Besides our August pond studies with the Handbook of Nature Study, we’ve also enjoyed some nature walks and other discoveries. Early in the month we played in Mama Ann’s stream, which is always fun. We’ll get to do that another day this week! One morning last week we met our friend, Angie @ The One Thing and her boys, over at the park across from
Lily Pad: A Pastels Tutorial
Stunning results on a black sheet of construction paper! That describes Nana’s latest pastel tutorial. After our wonderful trip to Lily Pad Pond, we really wanted to make some lily pads with pastels. So… We cut sheets of black construction paper in half and gathered our colors. Remember that in most of Nana’s tutorials, we begin a landscape by drawing the horizon? Well, for our
Lily Pad Pond
Oh WOW! It’s what we all said when we reached our destination for our monthly Creation Club. We’d heard from friends that this was a wonderful spot. But we didn’t expect the size. And practically all of our topics for August nature study, as suggested by Handbook of Nature Study, were right here. In one spot. The lily pads were what we noticed first. Gracing