Use air-dry clay and watercolors to sculpt your own bold and exotic clay sea slugs with air-dry clay or playdough. An ocean-themed or summer art invitation for kids with so much room for creativity! I don’t remember exactly when I…
Embrace the tangle, and explore fiber art with your kids, using this Halloween-ish yarn spider web mobile-making project… October is a month with its own very distinctive mood, isn’t it? Here in the north, our October days tend to rise…
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…
Do you have a favorite Halloween book from your childhood? I was an illustration-obsessed kid, and some of my very favorite books were the ones that included fantastical cutaways. Like opening a doll’s house, cutaways illustrate what’s happening *inside* a…
Two weeks to Halloween. The grand dream of an heirloom hand-sewn costume has turned into “what can I make out of this trash bag and glue gun…?” A demon squirrel has eaten the face of your lovingly-carved jack-o-lantern. The grocery…
2 weeks to Halloween and dusk already comes too early. Boo! We needed a little something to light up the nights, and these DIY black cat luminaries are just what the mad doctor ordered. Press play on the video below…
