Potatoes?

It is fascinating to see the girls' minds at work! I was getting ready for the next days art lesson, and the girls were intrigued by the fact that I had gotten out potatoes. They started trying to figure out what exactly they would be doing in the lesson with the potatoes. Madeline decided that we were going to glue the potatoes onto the papers to make faces and then paint them - actually not that far from that actual project, which was using potato prints to begin a family portrait project (another project from Atelier Homeschool Art). So, she ands Isabella proceded to design faces made from some small potatoes.

Here are the girls designing their "faces" with the potatoes.

Here are their "Family Portraits" that were the intended product of the art lesson.