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 [...]
Mini-Masterpieces – October Link-up
This time I’m taking no risks – September’s Mini-Masterpieces got absolutely no contributions – a first since I started it back in February. I think this is partly because I added the link-up onto another post so that lots of people missed it, and partly because having had the enforced blogging break which made me [...]
In Defence of Art Education
Throughout my life and my career, I have found that art is often considered a luxury item – something that’s nice to have, and fun to do, but not to be taken seriously, and certainly not to be regarded as important or challenging in any way. When it comes to the curriculum at school it [...]
Make a World
I recently came across this book while browsing around the web. Apparently, although I’d never come across it before, it’s something of a classic, and was first published in 1972. It is one of a whole series of similar style books by the author Ed Emberley, all with different themes. It seems that this book [...]
Learning to Draw
This week I thought I’d take a look at how children’s artwork develops from their earliest scribbles and daubs, through to about the age of 11 or 12. Although all children will show the same broad developmental stages, the age at which they are reached may vary a little from child to child. In spite [...]
