Dinosaur Week: A Wrap Up!

Dinosaur Week was such a blast, thank you so much for joining! In case you missed any of our creative fun, I've put 'em all together in a blog post right here. Let's start with Friday. We created these amazing Dinosaurs in the City inspired by the book If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most!

On Thursday, we learned that Dinosaurs Love Snacks and created a pop-out dinosaur mouth featuring their favorite imagined snack foods:

Wednesday was probably my favorite day as we went on a Dino Dig!

On Tuesday, we created these fun hatching Dinosaur Egg Pop-Ups!

And we kicked off the week with these Paleontologist Portraits!

I hope you'll be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel as new videos are added almost every day! Also, if you want to join the fun live next week for Outer Space Week, you can do so on my Instagram or Facebook. See you real soon!

Outer Space Week!

Who is as excited for Outer Space Week as I am? I'm thrilled to share the line-up of art projects that we'll be creating this week. I'll be LIVE on my Instagram and my Facebook page every weekday at 11am CT. If you miss out on any of the live art classes, not to worry! I archive each lesson to my YouTube channel. By the way, I've been adding a ton of new videos nearly every day so you might want to go ahead and subscribe so you don't miss out! 

Okay, here's the line-up and supply list for each day! 

If you don't have the ingredients to make the clay then Play-Doh is an excellent substitute. Any clay will work! 

"Take me to your leader!"...that's what my alien would say. What would yours say? This fun pop out is so silly because you can make your alien TALK! This process is also great for creating other moving and talking cards and pop-ups!

Here's something you can create and then interact with once complete. Tell stories, write plays, come up with your own universe! 

This is such a fun process. If you've been creating with me for a while, you might remember we did a project using this method for Robot Week! 

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Dinosaur Week: Pop-Up Dinosaurs Love Snacks!

Our Dinosaur Week adventures continued on Thursday with this super fun activity: Dinosaurs Love Snacks! Here's the supplies suggested:

And here's the video so you can create along with me!

Have fun!

Let's Make a Pop-Up Perspective!

Ask any ole art teacher what one of the toughest things to teach is and you'll hear: Perspective! Well, check out this easy and fun pop-perspective project I came up with. I think you and your young artists will love it. Have fun!

Happy creating!

Let's Make a Pop-Up High Five!

It's National High Five Day! Let's celebrate with this easy and fun pop-up. Grab paper, glue, scissors, crayons or markers and a strip of cardboard or a ruler about 12" long. Here we go:

Have fun!