Valentine's Day Activities

This week was full of Valentine's preparations. We made homemade valentines every day. We dropped off a few surprises, and made several batches of cookies. Then on Friday was the big homeschool valentine party with all our friends from co-op school -- about 50 kids attended!  The gal who hosted it was super organized and had craft stations set up in every room of her house.  They made valentine cookies, yarn valentine hearts, stained glass wax paper hears, and stamped valentines.

Big sister A has a very loose front tooth.

It is hanging on by a thread and she is constantly wiggling it.

 There were lots of yummy goodies at the party.  Baby L kept snatching things off everyone else's plate.

In our Meet the Masters class this week we studied a Japanese painter, Hokusai.  It was fun looking at the slides of his paintings, but trying to explain to the kids how to hold the paint brush for each of the different Japanese style brush strokes was too hard for the 5-7 year old activity.

 Brother M made this cool drawing about Hokusai.  This is him in his house, working on his easel, painting "The Great Wave". My favorite part is the chandelier!