Category Archives: Art AND Education

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 many art teachers looking for Wassily Kandinsky for kids are looking to see how they can use the works of this well know artist to enhance the children’s appreciation for good, abstract art, hence the search for Kandinsky…

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

What are creative curriculum lesson plans: 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 it includes all modalities under a theme. When making kindergarten lesson plans or plans for any early childhood classroom the teacher…

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 pre kindergarten teacher websites and it is always difficult to weed through many sites. You also don’t know which sites are good and which are junk. Even though…

Learn what creativity for kids is PLUS how you can Increase creativity with children with 9 creativity exercises

  Which of the pictures above shows more creativity for kids, The one on the left or the ones to the right? And what is creativity anyway? Though I am going to explain about creativity for kids in this post, creativity for adults  has the same roots. Adults  deal with more sophisticated projects and problems…

Adding an Art Center to an Early Childhood Classroom

Kindergarten and preschool and art are almost synonymous. Which kindergarten, preschool or any early childhood education classroom or home school program does not have some kind of art on a daily basis. In Educational Art, art can be divided into three parts. Crafts (projects for holidays, special days, etc.) Process only art activities (painting, clay,…