Creative Sprint Day 26

Day 26 Make a rainbow.

Today I followed my original plan when I started this challenge to K.I.S.S.  (Keep it simple, stupid) and I made a book rainbow with some of Kai's books in one of his cubby's!  I know it won't last long but it is so pretty!

I love rainbows, and make rainbows out of Kai's legos all the time.  Today's project reminded me of a Car Rainbow I made with my niece a few years ago too.  Click the link, check it out!

Woo hoo! An early day!
xoxo
Char

Creative Sprint Day 25

Create a game for two or more people to play.

WELL, I can't take full credit for making this game up, because I'm pretty sure many parents have made this or a variation of this game up at some point or another....

In our household we call it "The Quiet Game".  We used to play this with my stepson Sawyer when he was an itty bitty 4 year old.  Now that he's 11 he really hasn't been gullible enough to want to play it for the past few years.  Time to pass the torch on to Kai especially after the afternoon we had!  Kai had a birthday party to attend to, and what started out as a totally fun time with bouncy houses, ball pits, cars, colorful cupcakes, yummy pizza and lots of friends, ended up in a fiery, sugar, and strong will fueled major meltdown.  I can still hear his hollering and crying bouncing around my head. Mama was traumatized and is still stressed out.

So this is how you play "The Quiet Game":

The moderator of the game says "1, 2, 3 Quiet!" and all the participants have to be quiet. The first person to make a noise loses.  This can go on for as many rounds as everyone wants to play.  To make things enjoyable for all, losers are allowed to be the moderator if they want, and the young ones particularly enjoy physically putting their hands over their own mouths during the "Quiet Time".

Quiet!

I also invented a second game at bathtime this evening.  Kai brought home a squirt gun in his party favor bag from the party, and I promised he could play with it during bath time.  ::DING::  That's when the lightbulb went on in my head.  "Let's make bath time educational and fun", I thought.  So I scattered Kai's foam letters & numbers on the walls and had him squirt the letters and numbers that I called out.  "Squirt the Letters" was such a fun way to finish off the day.

xoxo

Char

Creative Sprint Day 24

Collaborate with someone else who is participating in #CreativeSprint.

First thing this morning I received an invitation from Rachel (who introduced me to this challenge) to collaborate with her and her friend Sarah. Rachel pointed out that some things we three have in common are our love of origami, book arts, and Japan in general. Brown paper bags were suggested as a material for this challenge and I thought it was perfect for a Japanese themed project because my personal experience of Japanese culture is that of little waste, being efficient, and economical.  

After tossing around a couple ideas, we decided to do a version of Art Rashomon. For those unfamiliar with the Kurosawa film, simply put, different people experience one single event in very different ways.

After embarking on my project, I changed what I was doing a few times. Originally I wanted to make a book with pages that opened up to cranes which I sketched out:

So I jumped into making my first crane and as I was folding it I got this grand idea to have the wings open into a book instead:

It would have lovely pentagonal pages...

However, once the crane was folded I realized the head, the tail, and the back were in the way of the beautiful 5 sided pages I wanted to make.

So back to the original idea, I simplified it and came up with a single crane in a book.  I also used a scrap piece of watercolor paper to stiffen the spine.

the cover closed

the cover open

Once my cover was made, I pasted the crane into the book and it opened up beautifully!

open

closed

And my collaborators came up with such different and lovely results:

Fledgling cranes at the Zen crane sanctuary preparing for a Big Collaboration by Sarah Mulholland

Arrived via Air Mail by Rachel Kopel 

What we submitted as a group!

Woo hoo!
xoxo
Char

Creative Sprint Day 23

Do someone else's job for some part of the day and create something in their workspace or based on the experience.

Today I decided to step into my son's office and create something with his Lego Duplos.  I made this guy on wheels and he even has a swiveling waist.  His chest window opens up, and he has a Lego boy side kick with a shovel sitting on his shoulder.  I took over my son's "office" after he went to sleep tonight because he's really bossy about what pieces everyone else is allowed to play with and I wanted the creative freedom that he has when he builds.

Rolling Robot & Sidekick

XOXO

Char

Creative Sprint Day 22

Start something, then have someone else complete it.

I ended up doing today's project twice.  After breakfast I did the project with my 2 year old son Kai.  It was a little predictable and I felt bored and unsatisfied with it, but he wasn't interested in coloring or drawing today so I moved on.

I thought and thought and after lunch I came up with this for my sister who is visiting to complete:

 Here are my creations in detail:

scales by char

suburbia by char

up down by char

is it bacterial or viral? by char

stars by char

Here is the completed piece:

Here is how Christine completed the project

Christine's creations in detail:

diamonds by Christine

chrysanthemum by Christine

snail by Christine

tribal? by Christine

squiggles by Christine

Woo hoo, done before nap time is over!
xoxo
Char