Arts & Crafts Heart Butterfly and Heart Baby

Make a Butterfly and a Baby. All you need is canvas, paint, decorative ribbon, beads, and wooden hearts. It's very simple to make and a lot of fun. You can give these away as gifts or sell them for extra cash.  ...

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Kids Crafts Teach Someone Their Basic Colors Easy Crafts

Help someone learn their colors! You can make a small book or even make flash cards. All you need is card stock paper, craft paper, and a pen for writing. Use common items to represent each color like the sun is for yellow and a heart is for red. This is a quick and easy way to teach someone...

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Honeysuckle Pink Arts & Crafts Sun

This was a project surrounding the color of the year, HoneySuckle Pink. I used a complementary color scheme of Red Orange and Blue Green. I decorated the piece with blue green flowers and beads and I used an upside sparkly pink heart for the nose. All you need is for this project is a canvas, acrylic...

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Make an Arts & Crafts Guitar

Make an Arts & Crafts Guitar. All you need is acrylic paint, canvas, beads, ribbon, and hot glue. This was make with a color square using Red-orange, violet, blue-green, and yellow. I added white to those colors to lighten the color scheme. The guitar is HoneySuckle Pink. Pantone.com has voted this...

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Valentine's Day Arts & Crafts

These were easy to make crafts that did not cost a lot of money to make. Most of the craft supplies I already had around the house. I only had to buy the picture frame and the candy. Here’s the video that shows step by step how I made these Valentine’s Day Arts & Crafts Project. ...

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Why Some of Van Gogh’s Paintings are Fading

Recently, some of yellows in Van Gogh’s paintings have turned to brown. Chemists using X-Ray machines discovered that a chemical is the root cause of the discoloration. They discovered the problem was two fold. First, Van Gogh added white to his yellow paint to create the bright lemon colored yellow...

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Support Art Education

Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. We were all taught these are the main learning essentials. It’s true, they are very important. However, art and music are also. It’s a proven fact that children that receive art education have a more creative approach to other subjects than other children that do not receive this type of education. In a recent study, children that listened to Mozart, scored higher...

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Make Crafts from Greeting Cards

Make crafts from the designs from greeting cards. All you need is greeting cards of your choice, craft paper, ribbon, decorative beads paint, and craft glue. Here, I got my color scheme from the stripped decorative craft paper I had. The colors were orange, pink, green, yellow, and white. ...

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Georges Seurat 1859-1891 Born in 1859, Georges-Pierre Seurat grew up in a wealthy family in Paris, France. He later studied art with Justin Lequien, a sculptor. After a brief stint at a Military Academy, he returned to his art in 1880. After being rejected by the Paris Salon, a French institution...

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HoneySuckle Pink Color of the Year 2011

According to Pantone.com, the color of the year for 2011 is Honeysuckle Pink. This is a beautiful and rich reddish pink. It’s a bold and confident color, yet it’s quiet enough for everyday use. You will be seeing alot of Honeysuckle Pink this year in clothing, home interior, and makeup. This color...

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