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

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

The Art of the Pencil – Learning to Write and Draw

January 26, 2014 by Melanie Thomas 3 Comments

teach your preschooler to write and draw

A little over a year ago, I took my daughter to Disney World in Orlando Florida.  It was going to be a long drive (about 22 hours) so I googled tips on taking kids on road trips.  I read a ton of different parent recommendations.  Many recommendations went something like this: "Of course they have their Leapster, but besides that we...."  At this point I had never even heard of a Leapster, but I was intrigued since it seemed like such a popular choice for many, almost like a given.  Upon ...

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Filed Under: Art, Drawing, Educational Play, Online Learning, Preschool, Writing

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