Teaching Kids Art Through Picture Books
Literature based art ideas for you and your family
10 activities to do with kids 10 days before Christmas
10 days until Christmas! Here are a few ideas for helping kids creatively prepare for the day, without too much extra prep. Counting down from 10....
♾️10-Make a paper chain with strips of construction paper. Pull off one strip each day until Christmas.
🎶9-Teach your kids the words to your favorite Christmas carol. Sing it every night before bed until Christmas comes.
📖8-Stop whatever you are doing and read a Christmas story to your kids. Breathe slowly and savor the moment.
🐻❄️7-Draw polar bears
🕯️6-Create a candleholder. Get an empty jar. With Mod Podge, decoupage tissue all over the jar. When dry, light a tealight and place it inside. Talk about the all the symbols of Light at Christmas.
🎄5-Make homemade cards for grandparents, neighbors, or anyone who needs encouragement
🍪4-Make and decorate sugar cookies
🎁3-Teach your kids how to wrap presents
🎁2-Make homemade wrapping paper with kraft paper, markers, stickers, or stamping shapes with sponges
👼🏼1-Read about the ange...
Make Christmas art with your Children
Do you have those special Christmas cards or ornaments that either you made as a child, or your own children have made? It’s not the actual artistic merit that makes those so valuable and priceless to us. Few of us are Michelangelo, nor are our children Leonardo daVinci. The attribute that makes us hang onto popsicle glitter stars and play dough Christmas trees is this: they represent a memory and a relationship. We remember the moment we made that thing and the joy and pride we felt creating it. Or we remember the shining smiles on our kids’ faces as they presented that creation to us--perhaps wrapped up for us under the Christmas tree.
Making a tradition of creating Christmas art with children is an act of building and has three important benefits you don’t want to miss as you journey this road to your Christmas celebration. You don’t want to waste this opportunity to create together, because you are investing in the relationship you want to have with your kids in the future. That’s...
