Art with Angela: Guided Art Sessions

Description: Daily, easy, playful and fun art lessons. Some include Day #1 Ladybug, Frog #2, Other STEAM related, guided drawings are Space #47, Bumblebee #16, Shark, Flamingo, Crab, Leopard, Red Fox, Tiger, Panda Bear, Koi fish, Earthy Day, Rainy Day and Palm Tree. Search Art with Angela for more. She's created more than 45 sessions!

Getting started: Search her sessions. Think about an illustration, diagram or comparing Venn diagram that would help your child learn something new, practice or review. Encourage a detailed drawing where your child adds his/her own ideas, parts and flair. Later, just for fun, choose Angela’s other playful drawing lessons.

Description: Dozens of classic and new logic, math, spatial and language games. These also promote some basics of computational thinking.

Getting started: Review the five games described on the intial page. Be sure to click on Here’s a list of more pencil and paper games to play to see many more games tabbed under Most Popular, Number, Word, Picture, Territory and Other. As possible, match a game with something your child is learning. These can be played elcetronically or, after seeing some examples, on paper.

*Note: Some directions are limited so you may need to search for more detailed directions. For example: Bulls and Cows Wikipedia - numeric and word games, Ludozofi Homepage

Description: Simple projects with any kinds of pencils and a few other office supplies for STEM buildign projects, science challenges, animated art flip book, paper bag mini-challenges and an outside water challenge.

Getting started: Read over the projects and the supply lists. Gather supplies. Choose a few that your child would like to try and read the directions or “challenge” with him/her. Have him/her try it out, make changes and try to figure it out. It’s great if your child goes into an interesting, creative direction of his/her own. Take pictures and/or video during and when done to share!

Description: Art projects that are sorted by supplies you have on hand at home. Delightful projects include Straws: art creations, a game, bike streamers and a classic necklace; Envelopes: mini basket, animals, magic tricks and mini storage folders; Paper Plates: flower, hat, kitchen hotpad or notepad holder, picture frame and zip line toy; Q-Tips: skeletons, animal and plants and weather models, geometric sculptures and pointilism art.

Getting started: Read through the projects and supply list. Choose a few ideas that your child might enjoy. Take the basic design and add your own creativitive ideas! Think about ways some of these projects could go along with what your child is learning in science, social studies, math and reading.