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Clay Penguin
I just wanted to share this penguin and its baby that my six-year-old made earlier this summer. This was his own idea, and while he was making it, he looked at a photo of a penguin and its baby on the...
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The Easiest Way to Paper Mache
{Paper Mache Bugs} Note: This column was published in the Barrow Journal on September 25, 2013. For months my son was pestering me to try paper mache, but it was one of those things that I put off...
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Homeschooling: 1st Grade Art Explorations
When it comes to art, I’m extremely grateful that we’re homeschooling. This may not make me popular, but I have to admit that “crafts” make me cringe. I rarely look at Pinterest because it makes my...
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Homeschool Art Lesson: Giotto di Bondone
“Motorcycle” by the seven-year-old using egg tempura paint This is the first art lesson we did using the book Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children. I’m not going into great detail...
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Homeschool Art Lesson: Fra Giovanni Angelico
This is the second art lesson we did using the book Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children. I’m not going to go into great detail about the artist or details on how to do the activity...
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Homeschool Art Lesson: Tommasso Masaccio
Above: After he had his profile traced, my four-year-old painted it. I love it. This is the third art lesson we did using the book Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children. I’m not going...
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The Georgia Museum of Art
Photos courtesy of the Georgia Museum of Art Note: This column was published in the Barrow Journal on April 9, 2014. Believe it or not, I wasn’t planning this field trip when I started writing my art...
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Homeschool Art Lesson: Making a Color Wheel
So far I have had more fun doing the suggested activities from Amy Hood’s fantastic e-zine, Art Together. Her first issue discusses color. Who doesn’t love color? As I wrote in my main post about art,...
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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...
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Project-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...
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Project-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...
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Project-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...
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Art 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...
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Art 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...
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Greenville 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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