Dyeing Corn

This was a learning experience. It took a day longer than we thought it would! The green and blue did not come out nearly as dark as hoped either, but the colors look great!

First you would dye the corn like you would dye Easter eggs.

Supplies:

• Cups
• Water
• White vinegar
• Food coloring (regular not gel) 
• Corn ( I bought corn to be used for popping popcorn) 

I put about half a cup of water (more or less your choice) in a cup, Add about a tablespoon of vinegar and food coloring. The more food coloring the deeper the color. I let them sit in the cups for a full two days. I laid them out to dry and then placed them in a container until we use them.

We mixed them all together! We will be using them for a sensory bin but also a fun art project in the next few weeks!!! Stayed tuned for photos of the art project!! 

9/16/14

Getting a little caught up here. We have been super busy.

Monster is now enjoying:

• Homeschooling Monday-Thursday
• Co-op every Friday (Junior Lego engineering, Art, Choir)
• Awanas Sunday evenings
• Flag Football (practice Monday nights, games Saturday mornings)till the end of Oct.
• Church on Saturday nights (his large and small group time)
• Church Sunday mornings with me (Service time)
• Play dates and field trips all in between!! 

And people say we don't socialize our children! We are super busy and I feel like the older he gets the busier we get. Today we had a pretty easy but busy day. Monster and I worked on his Language (which he mostly does alone since "it's so easy!"). Then I had him get dressed and we went walking around for awhile outside at the mall. We walked over to Barnes and Noble and got him a few new books as well. 

Monster finished reading Charlotte's Web. I was worried about him getting upset when Charlotte dies (he cried with the giving tree) he did well when it ended. So I thought ok, lets watch the movie now since he hasn't seen it. Poor kid cried his eyes out when Charlotte died! I guess the movie was harder since he was watching it take place! 

This time we got A Wrinkle in Time. Hoping this one goes better! Also, he is reading The Three Musketeers. 

After getting back, we worked on Math. He is working through Saxon Math really well. I am actually considering buying Teaching Textbooks and having him go ahead and start 3rd grade math. He just seems bored. I figure we can do Saxon together and then later he can do Teaching Textbooks alone. We can see how well it goes. 

History we are still working on learning about the 13 original colonies. I have found some great books to go along with this as well that are in his reading basket to help him learn more about them. 

Science we are still working on solar systems. Last week he created a solar system and then wrote facts about each one on the planet! Going to hang it up in his room. He did very well with this! Today we talked about seeing in the dark vs light. And how white light vs red light works better in the dark. 

I got some new canvases from Michaels. Again they had these on sale. This time was buy 3 for the price of 1. So I got 3 for $7! Perfect! Now I got to find us a new Art project for our wall! 

Here is Monster this morning and just a few of what he did. 

Wordless Wednesday

9/10/2014

Verb and Noun Invitation

This last week I found these awesome little magnetic sight words at our local Dollar Tree.  They are great. I set up this invitation this morning not thinking he would actually go to it, but he did. I put the pieces in a box and let him find the words. He had to separate them out by Nouns and Verbs.  He did very well with this. 

Balloon Painting

Today we painted with balloons!! Monster loved this. He is starting his Art class tomorrow at co-op, which he is very excited about, so I let him do some Art today. I got a large canvas, paint and balloons. He went to town making a beautiful picture for me to hang on our Art wall. 

This is excitement here. He thought the pattern on the bottom of the balloon was so cool when it was lifted off the canvas. 

So serious! 

"So neat"

Another beautiful masterpiece by Monster!