Art Lab for Kids, Express Yourself is a fun collection of art activities that encourage children to create freely, using their own thoughts and experiences as a guide.
Geared toward being taught or guided by adul.
The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results.
The labs can be used as singular projects or as part of a yearlong curriculum of experiential learning.
Each lab contains a complete materials list, clear step-by-step photographs of the process, as well as finished samples.
The popular Lab for Kids series features a growing list of books that share hands-on activities and projects on a wide host of topics, including art, astronomy, clay, geology, math, and even how to create your own circus-all authored by established experts in their fields.
Give children the great gift of creative self-exploration with Art Lab for Kids, Express Yourself.
Many projects include varying examples and executions of the activity to illustrate and reinforce the open-ended nature of the labs, inspiring children to embrace and share their own voice.
In I Built This City, children imagine and build their own cityscape using columns of newspaper text to make buildings on top of a watercolor painted background, and detailed with marker.
The Colorful Beasts project, which incorporates discussion of endangered animals with the Blue Rider art movement, asks children to use torn colored tissue paper and glue to create an expressive representation of a favorite vulnerable animal.
Each lesson asks questions and offers personal choices while encouraging diverse approaches and creative thinking.
Art Lab for Kids: Express Yourself contains 52 brand new original art projects that will draw out each young artist as they discover their style, document their thoughts, and build confidence in their unique perspective.
This is especially true for children because it gives them an outlet to explore their developing interests and strengths.
There's no better way to Express Yourself than through creative art projects.
One of the most important gifts we can give children is to nurture their creativity and allow them to Express themselves freely.
Art Lab for Kids, Express Yourself is a fun collection of art activities that encourage children to create freely, using their own thoughts and experiences as a guide
