ACK! It’s officially MARCH breACK! So here it is, a basic description and tentative schedule for this year’s MARCH breACK! Madness, 2013. Illustrate-Your-Own-Books 2013: Ahma, the Spirit Bear Each year, during MARCH breACK!, I write a little chapter book for the kids to illustrate, usually based on an existing tale or story. This year, Bea wanted […]
You may have been wondering where we’ve been the past few weeks….Preparing for MARCH breACK! 2013, of course! As you may know, we are pretty serious about our March Break festivities. Each year, I write a short chapter book for the kids to read and illustrate over the course of the week. So far, we’ve […]
–Exeunt, Pursued by a Bear– The Winter’s Tale III.iii. This week, we are continuing are four-week project of reading and illustrating The Winter’s Tale together. We’ll post the pictures below as they become available. Here’s a bit of a summary of Acts II iii – III iii Things are heating up in Sicilia. When Paulina […]
Today, we finished reading and illustrating our book, A Study in Emerald. To celebrate, we munched on Frogwiches (homemade gingerbread sandwich cookies), and we made sock puppets of all the major characters in our story. When the kids were done, we got out the old doorway puppet theatre I made way back before Bea was born, and […]
We just finished reading and illustrating A Study in Emerald! Today, the kids used chalk pastels dipped in water, oil pastels, and woodless coloured pencils to complete their cover pages for the book, as well as their illustrations for the seventh and final chapter. Afterwards, they indulged in Gallagher’s Favourite Frogwiches (ginger sandwich cookies) and […]
Today, after we made our Necktie Bean-Bag, Snakes, the kids illustrated Chapters 4 and 5 of our book, The Adventures of Sir Lochrann Holmes: A Study in Emerald, using Pointillism, Gel Pen Strokes (or, the kids named it, Picture Pixels), and a few of their own tricks. I showed them an example of “Marker Pointillism” […]
Today, while our Irish Soda Farls were baking, I asked the kids to illustrate the third chapter of our story,The Adventures of Sir Lóchrann Holmes: A Study in Emerald. They did three illustrations with permanent marker and watercolours, and a fourth with a plain black marker. Bea added highlighters to the final drawing. Tobes added oil pastels. The illustrations are below today’s […]
March 12-16, 2012 Over the course of the next five days, the kids will be illustrating a book that I have written for them. It’s called The Adventures of Sir Lóchrann Holmes: A Study in Emerald. This isn’t the first time they’ve done this. As I mentioned in a previous post, just two years ago, I wrote […]
I’ve got ambitious plans for MARCH breAK! 2012. Depending upon which professional path I might choose to follow, I may not be able to run “camp mama” next March, so I’ll be making the most of it next week! I’ve completed our story for the week, The Adventures of Sir Lóchrann Holmes: A Study in Emerald. Simply put, it is a reworking […]
MARCH breAK 2010 Illustrate-Your-Own Books * Essa’s Handmade Go Fish! Game * Jake’s Modeling Chocolate: Recipe and Game Last year turned out to be a bit of an anomaly in terms of our usual March Break routine. My mom drove up from the States to help make a special dress for Beatrice’s First Communion. While Grandma and I spent the week sewing, we […]
