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Christmas Potato Prints

December 23, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Potato Printing is one of the most simple, open-ended and playful printing techniques perfect for little hands. You can make anything from Christmas stockings, wrapping paper or wall hangings with this fun printing activity. Materials Small potatoes and a knife Packing paper and cardboard Tempera paint Tray or paper plate Scissors Tissue paper Glue stick…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Printmaking Tagged With: Ages 2+, Cardboard, Christmas, Invitation to Create, Kindergarten Art, Potato Printing, Preschool Art, Printing, Process Art, Toddler Art

Print your own Christmas Stockings

December 16, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

One can never have enough socks. – J.K. Rowling Are you still looking for a meaningful Christmas activity for you and your family? How about making your own stockings? This is easy to set up and leaves more than enough open-ended possibilities to create and experiment with fun printing techniques. Materials: Stockings (or you can sew…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Printmaking Tagged With: Ages 2+, Christmas, Kindergarten Art, Preschool Art, Printing, Process Art, Toddler Art

Leaf Imprints and Nature Necklaces

August 27, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Nature crafts are great to encourage children to go outside and engage their senses. As we go on nature walks we observe the changing seasons and collect little treasures: Colorful leaves, pinecones, rocks – anything with beautiful colors, interesting shapes and patterns. Since the children were especially interested in investigating leaf veins and have been…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Printmaking Tagged With: Ages 3+, Ages 5+, Earth Day, Fall Art, Invitation to Create, Kindergarten Art, Loose Parts, Nature Art, Preschool Art, Process Art, Salt Dough, Toddler Art

Sun Prints

August 22, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Have you ever tried sun prints? They’re a easy and versatile art activity with young children, both for indoors and outdoors! You could go on nature walks, explore and collect different sizes, shapes and colors of leaves, sticks and flowers; you could portray your shadow, make patterns out of foam shapes or use pretty much…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Printmaking Tagged With: Ages 3+, Collage, Father's Day, Invitation to Create, Kindergarten Art, Loose Parts, Mother's Day, Nature Art, Preschool Art, Printing, Process Art, Sun Prints, Toddler Art, Valentines

Mountain Styrofoam Prints

August 1, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace. – Janice Anderson Printmaking is always fun with any age group. As older children grow increasingly critical of their drawing abilities they sometimes get frustrated and often end up reluctant…

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Filed Under: Printmaking Tagged With: Ages 5+, Kindergarten Art, Liquid Watercolors, Printing, Styrofoam, Tracing, Transparency paper

Styrofoam Print Valentines

January 22, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

For many children printmaking is one of the most mysterious and magical art techniques. It’s results are often surprising as well as rewarding. One printing techniques that can be mastered easily is styrofoam printing. Smaller children will enjoy manipulating the foam and especially seem to like the kinesthetic feedback they are getting from rolling paint with…

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Potato Print Valentines

January 21, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Printmaking is a process of making art by creating designs or pictures on plates or blocks which are then used to produce multiple images. There are many ways to make prints. One of the simplest and most playful, open ended techniques is potato printing. A few potatoes will guarantee hours of exploration, encourage play with…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Printmaking Tagged With: Ages 2+, Canvas, Invitation to Create, Mother's Day, Preschool Art, Printing, Process Art, Toddler Art, Valentines

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Making calendars the 3-year old children were mainly interested in cutting with the scissors ✂️ , using the the paper craft punches and layering different shapes while almost all of the 4-5 year old children engaged in symbolic drawing ✍️ inspired by the seasons.
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More details and full DIY instructions on the blog (link in profile) ♡.
  • Create postcard-sized Mixed Media paintings to make calendars 📆 ! Though the concept of time is still way too abstract for young children to understand, we can invite them to use their imaginations to create pictures and/or use colors that might remind them of spring 🌷, summer ☀️, autumn 🍂 and winter ☃️. Start creating to one season, imagine the weather and what you like doing during that season. See what happens and what experiences the children will choose, e.g. they might just arrange the collage materials or maybe they will draw really detailed scenes inspired by each season etc. Find all the details and full DIY instructions on the blog (link in profile) ♡!
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  • We took our window decorations down and glued the snowflakes ❄️❄️❄️onto mat board which turned out to be a wonderful, open-ended art activity as well as a good introduction to layering with various materials. Find all the details and full DIY instructions on the blog (link in profile) ♡.

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Hello, I'm Claudia Brauer: arts educator, hobby artist, art therapist and special education therapist, based in Ridgway, Colorado. I’m excited to bring art enrichment to your home and hope to inspire other educators and parents to nurture childhood creativity through the arts.

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