Bette Fetter
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Teaching Kids to Draw Video: How to Draw a Cartoon Dad
This Father’s Day weekend why not draw a funny cartoon of Dad? On today’s how to video we are going to learn how to draw a cartoon dad. You can add details that make it look like your dear ole Dad.
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A Family Wedding: Collaboration or Collision?
We recently had a wedding in the family – our first. While planning and executing such a grand and lovely event was thoroughly enjoyable, it was also a brilliant study on the way left and right-brain people approach a given task.
Our oldest daughter, the bride, is a visual-spatial thinker, full of ideas and vision; there’s a lot of that going on in our family. The groom’s, a social, left -brain analytical thinker, prefers numbers, budgets and excel spreadsheets; there’s a lot of that going on in their family. When it came time to plan the wedding, the right-brain, visual bride and bridesmaids immersed themselves in magazines, websites and social media, searching out ideas – visually. Pinterest became a family obsession, with everyone in the family searching out and sharing ideas. A few trips to stores, photographers, florists and wedding vendors, brought more options and ideas.
Teaching Kids to Draw Video: How to Draw Crabby Baby
I began recording “How To Draw” videos to share with you a couple of months ago. They have been received with rave reviews. Each video has easy to follow, step by step directions.
Who doesn’t like babies – even crabby ones?! Get your pad of paper and pencils ready as we learn to draw crabby baby.
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Art and Academics: Creativity
Are you creative? Can you draw? Paint a picture? Do you hold a patent for a new invention that will change the way we live?
Creativity is often defined in relation to artistic ability but creative thought reaches far beyond the arts and has profound implications in all parts of our lives. Creativity is about thinking outside the box, bringing fresh insight to established patterns of thought, rules and relationships. Creativity is a process of personal expression and playful pursuit, but creativity is also a highly sought after commodity, in business as well as the arts. Creative ideas may produce a work of art or music, it can lead to breakthroughs in science and engineering, increased personal satisfaction and career success, even solutions to highly complex social issues.
We are all capable of creative thought, but like other skills, it requires development. Countries all around the world have made the development of creativity a priority. However, while the United States has been a world leader of innovation in the past, increased emphasis on standardization, testing and cuts in arts programs, means we are no longer developing creativity and innovation in our students. Yong Zhao, author of
Inspire Your Child: 10 Summer Activities for Kids
Summer is a great time of year — the sun shines, days get longer and our schedules loosen. This is a list of our favorite activities for kids and families to do this summer.
Rain or shine, keep your family busy with these 10 activities:
The Invisible Woman
This video is for every parent and teacher that – does much – gives much – loves much. We may often feel unappreciated, overlooked – even invisible. But we do what we do because we’re ‘building cathedrals’.
Please take a few minutes and know that what you’re building matters.
Teaching Kids How to Draw: How to Draw a Monster
At Young Rembrandts, an after school enrichment program that teaches kids how to draw. The more kids we teach, the more parents ask – when are we going to teach them. So we’ve recorded a few, 2 minute, easy to follow, step by step “How To Draw” videos. Get out your pencil and paper and learn to draw a monster.
Insights From Children’s Art Expert Bette Fetter: Top Blog Posts for May 2013
- Have you run out to the store and bought your child new pencils and a drawing pad for these fun “How to Draw” videos yet? We kicked off May with a new video in our Teaching Kids How to Draw Video series with learning to draw a puppy.
- I was inspired after watching the Camden Sophisticated Sisters Drill Team on Dancing with the Stars. A powerful example of the impact the arts has made on the lives of kids.
- I welcomed the springtime weather with 13 Spring Creative Activities for Kids.
- Diagnosing ADD or ADHD is highly subjective and comes with a multitude of negative connotations. But what if it’s not a negative? What if your child is a visual learner….ADD and ADHD: Has Your Child Been Labeled.