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Under the Egg
“In the tradition of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Franweiler and Chasing Vermeer comes a mystery that will introduce readers to the secret world of are – and make their next museum visit a whole lot more interesting”.” – inside front cover That’s all I needed to…
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Fun Friday: Windblown
Whoosh! This month’s Fun Friday was a wind theme (I’m sick of snow and winter!). We talk about wind, especially about how the wind is created and the kids had some great answers to my questions! Afterward, I gave them the Windblown activity paper and had them cut out the seven shapes…
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The First Drawing
All I can say is… where was this book during the Summer Reading Program, it would have been perfect for the theme! But nonetheless, this was a very interesting and accessible story about art history for young children. My brother is an archeologist and in my mind he’s Indiana Jones and I…
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Fun Friday Program – Urban Art
Friday’s program was a lot of fun! We ended up with 27 students from 1st – 4th grade. Our theme for the month was “Urban Art.” Because these kids live only about 20 minutes outside of Philadelphia with its largest public art program in the country, I felt that urban…
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Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
I’m trying to get some planning done in advance for a recycling art program in April and I came across an amazing book about Diego Rivera by Duncan Tonatiuh entitled Diego River: His World and Ours. This book would be a great introduction into the art of Diego Rivera for…
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aMAZE me
I first saw this as a Yahoo article – a labyrinth created of over 250,000 books as part of an art installation in London. You can see it for yourself with some of the photographs taken for Yahoo. The walls are 2.5 meters high and the entire maze is 500…
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Love, Inc.
Zahra, Kali, and Syd met at group therapy for teens whose parents have divorced. These three teens are complete opposites with one thing in common – the same boyfriend! The girls combine forces to take revenge of the cheating scumbag and in doing so create their own consulting business for teens…
