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Fashioning fairy tales

Have your child illustrate fairy tales with pictures, puppets and more.
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How do you teach painting?

 For young children, it's not necessary to teach technique. Painting at this stage is about unleashing your child's imagination.
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Self portrait

 Through this directed lesson, kids will learn how to create a colorful, stylized version of themselves.
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Pointillist planet

 Pointillism is a technique using dots of color to create images. Challenge your child to paint a planet in dots!
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Swimming fish tessellation

 Tessellation art is a repeated shape that fits together like a puzzle, made popular by the artist M.C. Escher.
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Pattern necklace

 Make a necklace with a repeating pattern to practice pattern recognition.
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Cubism in the kitchen

 Bring out the little Picasso in your child with this art activity.
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Paper maché bowls

 Let your child create small paper maché bowls for serving snacks or holding tiny treasures.
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Stained glass windows

 Your child can fill the room with dazzling colors by creating these easy stained "glass" windows.
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Rain stick

 Help your child make his own version of a rain stick.
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Personalized puzzles

 Make puzzles out of pictures your budding photographer has taken.
Logic & Problem Solving Go to Personalized puzzles Page
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Family scrapbook

 Make a family scrapbook with your child that includes family photos and family facts.
Creativity & Life Skills Go to Family scrapbook Page