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Working With Found Materials
I recently purchased Beautiful Stuff! Learning With Found Materials by Cathy Weisman Topal and Lella Gandini. This is not a how-to book; it’s a documentation of how the authors and teachers worked with...
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Inspired by Mr. Carle
Kate at An Amazing Child is hosting a week-long celebration of Eric Carle‘s birthday. We are lucky here not just to own and have read many, many of Eric Carle’s books, but we’ve also been to visit his...
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Peek-a-boo Paintings
Materials: Drawing and/or painting materials of your choice; drawing or watercolor paper, depending; acetate the same size as your paper (we used this); tape; paint for the acetate–this can’t be too...
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Matisse-Inspired Collage
From What's The Big Idea? by Joyce Raimondo The kids each received a Joyce Raimondo book for Christmas; this activity is from What’s The Big Idea? Activities and Adventures in Abstract Art. The books...
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Review: Art Lab For Kids
Note: I purchased this book myself via Amazon. All views are my own. When I ordered Drawing Lab, Amazon suggested I might also like Art Lab for Kids by Susan Schwake. I was skeptical. I don’t much...
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Project-Based Homeschooling {Book Review}
I’m so happy Lori Pickert of Camp Creek Blog has returned to the Internets this summer. She took a break, understandably, while she was writing a book. Now the book, Project-Based Homeschooling, is...
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{Art Together} Books From Our Bookshelf
{This post is part of the art together series. You can see all the posts in the series here.} Books have come up often in the {Art Together} posts and comments, so I decided to pull some of our...
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Learning Lino (+ Some Printing)
I’ve been carving stamps for a while now, and the natural next step seemed to be learning how to carve linocuts. I rather naively thought this would simply be a matter of learning how to carve a...
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{Review} Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design
Cover image from amazon.com. Note: I borrowed this book from the library (and plan to buy our own copy soon), and all thoughts on it are my own. I saw Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design, by graphic...
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Working My Way Through Paint Lab
{Jen has a review and giveaway of Art Together Issue Four: Mixed Media. Leave her a comment by Saturday for a chance to win–and go check out what she has to say!} I bought myself a present recently–my...
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January Reading List
I thought I’d try to keep track of the books I read this year. I’ve tried this before and it never really sticks, but I’ve done it for a month now, anyway. The books I read in January (with asterisks...
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June Reading List
One of the first things the kids and I did in Maryland was get library cards. I’ll post about moving and settling in soon–June was such an exhausting month, it’s going to take me a while to recover. In...
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September Reading List
I thought this month would end up a little lighter on books, but I see I read ten. This surprises me only because I learned, this past month, that our library system has loads of digital magazines...
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October Reading List
We finally live in a trick-or-treating neighborhood after more than a decade, so we had some fun decorating for Halloween. Fewer books than normal this month, I think. I abandoned more than one, for...
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August Reading List
Recently sewn: Comp book cover. Sewing pattern by Angela Bowman, surface design all me This post is a little later than I meant, seeing as how we’re somehow already halfway through September. I did...
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