Racoon and Lone Ranger felt masks {Virtual Fridge}

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Wow we're in February already of 2018.  Time certainly waits for no man.  Last year on the Virtual Fridge we had a new blogger (Our Unschooling Journey Through Life) join in to share so please pop over to her blog and say hello.  Thank you so very much Kym @ Homechool Coffee Break for your faithfulness in hosting the VF, I'm so looking forward to co-hosting with you throughout 2018 and seeing what everyone is doing.

Last year we joined a fortnightly drama group and craft class.  At one of the craft sessions we made masks for drama.  These were so easy to do.  We used felt and spme really easy to use templates (ideas and inspiration were found on Pinterest) and Nathaniel made a racoon and Lone Ranger mask.

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This weeks feature is a Repeated Shape Chalk Drawing tutorial from over at Our Unschooling Journey.

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Chareen

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Lighthouse Christmas {Tuesday's Treasures}

One of my favourite things when my children were very little was to collect a new book each Christmas for us to enjoy.  Well the days of little children and new books is quickly fading in our home and a new season is around the corner.  This however has not diminished my love of beautifully illustrated books for Christmas.

Lighthouse Christmas

• Author: Toni Buzzeo
• Format Hardback | 32 pages
• Dimensions 218.44 x 269.24 x 10.16mm | 317.51g
• Publication date 13 Oct 2011
• Publisher Dial Books
• Publication City/Country New York, NY, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations colour illustrations
• Illustrated by: Nancy Carpenter
• ISBN10 0803730535
• ISBN13 9780803730533

Will Santa find them now that they are living in this far away spot just off the coast of Maine?  How will they have Christmas when they still haven't received their groceries?  These are the questions facing Peter and Frances as they face a new future with their Dad in the lighthouse.  As a storm rages they are faced with a choice which ultimately teaches them that the most important part of Christmas is... you'll have to read it to find out.

This book is beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully written.  In the author's note we discovered that this story was inspired by the Flying Santa which has been in operation since 1929. We found out some really interesting things on their site.

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Chareen

The Man Who Invented Christmas {Tuesday's Treasures}

One of the very first stories I remember from my childhood other than the Nativity is A Christmas Carol. I found this must have book at our local library.  It's one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time.

The Man Who Invented Christmas : How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits*

• Author: Les Standifordbr 
• Format Paperback | 241 pages
• Dimensions 137.16 x 190.5 x 22.86mm | 317.51g
• Publication date 25 Oct 2011
• Publisher BROADWAY BOOKS
• Publication City/Country New York, NY, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0307405796
• ISBN13 9780307405791

 This is one of those books that you don't forget in a hurry.  It's living history and human interest in one beautiful book. This books was hard to put down.  It's full of wonderful, insightful and well researched information. Having always known Christmas as it is today I was surprised to learn what Christmas was like back in the Victorian era and how much this influenced Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. If you love Christmas and Charles Dickens then this is definitely a must read for you.

In this small but remarkable book, Les Standiford offers readers a gift for all seasons. Carefully researched and written in a stately, lucid prose, this book will be cherished by those who love Dickens, enjoy Christmas, or ponder the endless mysteries of human behavior.- --Roland Merullo, author of American Savior

I hope you will enjoy this treasure as much as I have.
Blessings
Chareen

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Silent Night & Other Christmas Carols

I love this time of the year and I love beautiful books just as much.  That is why I just had to share this beautiful treasure I found at the local library. Silent Night & Other Christmas Carols includes a CD with carols and beautiful pop up inserts on every page.  It's beautifully illustrated and is the sort of book you can spend hours looking over.

Silent Night and Other Christmas Carols

• Format Hardback | 18 pages
• Dimensions 240 x 298 x 19mm | 692g
• Publication date 01 Oct 2010
• Publisher The Five Mile Press Pty Ltd
• Publication City/Country Ferntree Gully, VIC, Australia
• Language English
• Illustrations note chiefly col. Illustrations
• Illustrated by Lee Krutop
• ISBN10 1741785847
• ISBN13 9781741785845

Christmas Carols contained:

• The First Noel
• O Come, All Ye Faithful
• Silent Night
• Deck the Halls
• Away in a Manger
• Good King Wenceslas
• O Christmas Tree
• Joy to the World!

I hope your family will be as blessed by this book as we have been

Love and Blessings
Chareen

Paper Marbling {Virtual Fridge}

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This term we are joining in on a fortnightly craft class with some of the local home educating families.  It's so good to do things we wouldn't normally do due to cost.  However by co-oping we have managed to do a few interesting things.  This week we tried our hand at paper marbling. I found some interesting YouTube clips.  This lady made a flower, and this one shows you a DIY of the process used in paper marbling. This one of The Makers of Marbled Paper at a bussiness - Art of the Marbler is an old documentary explaining the why and how of the process by a company in England.

Our tutor bought a Marbling Kit by Jacquard on eBay.

Included in this kit:

•  6 Marbling Colors, 1/2 fl oz/14.79 ml each:yellow, red, violet, blue, white, & black
•  1/2 fl oz/14.79 Synthetic Gall
•  4 oz/113.40 g Alum (mordant)
•  1 oz/28.35 g Carrageenan
•  Complete Instructions

Nathaniel adding ink to the carrageenan.

Nathaniel marbled paper

Chareen marbled paper

A few years ago we did shaving cream art which was very similar but you can do it with craft paints and shaving cream.  Here is a YouTub clip on how to do so.


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This weeks feature is a tutorial from over atOur Unschooling Journey Through Life.  They did this super easy Thanksgiving Art idea with a Turkey and Zentangle patterns.

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Stop Motion Clay Creations. {Virtual Fridge}

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A few weeks back we had the wonderful experience of viewing the Aardman exhibition here in Melbourne where I saw one of my favourite characters of all time:  Morph.

I've been thinking about this character from my childhood and realised that one of the greatest things about Morph is that he was always willing to try and this is the most important aspect of art and creativity that it doesn't need to be perfect.  What matters is that we try.

A friend arranged a clay Stop Motion class which the children throughly enjoyed.

Nathaniel and "The Vommit Monster"

The Production Crew

Vomit Monster Demise

I shall upload the Stop Motion the children created and share it here next week.

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This weeks feature is a tutorial from over at Temple of Notice and Wonder a step by step Kandinsky inspired art drawing.

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Catapult Painting {Virtual Fridge}

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Today was certainly interresting!  It was our first craft class for term four and the children each built a catapult.  They then loaded cotton wool balls with paint and flung them at paper for fun and modern art creations!

The catapult is made from pencils and elastic bands and super easy to build. You can find the full tutorial to build a Pencil Catapult over at Little Bins for Little Hands.

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This weeks feature is from over at Homeschool Coffee Break. I thought this City at Night Doodle very effect and an easy drawing project to attempt.

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