Ker Family Updates from Mozambique
The whole thing is themed on animals and I got in everything from a boot that looks like a cow, to a stone frog, to winnie the pooh, to a weaver bird. Here are some closer looks.
Also I made a mosaic of some kind of bird this morning.
Andrew says it’s a chicken, Henry says a yellow duck, Ben thinks maybe a canary.
I need your help in making up a game. Do you think one about hippos, ants, Spanish conquistadors, or peanuts (or a mix!) would be more fun?
Thursday school art assignment was to make a collage. Ellies collage showed cute pictures of animals, but it turned out that we boys all amputated heads (or bodies, or limbs, etc.) and stuck the on other things. My creations included a slug terrorist,
A shy panda person,
A…um…er…person (loosely defined),
and an industrious elephant. The thing to the right of the elephants head is a mosquito with some added eyes,
but the phone Dad left us as a camera doesn’t work so well close up.
If you think this is at all strange you should see ben’s.
For Thursday’s craft class we made collages. all we had to work with was some posters, a calendar, and some christian and african magazines
I did this in art class yesterday, I am not quite sure why the egg and the alphabet block are in there, that is just the way it turned out.
The game I’m making is really complicated, as it contains both add-ons to the origional. The origional, however consists of a board with no water and a lot less land than I’m using. In the origional, you start with two settlements and two roads on the board and try to make more settlements, roads, and turn your settlements into cities using various materials. If one of your places is sitting next to a hex with a 8 on it when an 8 gets rolled, you get 1 of the matereal depicted on that space for a settkement, 2 for a city ( the matereal is a clay for a reddish hex, sheep for light green, wood for dark green, iron for greyish black and yellow for wheat). You win when you get 10 points, with a city worth 2 pts and a settlement worth 1. (I could tell you more, like how much each trhing cost, but it wouldn’t be quite fair to Klaus Teuber (the inventor of the game).
The game I’m making is really complicated, as it contains both add-ons to the origional. The origional, however consists of a board with no water and a lot less land than I’m using. In the origional, you start with two settlements and two roads on the board and try to make more settlements, roads, and turn your settlements into cities using various materials. If one of your places is sitting next to a hex with a 8 on it when an 8 gets rolled, you get 1 of the matereal depicted on that space for a settkement, 2 for a city ( the matereal is a clay for a reddish hex, sheep for light green, wood for dark green, iron for greyish black and yellow for wheat). You win when you get 10 points, with a city worth 2 pts and a settlement worth 1. (I could tell you more, like how much each trhing cost, but it wouldn’t be quite fair to Klaus Teuber (the inventor of the game).
When the Seilers were here, Roland (Susan’s husband) taught us how to play a game called Catan. After he left I started making my own copy of the game. I got pictures of the pieces of the board hexes of the internet, resized them, and made some pictures of hexes I couldn’t find (like the the water all over and the gold field hexes in the top right.) Below is the board.
I also have started making the settlement, road, and city pieces (left to right) below.
and have completed the number dots (top), the ports (bottom center), the merchant (bottom left), and the robber (bottom right).
This is made from melted pieces of crayons on wax paper. I hung it up in my window and the light shines through it.
I made a bunch of hexagons with tabs on them on the computer, printed and cut them out out and attached them together like a soccer ball. then I hung it from the ceiling with a piece of string.