Artwork and Homework

Madeleine is slowly warming to the idea of Thanksgiving, despite her deep and loyal allegiance to Halloween.  She even sat down to draw some Thanksgiving pictures today.

She began with a picture of pumpkins and pumpkin pie:

Madeleine was dissatisfied with her first attempts at pumpkins. 
MADELEINE: But...I actually DON'T want black LINES in my pumpkin!

All it took was a little imagination and she suddenly had the perfect solution.
MADELEINE: Oh.  Actually, these are not pumpkins.  They're PUMPKIN CLOUDS!

After turning the picture upside down and coloring a sky around the pumpkin clouds, Madeleine began anew.  She began by drawing a pumpkin, then she took the black marker to try and draw a slice of pie.  Things didn't go so well.

MADELEINE: Oops!  Uh, I messed UP!  By accident instead of pie I made a ROCKET SHIP!

The rocket ship would be the black rectangle underneath her pumpkin.  She then tried again, making the thing that kind of looks like a squashed up tv with antennae.  Despondent over her inability to draw a piece of pie, she then required adult help to save the day.


Madeleine's second Thanksgiving picture was a hand turkey:

Take a closer look and you'll notice this is more than just your average hand turkey.  This one has TWO HEADS!  One on each end!  The thumb is the big brother, and the pinky is his little sister, aptly named Pinky.  The big brother doesn't have a name.  He's just the big brother.  We have to wait until TOMORROW to give him a name.


Julia has continued her hard work making Thanksgiving books and pictures, and her drawing doesn't stop there.  Tonight's homework assignment involved drawing as well, and Julia decided to take her math problems to a whole new level of detail:

Look at problem #2.  She not only DREW the 8 children, but she named each and every one.  We have Mia, May, Lissi, July, Nate, Abby, Dean and Addy.  These are some good looking party-goers.  I'm digging Mia's hair.  But I'm a little confused: are Nate and Dean both naked?? 

Either way, math is definitely way more fun when you get to use a little imagination and creativity!