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	<title>Educational Art Thoughts &#187; Creativity</title>
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	<description>Art that teaches thinking skills PLUS creativity</description>
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		<title>Flower Collages: Using pre printed pictures or not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 21:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Collage for kids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is such a proliferation of preprinted and cut out materials for children to use all over the place. There are coloring books and workbooks galore all over the internet and in thousands of early childhood classrooms all over the world. I however, if you know my work, know that I do not prescribe to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanukkah Crafts Collage : Do it Cafeteria Style</title>
		<link>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/hanukkah-crafts-collage-cafeteria-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Arts & Crafts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In making a Hanukkah or Chanukah crafts collage its always good as  I often do to give the children an idea of some of the symbols of what they will be using as a base for their collage or other artwork. When I give collages it is 99% of the time done cafeteria style where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity in Art: Are Flowers Really Always Red and Green?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Elite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[External Beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Leaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Chapin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithographs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preschool Kindergarten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Representational Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Songwriter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starving Artist]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/?p=424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach kids to see shapes with paint and pencil:Painting lessons (part 3)</title>
		<link>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/shapes-painting-media/</link>
		<comments>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/shapes-painting-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assortment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blob]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continuation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creating An Outline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Different Shapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discovering Shapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drawing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entire Paper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making An Outline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paintings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pencil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scrabble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shape Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Two Ways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/?p=381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shapes are all over the place and there are many ways to explore shapes. We will be doing some shape work through drawing and we have introduced beginning shapes in a beginning collage when we started with collaging with circles. In this painting series I wanted to bring shapes into the picture (literally) I created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Collage Without Scissors or Prepared Papers</title>
		<link>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/preschool-kids-collage-without-scissors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Collage for kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paper Collage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preschool kids can collage without scissors. I know it sounds unusual as collage for kids is usually done by using various kinds of paper and the children often need to cut them up into the sizes they want. Torn paper collage is another collage in our series that encourages the children to come face to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids learn to paint textures: Painting lessons (part 4)</title>
		<link>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/painting-with-kids-painting-textures/</link>
		<comments>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/painting-with-kids-painting-textures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brushes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dark Paint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Images]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painting Textures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scoop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Textured Materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Younger Ones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two images we used in painting textures with the children. View the short video and then read the post about it. So in case you didn&#8217;t get exactly what we did, here&#8217;s the scoop. I had previously worked with these kids on creating all types of lines. To take it further I showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Art Activity for Kids: Painting without an easel (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/painting-for-kids-without-an-easel/</link>
		<comments>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/painting-for-kids-without-an-easel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aluminum Foil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Activities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art And Crafts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleanup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detailed Explanation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Different Colors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easel Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entire Paper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painting For Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parameters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primary Colors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rectangle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rectangular Shape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Respects]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[White Space]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Painting with kids is usually done at an easel. This type of painting was something called tray painting as we use a tray for the children to mix the colors on. They only get the primary colors and they mix them on the tray. When you don&#8217;t have a good tray, aluminum foil works great. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paint with kids: B&amp;W line paintings (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/painting-with-kids-black-white-line-and-weather-paintings/</link>
		<comments>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/painting-with-kids-black-white-line-and-weather-paintings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Paint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Paintings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Directions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exercises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids Paintings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Painting Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thin Lines]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Painting with kids can be a wonderful and also a frustrating experience. Kids who love art and painting often times burn out after a period of painting as a result of not having inspiration &#8221; what to  paint This series on painting with kids is going to build on a series of  exercises in painting that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Crafts: Use Coffee Filters&#8230;. not only for making coffee</title>
		<link>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/easy-crafts-use-coffee-filters-not-only-for-making-coffee/</link>
		<comments>http://educationalartsandcrafts.com/blog/creativity/easy-crafts-use-coffee-filters-not-only-for-making-coffee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Toddler Crafts or Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coffee Habit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Color Food]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Different Color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Different Colors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Different Designs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[easy crafts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egg Cartons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eye Droppers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Coloring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instant Coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paper Pieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tag Board]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easy crafts you want? Well this doesn&#8217;t get too much easier. If you are an instant coffee drinker than you may not have any of these coffee filters on hand but they are easily purchased. This first activity to do with these large, soft filters works best with eye droppers. If you don’t have any  [...]]]></description>
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