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Spending some vacation time in the city? Recreate your kids day with city landscape art
Summer vacations (which it is what we in the States are in middle of now) are a time that many parents spend time with their children exploring the
Making animals out of square shapes
I really did start this project with squares. You would never believe it looking at these amazing pictures these kindergarten and first grade children created.I started out by
Multi Step Flower murals: Great summer project
Spring and Summer are perfect times for flower projects with kids and this flower mural is such a fun idea. I actually saw the original idea on Pinkandgreenmama.com
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
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
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
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
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
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