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What Is Art For A Child?
Part 2 of many All posts from this series. Art is open-ended. What is beautiful or meaningful to one person makes no sense to another. Personally, I love Raja Ravi Verma. My next best would be the...
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Is Art Nature Or Nurture?
Part 3 of many. All posts from this series. A child comes in to this world all geared up for survival. Think about it. Who taught this itty-bitty thing to latch on, to suck from the breast, to root,...
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A Trip Down Memory Lane
Part 4 of many. All posts from this series. We all would have colored, painted, made some kind of art as a kid. Many of us do it even now. So dip in to your memory bank or your current experiences and...
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How To Teach Art To A Young Child?
Part 5 of many. All posts from this series. Okay the survey results are as follows: 92% played with Fevicol and loved it. 44% loved coloring and erasing with markers, 20% yes on only coloring, 20% yes...
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Resources
Part 6 of many. All posts from this series. Books like Pranav’s Picture, Harold And The Purple Crayon, Dot and Ish are very helpful for the parents to understand the creative process. I have reviewed...
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Beasts Of India
Edited to add: Submitted post for Shruti’s Artsy-Craftsy June 2001 Folk art challenge. To play Feb’s “Guess the book” see the side bar. FOLK ART. The very first time I heard this term was in 2003. I...
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Art Games
More summer fun 2010 posts. So what does one do with two little girls for 10 weeks? That is 70 days. Time up and awake comes to 840 hours. TV/PBS kids games/Wii, not that big at home. It is mainly to...
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I Know What We Did This Summer – 1
More summer fun 2010 posts. Do you want to know? Okay, I will give you a picture, can any one guess how we did this? Thanks for your comments. It is spin art. I also showed them how to splash paint to...
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Gandhiji’s Birthday
Gandhiji’s birthday is a big deal in our school. We start with International Peace Day on Sept 21, then we do Pennies For Peace, then we talk about Gandhiji – the peaceful warrior and end the...
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Creating Art Space For Children
Part 7 of many. All posts from this series. Tharini, this is for you. What now seems like ages ago, I promised you that I will do a post on setting up an art space for children. Months passed and you...
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