Celebrate Youth Art Month with a Free Article Download!
March is National Youth Art Month! Founded in 1961, Youth Art Month encourages art advocates and organizations to raise awareness about the important role that art education has in enriching and strengthening the minds of students.
In observance of this national celebration, we would like to offer you a bit of insight into inspiring the children in your life. Please enjoy this free article download from the premiere issue of Create With Me. We hope that it encourages you to share the gift of creativity by introducing similar projects into their daily routine.
Spread the word about National Youth Art Month! Here are some ideas:
- Volunteer to teach a curriculum-based art project to your child’s class
- Reach out to your blogging network and organize a blog hop advocating Youth Art Month
- Donate a basket of art supplies to an underprivileged school district
- Institute the Reflections program through the PTA at your child’s school
- Organize a school-wide bookmark decorating contest. Display them around the school so the kids can see their masterpieces!
Click here to download the article!
How can you raise awareness about the arts in your community? Tell us in the comments below!
Artwork from Create With Me Summer ’11 by Danika, Zoey, and Bethany Kartchner
Posted: Monday, March 12th, 2012 @ 9:01 am
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I am an elementary art teacher, and we do a regional art show at the mall and a state art show (for schools all from Wisconsin) at the state capitol building. I’d be interested in doing a blog hop! I have a ton of kids’ art projects on my blog.
Hi there, I teach art, design and creativity classes to adults and children….I would love to join a blog hop to share some of the projects that kids have created in my classes….just sent your article to a friends that is looking for a project to teach this week in her daughters class. I’ll let you know if she uses it.
[…] 3. Stampington and Co. shared a story and project today that conveys part of my mission of redlinedesign®. March is National Youth Art Month and the project is for children, especially girls on creating a power plaque, or a way to reaffirm the strength that they create and bring to the world…(Part of my mission: sharing art, design and creativity with children in order to teach them the value of creativity in their lives) […]
When I teach adult mixed media classes at the Art Center of Corpus Christi, I give away Stampington magazines as door prizes. I also teach Family Art Time Saturdays (free to the kids) and they create a work of art and take it home. Volunteering at local schools is a great way to spread the word about art. Participating in teacher training helps share the message that mixed media is “green art” too! I melt plastic grocery store bags and turn them into mixed media purses and our local news station KRIS TV did a segment on why I love plastic bags. see video here http://www.kristv.com/news/another-use-for-plastic-bags-trash-turned-to-treasure/ I would be interested in joining a blog to share art lessons for adults and children. xoxo
Your magazines are so innovative and always seems to fill exact gap of our requirements. I can’t wait for more green (digital issues) especially since their are so many magazines that your publish that I love. Ordering them to Africa seems a bit indulgent on my part (and I have indulged in quite a few), if you consider paper and airplane emissions. Would your company ever consider offering the magazines digitally or for kindle?
Hi Willow! We do offer a selection of our magazines in a digital format that you can download to your computer. You can find them here: http://e-crafting.com/publications.php.
What a wonderful resource! I just shared this article with our folks on Twitter. I also wanted to share the Arts & Healing Network, which is an online resource for art and healing. There’s a significant section about working with kids, so please come on over and check it out! http://www.artheals.org/home.html
I love reading through an article that can make men and women think.
Also, thanks for allowing for me to comment!