For anyone familiar with Google Maps street view, the Google Art Project takes the same navigational approach to select art museums. Yes, you can cruise through the Museum of Modern Art just as you can cruise a street in Google Maps using just your web browser. Even better, you can zoom in on art works, [...]
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Google Art Project: A Museum of Museums
Posted by ginac on June 22nd, 2011
Posted in Art, Eclectic Homeschooling, Online Tools 
Tags: Art museum, google, Google Street View, Museum, Museum of Modern Art, TED 
5 Comments »Teach Yourself Comic Illustration
Posted by ginac on May 18th, 2011
Celebrate summer by creating comic heroes and then use this nifty set to learn how to draw them just like the pros. Comic books are fun because they’re easy to read and have cool artwork, a lot of action, and strong heroes.Kids enjoy comics so much they often create their own stories and heros. We [...]
Recycle Old Junk Into Cool Make Projects
Posted by ginac on April 15th, 2011
We throw away so much stuff! Before tossing those empty paper towel rolls into the trash, consider giving them an extended life by transforming them into something beautiful, useful, and fun. We’ve found some great websites that offer simple and more complicated projects for recycling broken, used, and disposable items. Make-Stuff.com has some really creative projects, many [...]
Posted in Activities, Art, Electronics, Environmental Conservation, Make Tags: Electronics, Environment, Floppy disk, Recycling, ReplayGround Comments OffHow to Customize a Lego Minifigure
Posted by ginac on April 2nd, 2011
Lego minifigures are as easy to mix and match as bricks in Lego sets. In most cases, simply changing a body color and adding different hair, hat, or helmet is enough customization to transform a minifigure. In some cases, though, you need a very specific body and face to build a convincing minifigure. For example, super [...]
Posted in Activities, Art, Just for Fun, LEGOs Tags: custom Lego, LEGO, Lego Batman, Lego minifigure, Lego Robin, Lego superheroes Comments OffHowtoons: Geeky Comics Show Kids How to Make Stuff from Household Items
Posted by ginac on February 26th, 2011
Howtoons is a comic-based website full of rich comic strips containing ingenious instructions on how to make things using basic science and engineering principles. Aimed at 8 to 12-year olds, Howtoons uses rich, colorful animation and a fun story to engage children’s natural interest in humor, comic strips, and having fun. Our youngster gravitated to the marshmallow [...]
Posted in Activities, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Programming, Eclectic Homeschooling, Ecology, Environmental Conservation, Interdisciplinary, Make, Music, Physics, Science Tags: Arts, comic, Comic strip, Howtoons, Online 2 Comments »Personalized Pretend-Play Comic Poster
Posted by ginac on February 24th, 2011
We’re huge fans of interdisciplinary projects, especially those that encourage creativity. We also create projects around our child’s interests, so comic strips and comic books are sometimes part of the learning experience. Pretend play and dress-up are also popular — imagination rules! We’ve created a really fun project that combines the fun of pretend-play dress-up [...]
Posted in Activities, Art, Eclectic Homeschooling, Interdisciplinary Tags: Art, Batman, Bruce Wayne, comic, Comic strip, creativity, interdisciplinary learning, script writing 1 Comment »Homeschoolers: Want to Be Literary Quarterly’s New Art Director?
Posted by ginac on November 12th, 2010
The Homeschool Literary Quarterly is looking for an Art Director! The fabulous people of WriteGuide are eager to fill this position soon, so if you’re a homeschool parent or graduate, or connected to homeschooling in some manner, consider the following: The Art Director’s primary job will be to track down images to post with each [...]
Make Things!
Posted by ginac on October 27th, 2010
Children love to learn by doing and what better way to learn than through making stuff! I searched around the internet for diverse but fairly simple projects to make with kids. I found some really fun projects so I’m sharing them with you. Make Your Own Kites What could be more fun than making these [...]
Kids Learning Blender: Super3Boy’s Online Tutorials
Posted by ginac on October 2nd, 2010
We love to watch the Pixar movie shorts that usually precede a Pixar movie. Well, with Blender, a free, open source 3D animation tool, kids can learn to create their own 3D animated short films. Although Blender definitely isn’t kiddie software, Super3boy’s online tutorials really help. Our young homeschooler isn’t the least bit intimidated by [...]
Posted in Art, Computer Programming, Games, technology Tags: 3D, Blender, Blender Foundation, Open source, Rendering and Modelling, YouTube 1 Comment »Create Candy and Crayon Lego Bricks & MinFigures
Posted by ginac on August 21st, 2010
OK, everyone is gearing up to start learning in earnest after a nice, relaxing summer. What better way to lead into a new learning year than to do something fun? LEGOs are really fun as toys, but what about as candy or as crayons? We came across a few blog posts that provide instructions on [...]
