Pill Boxes

I have several little pill boxes I painted with bug themes.  This one is a polyphemus moth.

This one is a praying mantis....

Luna Moth.....

Monarch catipillar....

Venus Fly Trap Boy

I replaced some dolls at ARTpool with hair clips.  Now I will be listing the stuff on etsy!  I like this little guy!  He has a double venus fly trap on his shirt and a poor little fly that is about to be lunch ;)

Wonder Saturday

Part of our outside experience Saturday was a special art & science class mixture at the Wonder Studio. 

There was painting and water play outside.

Inside there was more painting, clay, water play, worms, meal worms.  Dottie really liked coating her hands in clay and dish soap.  She said she had, "soap gloves," and showed them to everyone in the room.  She also discovered she could get things to stick to the mirrors with clay.  She had some fun making faces at herself in the mirrors, too.

Wonder Studio Animal Encounter!!

Dottie and I take classes at the The Wonder Studio.  The instructor is a friend of mine and we have been lucky enough to be able to first take Wonder Art and now Wonder Science with her.  There was a special class today where the kids got to interact with a bunch of rather unusual animals.  There was a terantual, squorpion, lizard, turtle, alligator, hedgehog, frog, and 11ft bermeese python!

Fun in the rain!

Rainy morning but we still had fun outside.  Dottie went around watering all the plants outside.  No matter that it was raining!  They still needed to be watered!

cutnessess

i want to start including some of the cute stuff Dottie says to this blog.

she has been throwing this one around lately:
"don't squirm, just eat a worm"

she is very interested in the different names given to baby, mama, and pop animals. she usually picks a kind of animal every few days to talk abot. she calls herself the baby name and me the mama name. right now she is a baby tadpole and i am a mama poison dart frog :)

more outdoor fun!

we went to our local botanical garden yesterday with our good friends!  it is one of our favorite places around.  we have a family pass so we can go anytime we have the hankering.  it always makes me feel better to walk through the damp and shady pathways, enjoyling the lush green....and trying to remember the names of plants that i learned in my plant identification class i took so long ago (less than 3 years but it seems like 3 lifetimes ago).