Overheard

My dear, sweet Allison speaks in run-on sentences and goes from one topic to the next without a pause... 

She and Carter are watching a TV show and the "big bang" theory was mentioned...

Allison says to Carter, "That's the one we don't believe in unless God made it." Then without missing a beat she looks at Carter's foot and continues, "Oh! You should have used a toe band-aid. There's one in the variety pack upsatirs."

First, her simplistic translation of our beliefs amused me and then, her ability to jump immediately to another topic cracked me up!

 

Animals in Art Class

Allison took a class at Estrella Mountain Community College this week called Animals in Art.  I thought it would be about drawing animals...  Turns out, she drew a dolphin then made a stencil from her drawing which she used to make a dolphin sculpture!  They cut out two pieces of cardboard using their stencils, then taped them to s stick, stuffed them with paper, paper mached on top, painted it all white, then painted it with colored paint today! A very cool project!

They also did "Chinese printing" which, according to Allison, is the "oldest form of printing."  For this they drew a picture, then put the picture on top of styrofoam and poked holes around the outline of their drawing.  Then they covered the styrofoam with ink, pressed a paper on otp of it, and wa-la! They had a printed image of their picture!

And finally, today they painted with watercolors (probably while waiting for their sculptures to dry!).

Here are some pictures from they Art Exhibition at the end of class today...