GIVEAWAY of the Week: IKEA Paint Box and brushes
Why we love this IKEA paint box:
We loooooove these vibrant water color paints! The colors stay bright and colorful long after the children paint a picture. Another fabulous feature is the over-sized round pans of paint, making it easier for little hands who are still developing their fine motor skills. However, as usual this set comes with a wimpy little paint brush. Have no fear, we’re including a set of brushes from IKEA.
This Paint Box Set will be Perfect for Our Summer Art Projects
We’ll kick-off this summer with a series on art projects to keep the kiddos engaged this summer and fabulous children’s literature GIVEAWAYS to accompany the activities.
Ocean Scene, Miss Enigma, age 5
Ocean Art Scenes by Children
We’re continuing last week’s Going to the Beach Theme Study with ocean scenes inspired by the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni.
Supplies:
- tempera or acrylic paint
- paint brushes
- white card-stock or watercolor paper
- items for stamping- household items, fruits, vegetable, items from nature
Step 1: Read Aloud Swimmy by Leo Lionni
- examine and discuss the extraordinary print illustrations
- brainstorm items to stamp – water, kelp, seaweed, rocks, sea anemone, sea creatures . . .
Step 2: Scavenger Hunt
- search inside and outside for items to use as stamps
Ocean Water, Miss Enigma, age 5
Step 3: Stamp Water
- Miss Enigma used a little fern plant to stamp shades of water and then folded her paper to create a similar look as Leo Lionni.
Step 4: Add Ocean Plants and Rocks
- Miss Enigma used a carrot to stamp white rocks
- a long flower to stamp green seaweed
- and finally a feather to paint wispy, red sea anemones.
- Miss Enigma insisted Leo Lionni had used hand prints to make kelp in his illustrations. Hence, she used her hand print to add green kelp to her ocean scene.
Step 5: Add Sea Creatures
- Miss Enigma used her thumbprint to create “Swimmy” swimming in her ocean.
Advanced Ocean Scene Art
MacGyver has just finished reading Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell for homeschool reading. After reading Swimmy and discussing the illustrations, he was given the assignment to create the ocean surrounding The Island in the Blue Dolphins as described in the book.
Stamp Water
- MacGyver painted a large canna leaf with shades of blue . . .
- He stamped the leaf several times to create his watery ocean background.
Ocean Scene, MacGyver, age 8
Add Ocean Plants, Rocks and Sea Creatures
- MacGyver chose to paint three of the sea creatures he read about in Island of the Blue Dolphins.
- white seabass
- black abalones
- black devil fish (octopus)
- To create his painting, MacGyver used his knowledge of the California Coast and his visit to the Tidepools at Cabrillo National Monument.
- Throughout his reading of Island of the Bule Dolphins, he also researched each of the sea creatures highlighted in the story.
Life with Jeannine
We’re GIVING AWAY one IKEA Paint Box Set with Brushes.
To enter this contest, just answer the following question in the comments section of this post.
What activities do you have planned to keep your children active and engaged this summer? (Or just say “Hey.” We’re flexible around here.)
The Rules:
One entry per person, please.
No entries after 8:00 pm Central Time, Thursday, May 31, 2012
The winner must be a resident of The United States.
The winner will be selected at random and announced Friday, June 1, 2012. Check back to claim your prize. It might be you!
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We just bought a new house in a different region of the U.S. with extensive gardens. One of our activities this summer will be exploring all the new plants and flowers. Another huge activity will be weeding these new gardens.
We love Ikea and this little paint set is one of the best things they carry.
We have tons of field trips planned. I’m running half marathons in all 50 states and so we have about 10 trips to different states planned this summer. As well as our garden. We love gardening.
Thanks for offering such a great giveaway!
