These adorable muddy pig paintings were created by preschool art masters!

We learned all about pigs and then created these ‘muddy’ collage paintings. They turned out SO cute!

Muddy Pig by Elizabeth, age 4

Pig by Margaret, age 3

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Introducing our brand new art stations!

I’ve been hard at work the past few weeks readying some Little Scribbler sized tables and an easel for our classes. Everything was re-purposed, and started out in rough shape. I think you will agree that they turned out really cute:

I bought 2 1980’s style TV tables from Goodwill- One was painted cherry red and will be our sculpture table. The other has a chalkboard finish and the kiddos can draw right on the table surface.

I also repainted an easel with chalk board paint and some more cherry red. I’ll be adding clamps next week to hold children’s artwork in place so we will also be able to use it to paint!

Here they are in the BCA space:

Art Stations

Clay table

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Here is the recipe for the ‘chocolate clay’ we used this week for our bakery class.

Chocolate Clay

(makes 3 large balls of clay, they should last around a month if kept in ziploc baggies or storage containers)  

• 2 cup AP flour (plain flour)
• 2 cups water
• 6 tbs salt
• 4 tsp cream of tartar
• 8 tbs cocoa powder

In a saucepan (preferably nonstick), mix the dry ingredients together so the mixture is as smooth as possible. It is OK if a few little lumps remain. Add water mix again.

Heat slowly, stirring regularly. As the mixture starts to thicken, stir constantly. Soon it will begin to start to pull away from the sides of the saucepan and form one lump. You may need to flip the clay to cook both sides if the top looks gooey. This takes about 6 minutes.  You will know it’s done when the clay no longer sticks to your hands/or utensils.

Remove from the heat and place the play dough ball on some parchment paper. Let cool and then knead for a minute or so.

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In class this week we created bakery art, learned about the profession of Baker and the yummy creations they make. Our Scribble Kids created collage portraits of Bakers holding their wares.

First we learned all about proportion and how to correctly place features when drawing the face. The students were to place their eyes half-way down the face, with the eyebrows slightly above them. It’s amazing what placement can do to make things look more realistic! We also added a ‘connecting shape’ to our circle faces to create the jaw.

Then we added chef hats and bodies for our characters. The kids had great fun creating textured eyebrows. I was surprised there were no mustaches in this class.

After gluing the head and shoulders down on 12×18″ paper, we added arms to the characters. Then there was a hand drawing demo that was challenging for some children, but they will get it with practice! Finally we added plates with hand drawn delicious baked goods.

Here are our final artworks!

Baker by Sophie, age 7

Baker by Connor, age 6

Baker by Lexi, age 5

Baker by Owen, age 9

Baker by Ruby, age 8

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Congratulations to 3 Little Scribblers this week at our donut art class. They used our ages 3+ training scissors for the first time, cut out circles (a challenge for newbies) and frosted them with purple homemade puffy paint and sprinkles. Nice work, girls!

Little Scribbler Donut

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Congratulations to 3 Little Scribblers this week at our doughnut art class. They used our ages 3+ training scissors for the first time, cut out circles (a challenge for newbies) and frosted them with purple homemade puffy paint and sprinkles. Nice work, girls!

Little Scribbler Doughnut

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Brazil Kids Art lesson!

We learned about the country of Brazil, the Amazon rain forest and artist Romero Britto today.

We started off class learning about Romero Britto, a Brazilian Neo-Pop artist whose work really resonates with children. I’ve attached several examples here:

Then we created our own Romero Britto inspired art using crayola markers and black line work.

Flying Heart by Katie, age 7

I Love Olivia, by Vivian age 5

White Rabbit by Jeffrey, age 7

We also learned about the Scarlet Macaw and the Brazilian carnival.

Scarlet Macaw

We even made our own carnival headdresses!

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Kids Art Russia lesson!

Today we learned about Russian architecture and ‘onion domes,’ as depicted in St. Basil’s Cathedral.

