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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 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
So, what honourable mention prizes are waiting for the participants of the Contest “The Month of Rainbow Humingbirds”? Ekaterina has guessed right: stickers the hummingbirds on which (from the nest to the flights) are drawn by the authors of “Parents’ Ideas”. Here you can read more about the main prizes.
One more image from the gift set of stickers:
Paintings and crafts are still coming and today we are introducing you five more participants of the Contest: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, ideas, kids, painting with children, presents
It seems each mum loves keeping imprints of her child’s hands (and feet, if possible). And how many beautiful compositions, interesting images can be made with hand and foot imprints! And in some 10+ years your grown-up baby will look through these pictures with much interest…
In the part of our blog which is in Russian we asked our readers to send us the pictures they have painted together with their kids using hand and foot imprints. And here are their and our ideas. Hope you’ll enjoy!
Sent by their mother Nadezhda
Tags: children, Creative Work, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, ideas, kids, painting with children
There is an element of transformation in aquarelle pencil drawing which makes such kind of drawing a bit magic: there was a sketch in pencils and, in a minute, it is already an aquarelle painting. It is also very “convenient” to draw with aquarelle pencils with children: the kid is drawing both with pencils and a brush but the table, hands, cheeks, etc. stay clean.
Yesterday Soniya (22 mo) and I experimented with aquarelle pencils a bit (it was the first meeting with such pencils for our daughter). And here is what we’ve got: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, Creative Work, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, parents
We presented our daddy with the gift described below when he returned from his business trip. We wanted to share with him the atmosphere and events we had faced. As if he had not left and was aware of everything happening.
One of those days Soniya (21 mo)painted bright pictures with finger paints. But she did not stop at that point: she also thoroughly painted her face and the mirror beside. Of course, I immediately fetched my camera
With the taken photos of a small size I decorated Soniya’s paintings. In her other picture I wrote down her funny pieces of speech and described some situations from our life of that time.
Now the most important task was facing me: how to make everything as a gift? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, crafts, Creative Work, do-it-yourself, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, family, holidays, ideas, kids, presents
Before Soniya (19 mo) went to the first in her life New Year Children’s Party, we had made several crafts devoted to this topic together with her. I was involved in experimenting with ideas on how one can depict the New Year’s Tree and our creative process which included different techniques turned out to be extremely interesting for our daughter. We are sharing our ideas with you. All these pictures could be nice postcards for relatives and friends on the New Year’s Eve. And we are sure almost everyone will appreciate a card made by a child.
New Year’s Tree Crafts with a child of 18 mo:
This New Year’s tree was painted with a fir-tree branch and finger paints. Then Soniya Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, christmas, crafts, Creative Work, do-it-yourself, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, holidays, ideas, modeling, New Year's Eve, painting with children
The creation of something new takes place thanks not to the intellect but to a play instinct based on inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects which it likes.
Carl Jung
Children are little magicians. Just by their presence, they make impossible possible. For example, absolutely any adult is able to make a toy from nothing in the presence of a little child, and during a couple of seconds!
Look how we played today:
We’d got only animals and nothing else. And then everything appeared. You create whatever you want, you go wherever you want. The limitlessness of opportunities makes you stunned!
Wherever we find ourselves: in a hospital, in some transport, in any situation of waiting – in a moment you can create a small world on a piece of paper. And no boredom, no kilos of toys taken with you. Here is the magic – the magic to be (near) a child.
Being a designer, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, ideas
I had two great desires at the same time: to celebrate the 18 months of our daughter Soniya and to organize children for joint art project. Finally, I decided to unite these two things.
How did the idea of children’s art group come to my mind?
One day I came across the blog called The Artful Parent which I have been reading since then. Its author, Jean, the mother of two charming girls (one of whom arrived only a couple of months ago) started her blog partly to chronicle and share the art experiences they had with the art group, and also as a way for her to focus more on what it means to her to be an artful parent: to encourage creative expression, imagination, joyfulness, and a love of learning, not just in her daughters but in the entire family. She drew and painted her way through childhood, then went on to study art history and studio art at Wellesley College, worked an art museum and an art magazine (though later her work sis not connect her with art any more). After her first daughter was born, her interest in art was revitalized and she realized that she wanted to raise her little one in an art-rich environment and to encourage her creativity and imagination as much as possible. Having read several books on teaching art to children, Jean started the Toddler Art Group with several other moms and their toddlers (who were of 12 mo then). They met weekly for two years and again this past summer, doing everything from body painting and paper maché bowls to printing with flowers and making wood scrap sculptures not forgetting about the basics: painting, drawing, and collaging.
I also would like to follow Jean’s steps trying to involve our Soniya in the atmosphere of art as often as possible. Why painting is very useful for kids, you can learn in the article “Scribles – It Is Serious! Or What, How and Why Our Children Draw”. Kids love imitating the ones in company of whose they are in. And making some art project together with other kids is always much fun for them. As for me, I could clearly see that involving the child into the art process is very important for the parent himself – it really helps focus on beauty and art not leaving an opportunity and time to pay attention to negative things in life…
And here I am calling to our friends-mums inviting them to a meditation (it is nice to balance oneself before starting something), painting and dinner. Only Vera and her daughter Bazhena (5 yr), Olga and her son Zhenya (6,5 mo) were able to come. Foreseeing such a variety of ages, I tried to find some task which could be interesting both for Bazhena and our Soniya. Do you remember our article «Painting with Toddlers: Art-balls»? For the two girls and Vera, I prepared three boxes with balls of differenttexture and white sheets of paper. As soon as their hands touched the paint, imagination awakened and joyful exclamations were heard: “Oh! What nice colour appears! Wow, Interesting dots from this massage ball!»
Our works will tell you what mood we were in while painting : Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: birthday, books, children, Creative Work, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, home schooling, ideas
Children are mysterious creatures. Just having arrived in our world, they already can do so much! They demonstrate us their bright individuality since their birth and as time goes it becomes more and more interesting. For example, isn’t it surprising that absolutely all the children draw? Moreover, they draw in the same way – according to their age.
What does drawing and painting add to the child’s development? I am quoting from here: “Artistic activity is important not only for mastering the skills of drawing but also, which is more important, for the development of general abilities which will manifest in the future. The most important thing is Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, kids
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