Do your kids like to make stop motion movies? My son uses Flipagram as an easy way to do Lego stop motion animation. He makes them himself or sometimes with friends as part of a playdate. I love their creativity! Stop Motion Contest for Kids! My blogger friend MaryAnne from Mama Smiles is one of…
Category: Art Projects for Kids
Best art projects for kids using multimedia.
Visiting Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is just outside New York City in Brooklyn. From lower Manhattan, it took us about ten minutes to get their by cab. What’s nice about Pratt is that it’s a campus with a defined boundary, and plenty of public spaces both inside and out for community building. In fact, the spaces for learning…
Visiting Artist Victor Hugo Zayas
Having enjoyed over sixty exhibitions to date, Victor Hugo Zayas is best known for his paintings, vigorous depictions of landscapes and cityscapes, as well as still life and figural subjects that mediate between realism and expressionism… Their subdued palette evokes the tonalism of Rembrandt, Velazquez, and Manet, but their expansive, forceful brushstrokes hark back to…
Watercolor Travel Kit Gift Guide
Grasshopper and Sensei and I are huge fans of watercolor painting. We are especially fond of travel-size watercolor kits, even though we rarely paint en Plein air. We have fantasies of painting outside while on vacation or at an art museum; fantasies that never come to pass. It’s probably because we don’t have the right…
Our 9 Art Gift Kits for Arty Kids
These are art kits that my daughter and I put together when I realized that our lists might be overwhelming: 45 Art Gifts for Seriously Arty Kids by my daughter, and 10 Inspirational Art Books for Arty Kids. p.s. More art gift posts: Art Activity Books Gifts for Kids Who Hate Art and Reading Art Kit To…
45 Art Gifts for Seriously Arty Kids by my Arty Daughter
My oldest, Grasshopper and Sensei, wants to go to art school in two years. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College Program last summer, which exposed her to many different art supplies. Her favorite birthday gift from us these past few years is an annual subscription to art supply box ArtSnacks which is…
10 Inspirational Art Books for Arty Kids
My arty daughter helped me create two arty gift guides for kids. This is the first one: 10 Inspirational Art Books for Arty Kids. I basically collected the art books over the past few years that my daughter and son enjoy. Grasshopper and Sensei also created a list of art supplies for VERY SERIOUS arty…