A kindergarten art lesson: Making a color wheel and using the wheel to make primary and secondary colors

If you are a kindergarten teacher or a homeschooling parent and you want to expand your children's art knowledge, the best way to start is by making a

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The Importance of Art in Schools: It’s not just about holiday crafts

 The importance of art in schoolsArt has many meanings. There is  art of the museums, art of the impressionists and art of the Renaissance. There is art of

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What is art therapy and can you be your own child’s art therapist

 Is art therapy for kids just a bunch of art projects? Is there a way that you can do art therapy with your own children?The incident that prompted

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The Reggio Emilia approach and what makes it different than approaches like Montessori

What is the basic  Reggio Emilia approach to education and how you can help integrate this approach into your own, even if you don't go all the way

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Drawing for Children: Do we teach them or do they learn it on their own

Drawing for children. Much more of a loaded topic then you would believe.Believe or not but, both of these drawings were completed by children within a year or

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A step by drawing for kids method:How I used the Monart method with a group of children

If you are looking for a method of step by step drawing for kids there are many ways to do so. There is a plethora of how to

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Kandinsky for Kids: Using a great artist to introduce abstract art

Wassily Kandinsky was a very well known abstract artist. His paintings were not geared towards children yet Kandinsky for kids is something that many art teachers are  looking

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Creative Crafts is not an oxymoron: 5 categories that can make crafts creative

If you are looking for creative crafts then you have some inkling that  most of the crafts you find online are not very creative. There are so many so called

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Creative Curriculum Lesson Plans: Creating a basic preschool lesson plan with an Autumn theme

Creative curriculum preschool lesson plans are plans that integrate interactive teaching methods. It is not rote teaching where the teacher stands in front of the classroom talking, but

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Kindergarten Teacher Websites: Not Only Art Related

If you are kindergarten, preschool or other type of early childhood educator you are probably always looking for different kindergarten websites. Many of the kindergarten websites are also just as useful as

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