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Introducing Your Child to the Arts: Your Child and the Visual Arts
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."- Pablo Picasso, visual artist ...
Source: National Endowment for the Arts
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Raising Young Artists
Your refrigerator is likely covered with masterpieces. You've probably had chalk, paint and play-dough on every surface ...
Source: Education.com
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Childhood Artwork: What to Look For
A child's artistic development follows a common pattern from ages two to twelve. Learning what's key to each stage will ...
Source: Education.com
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Responding Appropriately to Children's Art
Two-year-old Katie likes to curl up with Kirstie, a border collie, while she is looking at books and produces a ...
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Why Art is Important for Young Children
Before making decisions about what to include in our arts programs and how we will go about our work with the children, ...
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A Family's Role in Developing Three-Dimensional Art at home
Provide children with many types of clay. These can include play dough, homemade clay, salt clay, and modeling clay. ...
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Activities for Exploring Art
By 18 months old, children enjoy arranging blocks in a row and making a pattern in a sandbox by raking the sand with ...
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Activities for Planned Art
While process art can be made available to all children at any time, planned art activities require special teacher ...
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Learning Disabilities and the Arts
The arts are more than a fun, superficial way to keep kids occupied. Art activities can help children with learning ...
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Art Milestones: What's Typical at Each Stage of Life
No one teaches an infant to scribble. Yet, for almost every young child, scribbling happens naturally. And it is a ...
Source: Education.com
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Art Connections: Seashell Mobiles
As you probably know, a mobile is a collection of hanging objects that move as the breeze blows through them. Think of ...
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Introducing Your Child to the Arts: Folk Art
"Art, especially the traditional arts, continually demonstrate the vital principle that sameness and differences ...
Source: National Endowment for the Arts
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Early Art: What it Means and How to Encourage It
Giving young children an appreciation for art encourages exploration, self-expression, logical thinking, self-esteem,...
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Eco Art! 9 Projects That Use Recycled Materials
Don't just do art, and don't just be eco-friendly ... do both! Make recycling fun with these nine art projects.
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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...
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Art Connections: Sand Painting
For thousands of years, people all over the world have used sand of different colors to create beautiful paintings. In...
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Art Connections: Crystal Paint
In this activity, you'll see a beautiful design that's left behind when an Epsom salts solution evaporates. You'll be...
