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Multiplication Color By Number – United States

November 13, 2019 by Melanie Thomas Leave a Comment

A colored map of United States. A color by number multiplication activity for kids that combines math, geography and art. #mathart #multiplication #colorbynumber #geography #unitedstates #USA #treevalleyacademy

Looking for a multiplication color by number worksheet? How about a coloring activity where kids can brush up on some geography at the same time? I have for you a coloring worksheet that combines learning the states of the United States with practicing multiplication facts. How It Works There's a .pdf that you can download below completely free, that has a list of all 50 states. Beside each state name is a multiplication question. For example, beside the state "Indiana" is the ...

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Filed Under: Art, Geography, Grade 3, Grade 4, Math, Multiplication Worksheets

Geometric Animal Art

November 11, 2019 by Melanie Thomas 2 Comments

How to make geometric animal art for kids. Kids can pick their favourite animal and turn it into geometric art. Easily make handmade greeting cards with their geometric art projects. #mathart #animals #treevalleyacademy

Combining art with math, geometric animal art can be a great art project to do with kids. How To Create Geometric Animal Art Here are the basic steps to creating geometric animal art: #1 Find a photograph of an animal. Kids can pick their favourite animal or use a picture of their pet. My daughter's favourite animal is a fox. To find a picture for her to use, I did a simple search on a website with free photo downloads called Pixabay. We found a beautiful fox image that didn't ...

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Filed Under: Animal Studies, Art, Math Tagged With: geometric animal art, make a card using geometrical shapes

ArtAchieve Review

May 3, 2017 by Melanie Thomas Leave a Comment

Art work of 7 year old doing art projects from ArtAchieve. An ArtAchieve review.

Since art is my daughter's favourite subject, we jumped on the chance to do a homeschool curriculum review of an online art program: ArtAchieve.  We received the Entire Level II art classes for my daughter to use.  Here is our ArtAchieve Review: ArtAchieve ArtAchieve is an online art program with a strong focus on learning to draw.  The lessons are based on the idea that drawing is an important skill to learn and anyone can learn those skills.  Although the focus is on drawing, each art ...

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Filed Under: Art, Drawing, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Homeschool Curriculum Reviews, Online Learning Tagged With: art classes for kids, art lessons for kids, drawing lessons for kids, homeschooling art curriculum

Art History for Kids

October 26, 2015 by Melanie Thomas 11 Comments

teaching art history to kids. Ideal for 4 - 8 year old children.

There are so many great resources available for homeschooling parents to teach art history to even the younger school aged children.  I have a 5-year-old so finding resources that make art history fun to learn and appropriate for her age is my endeavour.  And since the theme of the Poppins Book Nook this month is "Artists", I thought it was the perfect opportunity for me to share some of my great finds. affiliate links are provided for your convenience at no cost to you Anholt's Artists ...

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Filed Under: Art, Book Activities, Educational Play, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, History, Kindergarten Tagged With: art history for kids, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh

The Hundred Dresses Activity – Paper Doll Chain Card

September 30, 2015 by Melanie Thomas 4 Comments

Paper Doll Chain Tutorial. Making a handmade card craft for kids.

I love making hand made cards for people.  They're a great opportunity to try out various art techniques, and they are a wonderful way to give joy to others, which in turn gives me joy. ow that I'm a parent, I try to share that love with my daughter.   Besides being an art activity and a giving opportunity, it also has the benefit of giving my daughter some great writing practice.  (See my post Art of the Pencil - Learning to Write & Draw). This activity goes well with the ...

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Filed Under: Art, Book Activities, Crafts, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Writing Tagged With: Kids Crafts, the hundred dresses activities

How To Draw A Star For Kids

September 24, 2014 by Melanie Thomas 7 Comments

Drawing Stars For Kids

If you are looking for an easy way to teach kids how to draw a star, step by step, I have just the thing. I recently taught my 4 year old how to draw a star.  After only about a minute or so of instruction, she was proudly drawing her own stars. There are only 4 steps to learn: I had my daughter repeat those words a few times: Mountain, Diagonal, Across, Connect. After practicing a few stars, I asked her to do another one very lightly.  Afterwards, I showed her ...

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Filed Under: Art, Drawing, Kindergarten, Preschool Tagged With: art, drawing, how to draw a star, how to draw a star for kids, how to draw a star step by step for kids, how to draw stars, stars

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