Montessori Beginnings

 We made some art for the kids bedrooms over the weekend.  I've wanted to do more resist paintings for some time now and we finally got...

It was high time to change the art in LJ's bedroom.  I was excited to try something with both L and LJ this time. I first found a sil...

Baby J's room was long overdue for some new artwork.  L and I had some time this weekend so we tried out this cool project from Art Pr...

  L and I made these leaf prints back in October for the space above Baby J's change table.  This picture is not the best but they ar...

I decided it was time to change the artwork above Baby J's change table.  He previously had these black and white stars. I bought so...

When deciding how to decorate the nursery I really wanted to include L.  One of the first things we made were these little black and white ...

We found this beautiful book about the story of the Northern Lights at the library recently.  It is beautifully written and illustrated by...

While I was checking out Kathy Barbro's tutorial for the Winter Birches over at the fantastic blog Art Projects for Kids I came across...

When I saw this gorgeous Winter Birches art project over at Wee Folk Art I knew it was one L and I would have to try out right away. After...

Being a musician myself one of my hopes is that I can instill the same love of music in my daughter.  My approach to introducing L to music ...

L got some Crayola window crayons from a neighbour for Halloween.  We tried them out the other day and they totally rock!!! I can't beli...

Lately we've been listening to Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons . I painted four of these bare trees for each of us.  I then put o...

 We've been learning about different instruments and their sounds for about a year now and I printed out some instrument cards for L to ...

We are so lucky to be living with my mother who is such an avid gardener.  There are so many beautiful flowers in our back yard we just have...