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

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!

The Grown-Up's Guide to Making Art with Kids

Author: Lee Foster-Wilson
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN: 1633227391
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
Make art and memories with the special kids in your life! Packed with how-to drawing and painting projects, creative prompts, and original crafting activities, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Making Art with Kids will inspire you and your little ones to spend hours of creative fun together. This book includes drawing and painting projects featuring popular, kid-friendly, and on-trend subjects—like dinosaurs, pets, flowers, and robots—that adults and kids can create together. Guided practice pages invite interactivity and allow children and adults to draw and paint the same subjects, side by side, for a fun-filled joint activity. The book’s artwork is colorful, approachable, and done using ordinary, easily available art tools, including markers, crayons, colored pencils, and acrylic paint. In addition to drawing lessons, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Making Art with Kids also includes projects and ideas for using artwork created from the prompts in the book to make crafts, including a map, pop-up art, and paper dolls. The Grown-Up’s Guide to Making Art with Kids teaches valuable drawing, painting, and crafting skills to both kids and adults; inspires creativity; and encourages family togetherness. What better way to avoid screen time than by drawing, painting, and creating together with your kids? Follow-up books in the series include The Grown-Up's Guide to Paint Pouring with Kids and The Grown-Up's Guide to Crafting with Kids, both publishing in June 2020.

Cool Painting: The Art of Creativity for Kids

Author: Anders Hanson
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1617846112
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
This book takes the reader through the basic terms and techniques of painting. Step-by-step projects are highlighted to provide a fun and creative way to familiarize kids with different mediums and techniques. These activities take the "how-to" further and really encourage kids to explore and expand their own artistic talents. This title is perfect for beginning artists! Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

The Grown-Up's Guide to Painting with Kids

Author: Jennifer McCully
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 163322855X
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 messy 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 Painting 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. Consider doing the projects outside, where it's OK to make a mess! 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 Painting With Kids.

New Jersey for Kids

Author: Patrick Sarver
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813553571
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Many parents in the Garden State are familiar with Great Adventure in Jackson, the boardwalk at Point Pleasant, and the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, but do they know about Kindermusik in Teaneck, the Young Chef’s Academy in Hillsborough, or the Buehler Challenger and Science Center in Paramus? In New Jersey for Kids, Patrick Sarver provides parents with a handy reference guide offering hundreds of educational and entertaining ideas for children and their parents to explore and enjoy. Activities are designed specifically for kids ages 12 and under and cover a wide array of fun ways to enrich their intellectual lives, build their athletic skills, express themselves creatively, or just have room to play. The activities covered include: Robotics workshops Themed tea parties Plays and performances for children Museum tours, special exhibits, and programs for kids Pony rides and horseback riding lessons Specialized summer camps Arts and crafts classes Gymnastics classes Zoos and nature activities Hockey, soccer, and baseball clinics Acting and dancing lessons Play centers with slides, ball pits, and bounce castles Busy parents no longer need to spend hours surfing the Web and scouting out resources to find nearby activities their kids might enjoy. New Jersey for Kids puts this information right in the palms of their hands. Chapters are organized by category so it is easy to locate just the right activities to suit an individual child’s interests, whether it’s a fun way to spend an afternoon or a class that might inspire a lifelong passion. Along with descriptions and commentary, listings include recommended age ranges, handicap accessibility, and estimated durations of activities as well as practical information on hours, price ranges, Web sites, and phone numbers.

AirMailed Penguins

Author: Annie J. Lang
Publisher: Annie Things Possible
ISBN: 1573770515
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description

Rock Painting for Kids

Author: Lin Wellford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631582976
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Are you ready to rock? With this book, you can create amazing creatures, incredible toys, and wild gifts for your friends and family. All it takes is some paint, a few rocks, and your imagination! Easy-to-follow instructions from rock painting expert Lin Wellford will teach you how to create: Rockasaurs Stone buildings Rockburgers and other fun foods Flowers Teddy bears And other awesome rock projects perfect for decorating any space! Also included are tips and tricks to make your rocks into masterpieces! You’ll learn how to draw each design on a rock with a pencil, then paint the details in whatever colors you choose. You can make each project look just like the real thing or as wild and wacky as you prefer. The choice is yours—and so is the fun!

Do-It-Yourself Early Learning

Author: Jeff A. Johnson
Publisher: Redleaf Press
ISBN: 1929610815
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
A how-to guide to creating toys and activities from materials found in your local home center.

Creative Kids Zone, Grade K

Author: Brighter Child
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1609968247
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Creative Kids Zone is the optimal workbook for every 21st century learner. It combines solid, standards-based math, language arts, and science content with fun stories, crafts, and games. Children can flip between the five color-coded zones--Craft, Math, Story, Science, and Game--to discover a wealth of creative activities that present important content while keeping boredom at bay! Each zone features different activity formats to reinforce essential skills: -- Craft ZoneÑdevelops fine motor skills and enhances the creativity and collaboration a 21st century learner must possess -- Math ZoneÑfeatures grade-specific math activities that equip children with the math skills needed for school readiness -- Story ZoneÑincludes three, six-page removable storybooks children can cut out, read, and share while developing early reading and writing skills -- Science ZoneÑincludes fun, hands-on experiments and activities that relate to subject content -- Game ZoneÑreinforces critical thinking and logic skills while supporting the lessons taught in the other zones --Each grade-specific Creative Kids Zone workbook features 256 pages of standards-based content combined in a dynamic format with bright illustrations, a colorful character poster, and an additional Answer Zone to help students achieve subject mastery. This winning combination easily provides the fun and engagement that children love with the educationally sound content that parents desire.