Super Fun Art Activities for Kids: Awesome Projects for Kids of All Ages

by Susan Schwake

Overview

Super Fun Art Activities for Kids introduces kids and their families to an amazing range of ideas for art projects that both entertain and educate.

Teachers, parents, homeschoolers, caretakers, and kids themselves will find inspiration and instruction for art projects using all kinds of materials and techniques to create hours of edutainment for kids of all ages. Projects include drawing, painting, printmaking, paper, collage, and mixed media—all scalable for any age and fun for grown-ups too!

Among the many art materials you will explore: watercolor, acrylic, ink, pencil, paper, charcoal, photos, gelatin printing, stencils, cardboard, fruit and vegetable printing, string printing, marker art, and more.

Simple, clear, illustrated instruction for each activity provides an easy entry point to each activity, creating confidence in creative skills that will make kids want to do all the activities again and again. Chock-full of amazing ideas, this book offers kids ways to explore creative expression every day of the year, whether working alone or in groups.
 

• Colorful photos provide endless inspiration. 
• Open-ended ideas can be done over and over with new results each time.
• Great for groups, families, or alone time.
• Offers a range of projects that explore the full range of art materials and techniques that kids will love.
• A great resource for parents, teachers, camps, and kids that includes great ideas for art birthday parties and events.

Full of ideas and inspiration, Super Fun Art Activities for Kids is an endless resource for creative exploration and hours of entertainment!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760383872
Publisher:	New Shoe Press
Publication date:	09/26/2023
Series:	New Shoe Press
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	19 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 10 Years

About the Author

Susan Schwake is an artist, art educator, and curator. Her passion for teaching art has led her to working in diverse settings for over 20 years. She has inspired thousands of people in private and public schools, museums, community organizations, special needs agencies, summer camps, intergenerational facilities, libraries, and her own art school, artstream in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, which she co-owns with her husband, Rainer. Most recently, she has taken her classroom online with a series of e-courses for artists, including a parent-child class based on her best-selling Art Lab for Kids series of books. She is also curator of artstream studios, where she has brought over 100 group shows of contemporary art to her corner of New England.

Susan is the author of Art Lab for Kids (Quarry Books, 2012), Art Lab for Little Kids (Quarry Books, 2013), and 3D Art Lab for Kids (Quarry Books, 2013). Her latest book, Art Lab for Kids: Express Yourself (Quarry Books, November 2018) is an all-new edition of her first book, Art Lab for Kids, with 52 original projects that encourage self-expression through art making. 

Follow her adventures.
Blog: artesprit.blogspot.com
Website: susanschwake.com
Gallery: www.artstreamstudios.com 

Susan Schwake is an artist, art educator, and curator. Her passion for teaching art has led her to working in diverse settings for over 20 years. She has inspired thousands of people in private and public schools, museums, community organizations, special needs agencies, summer camps, intergenerational facilities, libraries, and her own art school, artstream in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, which she co-owns with her husband, Rainer. Most recently, she has taken her classroom online with a series of e-courses for artists, including a parent-child class based on her best-selling Art Lab for Kids series of books. She is also curator of artstream studios, where she has brought over 100 group shows of contemporary art to her corner of New England. Susan is the author of Art Lab for Kids (Quarry Books, 2012), Art Lab for Little Kids (Quarry Books, 2013), and 3D Art Lab for Kids (Quarry Books, 2013). Her latest book, Art Lab for Kids: Express Yourself (Quarry Books, November 2018) is an all-new edition of her first book, Art Lab for Kids, with 52 original projects that encourage self-expression through art making.  Follow her adventures. Blog: artesprit.blogspot.com Website: susanschwake.com Gallery: www.artstreamstudios.com

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. HOW TO USE THIS BOOK AND MAKE ART WITH OTHERS
2. DRAWING
LAB 1 Contour Drawings
LAB 2 Large-Scale Ink Drawings
LAB 3 Scribble Drawings
LAB 4 Soft Pastel Drawings
LAB 5 Oil Pastel Drawings
LAB 6 Crayon Scratchboard
3. PAINTING
LAB 7 Painting in the Style of...
LAB 8 Tiny Paintings on Wood
LAB 9 Painting Like a Fauvist
LAB 10 Reverse Color Landscape Painting
LAB 11 Charcoal and Acrylic Painting
LAB 12 Watercolor and Salt Painting
LAB 13 Watercolor and Plastic Painting
4. PRINTMAKING
LAB 14 Found Object Prints
LAB 15 Serigraphs/Silk Screen
LAB 16 String Printing
LAB 17 Polystyrene Plate Printing
LAB 18 Monotypes
LAB 19 Fruit and Vegetable Prints
5. PAPER
LAB 20 Foamy Stamps
LAB 21 Large-Scale Paper Fish
LAB 22 Collage Tissue Self-Portraits
LAB 23 Paper Masks
LAB 24 Torn-Paper Landscapes
LAB 25 Texture Monsters
LAB 26 Map Collage
6. MIXED MEDIA
LAB 27 Painting with Paper Inclusions
LAB 28 Charcoal and Watercolor
LAB 29 Acrylic and Ink Abstracts
LAB 30 Paper Family Quilts
LAB 31 Watercolor and Pencil
LAB 32 Photos in My Painting
LAB 33 Larger-Than-Life Portraits
Resources
About the Author
Index