When school let out this summer I took Luke into the studio to write his own song. He wanted to write a rock song. He spouted off some lyrics and I wrote them down for him (I thought they were pretty good, but I'm his mom so you can't really trust me on that). I started piecing together a music track for him then had him sing his words over the music. We liked this activity and it only took about an hour to do.
A couple of weeks later we were on vacation at his grandparents' house and had an open afternoon of hanging out. Since I'm no fun and can't ever do "nothing", I asked Luke if he would want to make a music video for his song. His idols are Jimmy Page and Matthew Bellamy of Muse so of course he said YES. Filming was a good experience because he learned that a lot more goes into a video than what you see in the edited version. About 10 minutes into filming he was ready to quit, but again, I'm no fun so I told him he had to finish what he started. About 10 minutes more and we were done with the filming. It took me a few hours of the afternoon to edit this together but it was worth it because we now have this fun reminder of the summer between Kindergarten and 1st grade:
