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 out first.
We [...]

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 I [...]

Art and creativity is not the same for children as it is for adults.
Art for adults can have many meanings. Museums, starving artist in attics , lithographs, a cultural elite, etc.
Adults have come to expect certain things from art and art is usually centered around areas of external beauty and aesthetics.
Art for children is something [...]

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 children’s artwork.
The [...]

Children’s art can be all over the place. the ones who love to create can’t stop creating and you may be secretly trying to throw out some of their creations without them noticing.
There are actually many ways to deal with this and I recently cam across a blog post that addresses this very issue. The [...]