The kids and I are making our Christmas hallway mural again this year. We start with black paper and paint stars on it, then add hills and valleys, then the buildings of Bethlehem, etc. etc.
The yesterday we made sheep. Sheep are crazy easy. I draw a cloud-ish shape, they cut it out (it doesn’t matter if they stay on the lines), then glue on some pre-cut heads and legs. Done.
Of course, I am totally on board with the ‘place stuff however you want’ theory of art. (Though this is really a craft.)
Today we made a few shepherds. Circles, triangles – glue together and decorate as you wish. Jack added an esophagus to his, because he has recently learned where milk goes.
Did you know Wilfred Brimley was a shepherd?
And then…..
and then…..
I came back to the table where children had happily been making sheep or shepherds on their own….
and found this mutant.
After laughing mightily on the inside, I snapped its picture and dried my eyes. Those crazy kids.