Ravel & repeat

Today's post about our latest take-home folder art project comes to you from guest author and first grader A.A.

Yesterday we made art with yarn. 


















First, draw a simple design (like a heart or a swirl or a spiral square) on a piece of paper.  Then get some cardboard and re-draw your design. 









Get some glue and trace it over your design and then put the yarn over it. 

Paint whatever color you choose (as long as it is a primary color) on the yarn.
















Do a pattern and this is how the pattern will go tint, shade, tint, shade. 

Stamp it on your envelope. 

Stamp it some more and you are done!

Monarchs among us

They're still here! 


They should be wintering in Mexico by now but highs in the mid eighties have fooled them into lingering into December.



Last week, when cold night temps were predicted, we rescued three large caterpillars.  They quickly hung themselves in J's and wiggled out of their skin to reveal chrysalises.  When I began to clean the remaining leaves from our critter tent, we discovered a band of tiny caterpillars. 

Now, we're trapped in the cycle.  I headed out to the garden to collect more food for these babies

. . . and with the leaves, I brought in more eggs! 

If you live in Houston, visit the Houston Museum of Natural Science to see Flight of the Butterflies 3D.  This is a beautiful movie about the science behind what we know about Monarch migration.