We got a little behind in school work last week when we took our trip up north...so we spent this lovely rainy day...
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| Not the best day to leave your boots on the stairs! |
...catching up on grading math books and art projects!
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| Turtle-themed plate |
The activity guide that goes with the history curriculum suggests making clay bowls with air dry clay and painting them with acrylic paints to look like Ming porcelain. I instead purchased a set of ceramic dishes from the second-hand store and we painted them with porcelain paint.
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| Some used more paint than others *smile* |
I got "painter's" block right when we started, so I went for the minimalistic style.
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| Home, household, family, school of thought |
The best part of the project was pulling out some of our Ming-style tea cups that are stashed away.
The dark blue set with the gold dragon was brought here from China by a sailor*. The set belonged to Mark's great-grandmother and Grandad remembered drinking tea out of it when he was a little boy. This house is located about a mile away from the epicenter of the 2000 earthquake and amazingly, none of the china in this cupboard even cracked. I haven't decided if earthquakes or being located in my school room is more dangerous!
*I am not positive on these details, so I may edit later:)
