Tad really likes the YouTube video series Simon’s Cat (which are very simply done and kid friendly).  When I was at the library earlier this week, I found a cartoon book on it that I thought he would enjoy. Well, that was an understatement. At the end of the book, there is a “how to […]

This was a two-part lesson.  Last week, Tad’s class learned about “implied textures” – making something look as if it was textured by the way it was drawn on the page. This week, the lesson moved into application with a relief of an owl. The kids created the owl on a piece of cardboard (I’m […]

Completely by chance, via a community Facebook group, I learned that a LEGO exhibit had come to our local mall.  I had no idea the size or scope of it, but I thought Tad might enjoy seeing the one thing I had seen online – a LEGO scale model of the US Capitol building. And […]

This week’s art lesson had another tale of a famous artist to inspire the end product.  This time, I had never heard of the artist in question, Joan Miro, a Spanish “painter, sculptor, and ceramicist” of the early 20th century (who died in 1983 at 90 years old). Look how educated we are all becoming […]