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My Favorite Resource Books: Art & Creativity

We’re big fans of “process” creating around here – enjoying the doing and not necessarily worried about the finished product. We also enjoy making crafty things for holidays and gifts, but for the most part it is all about the experience! Besides browsing Pinterest and my favorite blogs, I have a small selection of books [...]

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Free Play Art :: Sun Catchers

This week, the girls rummaged through our craft supplies and set-up a project for themselves. Love it! This week: Clear Contact Paper Collage Materials: clear Contact paper (taped to the table, sticky-side up) tissue paper squares sequins rainbow feathers construction paper strips Artist at work: Beautiful artwork hanging in their windows: This is a fun, [...]

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Give Thanks – Paper Quilt

I wanted to do a project with the girls that would help us focus on gratitude and all the many things we have to be thankful for. Last year, we wrote Thankful Poems and we enjoyed pulling those out and reading them again. We’ve done all sorts of turkey projects in the past, which always [...]

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Sunset Skyline Art Project

Even with all the free art time the girls engage in, they still ask to do projects. I have tons of fun art projects bookmarked, so we’ve decided to set aside Friday mornings for art project time. Last week, the girls chose to do the Sunset Cityscape project from Art Projects for Kids. Supplies: watercolor [...]

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Self-Serve Painting

When the girls ask to paint, I try to always say yes. I don’t always have the easel set-up, but they are usually just as happy to paint at the kitchen table. Sometimes they want watercolors, but often they want “real paint,” as Delaney calls it. We use Colorations brand washable tempera paints or BioColor [...]

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Sweet Scarecrow

Delaney and I spent some time doing an art project together, just the two of us. She loves doing free art exploration, but had been asking to do a “project” for a couple days. I showed her a couple of the projects geared toward Kindergartners and First Graders at Deep Space Sparkle (an awesome kids’ [...]

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Night Sky Art

My girls loved staying up late on our recent camping trip, waiting for the sky to fill with stars. They have since been inspired to create piles of beautiful night sky artwork. With a stack of black construction paper and any (or all!) of these materials, have fun exploring and creating – my girls love [...]

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Our Favorite Drawing Books

Natalie, my six-year-old, has always been somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to art (and life in general!). When she was a toddler, she wanted to watch people draw and color, but not do it herself. When she was four, many of her drawings were crumpled and thrown away because they didn’t turn out [...]

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