The kids have finished illustrating yet another March BreACK! story. This year, for their Illustrate-Your-Own-Books project, I wrote them a story called “The Earl of Tellurine.” It’s a future-space swashbuckler, loosely based on a couple of different Dumas epics and set in an imagined cosmos known as the Beeshus System. At its heart, it’s a revenge […]
We’ve definitely had a galactic mint trend going on this week with our “Imagined Galaxies” March breACK! For our final March BreACK! treat, we’re tackling a homemade version of one of the kids’ new faves, one I’ve loved for a long time: the Peppermint Patty. It took me a while working with different recipes to […]
Today, keeping up with the “Imagined Galaxies” theme of our March breACK! 2015, I had the kids build upon their enthusiasm for their Imagined Solar System designs by inventing their own constellations. They spent time using the art supplies of their choice to diagram or illustrate their brand new group of stars. Then, I asked them, in […]
We’ve had quite an indulgent week so far. Today’s space party is going to include some healthy snacks! We’ve got four amazing kid-friendly smoothies and juices that you can serve at your once-in-a-millenium inter-galactic pow-wow or at breakfast, lunch, and dinner all year long! For the smoothies, you will need a good blender or food processor. […]
Today, I asked the kids to look at some pretty inspiring images. First, we looked at Neil Armstrong’s photographs of Buzz Aldrin on the moon. The kids loved the way the photographer’s reflection showed up in Aldrin’s space helmet, offering a view of what was ahead of him. Then, we looked at an awesome illustration […]
SPAAAAAACCCE COOKIES!!!!! The theme of our March BreACK! 2015 is “Imagined Galaxies.” And we’re sticking to that with one bang-up good treat. The characters in the story I wrote for the kids to read and illustrate this week kick back and relax by making cookies in a skillet on their space-ship. They dump whatever treats they […]
Today, as part of our March breACK! 2015 space party, I asked the kids to create their own imagined solar systems. We had two points of inspiration. First, I had them look through an amazing book, The Universe: A Convergence of Art, Music, and Science, (ed. Jay Belloli) that Blaise picked up a long time […]
This week’s March BreACK! festivities are turning into quite the space party! And no party would be complete without a pizza. Today, we’re putting together one of our favourite feast-pizzas, Chicago-Style Deep Dish, with a bit of a twist. We’ve made them into Pizza Planets with “stars” of sliced Mozzarella Cheese and a few extra […]
While it was a somber home-coming, the crew of the ‘Ramses 2000’ could not help but rejoice to see the matcha fish swimming about the salt-clouds of Mysinae. They saw some fine fins swooshing left and right, and some others clinging by their suckers onto the windows of the ship, their tentacles bright orange-pink, or […]
Our March BreACK! 2015 is all about imagined galaxies and other worlds. For the first treat of the week, and to make sure we have an appropriate St. Patrick’s Day Green Dessert for tomorrow, we’ve knocked down our favourite chewy brownie recipe and built it back up with a bunch of chocolate mints. It’s GALACTIC! And, […]
As many of you know, March BreACK! is a really big deal around here. With the exception of our Family Advent Calendar, it’s our busiest time of year. March Break, for us, usually consists of a stay-cation in which we bake, build, draw, read, solve, experiment, and write like nobody’s business. You can check out our […]
