Lego Challenge #22

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Quest #22 - Display Your Art

Can you design something out of LEGO that will display your own art?

You may want to look around the house and see if you have some of your artwork already done and ready to be displayed, or you might want to make something new. A drawing, painting, even a sculpture.

Your LEGO creation may be a traditional picture frame, or it might be something quite elaborate and unexpected.

Jacob drew a special picture to go with this challenge.

Lego Challenge #21

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Quest #21 - Buoyancy

Can you create a marine vessel out of LEGO that floats?

You may need to experiment with several designs until you create one that works the way you want it to.

I would like your photo submission to show your creation in water, either floating, or perhaps in its sunken state, whichever you choose.

If you would like to take this a step further, you can place heavier objects like marbles or coins in your boat to see how many it can hold before it sinks. I'd love to hear all the details and so would everyone else!

This was fun! Of course the first attempts sunk because they were top heavy. Then we looked at a one-piece lego canoe we have (it came with the camper set). It floated so how could we copy that shape? 

Here is what the boys came up with.

Needless to say, they played in the sink a lot today!

Things That Are Too Wonderful to be Owned

So we read this amazing book called "Who Owns the Sun?" that was written and illustrated by a 14 year old girl in 1988. We decided to try and copy her watercolour paintings. The boys each chose their favourite painting in the book. We used our homemade liquid watercolours to paint the backgrounds... waited for them to dry and then used traditional watercolours to paint the foregrounds. They turned out wonderful.

Original "Who owns the wind?" by Stacy Chbosky

"Who owns the wind?" by Daniel

Original "Who owns the sun?" by Stacy Chbosky

"Who owns the sun?" by Jacob

Homemade Liquid Watercolours

So, first off, this wasn't my idea... I saw it on Pinterest.

I was helping clean out the church Sunday school room and offered to go through the giant container of markers and throw out the no good ones. Now I must confess I had ulterior motives... Namely homemade liquid watercolour paints. I've never tried liquid watercolours but apparently they are great for kids. Anyways, the boys helped me sort the markers into still good and not good piles. Then we took the not good pile and divided them into green, blue, purple, yellow, and orange/red. We threw out the black and brown ones, but in hindsight I think we should have used them too.  Anyways, then we threw out all the lids and put our markers into jars with water, like this:

We let them sit for almost one week....

Voilà! Our very own homemade paints! Check back to see how we used them....