Art Is Every Day: Activities for the Home, Park, Museum, and City

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Art isn’t just what you find in a museum, a sculpture park, or a one-period-a-week elementary school curriculum—art is every day. Author and educator Eileen S. Prince offers projects for parents, grandparents, teachers, and others who want to bring meaningful, rich, and fun art experiences into children’s lives. This handy resource contains more than 75 ideas to do at home, in the park, in the city, or at the museum. Go on a photographic scavenger hunt around town looking for forms and shapes. Write an ...

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Overview

Art isn’t just what you find in a museum, a sculpture park, or a one-period-a-week elementary school curriculum—art is every day. Author and educator Eileen S. Prince offers projects for parents, grandparents, teachers, and others who want to bring meaningful, rich, and fun art experiences into children’s lives. This handy resource contains more than 75 ideas to do at home, in the park, in the city, or at the museum. Go on a photographic scavenger hunt around town looking for forms and shapes. Write an autobiography based on a museum portrait only using clues found in the painting. Or make a sandcasting on a trip to the beach. Each project is easy to do and requires only free or inexpensive materials.

            What’s more, the projects and activities in Art Is Every Day will help children of any age (and adults) improve their basic understanding of art or reinforce concepts they may have already learned. The book stresses art vocabulary, which in turn promotes observation and discovery. It’s the perfect resource for parents whose children’s school has cut its art program, grandparents looking for some fun activities to share with their grandchildren, or art teachers who would like fresh ideas for meaningful field trips or homework assignments to support their curriculum.

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Editorial Reviews

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"Just add water (and a little paper, some crayons and pencils) for instant and inspiring art projects."  —Kirkus Reviews

"This useful and clever book offers more than 75 ideas for projects, trips, and activities—designed by an artist and teacher—that allow your child to exercise his creativity."  —Scholastic Parent & Child

"Art is Every Day truly inspires kids to think like an artist no matter where they are."  —Good Reads with Ronna

“What separates this art activities book from the others is that it not only presents hands-on activities that kids with enjoy, but it also presents vocabulary and concepts to expand your child’s creativity and artistic knowledge." —Minnesota Parent

"A perfect resource for parents looking to encourage creativity over the summer."  —Cleveland Family Magazine 

Kirkus Reviews
Just add water (and a little paper, some crayons and pencils) for instant and inspiring art projects. This third art-education book by Prince is a deep well of resources for experienced teachers who want to supplement their existing curriculum or for a caregiver who is in search of a meaningful project to share with a child. Prince touches upon such topics as how to define art, how pervasive visual communication is in our world, and how vital it is that we become "bilingual" in the language of art. She also discusses the benefits of having students keep portfolios and the importance of honest criticism and praise when critiquing children's artwork. Included is a concise and user-friendly overview of various elements and principles of art, such as contrast, texture and composition, as well as a beautifully simple discussion about color, including definitions of hue, value and intensity, and primary, complementary and tertiary colors. There are more than 65 easy-to-follow projects neatly divided into the activities' environments: lessons for an afternoon in the city, the park, at the art museum or at home. The author even includes a referenced cross-index that lists the specific principles and elements taught in each project. Most lessons are, by design, suited for children as well as adults, and the supplies required are generally inexpensive and easily obtainable. Photographs and illustrations of the projects and principles add a visual dimension. Though not for the rank amateur, a handy resource for artistically minded teens and adults who work with children. (Nonfiction. 14 & up)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781569767153
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/1/2012
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 958,671
  • Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 9.90 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Eileen S. Prince has been an art education specialist for more than 40 years. She is the author of the bestselling Art Is Fundamental and Art Matters.
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Table of Contents

Introduction ix

What Is Art and Why Should We Study It? xii

What Is a Substantive Art Program? xviii

Critiquing xx

Portfolios xxiii

Materials xxiv

I A Brief Overview of Elements, Principles, and Other Terms 3

1 Elements 3

2 Principles 9

3 Other Terms 13

II Everywhere 17

1 Sketch Diaries 17

2 Observational Drawing 19

3 Photography 22

4 Rubbings 23

5 Found Objects 24

6 Big Questions 25

III At Home 29

1 Color Mixing 30

2 Photo Design Quilt 32

3 Paper-Bag Puppets and Masks 37

4 Paper-Plate Masks 40

5 Printmaking with Styrofoam Plates 42

6 Value Collage 46

7 Magazine Rainbow/Color Wheel 47

8 Paper Houses 50

9 Staring at Colors-Complements 53

10 Food-Colored-String Pulling 58

11 What If You Illustrated This Story? 61

12 Still Life/Portrait/Landscape/Genre 62

13 Drawing with Black Crayon 64

14 Paper Weaving with Magazine Pictures or Newspaper 66

15 Interpret Values with Newspaper 73

16 Using Line to Create the Illusion of Form 75

17 Distortion with Drawings, Magazine Pictures, or Printouts 77

18 Drawing to Music 81

19 Pattern/Texture Fill 82

20 Vegetable Prints 84

21 Homemade Play-Doh or Self-Hardening Clay 86

22 Building People and Cartoon Characters from Magazine Photos 89

23 Imaginary Shape 90

IV At the Art Museum 93

1 Generate a Word List 94

2 Autobiography 96

3 Scavenger Hunt 93

4 Find the Concept 99

5 Write a Poem, Song, Play, or Story 100

6 Which Is Your Favorite? Why? 102

7 Vanitas Hunt 103

8 Drawing in the Museum 107

9 How Would You Arrange Your Museum? 108

V In the City 111

1 Find a Style 112

2 Look for Different Forms or Shapes 115

3 Drawing on Photos for Perspective 116

4 Finding Letters 122

5 Urban Elements and Principles 124

6 Find Your Favorite Structure 125

7 City Draw and Fill 127

8 How Would You Draw These Noises? Smells? 130

9 Reduce Scenes to Shapes and Lines-Simplify 131

10 Write a Poem, Song, Play, or Story 134

11 Photo Blowups 135

VI At the Park 139

1 Trace and Rub Leaves 139

2 Fall Trees 142

3 Match Using Only Red, Yellow, and Blue 144

4 Sand-casting 146

5 Rock Sculptures 148

6 Drawing Trees 150

7 Prose/Poetry/Play/Music 151

8 A Naturalist's Diary 152

9 How Would You Interpret Smells, Sounds, and Feelings? 154

10 Snow Creatures and Sand Castles 155

11 Andy Goldsworthy 156

Acknowledgments 159

Bibliography 161

Index of Projects by Elements and Principles 163

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