We are very fortunate to have a wonderful art teacher in the area.She does classes for homeschool kids at a church about 5 minutes from my house.It works out well for us,though we can’t afford to do them all the time.This last year my son Taylor took two sessions.My daughters also took the spring session.
These are pictures I took at the art festival following their spring session.The focus of the session was on painting.
Prior to this year my kids did not take any official art classes.When my oldest was young our library used to have one day classes in different art subjects and he did a few of those.They were free!Unfortunately the librarian that had an art degree moved on so no more classes.
Besides that I did pick up a basic drawing workbook for my boys that went over shading, texture, dimensions etc…when they were in upper elementary but that’s about it.
You know even with the limited amounts I’ve done with them I think they had more than I did in school (public in the 70’s.)There were mileage cuts so I only had art in elementary and even then I think it was only every other week.One week we had an hour of music and one week an hour of art.The only thing I remember doing was making a clay turtle.Hey, we did clay sculptures as a project with our Lion the Witch and Wardrobe study as a suggestion from the TLP guide.Guess I got that covered too!
If you start to think about it you probably cover more art than you think.Let’s see, we studied snow a few years back and painted snowflakes using mirror image.This year we worked on aurora’s to go with our Julie of the Wolves/Iditarod study on watercolor paper.We had to learn what a collage was (couldn’t believe my kids didn’t know this) and made one of Nautical items/terms from a suggestion in the TLP guide to go with Carry On, Mr. Bowditch.I could go on but I think you get the idea.
I just got my new Timberdoodle catalog yesterday and noticed an interesting computer program.It’s called Creativity-Express .It looks interesting.The review says , “The extraordinary Creativity Express curriculum is an innovative combination of technology and art resulting in a revolutionary approach to teaching art history, art appreciation, and digital art.”If you’ve seen this at all, let me know what you thought.It’s only $30 and up to 4 children can use it (I have 4, how perfect is that!)
Leave me a comment and let me know how YOU incorporate art!
Looks like such a fun art show. Gracie (7) took an art class this past year and will be having an art show in early June sometime.
We are horrible at scheduling art. Gracie is creating things ALL THE TIME, and Ashley has no interest in that area. I just got a book-making kit to review for TOS~ I think we'll make a book of Gracie's creations from this past year. It's so hard to know what to keep, what to toss, how to store them, etc.
Heidi
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