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.

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.

Today the Woog wanted to make a bumble bee so I started out with a sketch this time which was totally art directed by her. It need to be a girl and hove make-up:

She started out painting and stamping some paper:

And then decided to play cowgirl and left the rest up to me. I did 2-D work on the body and then added various 3-D elements. Here’s how it turned out:

Finally, a snippet of what we worked on last week. Last Thursday it was the Woog’s turn for a “I am special” board at Mother’s Day Out. The Parents put them together and then the kids share it with their friends to learn more about them. This is just a small area of the board since it included pictures of friends and family members and I don’t want to post their images online without their knowledge. She did help a little with the board but mainly helped with the art direction of it all. I think it turned out really cute and will be a great keepsake for her. I think it kind of scared the other mothers into thinking that they had to do the same. I’m going to get in so much trouble when the Woog starts doing science projects!

Today’s WW didn’t really happen because she found an old toy she had forgotten about and played with it ALL morning. Maybe next week!

We did work on a Woogie Wednesday yesterday, but didn’t finish it until last night and she took it to school with her today. I’ll try and show it if she brings it all home.

Still working on the new room. Just need to finish up some painting, trim work and hand some pictures. You can see her desk area in the mirror that still needs to be painted and fixed up.

We’re working on a new room for the Woog today that will turn into a Woogie Weekend I’m sure. We got new flooring put down last week and we moved her room over to my old office so she could get new furniture and have more room to play and grow (even though our moms are thinking it’s because it’s time for a new baby – and they would be so totally WRONG!). We wanted to get her moved and settled before she starts kindergarten in the fall so she won’t have a new room and school to get adjusted too at the same time. I’ll continue the room redo over the weekend.

The Woog and I worked on self portraits today and she decided she looked like me so she would just draw and paint what I did for myself (she doesn’t where glasses though but how cute would she be if she did!). I taught her about sketching out what she wanted to do and then translating the sketch to the canvas freehand. She really has the process down. When painting I had her experiment with different brush sizes to show her how to get thinner lines. Now they are dry and she has them displayed in “her” studio (area).

WARNING: If you are expecting a handmade gift from the Woog this year, wait until after Christmas to read this post!

We haven’t done and official Woogie Wednesday in quite a while so yesterday we devoted the entire day to it. We worked on Christmas gifts for the Woog. Next Wednesday we’ll do some baking for her gifts too since she loves to cook. We started out making gift tags, so she drew a snowman and wrote her name:

Then I scanned it into the computer, resized it and printed it out (I’m only using yellow paper because it was left in my printer from our Christmas Cards) and got all the supplies together:

Then I let her rub her pencil around the entire back for the transfer:

Then I transfered her snowman and name and carved it out while she played with all the carved bits and ended up making a huge mess (so glad this is in my studio!):

Then we inked them to see if I needed to carve anymore:

And them the stamping began:

Then, we worked on the gifts. I found some unpainted wooden frames at Hobby Lobby several months ago and spray painted them with chalkboard paint. Then she signed the back of each one and drew a heart on pink paper and glued those on. Then I made the chalk holder with ribbon. We then took a mini photo shoot out back for the picture, printed those and then she dream on each of the chalk boards before we wrapped them. This is one that we made to keep and I drew on this one:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!