We used sharpie markers on watercolor paper to make our drawings permanent. Then we added watercolor paint and salt. The salt separates the water in a beautiful pattern. They turned out SO original! This technique is always a parent favorite, and the kids always love to paint.

Here are some examples of our final art:

Onion Domes by Katie, age 7

Onion Domes by Vivian, age 5

Onion Domes by Emilia, age 6

Onion Domes by Jeffrey, age 7

Onion Domes by Samantha, age 7

Onion Domes by Anne, age 6

We also sampled some delicious Russian Tea Cakes and I’ve included the recipe below. These are easy to make with kids!

Russian Tea Cakes (no nuts)

Butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, flour, salt

Ingredient List:

1 cup softened butter/margarine

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1/4 tsp salt

optional – chopped nuts

How to Make Russian Tea Cakes:

1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
2.  Mix butter powdered sugar & vanilla in a large bowl.
3. Stir in flour, salt & nuts (optional). Mix & knead until dough forms.
4. Shape dough into small balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
5. Bake 12-14 minutes or until set.
6. Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar.

(I did this part since they were hot!)

7. Let cool completely.
8. Roll in more powdered sugar & enjoy!

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Scribble Kids traveled to France and learned about art, history and culture!

Here are some of my students (with signed photo releases) working hard on their projects

Hard at work!

Coloring a ‘Rose Window’

We learned about the Eiffel tower and Post-Impressionism today and studied a painting by Georges Seurat of the Eiffel Tower, which you can see below.

  Eiffel Tower, by Georges Seurat

We began our own Eiffel towers with a guided drawing in oil pastels.

Eiffel Tower Beginning Sketch

Then we added color mixing ‘dots’ just like Georges Seurat’s paint strokes. This created optical color mixing! Here are some of my student’s final art.. things got busy so I wasn’t able to photograph everything, unfortunately:

Eiffel Tower by Jeffrey, age 7

Eiffel Tower by Emelia, age 6

Eiffel Tower by Katie, age 7

Eiffel Tower by Samantha

Eiffel Tower by Gabby, age 6

Eiffel Tower by Avery, age 6

Eiffel Tower by Vivian, age 5

Eiffel Tower by Anne, age 6

We also worked on French poodles! Class was so busy I only got one photograph. Only half done here, but VERY cool!!

Poodle in progress

So cute and fluffy!

Here is the recipe the children sampled of French yogurt cake. It’s very easy to make.

French Yogurt Cake (Gateau au Yaourt)

Flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, lemon, Greek yogurt, vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla, butter

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
3/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Coat a standard (8 1/2 x 4 1/4″) loaf pan with nonstick vegetable oil spray.  Dust with flour; tap out excess.

Whisk 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 tsp. baking powder and the kosher salt in a medium bowl.

Using your fingers, rub 1 cup sugar with the lemon zest in a large bowl until sugar is moist.  Add the yogurt, vegetable oil, eggs and vanilla;   whisk to blend.  Fold in dry ingredients just to blend.

Pour batter into prepared pan; smooth top.  Bake until top of cake is golden brown and a tester inserted into center comes out clean, 50 to 55 minutes.  Let cake cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.  Invert onto rack; let cool completely.

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Kids art India class

We learned about the history, culture and art of India today and had a lot of fun!

Our main project today was recreating the ‘painted elephant festival’ of Jaipur, India. Here are some cool examples of painted elephants from the festival:

We created 3-dimensional paper sculptures with collage elements and decorated them with colored pencil ‘paint.’

Here are some of our final creations:

Elephant by Katie, age 7

Katie with her elephant

Elephant 1

Elephant 2

Elephant 3

Elephant by Sean, age 5

We also enjoyed a traditional Indian snack recipe, with mixed reviews! (It used a lot of spices the children were not familiar with, plus it was vegetables). I did not include the tofu or the peanuts in our recipe.

