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Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Art Is All Around

Keep children engaged when you have to wait

  • Notice All the Art Around You
    Take a closer look at murals, billboards, and framed prints. Ask your child: “What’s going on in that picture?” Talk about the lines, colors, and shapes you and your child notice.
  • Keep art handy
    Take paper, crayons, and pencils with you. A hard drawing pad helps.
  • Draw with your child
    Draw what your see or remember. Talk about your finished artwork.

Web Resources

  • Creativity in Young Children
    Source: University of Missouri Extension

    This article aims to broaden understanding about the creative process for parents and others who work with children and youth.

  • Painting: The Art of Self Expression
    Source: The Kennedy Center

    In this K-2 lesson, students will explore elements of art and different artists’ techniques to create various styles of paintings. Students will interpret art and describe styles by using key vocabulary terms when discussing paintings

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Setting(s) for which the article is intended:
  • Home

Intended audience(s):
  • Parents / Family

Age Levels (the age of the children to whom the article applies):
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Reviewed: 2016
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