Help your child’s creativity bloom by encouraging original self-expression. Go out into nature with your child and take in all the changes that are taking place ~ the flowers in bloom, the pollinating bees, the bright green leaves and grasses and the fruit ripening on citrus trees. Suggest that your child take a mental picture,…
Abrakadoodle art students love to create art in the style of 19th century artist Gustav Klimt of Vienna, Austria. He was the founder of the Art Nouveau movement in Austria, which came to be called the Vienna Secession. His art featured lots of patterns, and he loved to paint pictures of trees, flowers and nature…
We’ve all heard the modern expression, “get real.” Did you know it had its roots – at least in the art world – in the 1800’s? Traveling back to the mid 1800’s, the artists of the Realist school emerged in France. They wanted to move away from the idealization of a subject, which was widespread among such…
Overcoming your child’s resistance to try new activities As parents, we may get some push-back from our kids when we sign them up for activities that do not seem to fit with their sense of what they can, should or want to do. Parents and kids alike are sometimes guilty of early typecasting, such as…
