Budding Artists

Kirigami is the art of paper cutting. I was inspired by Omiyage 's blog post and decided to make some coloured "snowfl...

Yesterday, my family and I went to the Art Institute of Chicago . We spent four hours there with our teenage son and 8 year old daughter.  I...

Today is International Women's Day and thank you to all the women before me who have paved the road to change and all the fantastic wome...

I love it when restaurants provide crayons and paper. It keeps the kids busy. Usually, we play a game of guess the picture. Tonight, we were...

Another idea from D.I.Y. Kids and Scholastic.com . Make your own bookplates. Again, you must have some computer skills and a printer. I crea...

I received an email from a former colleague, Joyce Contant who shared a really nice literacy project based on the Eye Spy books.   She told ...

My daughter has been sick the last couple of days so we have been making Valentine's hearts. These ideas were found on Kids Artists- a b...