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Free Play Art :: Green Collage

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It’s March, the month of leprechauns and the change to Spring. Seems like the perfect time for an art collage of all things green! This week: Green Collage Materials: I love using a muffin tin to arrange all the art goodies for creating. See how many green art supplies you can gather from around the [...]

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Paper Sculptures

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I’m over at Make and Takes today sharing one of our recent free play art activities – creating 3-D paper sculptures. This is a great project for all ages, and you probably have all the materials on hand at home. Get the how-to at Make and Takes and then surprise your kids with an art [...]

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Welcoming Summer

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Happy First Day of Summer! We’re doing a few simple activities this week to celebrate the Summer Solstice. The girls made neat mixed media sunshines yesterday – gluing, painting, salt-sprinkling, and cutting fun! Here’s a look at the process: Make a mixed media sunshine: Glue assorted items to a chipboard or cardboard circle (something sturdy!) [...]

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Christmas Card 2010

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The girls created this beautiful winter scene collage for our Christmas card this year. I decided to branch out from our usual photo card, and I’m so glad we did. I just love how it turned out and now I have a nice original piece of artwork to frame and bring out each winter, as [...]

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Shape Collage

Step 1: Surprise your young artists with a tray of colorful paper shapes. Step 2: Make sure the glue is handy. Stand back and let the creating begin! Step 3: Ooh and aah over the shape-inspired masterpieces. The girls spent a good amount of time creating shape pictures over the weekend, and have continued to [...]

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