MaryAnn F. Kohl, process art and treasures of childhood

Thanksgiving weekend only EBOOK SALE $9.99 for ALL!!!

Over $100 worth of resources for $9.99

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This special bundle of books will be available for you to buy only over the Thanksgiving weekend. You've only got from Wednesday 21st November 2012 until midnight on Monday 26th November 2012 to buy this special offer. I've written one of the books, and have read the others, and they are fabulous. This bundle is packed full of fantastic creative and practical ideas that you can use with children. Thirteen different authors joined in, bringing you over $100 worth of resources. All for $9.99! Read the next paragraph to see what's included. You won't believe it!! (But it is true.)

The Learning Through Play
bundle includes all these
e-books and resources:

The Garden Classroom, by Cathy James of Nurturestore The Garden Classroom brings you fifty-two creative and playful outdoor activities, giving you a whole year’s worth of garden-based projects to enjoy with your children. Value $9.99 

Exploring More Great Artists Volume 2 Lesson Plans, by MaryLea Harris of Pink and Green Mama Exploring More Great Artists Volume 2 is a 79-page e-book PDF featuring 13 complete art lessons exploring the life and work of 10 great artists with full color photo directions, step-by-step instructions, and supply lists. Value $10  

 Alphabet Crafts, by Allison McDonald of No Time for Flashcards Alphabet crafts is a complete resources of letter crafts from A-Z. Value $8 

Alphabet Glue, by Annie Riechmann of Bird and Little Bird These three editions of Alphabet Glue are literary-themed e-magazines for families, filled with projects, printables, activities and booklists. (editions 7, 8 and 9)Value $12 

Play Grow Learn Issue 1, by Christie Burnett of Childhood 101 Bursting with ideas for playing inside and outside, with activities for moving, talking, cooking, creating, thinking, singing, imagining and constructing, Issue 1 of Play Grow Learn includes 62 pages of inspiration for parents and educators of children from birth to 5 years. Value $4 

Raising a Creative Kid: Simple Strategies for Igniting and Nurturing that Creative Spark, by Jillian Riley of A Mom with a Lesson Plan Just what you need to transform your environment into a creativity growth center, Raising a Creative Kid includes creative exercises following each of the sections that makes moving into a creative lifestyle as easy as possible. Value $7.99 

Parenting with Positive Guidance: Building Discipline from the Inside Out, by Amanda Morgan of Not Just Cute Parenting with Positive Guidance gives you the tools for understanding your child’s behavior and effectively teaching and guiding your child toward increased self-control while fostering a healthy parent-child relationship. Value $9 

Read and Write at Home, by Erin Wing of Small Types Read and Write at Home is a collection of resources and printables to help parents establish fun literacy routines at home. Value $4.25 

Everyday Sensory Alphabet Activities, by Melitsa Avila of Raising Playful TotsEveryday Sensory Alphabet Activities is your go to solution for wriggly jiggly children who want to craft and play with alphabet activities that focus on the process along with audio from educators about alphabet learning to set things going in the right direction. Value $9 

It's Turkey Time Literacy and Math Printables for Prek-K, by Christine Lanyon of Scribble Doodle Draw It's Turkey Time Literacy and Math Printables for Prek-K brings you fun literacy and math activities teachers and parents can use to encourage learning during the Thanksgiving holiday. Value $6 

The Playful Family, by Shawn Ledington Fink of Awesomely Awake The Playful Family brings you nearly 100 ways to play and engage as a family even during the busiest times. Value $4.99 

Mudworks Bilingual, by MaryAnn Kohl Mudworks Bilingual is a best-selling Spanish / English bilingual work from the award winning author MaryAnn Kohl, with fifty of the best squishy kid-tested art activities and recipes. Value $14.95 

Arty's Art Projects, by Sally Haughey of Fairy Dust Teaching In Arty's Art Projects, Arty the gnome shares twenty five of his art projects. Value $7.99

 

 

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artsykids news december

 

Top 10 Tips to Develop Young Artists’ Creativity

Top 10 Tips to Develop
Young Artists’ Creativity 

1. "It's the process, not the product." The product is merely the end result, not the reason children create art. Children create and explore art to discover and test their own imaginations. However, primary-aged children begin to expect aesthetic results from their art explorations. The choices of materials and activities provided help them focus their creativity and allow for aesthetically pleasing results.

2. Provide basic art supplies for children that can be used freely at a small table or in a comfortable corner. (Basic art supplies include crayons, scissors, paper, tape, glue, paint, chalk, and collage items.) Provide quality scissors and good paints to encourage artistic success.

3. Keep handy containers filled with all kinds of nifty "junk" for artists to explore. Include cotton balls, ribbon, yarn, paper towel tubes, egg cartons, feathers, buttons, beads, doilies, cardboard scraps, pieces of sponges, plastic berry baskets, packing peanuts, Band-Aids, fabric scraps, labels, Popsicle sticks, small wood scraps, smooth rocks, envelopes, and anything else young artists might find interesting.

4. Surprise children with something new, simple, and fun at least once a week. Introduce a new art material; slip a book into an unexpected place; eat dessert before lunch; make a cardboard box into a puppet theater complete with sock puppets; or tape paper to the underside of a table for drawing on one's back while lying down. Change is the key; surprise is the word; creativity is the result.

5. Use a digital camera to keep a record of children's creative art. Art can then be downloaded onto a computer, printed in color to make memory books, saved on CDs to send home, or displayed in computer slide shows set to music.

6. Check out a famous art print from the library whenever you check out a book, and display it prominently. Don't be surprised to see the great master's style show up in the primary artists' work.

7. Read to children every day. This will cultivate their creativity and motivate them in art, as well as all other parts of their lives.

8. Encourage art outdoors in many ways on many days, rain or shine. Make a crayon rubbing of the sidewalk or the bark of a tree, and keep looking for other textured things to capture in rubbings; weave a fence with plastic contractor's tape; draw with sidewalk chalk; plant flowers; or look at the clouds and imagine shapes and forms.

9. Ask good questions. Say, "Tell me about your art" or, "What were you thinking when you were creating this?" Open-ended questions open the lines of communication for children to discuss and evaluate their own artistic endeavors.

10. Allow free time for children to imagine and pretend every single day, through art, by listening to or reading a book, or by simply watching the clouds.