Our gallery of children’s land art works is growing! Meet the new participants of the competition-festival:
Children’s land art works
21. Yuval with his mother Alla (Israel)
Red Path in a Stone Read the rest of this entry »
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Our holiday turned out to be postponed a little. So, let us share with you some more interesting stories from our life while we are still at home.
Much time has passed since we last had the meeting of the children’s art-group! One child is ill then another one… But in May we decided that one of its Sundays will be definitely devoted to the children’s meeting but… different circumstances interfered again.
We decided not to give up! And started to adjust the circumstances to us 
. Marina and Gulya had wanted to drop in at our place for a long time already. “So, we will hold the art meeting with them! And it does not matter that they are adults. They love kids so much ” – I thought.
And again circumstances. I’d planned for us one kind of art but it did not happen: just did not have time to buy everything we could need (but everything was for the better – we’ll leave that idea for the next meeting with kids ). But, frankly speaking, I was already sure that there would not be any art at all. But in the morning on Sunday Soniya (2 yrs) and I went to the florist’s to buy some flowers for the creation of a festive atmosphere in our room!.. And my mind started to work, very quickly, inventing something (already on the previous day I’d felt the state of joy typical for such collective meetings, that is why “nothing” simply could not take place ).
That state increased when we conducted the first part of the meeting – the meditative one! And we started creating in that state of joy!
I offered Soniya, aunt Marina and aunt Gulya the main elements for the future cards: skeletonized leaves and butterflies which we’d bought together with flowers. And all the rest for the cards was what we’d got at home.
The cards turned out to be quite different!
In Soniya’s and my variant Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cards, children, Creative Work, design, do-it-yourself, early-childhood development, ideas, kids, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day
I’ve realized in practice one more attractive aspect of creating land-art works. Imagine, you’re making some picture from cones, sticks and flowers and the thought that soon someone will accidently see the created picture/sculpture, literally, takes your breath away! Will see, get surprised and, hopefully, rejoice and smile.
Recently Soniya and I were in the Kremlin again. The number of pine cones on the grass had grown because of the winds blowing for weeks on end. The initiator to “build a house from them” was Soniya (23 mo).
It was she who decided to add some sticks to our creation. The constructor of geometric figures was me and Soniya played the role of a witness and silent admirer
The Competition of Children’s Land Art Works
Richard Shilling was very happy to learn that we are conducting a contest devoted to children’s land art works! Let me quote him a bit: “I see that you are now having a competition, what a great idea! I am so happy to see you and your blog readers are embracing land art and seeing how fun and educational it can be!” As it is not a real competition in the full meaning of the word (the winners will be chosen by a drawing and not by some special jury), Richard has suggested to specify, “The Festival of Children’s Land Art Works”.
The first participants of the Contest-Festival of Children’s Land Art Works
Meet the first participants of the Contest-Festival of Children’s Land Art Works: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, Creative Work, design, kids, land-art
April has finished and the Contest “The Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds “ has finished together with it. Different hummingbirds flew to us during this month: the birds made of plasticine and wooden blocks, cut out of paper and cloth, painted with watercolours and crayons… We thank all the participants of the Contest for their enthusiasm, ideas and joy our readers and we got looking through the art works:
Our participants
1. Irina Kovtun (8 yrs, Ukraine);
2. Nirmala Kovaleva (27 mo, Russia);
3. Sasha Antonov (3 yrs 9 mo, Russia);
4. Alon (4 yrs, Israel);
5. Anastasia Tsebrenko (2 yrs 3 mo);
6. Maria Karpova (14 yrs, Russia)
7. Masha Andreeva (3 yrs);
8. Maxim (Israel);
9. Olya Reutova (4 yrs, Ukraine);
10. Nadya, Niona’s daughter;
11. Ulya (3 yrs 5 mo)Anastasiya Solnechnaya’s daughter;
12. Renata Sidorova;
13. Natvei Vorobiev (3 yrs);
14. Ira, Matvei’s cousin (5 yrs);
15. Tanya, Matvei’s cousin (9 yrs);
16. Katalina(8 yrs, Argentina);
17. Ilya (2 yrs, Argentina);
18. Niranjan (8 yrs, Argentina);
19. Martina (12 yrs, Argentina);
20. Ines (13 yrs, Argentina);
21. Kandela (9 yrs, Argentina);
22. Enzo (6 yrs, Argentina);
23. Pavlik Andreev (33 mo)
24. Nika, Nadya’s sister
25. Miroslava
The numbers of the participants reflect the order in which the works came to the Contest.
