Thursday, December 21, 2023
Homemade 2024 Calendars - Local Foods
We had a wonderful time making the 2024 calendars and I hope all the families really enjoy looking through them! Here are some notes for this year's calendar theme, "Local Foods, Farmed and Foraged." The children did all the seasonal artwork themselves, and wrote all the calendar numbers.
front cover - 2024
- background -
cardstock or scrapbook paper in color of child's choice
artwork -
use stencils to stencil 2024, color in numbers with colored pencils OR
write 2024 in bubble letters and cut out, glue onto background paper
Jan - acorns
- background -
white construction paper
story - read Miss Suzy by Miriam Young
artwork -
go outside to collect acorns and oak leaves, colored pencil drawing of oak tree and acorns
Feb - maple syrup
- background -
white construction paper
artwork -
look at pictures from when Zac and I learned to tap sugar maple trees, colored pencil drawing of sugar maple tree and bucket
https://switzerite.blogspot.com/2023/10/tapping-sugar-maple-trees.html
Mar - morel mushrooms
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background - brown construction paper
story - read The Mushroom Fan Club by Elise Gravel
artwork -
morel mushroom rubber stamp and black ink pad, cut paper collage of woodlands scene to help hide your morel (assorted paper scraps)
Apr - fiddlehead ferns
- background -
green decorative scrapbook paper
story - read Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman
artwork -
look at picture of fiddlehead ferns, green marker spirals
May - strawberries
- background - N/A
story - read The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood
artwork -
use 1 inch strawberry punch and red cardstock, draw on dots with ultra fine point black Sharpie, scatter on calendar page and glue OR bubble wrap printing with red and green acrylic paint on large cardstock strawberry shape
https://intheplayroom.co.uk/bubble-wrap-printed-fruit-veg/
Jun - lavender
- background -
tan construction paper
artwork -
look at picture of Zac at the PYO lavender patch when he was small, look at and smell dried lavender blossoms, draw lavender plant with green colored pencils, lavender acrylic paint and cotton swab
https://www.gluedtomycraftsblog.com/2021/04/qtip-painted-lavender-craft.html
Jul - watermelon
- background -
watercolor paper
story - read The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
artwork -
watercolor fruit still life (this has multiple steps and takes three days)
https://emmaowl.com/kids-watercolor-fruit-still-life/
Aug - okra
- background -
construction paper in color of child's choice
artwork -
cut okra pods in half and use as a stamp with acrylic paint in color of child's choice
Sep - black walnuts
- background -
handmade paper
story - read The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane by C.M. Millen
artwork -
quill pen and black walnut ink
Oct - pumpkin
- background -
black construction paper
story - read Pattan's Pumpkin: An Indian Flood Story retold by Chitra Soundar
artwork -
give each child a pumpkin to look at closely, draw pumpkin with white pencil, trace lines with white glue, color in details with colored pencils (this takes two days)
https://www.muminthemadhouse.com/glue-resist-art-project-for-kids-pumpkin/
Nov - shagbark hickory syrup
- background -
newsprint
artwork -
look at picture of shagbark hickory tree, feel bark, taste shagbark hickory syrup from Derek Ervin of Glacier's End, bark rubbing with block beeswax crayons
https://www.agrinews-pubs.com/2020/11/13/glaciers-end-growing-a-new-take-on-old-favorites/
Dec - cattails
- background -
watercolor paper
story - read From Seed to Cattail by Lisa Owings
artwork -
look at and feel cattails, draw cattails, mix our own brown food coloring using red and green, fill in shapes with baking soda paint
https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/baking-soda-paint/
back cover - child's hand
- trace hand, write child's name and age inside outline of their hand
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