dinosaur dioramas

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Making diorama's is by far one of my favorite art projects to do with the kids. There's something about its smallness that makes me want to crawl inside. I can still remember the the very first time I saw a diorama put together - Dad worked on it for a school project for my sister. And I was mesmerized by the detail of the cutting, gluing, and layering. He made a library. And oh... I wish we still had it.

happy birthday dr. seuss

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March 2 is Dr. Seuss' birthday! Classrooms everywhere are celebrating by reading his books and crafting for the celebration...

a page full of polka dots

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On SavvySource today, talking about art activities with polka dots. Share your ideas here.

mini art studio - painting with acrylics

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Painting with acrylics is very different than our usual tempera paints we use - it makes the kids feel like little artists, using canvases and easels, and "thicker" paint.

tissue paper flowers

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Paper flowers seem so easy to make. I just never knew how they were made no matter how hard I tried to crumble tissue paper together and try to make it "bloom." But when Valentines rolled around, I knew I needed to get some training.

paper blue bird in 30 minutes

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Making a blue bird can be a bit messy - but as it turns out, it was a lot of fun. There's lots of painting, blotting, drying, cutting, and gluing going on.... and in less than 30 minutes - we had 2 blue birds made out of paper plates!

We had pizza tonight, so Aaron picked up a few extra white paper plates. We painted them blue with tempera paint on both sides.

The instructions in our craft book told us to set it aside to dry before moving on to step 2. Well we didn't have that luxury - but, we did have a blow dryer...

wintry window decor - snow"girl"

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As the wintry decorations go up around the house, Ava is busy in her art room snipping away, and gluing cotton balls on everything. I was outside in the backyard today and my eyes loomed over cut branches that have missed curb side pickup the last few months. Which was a good thing, because I thought they would be perfect for hanging up some of the xmas cards that have started to stroll in.

Of course, with all these little twigs darting out, it made me think of hands... and one thing led to another - and before we knew it, we had arms for a snowman craft! I pulled the rest of the supplies from drawers around the house, and improvised as we went along...