Art for Children
The Artful Parent is a long awaited book by the wonderful Jean from The Artful Parent. I have long been an admirer of her creativity and her blog (I remember been smitten by these oh so gorgeous Flower Art Box – how delightfully creative is that?!). She then went on to wow me with her [...]
Welcome back to Kids Get Arty – our bi-monthly challenge, where we pick and artist, discuss his work and then have a go at something inspired by that artist. This is the 4th challenge. And this time we decided to take a look at British artist, Andy Goldsworthy. Mainly because it is Autumn and I [...]
As you know there is always an “outcome” to crafts I share with you. Either we are making wrapping paper or something to play with or we are exploring and artists. But there are many things we do that don’t always “make it” to the blog, but which I believe are valid activities in their [...]
Welcome to the first of “Kids Get Arty” series. This were Red Ted and I start exploring The Great Artists together. It is a way for me to “rediscover” art and for Red Ted to see and explore art. I have put together some Arty Resources for you, from other art projects to art picture [...]
Well… I was rather pleased and taken aback by your hugely positive response to the Exploring The Great Artists – 30 Art Projects for Kids and your enthusiasm to join me on this arty journey! I thought a collection of children’s art books could help you along the next step of your way. The books [...]
Introducing the Great Artist to my kids is something that has been on my agenda for a long long long time. My kids are only 4yrs and 2yrs old, so of course there is still plenty of time. However, this hasn’t stopped me buying lots of wonderful art books for children (amongst our current favourites [...]
Hello! Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty! I am very excited about today’s post, as it is something I have been wanting to do with my kids since they were born (Yes, that is how “sad” I am) – visit an art gallery and get crafty! Today we went to Tate Britain “quite by accident”. [...]
Andy Warhol’s Colors By Susanna Rubin Mmmh, I think we have gone all arty at the Red Ted HQ, but that is ok, as that is what we are here for. We have seen “Katie and the Mona Lisa” and last week we look at “Anna’s Art Adventure“, were Red Ted really enjoyed [...]
Anna’s Art Adventure, by Bjorn Sortland. After the success of Katie & The Mona Lisa and the fact that I want to start getting books that Red Ted (3) can grow into, I decided to get hold of Anna’s Art Adventure. When we first opened it, I though 0h-oh – a reasonable amount of [...]
Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty. Today we are making Handprint Lions, learning about Renaissance paintings at toddler level and drawing the Mona Lisa! Dont forget Kids Get Crafty is also a link up party/ blog hop for all craftiness with and for children! Do take part. Do be inspired! Link up at bottom of post! [...]
DG art ted red Red ted I am starting this post with the final product! Red Ted and I are so pleased with it, that I thought it would look nice right at the beginning!!! In case you haven’t visited before this is about a craft project inspired by books – Story + Art = Great stART (inspired [...]
We went to visit a good Swedish friend of mine for an “early” Easter lunch last week. My, did she lay out a pretty spread for us – lots of Swedish traditional goodies – salmon, rollmops, meats and for Easter, of course, hard boiled eggs. Like in most countries that decorate eggs, you usually decorate [...]
Our next stART project inspired by Playing By the Book and A Mommy’s Adventure – who have made some great booky projects! Do take a look, they are fab!! (and there is a chance to win some fabulous books from Playing By the Book). I decided to choose one of Pip Squeaks books, else this will become [...]
Hurray! The Craft Carnival is here. You have seen the Business Carnivals, the Blog Carnivals and the Photo submissions. Now it is time to get crafty!! I decided to run this as a “nominations” carnival – to spice it up a little and the response has indeed kept me busy. I didn’t really set up [...]
Handprint Animals: A Complete Alphabet A-Z
Well, it has been a fun 26 weeks! I cannot believe that we embarked on a Handprint Alphabet over 26 weeks ago (that is 6 months ago?! Wow). And what an alphabet journey it has been! We started off with an innocent A for Alien.. then a B for Bee.. and suddenly we were on [...]
Today we are looking at being “Creative with Flowers” – I decided to do our very first “How To Press Flowers” session with the children. Flower pressing is another on of those “childhood” classic crafts that you can have a go at – it is surprising how well some flowers do press (whilst, ahem, other don’t). So [...]
Kids Crafts: Making Mini Books & Garden Journals
Welcome to this week’s kids’s craft – Making Mini Books, which we turned into our Kids’ Garden Journal! First we dif some gardening and then we made some mini books out ONE sheet of paper (very cool and very exciting). This mini book will become the children’s “Garden Journal” (or simply use it as a [...]
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