Vera's rainbow keys

Our piano was decorated with a rainbow of pompoms.

Outlined couch

 More couch outlining.

Outlined couch

 Contours of the couch, outlined in pom-poms.

The world and a box of gum

 Another preschooler collage.

Yellow clover shape

 A yellow clover shape in pompoms.

Red-lined box

 Dice box traced in pom-poms.

Layers and layers and layers

Our little one building up artwork with pompoms in layers and layers and layers of colored patterns around a toy train.

Claiming the scrunchie

 Laying territorial claim to her big sister's forgotten scrunchie with a nest of yellow pompoms.

Colored boxes

Colored pompoms in wooden boxes.

A tin of purple

 A tine full of carefully packed purple pompoms, both body and lid.

Mount purple

 Characters climbing a purple mountain with purple trimmings all around.

Sorted shapes

Geometric activities in a sorted circle of shapes.

To each their own geometry

 Each character gets their own type of shape: Milli has diamonds, Geo has squares, Bot has triangles, and UmiCar has circles.

Team Umizoomi riding Dump Truck

Stuffed animals playing the roles of Team Umizoomi, our 3-year-old's favorite characters, are riding reformed villain Dump Truck.

Home-made rocket

A rocket made of wooden and plastic blocks.

Punk giraffe

 Punk-looking giraffe, enhanced with marble shoot pieces.

Pom-pom marble shoots

Somebody figured out that her marble shoot pieces were the perfect size to stuff with little pom-poms, and began experimenting with colors and constructions.

Balancing shapes

 Discovered halfway up the stairs, a carefully balanced construction of varied geometric shapes.

Lunch party

Animals having a lunch party on the stairs, before we successfully banished stair games.

Individual serving sizes

 Stuffed animal meals served out in individual serving sizes.

Animal words

 Close-up on the happy group of word-owners.

Animal words

 Animals atop the stairs, presiding over a collection of color-sorted letters and numbers.

Double perching cats

Two cats holding down one of their humans.

Mushrooms, Redbird Fam Wildlife Sanctury, IA

 Hand-sized mushrooms on a moist post-rain morning.

Green pond, Redbird Fam Wildlife Sanctury, IA

 A cool green pond in the woodsy depths of the Redbird Farm wildlife sanctuary.