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I don’t really have to plan for my boys to be active, for engaging we do lots of reading, including summer reading with our library
Well, we just moved a couple of weeks ago. The place we moved from was surrounded by tons of nature, so I worried that this new house wouldn’t compare in that respect. Thankfully, I didn’t have to worry once we moved in. There are so many different birds here (among other things). It truly sounds like a zoo in the yard! So much so, my oldest (who also read Island of the Blue Dolphins in her homeschool studies this year and loved it) declared one day that she was almost beginning to hate the birds because their noise was waking her up at 5:30 a.m. when the sun came up. She’s used to it now, so I guess she doesn’t hate them anymore. HA! Anyway, we have a lot of exploring, researching, learning, outdoor play, and art projects to complete this summer.
Working on ideas right now. Paint box looks like it can produce many fun activities.
We plan to start a summer journal and work on our garden. The art supplies would help to build up great journal supplies.
We’re all about free fun this summer! I don’t really have a great plan but we have several animal refuges and parks nearby for free fun. And my mom is planning on taking us all to the zoo.
We are going to try and get more nature walks in and visit our zoo and aquarium. Swim in the pool, play in the sprinkler and eat popsicles
Just finished a 3week art class with Grayson, and now he wants to paint EVERYTHING! We’re going to continue with more art lessons and swimming lessons this summer.
We just came back from a family getaway to a local waterpark and aquarium. For a toddler, that’s a lot of exploring! We’re also planning lots of indoor art activities this summer to beat the heat- and are pondering joining a preschool gymnastics class.
We’ve got lots planned around here: field trips all summer long, some online learning, our continued botany study, reading through the Middle Ages…
We are pretty relaxed during the summer vacation since the kids work so hard throughout the school year homeschooling (and so do I). We will be doing a lot of daily reading with some learning activities mixed in here and there. Lots and lots of swimming!
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I put together something for my kids that I call summer theme weeks. We study something (in their interests) for every week of the summer (unless we will be gone that week). We also plan on taking lots of trips to the zoo and museum because we have memberships.
We homeschool all year long so we are still schooling
We school 8 weeks and then 2 week break!
We look forward to gardening,outdoor adventures, a little travel and then back into studies by the middle of July.
We don’t really have a schedule of activities, but we spend time reading and playing outside everyday. We try to visit our nearby state parks or spend time in the countryside/woods/gardens whenever we can. We are fortunate to live near a museum with an extensive park, including a lovely herb garden.
We have a lot of things planned! Trips to the water park, festivals, family barbecues, and more!
I love your take on Swimmy. We have a lot of fun things planned at home, during our travels and in summer camp. I detailed them here – http://learningwithmouse.blogspot.com/2012/05/summer-bucket-list.html
Hi Jeannine! So inspired by your sweet art projects–great ideas for Swimmy & Island of the Blue Dolphins! I would love to do more art this summer–seems like it gets squeezed out of our weeks during the school year. I am also insisting on 15 minutes of math this summer…I’m using some iPad apps to help with this. I only have one passionate reader–a kiddo with her nose in book–the others seem to need a reading assignment, so they will have a set a reading time. I’m also looking forward to field trips…happy summer!
Blessings,
Jennifer
The tiny one and I have been blessed to have 5/7 days together every week this summer with my new PT work schedule. We’ve made first-time commitments to a local dance studio to participate in their summer program that meets M-R for two hours, not to mention endless trips to Schlitterbahn to get our waterpark fix, trips to the beach or Moody Gardens with our across the street SAHM+DD who is friends with the tiny one. We just got a bicycle trailer for our new mountain bikes we scored on clearance for WM (so while the may not last forever, for the price it was worth it) and have logged 60mi in the month of May. We’re hoping to bike all over the city and really get back into the groove of being outdoors more often than not. Tiny one and I have made good friends with the librarian at both branches near our home, and she LOVES to check out books. It makes me chuckle a little because she usually wants to check out Spanish ESL books, but it’s cool beacuse speaking another language is one of her sincere interests.
So between the books, bikes, beach and waterslides I think we’re going to have a great summer!
I think the best part is that our HS starts the 4th week in July and TO is incredibly excited to begin her K4 studies. I’m waiting for my copy of OPGTR to come in, because she is begging to begin the reading curriculum ASAP *tear* that lil girl makes me SO proud!
Happy Summer!