Nana camp part 3

These two sweethearts make me smile

We started off as amateur physicists studying magnets and magnetism.  Did you know that our North and South "poles" are magnets?  That's why compasses always point North.  The North pole is a positive force magnet.   Well the fun part of physics week was making decorative magnets that you can use to attach to a surface to remind you of something.

under the sea magnets, et al

Gabriela's jelly fish

making space for the magnet

We chose to make under the sea magnets:
Here's Gabriela's jelly fishWe started with  the idea and templates from Purl Soho.  Try this website.  They offer superb yarns but also have felts and beads and other wonderful products

We used our templates; chose our creature; and started sewing.

The first time around our projected flopped because the magnet didn't really fit into the pocket space we had created so we came up with the "quarter" solution:

magnet now inside jelly fish head

This turned out to be fun and I now have beachy magnets hanging on to steel stuff

May the magnetic force be with you, young physicists!

The next week we explored biology - or zoology.  First we talked about mammals.  What do all mammals have in common?  Who are the exceptions? Why? Assignment: what is your favorite mammal?  Now let's draw her.   Reina chose an elephant.  Ask Reina anything about an elephant and she will give you the answer.  Gabriel thought a lot about it and chose a sea turtle.  Well that's my Gabriela.  I chose a goat!!! No surprise there.  And then this all made the next collage project possible.  First we sketched.  We talked about our mammals characteristics and which of these characteristics would make their artwork easily identifiable.

Theme of the week: mammals

Word of the week: oviparous     hmmmmm

collage elephant, Reina
So we all sketched our mammals and our oviparous animal and then got down to yet another collage project:

Gabriela's oviparous rainbow turtle.

and I chose to memorialize my sweet Sunflower who passed away this week:

you are my sunshine

my sunflower

Somewhere along the way we talked about Washi tape.   Never heard of it.  The girls already had some so I got busy and found some online and we made bookmarks from discarded thick paper (actually cereal and ice cream packaging)

supplies for Washi tape bookmarks

Gabriela's bookmarks

Now we all have a couple of bookmarks for our avid readers.

Somewhere along the way the girls also did a collage/paper mâché project with their name letters R and G   Here is Reina's

Reina

I'm still waiting for yours, Gabriela!!!

These two sweethearts make me smile.

Nana camp

My girls in Seattle like so many have been home from school since March.  Their teachers have been sending them assignments for home study and we decided to start some fun learning via FaceTime.  For 12 weeks we have been learning and doing.....lots of fun.  We started with paper beads: made crackers in the kitchen; moved on to felt art, citrus and Key lime pie.  This week we switched from sweet creations to salads and nutrition....it's all fun.  I am enjoying my virtual time with these precious girls..

We started March 23 with paper beads:

black and gold paper beads

the above beads came from this magazine page

the girls chose these pages

cutting isosceles triangles from paper

paper beads drying

words of the week: "isosceles" and "corrugated"

The next week we made a collage of more of our magazine paper and created an iconic Seattle architectural structure:

Many well known artists used "collage" as an art medium

Reina chose 

Seattle Public market

No trouble identifying this famous sign.

Amazon campus 3 spheres

I have yet to see this one but there are 3 spheres on the Amazon campus in Seattle.  Gabriela chose this soon to be iconic structure

And I chose this:

Eiffel tower collage

See the black cat on the left front leg?

word for the week - "iconography"

Now we've done a couple of weeks of Mod Podge.  Can you get enough Mod Podge?

My Seattle girls and I all love to be in the kitchen so week 3 was doing a little baking.  We explored 3 recipes---all crackers.  Well it's nearly impossible to find yeast in the markets these crazy days and we're "not allowed" to go to the markets except for essentials  so we had a "use what you have" theme this week:  The girls did great  We made cheese sticks from Puff pastry and cheese:

cheese straws, mis en place

cheese straws

Crispy flat seeded crackers

seeded flat crackers

seeded flat crackers in a glass

and Savory cheese biscotti

savory cheese biscotti

We learned quite a bit about substituting ingredients that we did not have for those that we did.  We used different flours, different (or no) leavening and a variety of nuts and seeds.

theme of the week: crackers

word of the week: "leavening"  and as many French words as we could use in our virtual Boulangerie

Yep  They're good