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Posted: May 20 2010 at 11:58am | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
My dd loves to color, cut and paste. For the past two years I have scoured the internet for freebie versions of color/cut/paste pages to print off for her.

Then I got tired of spending so much time doing that. I recently bought Art Pac one for her from CHC.   It looks like it will fit the bill admirably for her in this regard.

My question is this: in looking at CHC's lesson plans for Grade 1 and then at the Art Pac, is there a benefit in using the pages in the strict order of the packet? Right up front it jumps into a thanksgiving project, which seems odd to me if you are using it with the lesson plans. But I have an old version of the plans, and the Art Pac is new. Maybe they don't correlate like older versions would have.

I was planning to let her have fun with the Art Pac over the summer, but now that I look at it, I think I need to "save it" for the fall. It would be just the thing for her to work on alone while I work with her brother on other things, like math.

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Posted: May 20 2010 at 7:44pm | IP Logged Quote Turtle
I've used the Artpac 1 for my daughter. There is no real order for the art projects. The plans just say to complete a lesson, no specifics. There are "seasonal" ones, but there are also a large number of "generic" activities. Maybe you could save the seasonal projects and let her have the others for fun over the summer.
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Posted: May 20 2010 at 8:16pm | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
Thank you- that does help. Sometimes I need another pair of eyes (and another brain) to help me make sense and think things through

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I know what you mean!!!
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Posted: May 20 2010 at 8:33pm | IP Logged Quote CatholicMommy
Some of the lessons do build on previous ones, but really, it's a basic art program - just have fun with it

Now, in our house, we've been known to make snowflakes in June, turkeys in spring, nativity scenes in Lent (no tomatoes!) - we just really have fun with it....

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Posted: June 10 2010 at 3:19pm | IP Logged Quote time4tea
Same here, we just have fun with the ArtPacs and use the projects in the order that the kids are interested in. I have tried other art "programs" over the years, but keep coming back to the ArtPacs - they are truly a gem!

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