The Week Before Valentine's Day

This past week I made cookies...

Lots and lots of cookies.


To be boxed up and packaged

and delivered across town and across the country.

With my extras I made samples of a design I've been wanting to try for a long time

and Valentine's for the boys

My last order was red velvet cupcakes. I tried one, since it was a new recipe. The cake was good. I might make it again....although I would make it "red" velvet cake and omit the red dye. No one should eat that much red food coloring. Ever.

They are pretty though. Maybe I will grow beets this year and make my own red food coloring.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Fine Art

Our group met this week for some fine arts activities. We started with music and discussed the different instrument types. They got to view instruments from the different families and play a couple of them. We also played a couple games where they had to sort instruments into their families and listened and watched Peter and the Wolf.

Then we moved onto art and a drawing based on those of Amedeo Modigliani. I found this lesson on Art Projects for Kids.


They divided up their papers to help in getting the correct proportions. Then they drew the different parts of the portraits in sections.

I found it amusing that the littler ones stayed more real,

While the older ones added a little more artistic flair to theirs.


Except for the girls, theirs turned our very true to life. Here are all of the finished pieces:

Grown-Up Play Dough

I've always been a fan of playdough, clay, etc. As a kid and now. I'll sit down and make and model right along with the kids sometimes. But there is a grown-up version. One that can be somewhat useful.

Fondant.

Here are the Tiger, Wolf and Bear Scouts to top the cake for the Blue and Gold Banquet

But I think this one is my favorite so far....

He was my first attempt at a dog and I think he's pretty cute.