How to help children process what they see being advertised

This is really cool. I had just finished writing a post on 6 negative effects of television and I noticed this link I had saved about how  Kate

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Two Favorite Watercolor Techniques Combined

If you  like watercolor painting then this activity is for you. Jean from The Artful Parent, had her daughter work with 2 watercolor techniques at the same time.

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Developing an art curriculum.

There are many different ways to develop an art curriculum. In Deep Space Sparkle, Patty answers some questions in this post about putting together an art curriculum. Even

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A Letter to a First Year Art Teacher

If you are a first year art teacher or want to be an art teacher then go read the advice written here to a first years art teacher.

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Make Your Own Room Art With A Paint Sample Collage

This is actually a great idea of how to match up a child’s room with artwork that matches their linen. In this post they took the blue and

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Make leather coasters with dyes

If you would like a really cool way to make coaster out of leather by dying the leather then here it is. By using dyes in a spray

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Five tips for painting with preschoolers

Sleepyhead design studios did a class with some preschoolers making some pretty abstract paintings. In the process she writes about 5 things she learned about when painting with

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Gustav Klimt Art Project

Kids, especially girls love working with gold paint. Deep sparkle space has a lovely activity imitiating a Gustav Klimt painting, making trees with gold paint on bro http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2012/08/23/gustav-klimt-art-project/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DeepSpaceSparkle+%28Deep+Space+Sparkle%29

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Evaluating Art Standards

  Patty Palmer of Deep Space Sparkle talks about being asked to evaluate standard art standards in the school system.she says she finds the language of the standards

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Parenting Bloggers Share Their Favorites

Jean Van’t Hul of The Artful Parent has put together some favorite art activities of some well known parent bloggers. Below are a list of most of the

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