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Posted: Aug 16 2005 at 8:52pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G
I borrowed Encouraging the Artist in Your Child from the library and it is such a great book, I think Amazon will need to send me a copy .

Sally Warner is an art teacher, a parent and an artist. These 3 "vocations" meld into a lady that can make me feel confident to even have my 2-1/2 yo "doing art". She is a firm believer in the simpler, less instruction, the better; she encourages the use of simple or homemade(rather than packaged) tools; her craft projects sound like they'd be real for the child (with minimal impact -- ie, mess -- on the household).

Altho her target is for encouraging kids outside of school hours, her ideas would apply in the homeschool art class too. She has age-appropriate suggestions for 2-10 yo (and older kids would probably enjoy these ideas too), so the whole gang is covered.

This is a book for the parent to sit down and really read, but it also has projects to go back to (ever dyed pasta or tinted glue ?).

Enjoy!


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