Art Week at Home Activities

Camp Week 1
Art Week
Home Activities

Celebrate all types of art this week. Take the time to teach your children about art. It comes in many forms. Sculpture, photography, music, dance, food, painting, drawing, etc. Teach them about a famous artist, or go tour a museum, spend time to talk about the different art.

Tie Dye Shirts
http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/tiedye/a/041601a.htm

Go out on a Photo Shoot
Buy disposable cameras or share your camera. Let each child find objects to do a photo shoot on. Play around with coloring and lighting. Get the pictures developed and create a photo portfolio or scrapbook. Let them be individuals, headless people can become a great work or photography art.

Neighborhood Chalk Art Festival
Invite the neighbor kids over, mark off your sidewalk and assign squares. Each child can create their own masterpiece. Later that evening let the parents walk through the chalk art gallery. Not sure what chalk art is run some searches online to view amazing works of art done on the sidewalk (search chalk art)

Graffiti Wall
Graffiti can be amazing forms of art. Cover a wall in the hall or bedroom with paper. (then big rolls of paper) you can buy it in sheets from craft stores, or check with a small print shop or newspaper for a paper roll end. Once the wall is covered, draw, write, and color away. Leave this up for the week for the kids to work on continuously. Or even the whole summer.

Summer art Gallery Hang strings around the house, and use clothes pins to attach summer art work. Continue to add to the gallery all summer long. At the end of the summer invite grandparents, and whoever else over to tour the gallery. Serve small refreshments and let your little artist shine.

Sun Printshttp://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Chem_p084.shtml

Bead Craftshttp://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/ponybeadspatternsinstructionscraftskids.html

Sugar cookie/cake decoration contest

Play dough/clay sculpture contest

Finger paint with pudding or peanut butter

Do face painting

Learn a line dance

Do a simple cross stitch, or needle workTie or sew a quilt

Make pottery
Create musical instruments and have a musical parade around the block (be creative, use buckets, rubber bands, beans, tin cans, paper plates, find anything you can, let your kids imaginations make music)

Experience Art use crayons, pencils, paints, dried food (pasta, beans, etc) oils, yarn, black and white, color, charcoal, spray paint, paint throwing, spin art, needle work, sewing,etc. Try something new.