Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful, but Sewing is So Delightful

As a major spring snowstorm has hit Wisconsin, we have camped out for the day. We're all on spring break, which means we could just stay in our pjs all day. Matthew worked on his school project in the morning. He decided that for his project he would combine paint colors to see what he would get. So he's been painting swatches with two colors and then mixing them to paint a third swatch. I'm having him paint on card stock and then we'll take a square punch to make squares of each color. He wants to hide the resulting color to make it a guessing game for the show. So we'll cover up the resulting color so people can guess what the result will look like. Today he chose to combine red and white, yellow and black and orange and green. It was so cool to watch him go through the process and excitedly trying to guess what the resulting color would look like. He knew that the red and white would make pink, but the other two were harder for him to figure out. Afterwards, his dad said that maybe he should have just stayed with primary colors, but I'm glad he didn't. He already knows the primary combinations, so I thought his project should be his way to explore color and how they combine together. It's his project, and so I just got out all the paint colors we had, which is a huge tub-full, and I let him choose what he wanted.

I was able to get quite a bit of sewing done today while Claire took her naps and Matthew and his dad played. I finished this quilt for newborn Charley, and hopefully I'll get it in the mail to him this week.