Kids Art & Family Creativity
Do you ever wonder what to do with all the artwork your children create? In this post, I’m going to show you how you can turn it into a beautiful kids’ art book! The amount of artwork that my children produce is astounding! It never ceases to amaze me that they can create and create […]
This sweet handmade gift idea has kids making their own hanging framed artworks using DIY cardboard frames, paint sticks, wire, and beads. I like to encourage my kids to make handmade gifts for family and friends. Sometimes it’s home baked treats, sometimes it’s art, sometimes it’s playdough snowmen, sometimes it’s a gift we craft together. […]
How to make a simple thankful bunting with your family. This Thanksgiving art activity brings the family together to celebrate the meaning of the holiday. Like many parents I know, I try to focus our family’s attention on what we are thankful for this time of year more than on turkeys or stuffing, or… …dare […]
Do you have piles of kids’ art coming out of your ears? I do. I imagine you do, too. I’ve written about organizing and storing art here since early 2008. I display kids art on the wall and have since day one. Yet I still have art piles to contend with. We all do, right? Last year I made a […]
These DIY art books for kids double as an art portfolio you can enjoy over and over again. These books are a wonderful way to store and display kids art. Written by Meri Cherry. As an art teacher, I am constantly introducing young children to new process based art techniques, like salt painting, printmaking, and […]
We have some new kids art frames that I’m pretty passionate about. Articulate Gallery is the name of the company that makes them and they sent one to me last year to try out. It’s been up on our wall since October, first holding black and white Halloween art and later glue resist snowmen and snowflakes. […]
We made glue resist paintings a couple of months ago—spiderwebs for Halloween—and loved the process and the product. So now that winter is here, I thought we could give the glue resist art idea another try, this time with snow as the theme. Here’s how we did it… Winter Art for Kids – Glue Resist […]
We’ve had a lot of fun with a body tracing activity over the past week or so. What started as a simple invitation to work big turned into a week-long exploration of self portraits, working large, and even quilting on paper. For set up, I taped large sheets of butcher paper to the floor in […]
