Dot Art June 18, 2013

Today for 4-H we reviewed ancestor's names.  Ann told us stories about Donald Robert Wilkins and his wife, Francis Elaine Conn Wilkins.
For Art we made some pictures with dots.  It was fun to do!

Lee Ann's Fish

 Colter Working on His Car.

Cayla's flower

 Cayla's Mountains

Cayla's Bridge and water

 Cayla's Flowers

Cayla's Car

Cayla's Fish

Self Portraits and Family History

This week in 4-H we shared stories of our family.  Cayla shared one about her dad.  Kaylee shared one about her mom.  Lee Ann shared stories about her parents.  Then we did some art work and drew our self portraits.

Kaylee's self portrait

Ann's self portrait

Cayla's Self Portriat

Memorial Day Service Project

For our service project for May we decided to do something with Memorial Day. Our club decided to put some flowers on graves that had not received any flowers.    The idea came when Grandma Lee Ann went to California and her sister in-law, Grace, gave her a gift card to buy flowers for her husband's headstone and his parents who are buried next to each other.  Grace wasn't able to come to Utah this year.  Maybe that is why some headstones do not have flowers, because their families live too far away.

                                           Joseph William and Eliza Buckley Hulse Grave

                                Joseph William Jr. and Charlotte Lofthouse Hulse  Grave

                                     Carma Hulse was Joseph and Charlotte baby daughter. LaRue Hulse another daughter is buried there in the same area along with Joseph's sister, Emma Pearl Hulse.
After putting flowers on the graves of our ancestors, the Joseph Hulse Families and children, we then looked around the cemetery to see those graves that did not have any flowers on.  There were plenty to choose from.

 We did headstone rubbings of all the graves we put flowers on.

Colter really wanted to put a flower on a headstone of someone who had served in the military. So our last flower was given to Frank B Skrepcinski WWII  born 1919 died 1998. Colter did a rubbing of the medal that Court is holding.

It was a nice day to remember our ancestors and those people that have served our country.

Oceans

Today we painted oceans.  We made a watercolor wash of blue then added to our pictures with markers.  We made palm trees and waves.  It was more challenging to paint the blue wash than we thought it would be.  The pictures turned out great.

Ann's Ocean

Kaylee's Ocean

                                                                  Colter's Ocean

                                                                   Cayla's Ocean

Lee Ann's Ocean

Cayla's Ocean

Upside Down Drawings

Kaylee drawing her picture

Today in 4-H we did some drawing. To get us to use our brains, we found a picture we wanted to draw and turned it upside down. Then we drew what we saw. It was a challenge. It was fun to compare our pictures right side up when they were completed.

Ann's picture compared to the coloring page

Kaylee's completed drawing



Kaylee's happy with her picture

Cayla drawing a flower from a card upside down.

Cayla'a drawing

The poodle Cayla drew and below is the one from a coloring book.

 Becky drawing upside down, her picture of a butterfly.

Becky's finished picture and the picture she drew.

 
Lee Ann's drawing of a clown.

Earth Day Pictures

Kaylee's dandilion

Kaylee's root

Kaylee's pinecone with a crown

Kaylee's favorite tree

Kaylee's purple grass

Kaylee's baby trees

April Service Project

For April we decided to pick up garbage in the area to celebrate Earth Day.  We only had a half hour but we still got plenty of garbage.

Cayla, Colter, and Garbage.



Kaylee and all the garbage



Rachel picking up garbage.