J's recent artwork

A few of the works of art we've been treated to lately:

J made a paper airport with a fleet of planes. I wish the photos would have done them justice, but most were too washed out due to his details being drawn with pencil. In this photo, you can see the "Airport" sign behind one of the planes -- not sure if you can make out the windows, doors, and pilot along the side of the plane. He also made a parking lot (with a car parked), and the airport itself with stairs and a clock. He had all the pieces set up in the proper relationship to each other. Zoo Boy, upon seeing what he'd created, immediately started playing Airport with the set. Pretty cool, actually.

Here's a Zoob creation, that J built from instructions. This one is apparently called "Dino Bunny". The kids kept this "critter" intact for the better part of a week, making other "critters" to keep it company. (J made it a "Fly" to play with, Zoo Boy made it a "Small Plane".)




A magnadoodle drawing of our house (middle left) built out of legos, and J, me, and The Map Man as lego mini-figures (on the middle right). I can't really figure out what "Busy Work" means, or what was intended with the first word. When I asked J about it, he just looked at me like I was totally dense and said "it's Busy Work". Um, yeah, ok.

J's also been making up his own word games. Here's a crossword puzzle of our family's names. I particularly like how he drew pictures of each of us as the clues.



And here's a word search with family names and other words he happened to come across in his puzzle.