Posts tagged ‘Thursday: The Importance of the Arts’


Thursday:Importance of the Arts—Picture Book Art

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg (most known for Jumanji) It starts out with a fictional editors note telling of an encounter with an author/illustrator named Harris Burdick, who provided the images and captions as samples, each from a different picture book he had written. He left with a promise to deliver […]

Thursday:Importance of the Arts—Coloring and Broken Crayon Craft

The Importance Coloring (I didn’t realize this was my second post on coloring, hopefully I didn’t repeat myself to much) This is something you can start maybe earlier than you think. I would tape a large piece of paper on my daughter’s high chair tray, give her some over-sized crayons and she really enjoyed it. […]

Thursday: Importance of the Arts—Singing with your Children

Singing With Your Children My daughter sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for the first time this week with no help. It almost made me cry, Ok you got me…maybe it did, but just a little 🙂 It is definitely going down in her baby book. She loves to sing, usually we sing while we make […]

Thursday:The Importance of the Arts—Art Galleries

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in Thursday: The Importance of the Arts, Learning

Go to your favorite search engine… Type in art galleries or children art galleries and your city… You might be surprised to see how many there are around you! My children are not old enough to go to a fine art museum yet…I am to afraid BUT I do take them to our local universities […]

Thursday:The Importance of the Arts—Creativity with Crafts

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in Thursday: The Importance of the Arts, Crafts

Creativity with Crafts I was disappointed to find out that Martha Stewart’s kids magazine is not longer in publication. While in the grocery store, I saw a special issue, and it is full of great ideas for crafts These caught my eye and I knew my 2 year old would really enjoy doing this with […]

Thursday: Importance of the Arts—Visiting Your Local University’s Museums

One of my local university’s museums is the Life & Science Bean Museum. I am sure this is a very incorrect description, but it is a museum full of stuffed dead animals or dried insects 🙂 Here is a link for a more accurate description… http://mlbean.byu.edu/home/ and their own blog http://beanlifesciencemuseum.blogspot.com/ The best part of […]

Thursday: Importance of the Arts—Music: Jack Johnson & Laurie Berkner

Thursday: Importance of The Arts Jack Johnson‘s Curious George Soundtrack Don’t you love when you find new artists? If you have discovered them a later in their career you get to run to the store and get a few of their albums. Jack Johnson is my new favorite artist, has been for about 2 years. Through […]