Talent Show

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I have been working on planning and organizing a talent show for our Primary kids next month, which will include both live and video-taped performances (shown in segments from DVD projected up on a big screen) as well as creative displays and cooked desserts, all done by the kids.

In the course of wrangling all the primary kids, I've also been planning what my own kids are going to be doing for the show. Jack and Harriet are planning a live performance duet of "Ode to Joy" (Harriet on piano, Jack on Alto recorder), Henry is going to tie a shoe (a big accomplishment for him he's been working on lately) and Jed is most likely going to do something Lego-building related (I know! Don't you just wish you could be here!) Actually any interested parties (read: grandparents) in the vicinity will be invited to attend, I've been working on the invitations.

When things like this arise, so does my residual guilt at living and raising my children so far away from their maternal grandparents, aunts, uncles etc. So the next succession of posts will be a display of some of my children's recent creations to catch up the fam on some of their recent hobbies and accomplishments (and in Jed's case, obsession).


First up is Harriet, our graphic artist-in-residence. I've been scanning in her artwork for awhile now, and have included some highlights here from her portfolio.


Enjoy:

This was the cover in her clear front binder pocket
for the first part of the school year

From a school assignment - cross section of tree and leaf

she wants me to note she does all her drawings freehand
with usually only a pencil and a ruler


another school assignment
I love the way she got the color for the pencil just perfect

Acrylic paint on paper, I think. She did this at a friend's house.

Cover page for an assignment on Robert Frost's poem

accompanying artwork inside of report

maze made on graph paper - joint effort with a boy in her class this year
Apparently they've done several of these and passed them out to other kids to solve.
(a"maz"ing!)






These two Harriet did around six years old -
Fireworks and flag for Independence Day
crayon on black paper

She made this drawing of a menorah in third grade. She did several menorah drawings that year. One of them we submitted to the Friend magazine, but it wasn't published.

This one is a personal favorite - it's a bookmark, crayon on manilla paper
Harriet must have made this when she was about 5 years old. I've used it often, but have since decided to preserve it better. I may have it laminated.

And for the last entry - Harriet's take on the latest Food Pyramid