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Frugal Memories: Share Your Child’s Artwork Quickly, Easily and Affordably

My daughter just finished her first year of preschool. I was so proud of her as she walked out of her classroom with an armload of paperwork, photos, pictures and other treasures she’d been creating. As I rifled through the gigantic caterpillar poster, the pudding hand-prints, the cotton ball animal farm and the seemingly endless stack of smiley faces and rainbow drawings I had a mini-panic attack. I can’t keep all of this, can I? I certainly can’t throw it away. There is too much stuff to fill a scrapbook. What now? I grabbed my wrapping paper box and tossed … Continue reading →

Pointillism Art Project (with a little history thrown in)

What do Australian Aborginals and a French painter have in common? Dots! Georges Seurat was a French painter who lived in the late 1800’s. He is known for developing a type of painting called pointillism. But way before him, people in Australia were painting with sticks and quills. What pointillism means is using small dots of color instead of brush strokes to make a picture. It really works a lot like pixels, or even cross stitch, but on a bigger scale and without a grid. And what that means for kids is that it’s a fun new way to paint. … Continue reading →

School Memories

We only have a few weeks left before the end of the school year. Desks are getting cleaned out. Already, my third graders backpacks are full of papers, reports, and art projects. The stack on the table grows larger each day. I have a friend who neatly organizes her children’s papers into school year and subject. Sigh. I’m not nearly that organized. And I don’t have room to keep everything. I try to save the big stuff, especially the creative stuff. Things like short stories, or poetry. Art projects always get saved. I also try to keep a few math … Continue reading →