Earth Day always sneaks up on me and sometimes I even miss it! But this year I am here to help you get organized and be prepared to celebrate Earth Day all month long, with 40 ways to use nature and recyclables in art and creative play with kids! The very best and most simple…
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Art and Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home / Week 7
Week 7 of our Art and Play Activity Guide is all about Provocations! Provocations week will be a little bit different than our other weeks. Instead of asking children to act on an idea that we present, we will be asking them to take the lead and show us what they can do! This week…
Art and Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home / Week 6
This week we celebrate the fiber arts as we play around with FABRIC & YARN! Yay!! It’s also Earth Day on Wednesday so we’ll be honoring Mother Earth, too. Many of us are spending time decluttering and cleaning out closets. This week we’ll use some of our old clothes for fabric collage, or cut up…
Art and Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home / Week 5
It’s Painting Week! Before you run in the other direction or call us out for being totally crazy to make a whole week of painting experiences, worry not, we’ve got you covered. In Week 5 of our Art & Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home, we will be holding your hand every step of the…
Art and Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home / Week 4
It’s hard to believe that this is our FOURTH guide for learning at home! We are thrilled to hear that so many of you have established a rhythm and routine for the day through our weekly guides, found bright spots of curiosity and creativity, and created memories while making things together. This week is no…
Art and Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home / Week 3
Welcome back to Week 3 of our Art and Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home! Shannon and I hope these guides have been helping you loosely frame your days. Children need routine because it makes them feel safe and more relaxed. And parents need routine because it allows them to find some time for…
Art and Play Activity Guide for Kids in Quarantine / Week 2
Welcome to Week Two of our Art and Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home! Shannon and I were blown away by the response to Week One‘s launch of our “kids in quarantine” series. I wish I could share with you all of the incredible and heartfelt comments we received via email and on our…
Art and Play Activity Guide for Kids in Quarantine / Week 1
Ok, deep breath everyone. We are all in this together. As we lay low and practice social distancing at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, my good friend, Shannon Merenstein from Hatch in Pittsburgh, and I have come up with an art and play activity guide for all the kids in quarantine who will be learning…
Art Educator Interview: Alie Edwards from Creation Space
Art Educator Interviews are back! I have taken a long break, but am as passionate about this series as ever. I get so many emails from readers who want to know how I started teaching art classes in my home and how to take the first steps. I started this series in hopes that these…
Giant Recycled Egg Carton Village | A Process Art Collaboration
A few weeks ago in my Spring Break art camp, I created this giant recycled egg carton village by gluing almost 50 egg cartons into a huge box. My art students loved this process art collaboration because there were no rules (other than don’t splatter paint on people) and they could really use their imaginations…