Over the years I’ve shared quite a few winter projects and activities, but while reviewing my posts last week I noticed a gaping hole in my collection – where were the outdoor winter play ideas?! I grew up in Ohio…
Embrace the tangle, and explore fiber art with your kids, using this Halloween-ish spider web mobile-making project! Inspired by the natural order of DISorder (and influenced by artist Eva Hesse), here’s an invitation to crawl into a fiber art corner…
It’s aliive, it’s ALLLIIVEEE…and it’s…SQUISHY! Meet the latest additions to our kids’ art project family…imaginative soft sculpture art creatures made from recycled supplies! The outlandish beasts of Hieronymus Bosch meet the soft sculptures of Claes Oldenburg with this project that…
I don’t know about you, but come October, I’m creepy-Halloween-everything-obsessed. And my very favorite Halloween horror sub-genre? I vaaant your gothic vampire content. From Anne Rice stories and Edward Gorey illustrations to Bram Stoker and What We Do In the…
I was working in the lab late one night…when I stumbled upon a box of empty plastic containers taking up tons of much-needed shelf space. Horrors!! Having just designed a set of Frankenstein, skeleton, and vampire faces, it occurred to…
Just in time for October – an artistic pumpkin patch, chock full of and fall spirit and featuring an elevated autumnal aesthetic! The foundation of these lovely pumpkin art prints? A potato, apple, or green pepper (three cheers for using…
Combine simple construction concepts with art play for this incredible invitation to build scrap wood sculptures! Each one-of-a-kind sculpture is a tiny feat of art + engineering, and these kid-painted building blocks can be reused over and over again. Having…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up as we take a stroll down the Midway! Feast your eyes on our selection of blue-ribbon paper-mâché food on a stick! And try your luck at a game of artistry and…
My ever-growing library of small world play accessories received a huge upgrade this week in the form of a DIY’ed community of multicultural peg doll friends. Though the project was a quick one for me to make on my own,…
