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Happy Accidents – or Catalysts for Creativity
‘By looking attentively at old and smeared walls, or stones and veined marble of various colours, you may fancy that you see in them several compositions, landscapes, battles, figures in quick motion, strange countenances, and dresses, with an infinity of other objects. By these confused lines, the inventive genius is excited to new exertions’. These [...]
Crayola Colour Mix-a-Roo Game
It’s been a while since I last did a review, but when I had the opportunity to review one of a new set of Arty games from Crayola, I was intrigued to find out more. Colour Mix-a-roo is a game aimed at children aged 4+ which teaches them about colour mixing. I’m not sure what [...]
Arty iPad Apps
My Christmas Present this year was an iPad. Part of my justification for having one was that it would help to entertain the kids when we were out and about, since neither of them have any games devices of their own yet. So of course I’ve been busy exploring what free creative apps are available [...]
Christmas Cards to Colour
I recently bought a pack of the Usborne 20 Christmas Cards to Colour on impulse and have been so impressed with them, I thought I’d share them with you all. I bought them because it seemed a fairly effortless way of creating individual personalised Christmas cards from the kids, which they would enjoy doing, would [...]
Review – Land Art for Kids: In the Woods
As the leaves start to turn, and already begin to fall, it seems timely to do a brief review of a book which I purchased following my post on Beach Art. Written by Richard Shilling and Julia Brooklyn, it is devoted to the kind of Land Art which you can do in the woods – [...]
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 [...]
For Aspiring Art Thieves
Out shopping for a present for my younger son’s 3rd birthday, I spotted a toy in the Playmobil range, which made me do a double-take. It was a ‘jewel thief’ set, which came complete with security guard, thief, grappling hook and other suitable tools, museum display case, artwork and easel. Everything the aspiring young jewel [...]
Oodles of Doodles
>Over the following week, I’m going to follow the theme of Doodles or ‘playful’ drawing. Today, I’m going to do a review of the Doodle Cards produced by Usborne, which I purchased over Christmas. They are part of a wider trend over the last few years which has seen a number of children’s books brought [...]
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