Jean Van't Hul

I highly recommend it as it’s a great one to add to your children’s book library. And it’s an awesome starting point to get the kids inspired by her wonderful work. Bring out the oil pastels and ask the children to start working on their circles, choosing a variety of colors. Encourage them to use different sizes of lids and different colors of paint.

Explore Texture with These Fun Mixed Media Collage Portraits for Kids Mixed media collage portraits are a great way to explore texture and use recycled materials. These mixed media collage portraits are a great lesson for exploring portraiture and texture with kids. Riverside Art Studio is the result of a longtime dream of mine to have a studio where kids, families and community can come together and have a true artistic experience. I wanted to provide a space for kids to enjoy the process of art-making and experiment with art materials and processes, igniting the creative spark and placing kids on the road to becoming makers and creators.

Using Art Prompts as Creative Drawing Activities for Kids I have long offered drawing prompts to my kids as well as the kids in my art groups and classes and LOVE to see how creatively they approach them. This video shows how we use drawing prompts, the creative drawings kids make in response to some drawing prompts, and it shows the library of drawing prompts we have inside the KIDS ART SPOT. For more creative drawing ideas for kids, I encourage you to try the KIDS ART SPOT, my online art club for kids and their families. Besides a library of drawing prompts and printable activities for kids, I offer video art classes that make it easier for you to find and do fun art activities at home with your kids.

These two nature inspired art projects explore ways for kids to observe and create with nature. When I set up our after school program, I thought the ¾ mile walk from our local elementary school to our studio would be way too long. Lia Salza Goldstein is co-founder and owner of Little Loft Studios in Takoma Park, MD, at the edge of Washington DC. Little Loft offers art classes for children as young as two, an after school art program for children in grades K-5, a sewing club for ages 9-12, and school day off camps including winter, spring and summer camps.