Teaching Kids Art Through Picture Books

Want a fun way to inspire kids' imaginations this week? How about creating a time machine?

Do you ever close your eyes and wish you were in your favorite spot? Like, say, a beach location or a place nearer to home that you love to visit? That exercise itself is valuable--it may help you relax and it reduces stress.
If you take it a step further and imagine yourself in a new, yet-to-be-discovered place, or a place you are inventing in your mind, then you begin to also involve your imagination and to work your brain in a new way. And maybe, imagining something and dreaming about it can also spark an adventure or even an invention.

Ask kids the questions, "Where in the world would you like to go?" and "When in time would you travel if you could go visit any time or place?"

Let’s spark your kids’ creativity by helping them draw a machine that can take them, oh, I don’t know…anywhere. What’s more, let’s make it into a machine that will take them anyplace, too! Wouldn’t it be fun to “draw”...