Birthday Art
I thought I’d share with you all the gift I recently received for my latest ‘landmark’ birthday, because I’m so pleased with it. Landmark birthdays of this kind can be slightly depressing, but my husband knew that I had for some time been coveting a piece of artwork by an up and coming local artist [...]
Howlers: the Innocence of Youth…
I couldn’t resist sharing my 8 year old son’s homework with you this week. He was asked to research how polar bears kept themselves warm, so he duly looked up the information and wrote the following piece: So far so good (apart from some slightly dodgy spelling). He then goes on to illustrate his work [...]
Creating Thank You Cards with Children’s Artwork
It’s that time again – time to make thank you cards for the Christmas presents the boys received, and get them sent off. I have to say it seems to take us longer and longer to do this every year – but I at least, feel guilty if it’s not done, and it’s not really [...]
Pin ItGorgeous Games for Christmas
If you’re looking for some good quality arty and creative gifts which will entertain children (and grown-ups too!) this Christmas, check out these latest additions to the Artful Kids store: Paolo Colourful and quirky construction set providing lots of creative fun. With 122 colourful sturdy cards and 50 plug in connectors, children and [...]
Pin ItNow We are Three…
This month it’s the 3rd anniversary of Artful Adventures, so for this post I have decided to do a round up of projects from the last 12 months. If you’re new to Artful Adventures, this will hopefully be a helpful way of picking up on the projects you might have missed. There are over 25 [...]
Pin ItChildren’s Artwork – Choosing what to Keep
It’s a perennial problem – of all the mountains of artwork that young children produce, how much of it should you keep? Maybe you are sufficiently ‘ruthless’ to be able to throw it away without a qualm, but at the other extreme if you are a hoarder like me, you may find it difficult to [...]
Pin ItChalkboard Mania
There’s a distinct trend for all things chalkboard at the moment, and it’s a trend that I love. We created a Chalkboard Art Gallery for our kitchen wall, and I love the versatility, flexibility and spontaneity that chalkboard offers. It’s perhaps for this reason that I’ve gone a bit overboard (no pun intended) on chalkboard [...]
Photographing Children’s Artwork
All of the ‘bespoke’ children’s artwork for Artful Kids starts with a photograph, or copy of the original work. But as you can imagine, the finished product derived from that artwork is only as good as the original photograph. For the wall-art products which Artful Kids offers, customers can either scan in the artwork themselves [...]
Pin ItOn Visiting Art Galleries with Young Children
Another of our activities over the summer holidays, especially on wet days (which unfortunately there were rather a lot of) was to visit some of our local museums and art galleries. Our experiences in visiting these Galleries were rather mixed. These days, I find that my own experience, and how enjoyable I find the visit, is [...]
Summer Festival Art Activities
We’ve just come back from a couple of days at the Just So Festival – you may have heard of it already, as I think quite a few bloggers were planning to go. It’s a ‘magical’ festival specially aimed at children. The weather was quite good overall (hardly got rained on at all really, and [...]
