Kid art

The kids have been having a good time with artsy craftsy things. After going through a roll or so of regular tape I got a stack of multi-colored masking tape from the teacher store. It's been a huge hit. We have had spider webs, jungle vines, cage bars, traps, finish lines for races, and snow flakes hanging from the ceiling. It's been a lot of fun but has turned our living room into a bit of an obstacle course.

The next thing was the dot dot art. This is a favorite of Baby girl. You can use the Do A Dot bottles or Bingo bottles like these. The paint is very watery so regular paper warps. The preschool teachers make cut outs from coffee filters. This works much better.

On a recent trip to the library Buddy boy saw a poster for the King Tut exhibit at the de Young museum in SF. He decided he wanted to make a mummy and a mummy case. So we did. We checked out the museum web site to see what we needed to do. Then we used very a very unauthentic Kleenex box for the sarcophagus and a toilet paper tube, tennis ball, and TP for the mummy, with plenty of tape of course. He even colored the face yellow after we looked at pictures from the museum exibit. He asked me to draw the "striped snake hat".

After making the mummy we read Bill and Pete. A cute story about a croc and his toothbrush bird and their trip to the museum in Cairo.

So much fun. You never know what they will come up with next.