Family art night at school

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How to organize a family art night at your children's school

Fine Arts Night '14 is in the books, and I think it was the best one to date - so much to hear, see, do! This music and art celebration is a tradition every year, but this time around the music teacher and I added a few new exciting components as you will soon see, starting with a push for families to share on social networking sites to expand our audience. We placed posters all around with our blogging, Twitter, and Instagram accounts posted with QR codes for quick access (#dolvinFAN). We…

As the scho ol year starts, a great way to involve families in your curriculum is to consider hosting a family art night for your school. I...

Fine Arts Night has been a Dolvin tradition since before I started teaching there in 1996; it's a night that celebrates art and music in our school. It has grown by leaps and bounds and it is so rewarding to see families enjoying and talking about our year's work. This year marks my 20th show! Forgive the boxes in this shot - I snapped this during set up and got too busy to get another shot, but you can get the idea of the professional quality of the display set up by Artome. They do all the…

The best part of this lesson was watching the kids. Ani Hoover is a new favorite of mine. I talked to the kids about modern artists. They’re alive! And…. They don’t always use bru…

In the last few weeks we have had so many “Snow Days” off of school that our heads were spinning, and our toddlers feet didn’t stop moving! Cabin fever was setting in like nobody&…

This giant 5 foot tall mosaic wall, inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night", was a collaborative project at the small hands big art Fall Festival.

It has been several weeks since our Fine Arts Night and I have been waiting until things settled down here to write all about it. Many, many thanks to my co-worker Katie McEnaney for taking photographs of the event! “Wild About the Arts” Fine Arts Night We had our first ever Fine Arts Night. The night combined musical performances, an art show and art activities to celebrate the arts! We decided on an animal theme. We displayed one artwork from … Read more... →