3 Ways to Celebrate Art with Your Children

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We’re an artsy type of family—when my kids were little, on any given day, you’d find the table of our breakfast nook covered with paper, scissors, crayons, and the like. Now that they’re older, it’s covered with anything and everything they’re into this week. If you’d asked me years ago if I thought of our “family art” as something to celebrate, I’d probably laugh; but the Arkansas Art Center thought my kids’ art was something to celebrate!

I’ll tell you more about why we were celebrating, but first, here are 3 ways to celebrate art with your children.

1. Let kids CREATE!

Yes, creating art is messy; but give your children time to explore with glitter, markers, tape, glue, and paper.

Never_say_no_to_creating_more_art — We never say “no” to creating more art!

2. Let kids display their art.

When my kids were small, we always had a fridge covered with artwork that we rotated out often.

3. Visit art museums as a family and enjoy art together.

I’ve taken my kids to museums from young ages. When they were smaller, I let them know expectations before we go (no running, no touching), and praised them for good behavior. Usually 20-30 minutes is the maximum time we would spend then, but we enjoy looking at art together for longer periods now that they’re older.

Alysssa_Bella_Arkansas_Arts_Center — Here is Alyssa and Bella on a special trip to the Arkansas Arts Center when they were little.

We went to this particular museum because Bella’s artwork was chosen for a special exhibit!

Bella_in_front_of_her_art — She was super excited to see it there!

Sunflowers_Serenade — I think the title Sunflowers Serenade was pretty fancy for a Kindergartener’s picture … but there is a wonderful book that has almost the same title 🙂

Bellas_favorite_piece — While we were there, we looked at other art pieces. Bella loved this one.

Sandwich_bag_painting — Their favorite activity was sandwich bag painting. You squeeze paint into a sandwich bag, squish it around, cut the bag open and then press it onto paper. Fun!

little_artists — They were so inspired! As soon as we got home they got busy making more art!

What is your favorite way to celebrate art with your kids? Let me know in the comments!

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