The Artful Parent

Author: Jean Van't Hul
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1611807204
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Bring out your child’s creativity and imagination with more than 60 artful activities in this completely revised and updated edition Art making is a wonderful way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening their fine motor skills and developing self-confidence. The Artful Parent has all the tools and information you need to encourage creative activities for ages one to eight. From setting up a studio space in your home to finding the best art materials for children, this book gives you all the information you need to get started. You’ll learn how to: * Pick the best materials for your child’s age and learn to make your very own * Prepare art activities to ease children through transitions, engage the most energetic of kids, entertain small groups, and more * Encourage artful living through everyday activities * Foster a love of creativity in your family

Action ART

Author: MaryAnn F Kohl
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0935607374
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 622

Book Description
Action Art: Hands-On Active Art Adventures is A Collection of Over 100 Active Hands-On Art Experiences for Children 2-12, Full of Adventure, Movement, and Discovery. FOR SCHOOLS &• HOMESCHOOLS &• MUSEUMS&• LIBRARIES &• CHILDCARE &• HOME Shelving: ART ACTIVITIES &• EDUCATION &• PARENTING Over 100 action-packed art activities bring discovery and adventurous creativity to children's art experiences that will delight and challenge kids of all ages. Each child-tested art activity is grouped into engaging action categories including: Smacking &• Squeezing &• Tapping Rolling &• Spinning &• Swinging Blowing &• Exploding &• Smooshing Tools &• Toys &• Utensils Up &• Down &• All Around Full color photographs highlight all activities including painting, photography, collage and sculpture, each with helpful icons indicating levels for both children and adults. Action Art experiences are built on the knowledge that art for children is a creative process and not just a finished product. MaryAnn Kohl is famous around the world for encouraging children to experience creative art exploration best known as &“process art&”. Action Art offers 5 chapters of exciting and adventurous creative art activities, all with surprise outcomes, including &– Blowing Glitter, Dancing Blottos, Bubble Wrap, Boot Walk, Clear Color Squish

The Grown-Up's Guide to Paint Pouring with Kids

Author: Jennifer McCully
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN: 1633228541
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
The Grown-Up's Guide series features how-to projects, creative prompts, and crafting activities that will inspire you and your little ones to spend hours of fun together. Now you can learn the fun, trendy paint pouring technique—and teach your kids to do it too! Paint pouring, also known as fluid art, uses acrylic paint and a variety of everyday tools to create colorful, abstract art poured on canvases and other surfaces. With The Grown-Up’s Guide to Paint Pouring With Kids, prepare to get messy—some techniques require touching or even hitting the paint—but that’s half the fun! Kids will love the tactile nature of paint pouring, while you and the other grown-ups in their lives will feel good knowing that your children are exercising their creative and artistic playful side. The book opens with an introduction to the affordable tools required to pour paint, from cups and canvases to stir sticks, paper, reusable straws, and more. Older kids--with the help of their parents, of course--might even learn to use a heat torch to create the cell-like structure typical in fluid art. Techniques are outlined so that you and your children can read about the pouring process before getting started. Then there are chapters on color mixing tips, instructions for finishing paintings with varnish and other materials, and much more. The step-by-step projects that follow are fun, easy, and easily customizable by color, surface, and skill level. They can even be done on surfaces other than canvas, such as coasters, pieces of wood, gift boxes, and much more. Kids of all ages will love pouring paint. You can help too, ensuring family togetherness for hours as you and your children learn to create colorful, abstract art together with The Grown-Up’s Guide to Paint Pouring With Kids.

Fun Painting Projects for Kids

Author: Louise McMullen
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645675661
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Book Description
Nurture Your Artistic Side with 60 Exciting Paint Projects Learn important skills to help you become a better artist with this super-fun collection of art projects. Louise McMullen, founder of the children’s craft blog, Messy Little Monster, brings her experience as both a teacher and a mother to ensure there’s a project for every artist, whatever your interest, ability or age. Learn different techniques such as how to create new colors, how to use different types of paints and even how to paint like famous artists. There are small, detailed projects for indoors and large interactive projects where you can get messy outdoors. And you’ll be inspired to think outside the box, like using shaving cream and paint to make a marbling effect, or dish soap and toothpicks to make scratch art. With 60 unique and totally fun projects, plus plenty of ideas to change things up, you’ll be inspired to paint all day every day!

Defining Visual Arts

Author: Spramani Elaun
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991626458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
This book explains what visual art standards are and what to teach children

Blue Chicken

Author: Deborah Freedman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101587938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A mind-bendingly clever farmyard romp In this deceptively simple picture book, author-illustrator Deborah Freedman has created an irresistible character that springs to life and wreaks havoc in a farmyard with a pot of blue paint. The innocent chicken just wants to help, but things get worse and worse - and bluer and bluer - the more she tries. Playing with colors and perspective, and using minimal text, this richly layered story reveals new things to see and laugh about with each reading.

Moose Mischief

Author: Danielle Gillespie-Hallinan
Publisher: Typeworm Publishing
ISBN: 9780997928006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Cooper has the clever idea of making his mom pancakes for her birthday, and his friend the moose offers to help. The moose claims he's the best chef in Alaska, but is he really? Find out if Cooper's mom is happy about the surprise awaiting her in the kitchen!

Bob Ross and Peapod the Squirrel

Author: Robb Pearlman
Publisher: Running Press Kids
ISBN: 0762467800
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Bob Ross paints a stunning home for his squirrel friend, Peapod, in this delightful nod to a painter icon. This is the sweet story of a painter (Bob Ross) who helps his squirrel friend, Peapod, find the perfect home to live in. Bob paints an actual Ross painting, "Meadow Lake," in this charming tale about helping friends and embracing the serenity of life. Bob, along with Peapod, go through the various steps and processes to painting, including praising those "happy little accidents" that happen along the way.

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!

Author: Karen Beaumont
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152024888
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
In the rhythm of a familiar folk song, a child cannot resist adding one more dab of paint in surprising places.

Young at Art

Author: Susan Striker
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805066975
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
The creator of the Anti-Coloring Book series explains how to encourage creativity among preschool-age children, discussing the positive influence of a child's artistic growth on their intellectual and emotional development and offering a variety of age-appropriate activities to facilitate a youngster's artistic skills.