Drawings

With school out and Mommy sick, Isabel has been drawing up a storm while she’s been on Christmas vacation. Enjoy!

This is a drawing with markers that is a picture of Mommy and a snowman. Mommy has on a striped shirt and blue shorts. Mommy also has elbows!
(I love the snowman and the elbows!.. haha!)

This is a pencil drawing of Mommy and Isabel walking together.

This is a drawing done with markers. It’s a flower.

This is a drawing done with markers. It is a picture of Daddy with a blue and red short sleeve shirt on and shorts.

This is a drawing done with markers again. This is a picture of a truck that she drew from a book.

Snowflake Craft

Today with more rain in the forecast, we spent the early afternoon working on a coffee filter snowflake craft. I had never heard (Gino said he’s heard of it – I must be out of the loop!) of using coffee filter’s but after reading about this easy idea online, I thought I would let Isabel (also get’s more practice with scissors – bonus!) give it a try. So I got out our scissors and even the hole punch and we got to work cutting and trimming. It turned into a huge success! Enjoy!

Folding her filter. “This is fun.” she says.

Her finished snowflake filter.

Our work-in-progress, I’d like to fill up each of the window squares with our snowflakes. Which shouldn’t be a problem because she really enjoys this craft!

One of Isabel’s coffee filter snowflakes.

I thought this was one of the best snowflakes that Isabel did.

Gino even did one!

This is one that I did.

Another one that I did; I really like the way it turned out with the crosses and hearts.

All In A Days Drawing

Isabel has been drawing on anything and everything (watch out! she’s drawn on a few important papers too). Her art work has been beginning to change and she’s starting to add more detail to each picture. It’s so great to see the pictures take form as it comes from her mind and pencil. Enjoy!

This was a “homework” assignment from Sunday school, she drew a picture of Jesus on the cross. Jesus is sad because he’s on the cross. She even sounded out the word “Gesus” – no help from Gino or I! Fantastic Job!!

Smiley faces are a big thing that she likes to draw. She is now starting to draw eyelashes, checks, open mouths w/teeth, and round eyeballs w/pupils. So great!

People are another thing she likes to draw. She has started to add bodies with legs with knees, ankles with feet. Arms with elbows and hands with wrists. She also is adding hair but not all the time.

I just love this picture! It’s Daisy or Dase, as Isabel spelled out on her own. Amazing how she’s starting to connect letter sounds to actually form them into words!

From snow outside last week, to snow inside on paper. This is a picture of Isabel playing in the snow as it’s falling from the sky.

I love this one too. This is her version of the photo I took of Gino and Isabel and the snowman they built last week in the snow. She even added clothes, arms and hair.
So wonderful!

Snowman That Does Not Melt

Isabel was sad to see her snowman melt away and I was in the mood to do some type of Christmas craft with her since school has been out all week. So I went online to find something to do with the materials I had on hand, easy, and fun. She worked on it over the weekend, letting it dry in between adding the different items to it. Enjoy!

Meet Isabel’s “snowman-that-does-not-melt” or as she also like’s to call it “the snowman who is praising God”. She did everything herself (I did all the cutting out of pieces and assembled the hands). I think she did a great job with it, she says she wants to keep it and put it up with all the Christmas decorations each year.

I hope to do some more paper plate crafts with her. There is also a cute angel that I found, that is similar to one that I did when I was little, so we’ll see. Oh, by the way, it’s hanging on the door going into the laundry room, it’s cute, festive, and like she says, he does not melt, so there is no mess!

Art At Home

I haven’t added any of Isabel’s artwork that she does at home because she has been doing so many great things at school, so I thought I would share just a few of them… Enjoy!

Isabel drew this last night while we were waiting for dinner to finish baking in the oven. It’s done with markers and I love it!

This one is crayons and markers.

Coloring pages can be found online everywhere. I can print off a page from the internet and she’s more likely to color it then she is from the handful of coloring books that she has.

Butterflies in blue and purple done all in crayon.