This week’s art affair was ‘owl’ about having fun! We were in the craft store yesterday and saw owl themed Valentine’s stuff everywhere. I got home and designed this simple pattern so we could make some owls of our own. You’re welcome to borrow this pattern, and please link back […]
Art With Children
Making art with my children is one of the greatest joys of my life. I’m so grateful to be able to share my love of the arts with them every day! Homeschooling gives me the freedom to pass on my love for art to my children and the time to learn new things along with them.
Kid’s Autumn Tree Pictures
With a stack of colorful marbled papers from the last post, my young artists were ready to make autumn leaves. Using a simple cardboard stencil we cut out colorful leaves from our papers. I gave them each a large piece of white cardboard and told them to make a background […]
Easy Paper Marbling for Kid’s Fall Foliage Projects
Maybe it’s because of the drought. Or maybe it’s because we didn’t fertilize last spring. Whatever the reason, the trees around our house still haven’t started turning colors yet and it’s almost Thanksgiving! I decided to let my young artist create some fall colors of her own to use in […]
Illustrating Poetry-“The Road Less Taken” by Robert Frost
Starting with a cardboard box, my young artist began to create a scene to illustrate one of the well-known poems we’ve read this week: “The Road Less Taken” by Robert Frost. She collected some twigs from outside and using some glue, added Flower-Soft to some of the small branches. She […]
String Pumpkins
Around this time of year, the young crafters I know are eager to make just about anything that resembles a pumpkin. We gathered orange embroidery thread, balloons, brushes, and whipped up a batch of paper mache paste (flour and water). They covered the balloons in paste and started wrapping string […]
Super Art Friday –Painting Sunflowers Like Van Gogh
My young artist and I have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh for the past 2 weeks. We used these books: Visiting Van Gogh from the Adventures in Art series by Prestel. I like it because it has large, full page pictures of his paintings. Camille and the Sunflowers by […]
Whoo Loves Candy Corn?
I love this picture! My daughter surprised me by drawing this picture for me, featuring two of my favorite fall things: owls and candy corn. She always inspires me! I grabbed my sketch pad and tried to come up with some compositions of my own with owls munching on some […]
Candy Corn Art
Somethin’ strange is going on with my blog! I’ve been searching for some of my previous fall posts and I can’t find them. It’s like they’ve disappeared! As you can imagine this has me a little frazzled. My husband decided that the safest route would be to switch over to […]
Chalk Board Tablecloth and Chalk Ink Markers
What do you get when you take one chalkboard tablecloth and some Chalk Ink Markers? A really cool way to decorate your craft table for Autumn! We often work on arts and crafts projects together at this little table. My young artist claims the larger half. Welcome Fall! (I bought […]