July 2010

Think!

A Program Designed to Encourage Kids to Think Outside the Box I discovered a really great website that’s full of innovation-generating ideas for kids (but they would be SO much fun for adults, too): Think! As I read the mind-stretching “assignments,” I was reminded of Learning to Love You More and creative design challenges such [...]

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New Project from the Getty Museum

Open Studio: A Collection of Art Making Ideas from Artists In conjunction with Los Angeles-based artist and MacArthur Fellow Mark Bradford, the Getty Museum just released a new project that’s full of unique artist-designed activities. Through these activities, the internationally known artists (Catherine Opie and Kara Walker, to name two!), offer glimpses into their own art-making [...]

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Celebration Flags

The town next to us boasts a fabulous kids parade every Fourth of July, where kids of all sizes decorate a vehicle of their choice and then parade down the main street, ending at the park for a big festival of music, hotdogs, and bouncy houses. This is our second year in the parade: Last [...]

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Rolling Rock Painting

I’ve been on the hunt for inspiring activities that foster creative thinking, and just came across a sweet project called Super Sized Marble Painting from Jenny at Let the Children Play. Jenny is a preschool teacher, so many of her activities are geared toward large groups of kids and I was pressed to figure out [...]

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