Homeschool Art Lesson: Exploring Line
So far I have had the most fun doing the suggested activities from Amy Hood’s fantastic e-zine, Art Together. Her second issue discusses line. As I wrote in my main post about art, 1st Grade Art...
View ArticleProject-based Homeschooling: Mama’s Sketchbook Habit
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ~ Pablo Picasso Over a year ago, I bought a little sketchbook while I was browsing an art store with my boys. I knew that I wanted to...
View ArticleProject-based Homeschooling: Pottery Class Update
I’ve written extensively about my eight-year-old’s interest in working with clay and his pottery classes. I thought I would update you with some of his latest work from his pottery class this past...
View ArticleProject-based Homeschooling: Sketching at the Botanical Garden
When my eight-year-old went to pottery class, I drove my five-year-old ten minutes down the road from the studio to the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, which is probably my favorite place on this...
View ArticleArt Lessons + Math
If you read Our Summer Homeschooling Plans, you’ll know I wanted to concentrate on math this summer. I also wanted to keep up with art, and I’m happy to say we did this, and we even got to visit some...
View ArticleArt field trip to GMOA again
Before looking at the artwork inside, my boys burned off some energy in the art museum’s courtyard. (We would never allow them to run inside!) Early in the summer, I surprised the boys one Friday...
View ArticleGreenville County Museum of Art
On one spontaneous morning, we decided to drive to Greenville, South Carolina and visit their Children’s Museum. We didn’t know much about Greenville at the time or how much we’d love it. (We’re...
View ArticleOhr-O’Keefe Museum of Art
I have been a long-time collector of pottery, and for awhile, my eldest son's interest was making pottery, so when we visited the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, MS, we were in for a treat. George...
View ArticleMobile Museum of Art
When we spent a week in Biloxi, Mississippi, we drove one day to Mobile, Alabama, which was only an hour's drive away. We had two places we wanted to visit in Mobile, and one of them was the Mobile...
View ArticleMichael C. Carlos Museum
We love to take the boys on day trips to interesting places around this region, and this summer, we've been on several. I'm going to try to write about all the places we've been, and I'm starting with...
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