Corn Chaat

Corn, tofu, onion, tomato, carrot, coriander, lemon juice, salt, pepper

Prep time

5 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

15 mins

A quick salad snack made with corn, indian cottage cheese and raw veggies

Author: Swasthi

Recipe type: Snack

Cuisine: Indian

Yield: 2

Ingredients (240 ml cup used)

·         1 cup of corn kernels (boiled)

·         10 paneer or tofu cubes

·         ½ small onion finely chopped

·         ½ small tomato finely chopped

·         ½ carrot grated

·         1 green chili (optional, skip for kids)

·         Few coriander leaves / cilantro chopped

·         Chat masala powder as needed

·         Amchur if needed (your chat masala will already have amchur, so add only if needed) or lemon juice

·         Salt as needed

·         Pepper powder if needed

Instructions

1.   Wash corn under running water. If using corn on the cob, soak them in salted water for sometime. Any pesticide residue will just get rinsed well. Boil the corn cobs or corn kernels in a large bowl filled with water. If using cobs, remove the kernels after boiling. Drain water completely. If you are using tender corn, you can alternately steam the corn to retain nutrients.

2.   Cut paneer to small chunks. Tawa fry paneer in just one tsp ghee.

3.   Add all the ingredients and toss well and serve corn chaat immediately while hot. If desired you can top it with crunchy roasted peanuts.

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Amazing ohio kids art – folk art chickens!

Oh how I’ve looked forward to this class.. I am very easily amused and I think chickens are one of the weirdest, coolest animals. Did you know chickens are related to dinosaurs?! True story. For proof, click here. 

I think they look alike, don’t you?

In class today we learned about folk art and viewed some farm related examples of North American folk art, including sculpture and quilts. We sketched chickens in 3 different ways:

Anime chicken by Thatcher. WOW.

Then we chose our favorite chicken sketch and drew the design on large construction paper. We used oil pastels and baby oil to blend bright colors together.

Finally, we collage-d paper squares around our chickens to create a final folk art ‘quilt.’ Here are our final images!

Chicken Quilt by Maura, age 6

Chicken Quilt by Rowin, age 6

Chicken Quilt by Ingrid, age 6

Chicken Quilt by Dexter, age 10

Chicken Quilt by Thatcher, age 7

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We had another successful northeast ohio kids art class, this time making 3-D food drawings! We used the medium of pastel to create our own interpretations of artist Wayne Thiebaud’s pop art paintings.

This class incorporated the use of 1 and 2 point perspective drawing! We also practiced adding a light and shadow side to objects. The results were wonderful!

We created pop art milkshakes,

Milkshake drawing

Milkshake by Maura, age 6

Upside down ice cream cones,

Angry Ice Cream by Dexter, age 10

And came up with our own pop-culture object. Shown below is a smart phone. Great idea, Dexter!

Smart Phone by Dexter, age 10

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We had an amazing time this past Saturday being ‘inventors!’ In this kids art class we learned about shape versus form while creating their own robot designs.

First the kids invented their robots, by creating 3 designs. I provided reference robo-parts for inspiration, and the kids came up with some very cool ideas!

“Girl Robot” by Maura

Dexter’s Robot in a Robot Arena

We chose our favorite design and then painted a flat gray value over the robot’s shape. Since this was a 1 day workshop and not an ongoing class, we were unable to store our wet art. Luckily Mrs. Scribble had her trusty hair dryer! I dried the paintings while the students created a second artwork: designing a futuristic world for their robots to live in. They LOVED this part.

Next we added white shine, or reflected light ‘stripes’ onto our robots. I showed them how to draw the stripes always on the same side of their robot, on every robot body part. Then we added black stripes for the shadow side of the robot, on every robot part. Finally we added an outer shadow around the robots.

Robo-Puppy Shadows and Highlights by Maura

Robo-Cat by Thatcher

Value is always a challenge for young children, and even more so using paint. Generally I prefer using pastels or oil pastels when teaching value, as it is slightly more forgiving than paint. If I do this lesson again, I’ll paint a demonstration robot along with them. I also let the kids go a little wild adding color to their robots at the end, but I encourage creativity. Process is what counts, as kids learn by doing and I never want to stifle that.

