Welcome to The Art Garden!
Thanks for stopping by! This garden still needs to grow so stay tuned for ideas and resources for living creative lives while I work out some blog details.
Printing with plastic eggs
Hello and welcome to my first official post of The Art Garden! I’m starting this blog to share tips and fun ideas for your family to be creative.
4 Easy Ways To Decorate Easter Eggs
So we have chickens. Seven of them to be exact.
Mixed Media Easter Egg Craft
I thought I’d post this even though Easter is about to officially end in a couple of hours. My girls love mixed media projects that involve painting, cutting, gluing, stamping, and experimenting with a variety of materia
Nature Shadow Boxes
It looks like we are already into summer here in Alabama with our high 80’s we have been having and 90 degrees coming up this week. We have short springs here so we enjoyed this project on one of our cool afternoons a fe
15 Earth Day Activities and Crafts
I love nature about as much as I love art and the two work perfectly together. In celebration of Earth Day , I created a resource of 15 activities and crafts that use nature as a material, inspiration, or reuses items th
10 Awesome Art Books For Inspiring Creativity
When I used to teach Elementary art, I incorporated books into my lessons for almost every project. Not only did it help tie in content but the children could be inspired and motivated to be creative by listening to the
Birdseed Sensory Bin
Sensory bins are great for toddler play and developing fine motor skills but many parents shy away from them due to the potential mess. I came across the idea of using a birdseed bin OUTSIDE and I liked the sound of that
Try This Easy Watercolor Resist
Oil and water don’t mix, right? That is the premise of doing a resist painting using watercolor and oil pastels.
Create Beautiful Texture Using This Watercolor Technique
Watercolor round 2! I showed my girls several different techniques to do with watercolor the other day and they all turned out beautiful!
Nature Has the Best Art Materials!
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Yarn Paintings
Happy Cinco de Mayo! In addition to the guacamole and margaritas we will be making later, we decided to make some yarn art inspired by the Huichol Yarn Paintings.