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Winter Vacation Crafts for Kids

December 20, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 3 Comments

12 open-ended crafts for kids to do over winter vacation using mostly recycled materials.

Christmas is almost here, your kids will be home for at least 10 days, and you have nothing planned because you spent the last two weeks making magic at home. Art Bar to the rescue! I gathered a list just for you with the best winter vacation crafts for your kids. These are not really…

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Art Bar Holiday Gift Guide: Kids

November 16, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 4 Comments

Art Bar Holiday Gift Guide for Kids // 2017

I’m literally in shock that next week is Thanksgiving… how did this happen? I have been working on collecting the best kid gifts for my holiday gift guide, so don’t panic. I got you covered. Everything from books to clothes to toys to bedroom, your cuddly baby and hipster kid will be prepared for 2018….

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Art Bar at SHOP UP Brooklyn

September 21, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 5 Comments

Painting pinwheels at the Shop Up in Brooklyn, NY.

This post is purely me just sharing my photos with you from the amazing event I did in Brooklyn last weekend called Shop Up. It was hosted by the incredibly warm and friendly Emilie and Esther from Babyccino, and their ultra calm, cool, and collected event planner Miraya from Pop Productions NYC. PAINT PAPER PINWHEELS…

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Kids Crafts Tables for Large Groups

September 14, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 12 Comments

Kids make people from wooden clothespin pegs, yarn and fabric scraps.

This weekend I will be setting up four kids arts & crafts tables in Brooklyn at the Shop Up New York event hosted by the fabulous Babyccino. If you happen to be local, please come by and shop and say hello, I would LOVE to see you! [ UPDATE: See photos from the event here! ] I…

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Three Best Ways to Store your Child’s Art

August 28, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 8 Comments

Three tried-and-true ways to sort and store all of that art that your child makes.

What is the best way to store your child’s artwork? I have three tried-and-true ideas for you that I know will work. Children are prolific producers of stuff. From their first drawings of a real person, to restaurant doodles, to the piles of art that come home from school, it’s hard to know what to…

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Invitation to Paint: Giant Coffee Filters

July 4, 2017 by Barbara Rucci 13 Comments

Children paint giant coffee filters hanging on a line. A wonderful process art experience.

Happy 4th of July! I hung these giant coffee filters on a line and set up this invitation to paint last week in art camp. They reminded me so much of fireworks, I thought that today would be a good day to post my photos. I got this idea from my friend and colleague Kim…

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Art Supplies

The best beginner art supply list to kickstart your child's creative life.

These two photos are pages from my book, Art Workshop for Children. They are my favorite supplies that I use the most in the art classes that I teach in my home. The first list is for the very basic, beginners. If you are just starting out with a young emerging artist and you want just…

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Art Educator Interview: Erin Boniferro from Collage Collage

November 29, 2016 by Barbara Rucci 4 Comments

Today I am SO very excited to share my second Art Educator Interview with you. (My first interview was last November with Samara from Purple Twig – I had every intention of a bi-monthly series, but apparently this was biting off more than I could chew! I will now make up for lost time.) Let me introduce you…

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Tracing is Fun and There Are Benefits!

September 30, 2016 by Barbara Rucci 10 Comments

Transparency film is an amazing art material that I never knew about until recently, and now a whole world has opened up for us. The world of tracing! It’s such a simple material that you can order from Amazon, and it will keep your kids occupied for hours. Even teens! This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for…

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Little Advent Boxes

November 23, 2015 by Barbara Rucci 4 Comments

At the risk of sounding cliché, how can it almost be December already? Or for that matter, how can we be in the 11th month of 2015 at this very moment? One theory of time moving at warp speed is because my house is now filled with teens and tweens. Days beginning with alarm clocks — and clothing freak-outs,…

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