farm

To wrap up our “On the Farm” week, we made fingerprint corn.

This one was pretty simple.  I cut vaguely corn-like shapes out of white paper, something resembling leaves from green paper, and put a dollop of yellow paint on a plate.

The girls had different ideas of how much painting to do, so Carolyn wound up making a solid yellow corn variety while Anna’s turned out bi-colored.

We had to wait for the ears of corn to dry, so we went out on the deck and shucked real corn for dinner.

Including the corn, nearly every part of dinner was from the farmer’s market: new potatoes, eggplant, red pepper and green beans.  I love this time of year!

We had to wait until after dinner, there was so much paint on one of those ears of corn, but then we glued the ears of corn to a sheet of brown paper and glued the leaves on top.  It doesn’t look quiteas delicious as the corn we had for dinner, but it’s pretty cute!

I found some printables for collages and tried to figure out what materials we had that could work for various textures and colors.  Turns out I just had to look in the pantry for a perfect tie-in to “On the Farm”.  We used dried lentils, tri-colored couscous, a rice blend, navy beans, (unpopped) popcorn, a bit of wool and pencil shavings.  (Those last two aren’t in my pantry, really.)

Anna picked up on the idea pretty quickly, and seemed to really enjoy it, but lost interest before she filled in her whole page.  She thought the pencil shavings and yellow wool were the most fun, with the lentils close behind.

Carolyn knew what to do without any explanation, but I think would have preferred a more detailed picture – she added details like a corn stalk and a house in the bottom hill (before covering them with green wool for whatever reason) and was picking out the dark brown rice from the blend so she could have her details just so.

Overall?  Glue + intriguing objects = thumbs up.  I wish I’d had slightly more colorful things for them to use – especially something blue for the sky – but considering I didn’t know what we were doing for a craft project today and threw this together at the last minute, I’m pretty happy with the results!