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John Morgan Your Guide to Summer Arts Activities
Children love expressing themselves through the arts, and summer break provides a great opportunity for parents to add the arts into their daily routine. The Center for Arts Education offers these ideas to develop your child's artistic side this summer:
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Early Art Exploration
Many parents see art as secondary, to academics. But it's very important to a child's development. Art cultivates imagination and nurtures creativity, but it also hones critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
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Get Thee to a Theater: Tips for Seeing Live Shakespeare
Shakespeare. If the name makes you remember long days in high school English, an outing to a Shakespearean play doesn't...
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Why Children's Theater Matters
Want to boost literacy? Teach your child to imagine the unimaginable? Cultivate curiosity? Get thee to the theater, and...
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Ten Terrific Shakespeare Festivals
Live theater, and Shakespeare in particular, have been shown to improve vocabulary and reading comprehension skills, and...
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The International Language of Puppets
Puppetry as Cultural Connection Humans have always craved stories. Long before film, TV and DVDs, histories of entire...
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Schools: Don't Lose Art
Let's face it: time is tight, school budgets are dwindling, and when it comes down to cutting costs, arts education is...
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