Art Lab For Kids: Express Yourself: 52 Creative Adventures To Find Your Voice Through Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, And Sculpture (Lab For Kids, 19)

Art Lab For Kids: Express Yourself: 52 Creative Adventures To Find Your Voice Through Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, And Sculpture (Lab For Kids, 19)

Art Lab for Kids: Express Yourself?ontains 52 brand new?riginal art projects that will draw out each young artist as they discover their style, document their thoughts, and build confidence in their unique perspective.?ach lesson asks questions and offers personal choices?hile encouraging diverse approaches and creative thinking. One of the most important gifts we can give children is to nurture their creativity and allow them to express themselves freely. There's no better way to express yourself than through creative art projects. This is especially?rue for children because it gives them an outlet toexplore their developing interests and strengths. The Colorful Beasts project, which incorporates discussion of endangered animals with the Blue Rider?rt movement, asks children to use torn colored tissue paper and glue to create an expressive representation of a favorite vulnerable animal. In I Built This City, children imagine and build their own cityscape?sing columns of newspaper text to make buildings on top of a?atercolor painted background, and detailed with marker. Many projects include varying examples and executions of the activity to illustrate and reinforce the?pen-ended nature of the labs,inspiring children to embrace and share their own voice. Give children the great gift of creative self-exploration with?rt Lab for Kids: Express Yourself. The popular Lab for Kids series features a growing list of books that sharehands-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. Each lab contains acomplete materials list, clearstep-by-step photographs of the process, as well asfinished samples. The labs can be used as singular projects or as part of a yearlong curriculum of experiential learning. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, they are enriching for a range of ages and skill levels. Gain firsthand knowledge on your favorite topic with Lab for Kids.About the AuthorSusan Schwake is an artist, art educator,?nd curator. Her passion for teaching art has led?er to working in diverse settings for over 20 years.?he 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.?he 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?rt 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:?ww.artesprit.blogspot.com Website:?ww.susanschwake.com Gallery:?ww.artstreamstudios.com