Kitchen Table Creations

We have been home-bound most of the day today working on all sorts of crafty things.
After half of the summer is already gone I realized that we hadn't done any crafty, messy things yet ...

... na-course that had to change TODAY!!!

We started with a little drawing session for the Ls

- Floppy Ear Bunny - 

I found the tutorial here, one of the best kids art blogs that I have found so far. I love this woman, she rocks the art world for kids BIG time!!!

L laying out her project. 

 Getting started

Lulu had a little easier instructions, she was drawing her FIRST bunny ever!

This is one of our favorite books "How To Draw Animals" 

Very easy steps for little ones to create real animals.

Ta-dahhhh .... Lulu's bunny-baby-princes 

The big one was done with the first part, drawing the head and body 

and now had to fuse both and make it look like a bunny.

Getting there ....

 Tracing with a marker

Adding some color

(Omi, die Buntstifte werden GUT genutzt wie Du sehen kannst!!!)

Ta-dahhhhh ... one floppy ear bunny

So cool!!!

This is by far the best drawing she has ever made!!!!

After we had finished we still had some more craftiness in us and moved right on to 

The Hedwigs

The Making Of ...

The Ls are TOTALLY into Harry Potter right now. 

Well really it's L and Lulu is just being thrown into it by her big sis. 

We let them watch part 1 and 2 and afterwards I thought "OMG, I would have NEVER, EVER let L watch Harry Potter when she was 4, NEVER!!!! and here I am, sitting with Lulu and holding her hand while she peaks over the edges of her lee trying to be brave and not be scared of the "bad guys"I must be CRAZY!"

But luckily she seems to be too young to understand and can go to sleep afterwards like she just watched "Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses" while the big one is now peaking from beneath the covers and asking for us to keep all the lights on, the doors open and maybe to stay with her for just a little wile longer :)

Anyways, they LOVE Hedwig, Harry's owl and when I saw this tutorial I was all over it!

I have no pictures of the actual making of the Hedwigs since my hands, my table, the kids (the whole bodies I mean) and even the dog were covered in clay. 

I pulled out my old clay tools (YES aunty Michelle, I still have them!!! ... and with them come some fond memories of us making many, many, many bowls ;) and a box of air dry clay that I had bought a while ago and so it began. 

The results are shown here. 

L's Hedwig

Lulu's baby-princess-Hedwig

They are drying right now and by the end of the week we should be ready to put some acrylics on them to make them look even more pretty. 

A quick glaze and they'll be ready for display.

You'd think that was enough to make the Ls run from more messy creations but NO, they went on to make 100 mud pies in the sandbox and decorated them with pearls and flowers (out of MY GARDEN!).

We may have to do this tomorrow again ... there is a wind-sock waiting to be made for the play house :)