in august, our arrow explores group took a field trip to the design studio of hable construction, aka hableland! designer susan hable and studio manager hope hilton showed the children different paintings and textiles and talked to them about exploring the world of color. then, they handed over paper, paint and brushes and everyone got to make their own wet-on-wet watercolor creation! the results were beautiful. thank you, habel construction!
making snack, during morning garden:
enjoying snack, during morning garden:
finding holiday sprigs:
and a tree climb:
we had our first apple festival this past saturday at arrow...we had lots of sunshine, friendly faces, yummy pies and more! thanks to everyone who came!
tabatha and family made a run to hillcrest orchards in ellijay for apples.
(thanks, t, t, t, and f!)
author liana krissoff led an applesauce making workshop:
we blocked off the driveway with haybales, and had cider and popcron:
there were crafts, with a special blockprinting one led by susan & her 6 year old daughter, bird:
amanda played fiddle:
and, lastly, our apple pie contest:
thank you to these fine folks for contributing a pie:
and arrow friends: sarah & lori
first place: ike & jane !
kid's choice: lori paluck !
maypop admires the wall of apples:
what a fun day!
thank you!
last month we gathered and mixed up color and dunked fabric again- what fun:
sorting colors...
outside:
playing with light:
playing indoors:
eating a snack:
a little music time:
fun!
in late may, rene shoemaker led a dyeing workshop at arrow.
we dyed playsilks for our little ones, but in the process we learned about immersion dyeing and some of us played around with some tie dyeing too. we had lots of fun, and will do this again sometime !
the undyed silks drying on the line:
the dyed silks hanging in the garden:
more images from the day:
our well-loved, but totally worn out furniture box:
should we recycle it, i wondered...?
no!
we turned it into a bright NEW house, complete with shingled roof and shining sun!
just before the holidays...during morning garden...