Some more hummingbirds we’ve got but haven’t published yet:
Miroslava’s hummingbird made of pieces of cloth Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, Competitions, crafts, Creative Work, ideas, kids, presents, prizes
Very soon the results of the Children’s Contest of Arts and Crafts devoted to Rainbow Hummingbirds will be known and we, the authors of Parents’ Ideas are announcing a new Contest – the contest for children’s land art works (what land art is you can learn in the interview with Richard Shilling, an English land art artist and sculptor.
The contest will start Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, contest, Creative Work, design, early-childhood development, ideas, kids, land-art
Meet the new participants of the contest “The Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds”!
Maxim, Yana’s friend
The hummingbird sitting on the tree brings happiness to one’s house
Olya Reutova, 4 yrs, Ukraine
This hummingbird is made of millet, rice and fried peas! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, contest, crafts, Creative Work, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, ideas, kids, modeling, painting with children
We’ve got tons of Arseny’s gouache paintings. Till some time I’d put them into a folder hoping that I’d get some idea of how to use such beautiful material in design . Just to keep “for memory” is not interesting as everything important and marking some landmark has been already photographed and we are not inclined to creating archives.
It seems, we finally got an interesting idea – see for yourself:
This panel-picture is made of CD covers and Arseny’s gouache paintings.
This example just illustrates the technology of using children’s paintings for the interior design but one can find lot’s of ways to use this idea Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, Creative Work, design, drawing with kids, home, ideas, kids, painting with children
Have you ever heard of such kind of art as Land Art?
What is Land Art?
It involves making art and sculptures using materials you find in nature, such as leaves, fir cones, twigs, pebbles, rocks, sand and shells. Usually, sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape is the means of their creation.
Endless Knot
How is Land Art connected to the subject of Parents’ Ideas?
Land Art can add so much fun, beauty and positive emotions into the process of the child’s upbringing. Moreover, it can unite children and adults when they create “as equals” contributing to each others’ ideas and learning from each other and from nature.
Floating Leaf Boat
When creating art and sculptures among nature both children and adults:
- notice the beauty of “usual” things such as, for example, leaves covered with hoarfrost, icicles illuminated by the sun rays, stones on the beach, etc;
- use their imagination, get some fresh air and learn all about nature and cycles of life;
- play and explore at the same time.
Today we are very honoured to introduce you Richard Shilling, an English land artist, sculptor, photographer and film-maker who has recently published the first of a series of Land Art for Kids books in partnership with Julia Brooklyn.
In the frame of our Project
Very Creative Person.
Interviews and Tutorials with Creative People
Richard will tell us more about Land Art and how kids can be involved into it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, Creative Work, design, early-childhood development, family, ideas, kids, land-art
The contest of children’s arts and crafts on “ rainbow hummingbirds” continues as well as the quick contest devoted to our honourable mention prizes. So, what is this honourable mention prize like? The one who’ll guess right will get the prize without participating in the main contest.
And now we are publishing a second part of the honourable mention prize prepared by the “Parents’ Ideas” (read more about the main prizes for the contest here: Children’s Arts and Crafts: a Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds!).
We’ve got one more art work from the participants of the Contest Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, crafts, Creative Work, do-it-yourself, early-childhood development, ideas, kids, painting with children
One of our friends knowing that we often make some art and crafts with our toddlers told us about her friend who, taking care of her recently born daughter, also finds time and strength to visit a children’s home and hold craft classes there. We were impressed! And, of course, we decided to get acquainted with Elena, a young mother from Moscow, Russia.
Parent’s Ideas: Elena, how did the idea to teach crafts to kids in the children’s home occur to you taking into consideration the fact that your daughter was very very little?
Elena: Eleven months ago our daughter Kira arrived at our family. This event meant the beginning of a new life for us, the life full of incredible love, enormous responsibility and many beautiful moments. Taking care of our child I was thinking about the children who do not have mothers. My heart ached: my child is lying beside me, it is warm and comfortable for her and somewhere there are children who are alone and they suffer without their mums. First I tried to ignore these thoughts but they did not want to go away. And one evening, having put the baby to bed, I started looking for the information (in the Internet) how one can help children living in children’s home. I consider it to be a miracle that in just a couple of minutes Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, Creative Work, ideas, kids, parents, personal development
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