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Creativity and Education Interestingness

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It’s been a while since I’ve done a round-up of creativity and education resources, and since a few pieces of interestingness have crossed my desk this week, I wanted to take a minute to share these great resources with you! I hope you enjoy them and that they give you some food for thought. And [...]

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Creative Table on Instagram

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Do you know about the Creative Table Project on Instagram? If you would like to see more creativity in your child’s life and if you’re interested in joining an inspiring community of creative parents who swap ideas, Creative Table can help! Last summer I invited my readers to share images of the creative things that [...]

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Organize a Self-Serve Creativity Zone

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“The drive to master our environment is a basic human characteristic from the beginning — from birth.” –Jack P. Shonkoff, Harvard University (From Mind in the Making, Ellen Galinsky. New York: Harper Collins, 2010). Do you have self-serve spaces in your home that are dedicated to creativity, art, science, and tinkering? Today I’m sharing our [...]

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Sensory Activity: Shredded Paper

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If you’re afraid of a mess, I have to warn you up front that this is a messy one. But it’s not a dirty kind of mess and if you stick with me here, you might become a shredded paper convert like me. It all started innocently, and rather boring, enough. It was a bill-paying [...]

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Why We Would Be Lost Without Tape

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Are you a “Tape House?” We love tape in our house, and it gets used for just about everything: taping up wax paper sandwich bags, taping labels to things, taping art table creations together, taping up marble runs, taping up whimsical installations. A roll of clear tape is a fixture on the art table and [...]

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What MaryAnn F. Kohl Can Teach Us About Fostering Literacy Through Art

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Today I’m excited to be joined by the ever-inspiring children’s art book author, MaryAnn F. Kohl. MaryAnn’s books helped me prepare lessons in my teaching days and have since become dog-eared favorites in my life as a parent. I now own eight of her books and constantly turn to them for ideas. Because MaryAnn is [...]

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Join the Next Creative Challenge

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One year ago I started this series of Creative Challenges with a toilet paper/loo roll challenge. The series began on a small scale and has grown along with my blog to include a generous sponser [Kiwi Crate] and a host of talented bloggers and non-blogging friends who focus on process-oriented projects with their children or [...]

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Five Resolutions for a Creative New Year

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Yesterday I shared my resolution for 2012, and I thought it would be fun (and maybe useful) to share some resolution ideas for making 2012 a more creative year. Without further ado, I give you five resolutions, free for the taking, that will make 2012 a year full of creativity. 1. See Real Art Do you [...]

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The Great 2011 Purge

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This time last year I was reading Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living (Tsh Oxenreider) and made a New Year Resolution to simplify my life and purge unnecessary objects from my home. Before The Great 2011 Purge, art materials lived in all areas of our home and I spent countless hours looking for things and making [...]

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