December 18 ~ Holiday Party

Lots of kids and their families came on Saturday, from 1:30-3:30 for our holiday party. We had all the materials for the Wes Bruce project~ shoe boxes, straws, fabric, buttons, popsicle sticks, telephone wire, markers, glue, acorns....etc. The families worked together to create their own diorama. We had pizza and cookies and juice too!












We hung the two murals that the kids had done with Amy.


Mundo Lindo starts up again on Thursday, January 13th and Tuesday the 18th! See you then!(If you want to join us, you need to go to an Escondido (California) Public School and be in the 4th or 5th grade. Email Amy for details.)

Santa's Workshop!

We were very busy this last Thursday before the holiday break!

Painting paper roll Nutcracker men. (Edgar recently saw a performance of the Nutcracker at CCAE, so the inspiration was fresh in his mind.)

Gift wrapping, gift tags...

painting paper roll angels...


The teen volunteers had time to make mosaic pots

The kids who'd missed last week, made mosaic pots too.


And ornament painting too. (Check my blog, JaneVille, for a tutorial)

A fabulous Nutcracker!

At the end of a very busy two hours, every kid went home with a wrapped gift (their mosaic pots) an paper roll something, an ornament a gift tag...whew!

Mosaic flower pots

We're making mosaic flower pots. Terra cotta pots, along wtih small mosaic tiles, glass gems (flat on one side) buttons, broken tile, and shells. The kids are gluing the pieces individually using Weldbond glue, from the hardware store.



We'll grout them next week!

We're also working on a large pot for the CCAE garden.