Abe Lincoln Portraits

We had our extra fun thing on Friday and I decided to have the kids do a portrait drawing of Abe Lincoln since we had been talking about him this week.  The kids were so excited to draw him and their eyes lit up when I told them that after they drew him, they got to paint it.  I don't know what it is about paint, but there is just something magical about it.  The kids get so excited about painting and think it is just the coolest thing.  In fact, when they saw the paint sitting on the shelf, they started pointing to it and getting excited at that point.  

Check out some of their portraits (I have always found it interesting how a drawing can turn out so different from one another when given the same directions :-)).

Hope you have a great week!

Our Talking Turkeys

 

Boy did that election wear me out!  LOL!  We did have a fun time with it.  It is funny how those little things can make you so tired.  Then to top it off, Crystal decided that we needed to get our bulletin board changed and paint turkeys....what???  I was already tired... granted the craft of the talking turkeys she found was very cute, but the thought of another project and a painting project at that made me even more tired.   

 

She found it at:  

 

http://pinterest.com/pin/244320348506340013/

I was actually able to talk her out of painting the entire thing (I think she was tired too after the election, so agreed with me about not using paint on all of it LOL!) and using crayons on some of the parts.  They turned out cute and the kids had fun doing them.  Sorry that the pics aren't too clear, I will try to get better ones to post this week.  Like I said, I was tired and took them and didn't really take a glance at them until I got home.  That's when I noticed that they are a little hard to see :-(.

 

 

 

Hope all of you have a great weekend!  I plan to get some much needed rest!  :-)  Kristi