piece of his (and the Woog’s too!) so we took the project outside and used sidewalk chalk to recreate the work on the deck.

*I’m still having some blog issues since moving this entire site over to WordPress so bare with me. The comments are wacky at the moment and hopefully I will be able to get them all squared away and acting right again.

What do you do when your friend breaks your favorite blue plastic headband at rest time? You make a peacock – and that’s what we did!

The Woog was so upset when I picked her up from school yesterday but luckily we turned that frown upside down and made a Woogie Wednesday project out of the apparently catastrophic event:

Last week was Dr. Seuss week for the Woog and I found thins cute little drawing in her folder:

We also worked on a Woogie Wednesday/Weekday/Weekend project of the Cat in The Hat:

Check out her wocket in her pocket costume here.

It’s Tuesday, but I’m posting a Woogie Wednesday/Weekend today. It was a snow day so the Woog wanted to work on a project for her teacher so we made a snowman together.

One of my New Years resolutions this year was to get back on track with making art with the Woog. It is freezing here and it snowed so we probably won’t venture out for a few days. Yesterday morning we did a quick project and made ice ornaments. She used a collection of colored beads, paper and glitter while I mixed together some previous work illustrations.

One last piece of art to wrap up the countdown. This has been in my sketchbook for a while and thought it was a perfect piece for this little series.

The Woog’s allergies finally caught up with her today so she’s been resting all afternoon so I decided to do a quick piece on my own.

Tomorrow: Art for 1 day to go!