Ocean crafts: Create murals of the ocean

This ocean crafts activity was inspired by this  swarm of sea creatures that I found on Pinterest.As you may know already, I love mixed media art and I also love

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Recreating Eric Carles animals with tissue paper (literacy art projects)

I just realized that its almost time for summer art camp and I never even finished posting the activities we did last summer. This activity was actually one

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Painting from primaries to secondaries: (revisited)

I've been doing tray painting with kids for years. I wrote about tray painting in this kindergarten art lesson and this painting for kids post. I would have

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Copy the pattern art project

This was a really cool idea I had that came about through another project we did. I recently wrote a bit about a great collage activity that I

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Symmetry art: Spring is in the air and butterflies are everywhere

What better way to get in a little symmetry art than using the natural world. It is truly amazing how symmetrical butterflies are and for this activity I

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What can you do with yarn with kids: 3 ideas (literacy art project)

This book Extra Yarn was another book that I found browsing the kids section in the library that fit perfectly with art projects we were doing in our

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Aluminum can crafts: 5 ideas that are quite creative

I actually got the idea to do this post on aluminum can crafts when I saw this great smashed face made out of an aluminum can on art is

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Little girls collage their favorite dress (literacy art project)

This was another activity from our literacy art project last Summer. Many of the projects we did with the children were decided before we even got the books

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Awesome shape collage starting with one shape

  A few weeks ago I wrote a guest post on Cassie Stephens blog. If you want to read what I did, you can check it out through that

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Making landscape pictures with tissue paper for backgrounds

I've done a number of posts here on the blog with activities that teach horizon line and basic perspective issues.This is another great activity with a twist since

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