Home Projects
Information for parents:
Encouraging Your Budding Young Artist:
Basic Tools and Supplies Primer
Cause and Effect, or Why Your Zebra Fell on Its Face;
an essay on how to talk with a child about thier work to help them see what can
Our art department resource pages about artists and crafts might give you ideas, too. Check them out, especially if you are curious about people and places !
Internet links to sites with good projects :
Collections of lessons, activities ...
- The Incredible Art Department's elementary school projects page is a big collection.
- The Thinking Fountain at the Minnesota Museum of Science will keep you busy with stuff to do at home. Explore the science of art there, too. A fun place to investigate. I'll let you find the art projects.
- Kinder Art has a big selection of projects for lower elementary and pre-school children that are simple to do at home; information about what art does for your child, and a place to send in photos of your child's work (The Frig)!
- The @rtroom is a very nice source of things to do that strengthen your art thinking skills while suggesting new projects to try.
Individual activities, lessons and the like.....
- Online GAMES! A. Pintura: Art Detective - You're a 1940's detective with a degree in art history. Can you help a distraught woman identify the painting she found in her grandfather's attic? (Fourth grade to adult) Be sure to check out the other adventures by going to Educational Web Adventures !! (I enjoyed Pintura, and I'm going back for the tiger adventure.!. Write me what you think of them and I will possibly post your opinions.)
- The Young Textile Group web page from England has a very well done lesson in rolled paper beads with historical and contemporary design references. You need just glue and a magazine. and a few little things you can scrounge. If carefully done these look very good and make nice presents.
- Don't forget our own art department contributions under the How-to link above, such as this Flash movie site on origami!