Wax Paper Crayon Melts {Think Outside The Toy Box} - View From The Fridge | View From The Fridge Do you remember melting crayons between wax paper to formed ‘stained glass’ when you were little? Well … we gave this a try yesterday. Today marks the 7th week of our fun Summer series … Think Outside The Toy Box, a collaboration with five other bloggers and myself to try to come up with NEW and CREATIVE ways to use household items (that aren’t traditionally thought of as toys). This week’s theme was Wax Paper! Before we begin … have you seen some of the awesome wax paper creations out there? For instance … this STUNNING display in an anthropologie store. Or this Faux Shell Wall Hanging from Alexis at Persia Lou … Or this stunning DIY wax paper backdrop created for for a wedding … Or this chandelier … Okay … sorry, enough gawking at these gorgeous projects, and back to OUR task at hand: My goals for this activity yesterday were simple … #1. #2. I was sort of successful I’d say. Here’s what you’ll need: Using the pencil sharpener, sharpen your crayons all the way and save the shavings. d Katie
Learn How to Draw and How to Paint the Fun Way MaryMaking: Lois Ehlert Inspired Bird Collages My experiment made from leftover paper from my I was inspired by this Winter Bird Art Lesson from Deep Space Sparkle. My Children's Book Art group looked at the collage work of Lois Ehlert in her books, Snowballs, Pie in the Sky, and Top Cat. My students created a variety of patterned paper using watercolors and acrylics. Drawing I am a huge fan of teaching drawing in my classroom. I use this book throughout the year, both in whole group lessons, at the writing center and in my homework packets. The kids LOVE it, and it really teaches them how to draw step-by-step. I have been looking for some additional drawing tools lately, and finally I saw this on Pinterest and loved it, but when I tried to copy and paste it, it got all wonky.
Amazing face masks - Fun Crafts Kids Some children just don’t DO fancy dress, so often, amazing face masks are a way around this, as a shy child will feel as if they are hiding behind the mask, and not drawing attention to themselves. You can do SO much with a mask though, from theming them to work with a school’s Egyptian Day for example – an amazing face mask of a Pyramid with eye-holes could be just as effective as a full Pharoah’s outfit! We loved these Inspiring and Amazing masks from Mini-Taller-dArt in Spain – These masks are so fabulously inventive, and the oversized nature of them really makes them quite something! We are definitely going to have a go at these, and think that they would be a really fun activity for a party – if you prepared the basic structures beforehand and then the kids all had a go at creating these VERY photogenic masks – what a brilliant way to upcycle some old egg cartons for the eyes, and cereal boxes for the cut out shapes – we can’t wait to give this a go!!
Blue Tadpole Studio - How to draw More coming soon!! How to draw a panda How to draw a frog How to draw a bat How to draw a race car How to draw a Cat How to draw a Rabbit How to draw a monkey Spring has Sprung It seems as though spring has taken a bit longer to arrive than normal. Here in Ontario we’ve had a mix of rainy and snowy days the last week or two, but it looks like the rain has arrived. Well April Showers are the official welcome of spring, so we have some spring projects for you today. Spring Watercolor Flowers Marshmallow Rainbows Reuse paintings Sponge Rainbows Butterfly Art Tulip Art Colorful Tree Art Paint bleeding Rainbow Art Raindrop Suncatchers
Line Design Explained : Deluxe Edition I was asked if I could go into a bit more detail concerning the Line Design "process". I think the easiest way is with a few more pictures than my previous post on "how to". I hope this helps...and as always...if you ever have questions about anything on my blog...e-mail me at artwithmre@yahoo.com The materials you need for this project are good drawing paper(9x12...but could be done any size), Sharpie Marker, and your choice of media(see the bottom of this post for some ideas). Start with a gentle curve line across the paper. Don't go too crazy hilly with the line...it will make it difficult in the steps that are to come! Place eight dots on the line spaced at different distances. Go dot - to - dot across the entire line. As you are going dot -to- dot, you need to "camp out" on some of the segments. The two pictures above are the WRONG way to do this. So here you see the results of the ballooning out, pinching off, and going off the edge of your paper. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Emilyafox Illustration: May 2011 Some guesstimation in life drawing: Well atleast there is room for improvement! Live, Love, Teach: This is it... Heart pounding, rapid breathing, nightmares...yep, it's that time of year. Back to school...dun dun dun. Okay I actually may be a little dramatic there (ask anyone who knows me, it's not uncommon!). But seriously, every year I feel like this. The anxiety of the unknown plus the excitement of getting back into the classroom and teaching. I think that when I get to the point in my career that I don't feel like this it will be a sign to quit teaching. There are many things that I worry about before the school year starts. In reality all of it is out of my control. To add to the unknown I am getting an intern this year (woo hoo!). So, as I count down my last few hours of summer, here are a few pins that I found inspiring as I began planning for this school year, and a fun purchase that I made to use in my room this year.
a shoebox of photographs: Growing The little trees are growing in numbers here. I think I'm going to miss these colourful little pieces when they aren't here, brightening up this old house on cold wintery nights. They're off to the Jazz up your Nest exhibition at Fledge Design Studio very soon (more info if you click on the picture to the right). I had a bit of a shuffle around, and the trees and fairy lights work I shared below will now also be in the same show, along with these works I blogged about a few months ago, and the map paper cranes I showed in previous posts (you can see more pictures of them in my flickr photostream). And another larger tree painting, all going well! Tetris Psychedelia is still in progress, and still doing my head in. I finished another new painting this week.