Craft Stick Easel

Make a craft stick easel for your child's small paintings or drawings.  Find the Tiny Easel instructions on Family Fun.

Drawing and Doodling

My daughter really enjoys art in any way, shape or form!  We already think Ed Emberley's drawing books are wonderful but I came across two Joy Sikorski drawing books that she loves!  My daughter didn't get her art interest from me, I'm not even good at doodling (it was fun to do in a boring school class though)!

Printable art fun:

• Free Usborne doodling downloads
• Nick Jr. Doodle Doodle, Guess and Draw

Free online art lessons:

• Ed Emberley's drawing book sampler
• Free drawing lessons from Joy Sikorski
• Step by Step animal drawing lessons
• Learn drawing for kids on Kids Front
• How to Draw Funny Cartoon Animals

Digital art fun:

• Digital Doodle Pad on My Digital Masterpiece 
• Digital Canvas on art.com
• Color, paint and draw on ABCya!

Ed Emberly's Fingerprint Drawing Book

I checked out Ed Emberly's Fingerprint Drawing Book from the library and my 7 year old daughter has had so much fun with it!  I equipped her with a smock, stamp pads, wet rag, scratch paper, and construction paper.  She wasn't satisfied with her beginning practice but I told her to keep trying and look closely at the drawings and after a while she proudly showed me her page full of fingerprints!  She also made two birthday cards and was inspired to create a fingerprint drawing of her own (big dipper)!

The pictured directions for each fingerprint drawing are easy to follow.  The fun includes holidays, seasons, garden, and feelings.  Ed Emberly's Fingerprint Drawing Book would make a fun kid gift!

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Love and Lollipops is More Than Sweet

At first it was the 'sweet' little blog name (and a nice comment) that intrigued me to visit Love and Lollipops.  After I took a little time to look around I knew it was more than sweet!  The blog author, Georgia, lives in South Africa...her header says,"growing children's hearts and minds to be of the lovely kind"...she's a "Mom, Psychologist, and Photographer"...she has happy, fun, and creative posts...she's new to blogging (but doing fantastic)!   I've had a few e-mail interactions with Georgia and she's a friendly (and genuine) blogger!!  I like what she said in a recent e-mail reply, "I'm all about "bright and happy" if I can achieve it.  That's what I love about the blog space...it feels like it's my own little magazine!"  She's a natural at 'happy' in my opinion.  I enjoy Georgia's blog a lot and hope you will too!

It's winter in Cape Town so Georgia and her boys are creating inside...

Shapes Pictures

3D City Skyline

Georgia is busy creating too...

Matchbox Fridge Magnets

Sweetie Art

Some more Love and Lollipop posts that I like...
•Love Connections-- "Do you ever stop and suddenly realize that you haven't connected with your child for a few days?"
•Memetales-- kids' digital books
•No-Sew Caterpillar and Butterfly-- craft that goes along with a Memetales book
•Fun with Felt-- I love that Georgia was inspired by a little puzzle that makes her happy. ☺


*All photos from Love and Lollipops (used with written permission).