View the final art below!

Robo-Puppy, by Maura age 6

“Girl” “Thatcher is a BOY”

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We had the fiercest artists around today at Peninsula Art Academy!

By Marymaking

I got my jungle jaguar inspiration from Mary Making.  She created her own jungle jaguar using paper collage and colored pencils. I love the mixed media approach, but we didn’t have time for watercolors to dry today.
I decided to go a step further and teach the kids how to create a foreground, middle and background using collage elements. But first, we created our jaguar close-ups with a guided drawing that explored blending and shading. So proud of how much the kids absorbed!

Maura’s jaguar drawing

Next the kids cut out their jaguars, and I gave them big construction paper to create their ‘background’ rain forest.

We used oil pastels and colored pencils to draw our jungle scene. Then we added the ‘middle ground’ or the middle of our scene, by collaging paper leaves and water. Finally we added the ‘foreground’ of our pictures, and glued our super-big jaguars and leaves in front.

The kids used their imaginations with the rain forest scenery, but we also had reference images for inspiration!

Dexter’s jungle jaguars are fighting!

By Thatcher, age 7

By Maura, age 6

By Dexter, age 10

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We had the fiercest artists around today at Peninsula Art Academy!

By Marymaking

This kids art class featured jungle jaguars. I got my jungle jaguar inspiration from Mary Making.  She created her own jungle jaguar using paper collage and colored pencils. I love the mixed media approach, but we didn’t have time for watercolors to dry today.
I decided to go a step further and teach the kids how to create a foreground, middle and background using collage elements. But first, we created our jaguar close-ups with a guided drawing that explored blending and shading. So proud of how much the kids absorbed!

Maura’s jaguar drawing

Next the kids cut out their jaguars, and I gave them big construction paper to create their ‘background’ rain forest.

We used oil pastels and colored pencils to draw our jungle scene. Then we added the ‘middle ground’ or the middle of our scene, by collaging paper leaves and water. Finally we added the ‘foreground’ of our pictures, and glued our super-big jaguars and leaves in front.

The kids used their imaginations with the rain forest scenery, but we also had reference images for inspiration!

Dexter’s jungle jaguars are fighting!

By Thatcher, age 7

By Maura, age 6

By Dexter, age 10

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Well, this is my first post since updating my website to focus solely on art education. I am very excited to begin promoting Scribble Kids and the brand new lessons I’ve created. Welcome everyone, to my art education blog! I hope to cover many art history lessons and provide inspiration for other educators. I’m not the best at web design, but Elegant Themes made it easy to create this website using their Divi builder.For the first time I can create what I want, visually! This is pretty monumental.  Check out their wordpress services here: elegant themes

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Scribble Kids has finally been launched!

This blog is here for inspiration- kids, parents and art teachers are my audience. (At least, I hope so!)

Well, this is my first post since updating my website to include both illustration AND art education. I am very excited to begin promoting Scribble Kids and the brand new lessons I’ve created. I hope to cover many art history lessons and provide inspiration for other educators. I’m not the best at web design, but Elegant Themes made it easy to create this website using their Divi builder. For the first time I can create what I want, visually! This is pretty monumental.  Check out their wordpress services here: elegant themes

Mrs. Scalmato plus pocket-dog.

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Here’s another fun illustration from the archives:

Pirate Parrot Saves the Day

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Here’s another fun illustration from the archives:

Pirate Parrot Saves the Day

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I’ve just completed my first summer e-market mailing for my illustration work! Will soon be contacting boutiques and galleries for my fine art and jewelry, which is available here:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheButtonBird

Stay tuned for a great deal more illustration work being added to the oil portfolio. I’m researching famous fairy tales and nursery rhymes for a new series!

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I’ve just completed my first summer e-market mailing for my illustration work! Will soon be contacting boutiques and galleries for my fine art and jewelry, which is available here:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheButtonBird

Stay tuned for a great deal more illustration work being added to the oil portfolio. I’m researching famous fairy tales and nursery rhymes for a new series!

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