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A cool robot lamp Isaac made for fun last summer

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...

Tweets

Birds
by Gracie

Mecha

Robots
by Isaac

Jedi

Kit Fisto
by Elijah

Hoodie

Memory
by Lily

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

Fuzzy Pizza Productions

Here are some videos the Z-kids have made over the years on their book review blog Bookie Woogie:

Grace Lin's "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon"




Lloyd Alexander's "The Black Cauldron"




Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad"




A behind the scenes look at the making of "Frog and Toad"



Here's Isaac's original free-styling harmonica score for "Frog and Toad":


And here's their newest: a mashup of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" and Spider-Man

Woogie of the Bookie

Here are a few favorite pieces of artwork that the kids have recently shared at their other blog Bookie Woogie:


by Gracie, inspired by "Ollie the Purple Elephant"


by Isaac, inspired by "Blue Chicken"


by Elijah, inspired by "The Prairie Thief"


by Gracie, inspired by "Fashion Kitty"


by Lily, inspired by "The Monstore"


by Isaac, inspired by "Grandpa Green"


by Lily, inspired by "Grandpa Green"


by Gracie, inspired by "Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters"


by Elijah, inspired by "Giant Dance Party"


by Gracie, inspired by "The Watcher"

Stop by Bookie Woogie for lots of book related fun!

a boy, a bear, a girl

Here are a few random drawings by Lily that I've saved.  They way she draws, it looks like she's creating actual characters with real personalities...



 

Girlish

These are the type of awesome people Evangeline would draw last year...







 

 

 

Flora

Paper Roses
by Gracie

Soak

Panda Hot Tub
by Isaac

more fun pen work, more cool lettering...

Metalsome

 
Robot
by Elijah

Highly Collectible

It's the 400th post on Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty!  And in sticking with tradition, today I'm sharing just a few cards from our full-to-bursting Packs of Family Trading Cards.

"Family Trading Cards? What are those?" you might ask.  Years ago -- 7 or 8 years perhaps -- our family started making our own Trading Cards and swapping them amongst ourselves.  And we still do it to this day.

Here's how it works:  every so often, Dad cuts up paper into uniform rectangles and hands out 5 or 6 blank cards to each member of the family.  The cards can then be filled with anything.  Absolutely anything.  No rules.  All the completed cards get returned to Dad who shuffles them and randomly passes them back out.  And the trading begins!  It's fun and furious as everyone scrambles to wheel and deal for the day's favorites.  It gets quite competitive.

Everyone has their own pack of cards they've collected over the years, all of which by now contain hundreds upon hundreds of cards.  They are highly treasured.  And it's always fun to shuffle through the collections to see how everyone's drawing skills have developed over the years. 

Here is a sampling of recent cards we've created:


 by Elijah


 by Lily


 by Gracie


by Isaac


by Mom


by Dad

This is the 6th time I've shared a peek into our Trading Card packs.  If you'd like to see all the Trading Card posts, just click: HERE

Middle Earth

We read through Lord of the Rings together as a family a little while ago.  As she sat and listened night after night, Gracie often drew pictures of the way she imagined Tolkien's characters...
Here are a few:


Galadriel


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