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Working With Found Materials
I recently purchased Beautiful Stuff! Learning With Found Materials by Cathy Weisman Topal and Lella Gandini. This is not a how-to book; it’s a documentation of how the authors and teachers worked with...
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Hot Rocks
Our tray of cooling hot rocks (I’ve seen this on the web here and there, but I first saw it in the fabulous book Summer Crafts by Marjorie Galen, which I bought in a used bookstore two years ago. The...
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Making Prints While The Sun Shines: Paper
Materials: Sun print paper, various items, Plexiglas (optional) The other day, G and I experimented with the sun print paper that recently arrived. (I couldn’t find it locally, so I ended up ordering...
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Making Prints While The Sun Shines: T-Shirts
As always, click to embiggen all photos! Materials: White t-shirts (the kids’ shirts are white undershirts–they’re great for dyeing); liquid acrylics; sponge brushes; leaves or other objects of your...
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Summertime Art on Kidoinfo
Now that it’s finally summer, I want to be outside as much as possible, as long as the weather cooperates. Although I have a list of rainy-day art activities in mind, and although our outside...
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Drawing in Snow
Last year, we got 30 inches of snow in January alone. This year, snow has been sparse at best, so far, and so my kids were delighted with the mere dusting that awaited them on Friday morning. Informed...
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{Art Together} Take Your Art on a Field Trip
{This post is part of the art together series. You can see all the posts in the series here.} Drawing at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. One of the best, unexpected things that happened once I...
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{Art Together} Summertime Art Ideas
{This post is part of the art together series. You can see all the posts in the series here.} It’s getting on towards summer, at least where I live. Here in Southern New England, summer is my favorite...
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Setting Up An Outdoors Painting Area
My kids and I are trying out activities from the first Art Together e-zine issue, which I plan to have available for you next month. Today was not too hot or humid, so I decided to set us up to paint...
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Fairy House Festival
You may recall that 5yo G has an interest in fairies. Yesterday we visited the Botanical Gardens at Roger Williams Park in Providence, on the last day of their “fairy house garden days.” This was...
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