We did something something interesting with the kids in our painting activity today. I am trying to teach them some important basic concepts through painting so I gave them an opposite colors activity. A while back we had done an activity on how to make a color wheel so I had the children take those [...]

I actually started this painting with kids activity by making color wheels with the children,  giving them an empty tagboard with 8 empty circles. I realized as they were creating the color wheels that I only wanted them to make primary and secondary colors, so they would only need 6 circles. So when they finished [...]

Do you compliment your child’s artwork? (I’m sure you do) Do you tell them how beautiful it is?Is that a good thing? There are so many ways to help a child grow through his or her artwork.Believe it or not one of the best ways to do that  is by how we react to our [...]

Process only art art for kids is exactly what it says. It is for the process only and does not take the end product into account. The point of process only activities, as many of you may very well know is to explore the process of the art activity itself without worrying about the end [...]

Wassily Kandinsky was a very well known abstract artist yet, he did not even start out as an artist.  He actually was a lawyer and first and did not begin studying art until he was about 30years old. ( Proof that you CAN teach old dogs new tricks.) Kandinsky started painting  after the impressionists and [...]