Monke #2, Art & Subway

So we told the boys around the begining of December that if they read 10 chapter books by the end of the month that they would get to do something special. Well guess who actually finished. . . Monkey #2!! I am so proud of him because lately he has not wanted to read chapter books at all.

For his special day we decided to attend the Bemis Art School Family Adventure Day. It was a blast!! They hade 6 stations set up for the kids. The first 2 were watercolor & tempra paints, then there was a paper craft. Downstairs they had clay sculptures, Kaleidescopes, and a recycled sculpture craft. Everything was themed after the current NASA exhibit at the FAC, which we also got to tour.

I think that his favorite was the clay sculptures. He made a volcano and an alien sitting on a throne. And of course he got clay and paint all over his hands and arms. It's a good thing they had smocks for the kids to wear.

His volcano is in the center with the green stripes and the alien on the throne is to the upper left of it covered in green.  :-)

Monkey #2 is now looking forward to spending more time learning about clay and making more sculptures.  Hmmm. . . I am thinking we will have Christmas gifts next year covered with all his creations. . LOL!!

On the left is his blow/dot painting.

To the right is his robot sculpture from recycled materials.

And on the bottom is his space shutle watercolor with a UFO, the sun, saturn and jupiter.

The 2nd part of his special day was getting to eat lunch at Subway.  We don't know why but he has really been on a Subway kick lately so it was definently pretty exciting for him to get to go.

We had a great day together and it was wonderful mom and son bonding time too!