What a week! We spend A LOT of time outside this week making the most of the amazing fall weather. Between sports class, the art gallery program and swim lessons, plus a lot of outdoor learning and fun we managed to squeeze in some fun indoor learning as well.

I LOVE collages (and apparently using all caps right about now) and L’s Millipede Fair is so fun! Every art gallery program which happens once a month gives the boys a chance to create something similar to that of an artist at the gallery or from a group exhibition. I think this collage had some inspiration from out time outside and our visit to the fair earlier in the week.

L explained that the bottom left image shows a millipede playing a water shooter game to try and win the stuffed ‘Milkshake” cow hanging above. His water needs to fill up the tube first to win. Yes, we played this at the county fair this summer and they loved it (oops – just realized that I haven’t blogged about that one yet!). The millipede on the other side is going down a waterslide  and loving it! Aaahh!!!

This is Xman’s piece entitled Deep Forest. I have to say I love his use of positive/negative space to illustrate how deep this forrest is. Love it.

This collage is X’s as well. I see a tree theme here. We are big fans of the moon especially in it’s full phase. It’s mesmerizing and so beautiful! He made a point of letting me know that the craters on the moon were made with a silver colour pencil – very important. Love again.

It’s definitely okay to love your own child’s work I believe! I find it to be a window into their minds and what a wonderful land they may share!

As you may recall in the last HA post we were exploring the number three. Well, I found a fun poem about threes in our Waldorf notes and L had a great time with it. Below is a 30 leaf clover which is really ten clovers placed together because that is so much better for luck than one four leaf clover! Obviously!

X went a different direction or a tangent you could say. He started drawing out Margot Multiply gnome we had made for this year in an attempt to continue illustrating multiples of three. He went on to draw Plusil Plus, Minihat Minus and Daisy Divide in a nature walk. Well, what could be better?

This next week is all about fours in so many ways! I have never had so much fun with numbers, have you?