Art Is Every Day: Activities for the Home, Park, Museum, and City

This handy resource offers more than 65 ideas for parents, grandparents, teachers, and others who want to bring meaningful, rich, and fun art experiences into children’s lives.

The projects are easy to do and require only inexpensive or free materials.

Children will:Go on a photographic scavenger hunt looking for forms and shapesWrite a short biography based on a museum portrait using only clues found in the paintingPractice printmaking using Styrofoam platesExplore perspective by following the shapes of buildings viewed from different anglesMake a sand casting on a trip to the beachand moreArt Is Every Day is the perfect resource for parents whose children’s school has cut its art program, for grandparents who want to share fun activities with their grandchildren, or for art teachers who would like to support their curriculum with fresh ideas for field trips and homework assignments.