Search Blogs
Tag Search Results For 'importance of the arts' (12)
ARCHIVES Thursday: Importance of the Arts—Visiting Your Local U…
I Never Grew Up | August 6th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
The giveaway is a few posts down. One of my local university’s museums is the Life & Science Bean Museum. I am sure this is a very incorrect description, but it is a museum full of stuffed dead animals or dried insects Here is a link fo read more
Thursday: The Importance of the Arts—Pollock and Marbles
I Never Grew Up | July 30th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
Today was Abby’s first real “art lesson” involving the painting Number 31 by Jackson Pollock and the marble art lesson from Scribble Art by MaryAnn Kohl. I let Abby pick out the colors of paint at the craft store along with a bag read more
Thursday: The Importance of the Arts—Imagination and Dress Up
I Never Grew Up | July 23rd 2008 by I Never Grew Up
Click here for the giveaway. My mother decided to humiliate me this past weekend. She pulled out old home videos of the annual Christmas concert and show my siblings and I would put on. There was a song of me singing “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa read more
Thursday: The Importance of the Arts—Poetry
I Never Grew Up | July 16th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
I completely forgot how much as a child I enjoyed poetry. I used to love poetry until one day of huge embarrassment in 5th grade. I had moved to a new school and with being as shy as I was (and kind of still am) I was terrified of all the new things. read more
Thursday: The Importance of the Arts—Getting the Most Out of Yo…
I Never Grew Up | July 9th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
(The giveaway is a few posts down) Our guest writer today is Rebecca who has a fabulous blog that is all about the things that dazzle her in art, music, culture and literature. Getting the Most Out of Your Art Museum Trips The old motto, “B read more
Thursday: The Importance of the Arts—-”Teaching” Music to a…
I Never Grew Up | July 2nd 2008 by I Never Grew Up
I have read many places that children instinctively have music in them, that they instinctively create music while they play. Here are some suggestions to “Teach” Your Child Music Appreciation -Teach your children that music can smooth an read more
Thursday: The Importance of the Arts—”Free Play” and Lettin…
I Never Grew Up | June 18th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” -Pablo Picasso There are has been a huge thing I have been doing to discourage my child from “remaining an artist.” I can be a control read more
Thursday: The Importance of the Arts—Oeil Photography
I Never Grew Up | June 11th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
Whenever I loose this baby weight and am brave enough to include myself in family pictures this is the type I would love to do. My friend from high school, Michelle (who currently resides in Florida) has such a beautiful and unique take on modern fam read more
Thursday: Importance of the Arts—Religion
I Never Grew Up | April 30th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
Back in 2001 I was working on the event staff at the McKay Events Center. One of my shifts was during the Dalai Lama’s visit to the university. I was in such awe of him, his beautiful teachings and his love for humankind. I was also terribly d read more
Thursday:Importance of the Arts—Picture Book Art
I Never Grew Up | April 9th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg (most known for Jumanji) It starts out with a fictional editors note telling of an encounter with an author/illustrator named Harris Burdick, who provided the images and captions as samples, eac read more
Thursday: Importance of the Arts—Singing with your Children
I Never Grew Up | March 26th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
Singing With Your Children My daughter sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for the first time this week with no help. It almost made me cry, Ok you got me…maybe it did, but just a little It is definitely going down in her baby book. She loves to read more
Thursday:The Importance of the Arts—Art Galleries
I Never Grew Up | March 19th 2008 by I Never Grew Up
Go to your favorite search engine… Type in art galleries or children art galleries and your city… You might be surprised to see how many there are around you! My children are not old enough to go to a fine art museum yet…I am to afr read more
Subscribe To