Falling in love with fall
fall art
His Fairytale Life
A book about Hans Christian Andersen
He was and still is the father or all stories and fairytales. He had just one dream, to tell stories to the kids. Because when himself were a kid, his mother would tell him stories. She didn’t know how to read, because in that era only the wealthy danish people were allowed to have an education. But that didn’t stop her from inventing the most amazong stories for her boy. Later in life, after a lot of hardships and attempts in other jobs, he will start writting his fairytales. 156 of them, to be more precise 🙂
In his honor, the greatest prize in children literature is being offered. I don’t think it exist a school or a household with children in it that hadn’t heard of him or red his fairy tales.
Now, a great author herself, Jane Yolen brings this beautiful homage to him. Together with the bright and warm illustrations of Brooke Boynton Hughes, this biography is one to be cherish and read.
Enjoy!
Autumn art with kids
Autumn is not my favourite season at all…
But I do like the colors it brings in the nature and the smell of cold in the morning. The pies we make and the roasted chesnuts; the walk we get to go on until the winter really setles in. And I love to collect leaves and wild berries and small pieces of wood for our art projects.
Today we decided to use some of the materials we collected in the week-end. We included leaves and berries and wooden dolls in our art. We glued and colored and put together some people …
It was a lot of fun and we sang and laughed alot.
My daughter wants to prepare a small in-house exhibition, for friends and family to see and maybe invest in our work. By now, when I write these lines, the courier was the only person asked if he wants to buy a fall painting with leaves 🙂 He was super confused, but she assured him she wroked hard on it and that is really valuable…
Me, I’m just happy that she knows how to make the most out of everything that she does.
little humans 