Five Easy Steps for Talking with Children about Art
Have you taken your kids to see any good art lately? As a an art museum educator I spend a fair amount of time thinking about how adults can help children talk about and make sense of art. Why is…
Category Creative Thinking
On Storytelling and Finding Voice
Coming to you live from rainy Boston, MA this week, while my super husband holds down the fort in Sunny California! In preparation for a panel I’m participating in this week at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Arts in Education…
Four Creative Thinkers to Follow
Since I started this blog I’ve been following a lot of cultural thinkers through blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, and I’ve come across some incredible leaders who have changed the way that I look at the world. This list is a small sampling of who…
Taped Trees from Observation
My older daughter, 3 year old N, likes to look through my library or “read” blogs with me and pick out activities for us to work on. I love it when this happens because then she’s self-motivated to work on…
Slide Drawing
My daughter loooooves going to the park and we’re blessed to live in a place that’s teeming with them! So it didn’t take much convincing or prodding to get her excited about setting up this high-energy mark-making activity with me.…
Face Collage for Scribblers
When I was an art teacher, the youngest age group I worked with was Kindergarten so I rarely had the chance to witness a child’s transition from scribbling to representational drawing. My three year old daughter is at the precipice…