Well, aliens are involved. Lots of aliens:
This picture simply does not do justice to their very lime green nature. Here's a close-up, although the color is still off:
And here is a depiction of the path of the meteorite which almost took out their spaceship:
We've also been exploring the mathematics of patterns and the artistic uses of positive and negative space:
Playing board games:
This one is Sequence (for Kids) and came to stay when Elly, Janelle and Kiyo came to visit. Along with Uno, it has been the recent favorite.
Combining egg cartons, corn husks, gemstones and glue in new and marvelous ways:
Blowing out eggs so we can keep the painted results around a bit longer:
And having very silly dinners at which we are repeatedly poisoned by our teriyaki chicken, edamame and yogurt:
Don't tell our house that life goes on without it.
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So looking at all these cool things you folks are building, it looks like you need some good 3d patterning stuff. I cant find stuff like we used to play with (all those plastic and rubber pieces probably werent very planet friendly anyway), but this sort of thing looks appropriately green. Bamboo Polyhedra
ReplyDeleteThose look like they might be fun. I've mostly been lusting after a big lego collection, and contemplating some of this stuff: http://www.zometool.com/products
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