Art Education for Kids
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Angry Bird Drawing Exercise With Colored Pencils
Drawing with colored pencils can be so much fun, especially if one draws cute little objects, like this collection of plastic angry bird pencil toppers. My daughter did this entirely on her own, only showing it to me after the fact, and I just love what she did. I’m so pleased to see evidence that…
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Watercolor Butterflies Painting Lesson
I’m thankful to my fourteen year old daughter who has been doing some watercolor paintings and supplying me with some material that is simple to photograph and share with you! Of course my joy goes way beyond that…..I’m so happy that she is following in my footsteps in the creativity department, yippee! As I write…
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Watercolor Still Life Fruit Exercise Is Great For All Ages!
My fourteen year old daughter is once again taking painting lessons, this time with a teacher who learned painting as a trade in Russia, so the lessons are precise and skill oriented, which can be a good thing, though not exactly how art is taught in the USA generally. Nonetheless since we are seeing great…
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Learn Painting Techniques Using Simple Watercolors
This watercolor painting of fish was done by my fourteen year old daughter who is taking a painting class once again! We’ve had a hard time finding someone as wonderful as her original teacher but in the end I decided to just pick the best option which at the moment is a teacher who was…
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Teaching Kids About Color Using Oil Paints
If you have noticed the lack of crafts lately here on creative jewish mom, do not jump to the conclusion that we are not crafting, on the contrary we have been delving into the world of drawing and painting (and of course ceramics), and don’t have much to show for it just yet. What I…
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Encouraging Kids To Create Using A Variety Of Materials
We are in the middle of celebrating our 7 day Passover holiday, but wanted to drop by with some food for thought! I love these welcome signs that my eight year old confidently painted, with simple paints, for a recent visitor, and I started thinking about the idea of encouraging kids to create with a…
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Weaving Paper Strips And Making Decorations For Purim
Yesterday at Crafting A Future I welcomed several groups of girls and a group of boys into my home for some more art lessons, and we had a great time! With the 1st , 2nd and 3rd grade girls we made woven elipses from recycled cardboard, and then turned those into fish, (for the month…
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Painting With Potatoes, Bottlecaps, Sponges & Q-tips
Painting created by a 1st grader, wth a rectangular dense sponge, wine corks, and Q-tips! And no direction from the teacher whatsoever. Yesterday I started the first of what I hope will be many afternoons spent with an adorable and vivacious group of !st and 2nd graders for some art and craft lessons, for my…
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Watercolor Painting With Pencil Drawing
Isn’t this little watercolor painting sweet, and so perfect for summer? Truthfully my daughter painted this over a year ago, and we just came upon it, which is perfect timing, as I really didn’t have anything to share with you today! Watercolors are a great medium for all ages, and kids can produce nice works…
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Building Drawing Confidence In Kids Bootcamp
Drawing is one of those things that I wish I had spent more time doing as a kid. Why didn’t my mother encourage me to draw more? Well, she knows just about everything, but didn’t realize how truly important drawing skills can be, and that when we nurture drawing confidence in a child, those skills…
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The Beauty Of Grape Vines
I started off the week showing you photos of dates just beginning to mature, so I thought I’d end the week with some photos of lush vines with grapes in my neighborhood! Grapes, pomegranates, olives, dates and figs are together in a category of special fruits that have an inherent holiness to them according to…
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Chunky Knit Pot Holder From Rope
I just love my chunky knit rope potholder. Or is it a chunky knit rope trivet? Either way, this is one craft I’m going to do again as I think it would make a super great gift, for the right person that is! And with all the crocheting going on around here lately, I have to…