To tell you the truth when you think of egg cartons what do you think of? Besides cooking and baking that is? Caterpillars, right? Those typical, copycat, caterpillar crafts so many adults make with kids. Well! the egg cartons I am talking about there by the way are the type seen below, the Styrofoam…
The Artful Parent: Another blog with lots of Toddler Art
Toddlers and toddler art can get very messy as you are well aware if you involved with toddlers. I wrote a simple toddler crafts introductory post recently explaining what toddlers are really capable of. I really wanted to share with you a lovely website called the Artful Parent by woman named Jean who was running…
Learn about various types of clay for kids: Fimo, sculpey, polymer, air dry clay, crayola modeling clay, plasticine and what’s the difference between them all
When you say you want to buy or use clay or play dough there are a number of types of clay that you can be referring to. There are certain types of clay that are ONLY used for kids and there are clays that are used for adults and children alike. I am…
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,…