Thursday, August 28, 2014

8 Year Celebration!


Every few years we play a game here, and I'd love for you to join in!
It's a celebration of childhood imagination.  It's a chance to tap into that innocent wonder again... a chance to have your own creativity re-energized.

August marked the 8th year anniversary of this blog, Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty, where I've shared the things my kids make and draw that amaze me, humor me, inspire me.  I've also loved watching the kids' abilities grow and blossom over the course of the 700 pictures found here.  We invite you to celebrate this blog milestone with us by swimming through the Blog Archive and enjoying all the kid creativity on display.  Then, play along: Find a favorite drawing and "Lemon Toot" it (re-illustrate)!  Post your image on Twitter with the hashtag #LemonTooted  or email it to me at  zenzart @ hotmail dot com
I'll keep my eyes open for new contributions and add them to this post as they come in.  Be inspired, Have fun!!!


6/23/14 -- by Elijah at age 8:

#1 by Doug Jones:

#2 by Eduardo Vieira:



10/28/13 -- by Lily at age 10: 

#1 by Adam Dix:

#2 by Mike R. Baker:

#3 by Adhitya Zulkarnaen:



10/26/13 -- by Elijah:

 by Elise N Black:



10/26/13 -- by Elijah:

by Michael Buhler:



10/23/13 -- by Evangeline at age 4:

by Dad:



8/27/13 -- by Elijah:

#1 by Alina Chau:

#2 by Scott Spinks:



8/27/13 -- by Gracie:

by Kim Hui:



8/26/13: by Gracie at age 13:

by Darren Rawlings:



8/25/13: by Elijah at age 7:

by Andi Butler:



8/22/13 -- by Elijah at age 7:




by Stacy LeFevre:



8/17/13 -- by Evangeline at age 4:

by David Miles:



8/16/13 -- by Elijah at age 7:

by Jonathan Reincke:



1/23/12 -- by Elijah at age 6:

by Julie Phillipps:



1/9/12 -- by Lily at age 8:

by Anna Bernal:



9/4/11 -- by Gracie at age 11:

#1 by Brooke Boynton Hughes:

#2 by Alyssa Tallent:

#3 by Betsy Bauer:



9/2/11 -- Elijah at age 5:

by Nina Victor Crittenden:



2/24/11 -- by Elijah at age 5:

by Robb Mommaerts:



1/19/11 -- by Elijah at age 5:

by Dad:



1/18/11 -- by Gracie at age 10:

by Dad:



8/14/10 -- by Lily at age 7

#1 by Dad:

#2 by Teressa Ong:


7/9/10 -- by Isaac

by Dad:



by Isaac at age 11:

by Dan Santat:



2/10/10 -- by Lily at age 6:

by Michael Fleming:



12/10/09 -- by Lily at age 6:

#1 by Jet

#2 by Tom Hänni



11/3/08 -- by Gracie at age 8:

by Aaron Nakahara:



11/3/08: by Grace at age 8:

by Joey Everett



10/21/08: by Lily at age 5:

 by Valerio Fabbretti:



10/18/08 -- by Gracie at age 8:

by David Mottram:



3/31/08 -- by Gracie at age 7:

by Robb Mommaerts:



9/26/07 -- by Gracie at age 7:

by Adam Dix:



8/18/07 -- by Lily at age 4:

by Albert Sorrentino:



8/18/07 -- by Gracie at age 7:

#1 by Tom Hänni

#2 by Nikkie Stinchcombe:



7/9/07 -- by Lily at age 4:

#1 by Vladimir Stankovic

#2 by Mr. Zizz:



3/10/07 -- by Lily at age 4:

by Neesha Hudson:



10/15/06 -- by Gracie at age 6:

by Allyson Hirstius:



10/3/06 -- by Isaac at age 8:

by Ivan Mendoza:



8/10/06 -- by Lily at age 3:

by Anggely Enríquez:



8/10/06 -- by Grace at age 6:

by Anggely Enríquez:




Dive into the Archive and play along!

See the 3 Year Celebration HERE

See the 5 Year Celebration HERE

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Frozen

 
Elsa
by Gracie

Gracie made this Elsa doll for baby sister Maggie :)

Lizard King

These are a few years old now, but I've never shared these awesome altered playing cards Gracie painted for me.  I love 'em!


 







Friday, July 25, 2014

Robotics


Robot
by Isaac

Isaac's second piece of digital art...  He's a natural!

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Ones & Zeros


Dragon Rounding
by Isaac

Isaac made his first piece of digital art!  Wowsa!

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Petaled

Some recent flower paintings by Lily...





Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Flight


Parrot
by Gracie

Monday, June 23, 2014

Teamwork


Spy Beasts
by Elijah

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Swimmin'


Scuba Bear
by Gracie

Gracie's been making some mighty fine digital art!

Friday, May 23, 2014

Light Headed


A cool robot lamp Isaac made for fun last summer

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Family Devotions Sketchbooks

For a year and a half now, the kids and I have been keeping Family Devotion Sketchbooks.  Instead of taking notes about the Bible lessons we study together as a family, we try to record what the Lord is teaching us that day through a visual snapshot.  I've found that it's been a great help to me in remembering these great truths.  And it's fun to flip back through the catalog of pictures, quickly and easily identifying particular lessons gone by.

Here are some of the pages from the kids' books:

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Family Devos by Lily (age 10)

Psalm 1:1-6


Proverbs 3:5-6


Proverbs 24:30-34


Jeremiah 2:12-13



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Family Devos by Gracie (age 12)

Hebrews 12:1-13


Proverbs 22:3-5


Colossians 3:12-15


I Thessalonians 5:15



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Family Devos by Isaac (age 14)

Luke 6:41-42


John 15:9-12


Proverbs 4:23-27


Philippians 3:1-4



If you want to see some of Dad's family devo sketches, you can click Here...

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Tweets




Birds
by Gracie

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Mecha


Robots
by Isaac

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Jedi


Kit Fisto
by Elijah

Monday, October 28, 2013

Hoodie


Memory
by Lily

Not sure what the story is here, but clearly there is one...