Let's Make Some Great Placemat Art

Let's Make Some Great Placemat Art
Author:
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-08-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781856699211

Based on the best selling Let's Make Some Great Art, Marion Deuchars has devised some fun and educational art activities to keep kids, young and old, occupied at mealtimes. Featuring 36 generously sized mats printed on art activity paper, and nine different designs, including three all-new illustrations. Make up your own pasta shapes. Picture your favorite meal. Draw Mona Lisa's Smile. Invent a meal for an alien. Let's Make Some Great Placemat Art!

Let's Make Some Great Art

Let's Make Some Great Art
Author: Marion Deuchars
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-08-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781856697866

In this interactive coloring and activity book, Marion Deuchars takes the broad canvas of art and fills it with drawings and activities that engage with what art can be, how it can be made, what it can mean for you and what it has meant for people through the ages. Aimed at children aged eight and older, the emphasis is on fun and making the creation of art an integral part of the way you express yourself.

Let's Make More Great Placemat Art

Let's Make More Great Placemat Art
Author:
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781856699358

Marion Deuchars has devised some more fun and educational art activities to keep kids, young and old, occupied at mealtimes. Features all new activities, on 36 generously sized mats printed on art activity paper, and nine different designs. Draw some birds in a tree, create your own comic strip, sketch your favorite meal. Let's Make More Great Placemat Art!

Great American Artists for Kids

Great American Artists for Kids
Author: MaryAnn F. Kohl
Publisher: Bright Ring Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2008-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0935607269

75 great American masters are introduced through open-ended quality art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography, full color artwork, and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more. Special art options for very young children are included. Many great artists will be familiar names, like Cassatt, Warhol, and O'Keeffe. Other names will be new to some, like Asawa, Smithson, and Magee. Each featured artist has a style that is interesting to children, with a life history that will entertain and inspire them. Sample of some of the artists and companion activities: Andy Warhol - Package Design Bev Doolittle - Camouflage Draw Dale Chihuly - Pool Spheres Maya Lin - Memorial Plaque Jasper Johns - Encaustic Flag Joseph Raffael - Shiny Diptych Roy Lichtenstein - Comic Sounds Thomas Jefferson - Clay Keystone Edward Hopper - Wash Over Grant Wood - Gothic Paste-Up Wolf Kahn - Layered Pastel Jackson Pollock - Great Action Art Mary Cassatt - Back-Draw Monoprint Louis Comfort Tiffany - Bright Windows Hans Hofmann - Energetic Color Blocks Rube Goldberg - Contraption Georgia O'Keeffe - Paint with Distance 2009 Moonbeam Children's Bronze Award 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award

Snack Art

Snack Art
Author: Elizabeth Meahl
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2005-08-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1420631861

Mindsets in the Classroom

Mindsets in the Classroom
Author: Mary Cay Ricci
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040021948

The latest edition of Mindsets in the Classroom provides educators with ideas and strategies to build a growth mindset school culture, wherein students are challenged to change their thinking about their abilities and potential through resilience, perseverance, and a variety of strategies. This updated edition contains content from the first and second edition, eliminates content that is no longer relevant, and adds a layer of learning that has occurred since the original publication: lessons learned through more recent brain research, implementation of the concept by educators across the world, as well as the author’s own observations and reflections after working in schools, coaching educators, and talking with teachers, administrators, parents, and students about their own mindsets. With this book’s easy-to-follow advice, tasks, and strategies, teachers can grow a love of learning while facilitating the development of resilient, successful students.

Screen-Free Fun

Screen-Free Fun
Author: Shannon Philpott-Sanders
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1507206003

Fight back against boredom and keep your kids busy and entertained—without staring at a screen—with this handy collection of family activities ranging from DIY projects to outdoor adventures to easy daytrips. While technology often offers a quick and easy parenting solution to keep children entertained, too much screen time can negatively affect developmental and social skills, and even lead back to the original problem—boredom. Screen-Free Fun offers over 400 ideas to disconnect from tech devices and reconnect with our families in a healthier way. You and your child can pick from DIY activities to games to weekend outings. Since many of the activities work well for kids at various ages, your family will be able to grow along with the different projects and make plans for both younger and older siblings alike. You can try indoor projects like homemade slime, outdoor activities like building a fort, or learn more about your favorite destinations with activities like a scavenger hunt in your neighborhood or an i-spy game at the zoo. There is also space for your family to add your own favorite activities so you never forget a great idea or memory! From summer vacation to holiday breaks and every rainy day in between, with this book you and your family will always have something fun to do together—without ever having to resort to a tablet, phone, or computer.

Mealtime and Bedtime Sing & Sign

Mealtime and Bedtime Sing & Sign
Author: Anne Meeker-Miller
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2008-08-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0786741732

Finally, a way to ease the most challenging times of day with baby. Since signed gestures enable babies to "tell" caregivers what they want and need before they can talk, mealtime and bedtime are occasions when signing can really come in handy. Based on Dr. Miller's popular workshops, Mealtime and Bedtime Sing & Sign is a user-friendly guide featuring over 200 signs with photos, instructions, and activities. An all-new, 12-song CD with upbeat music followed by calm lullabies teaches and reinforces key signs.