Bette Fetter
About Bette Fetter
Posts by Bette Fetter:
Teaching Kids to Draw Video: How to Draw a Pig
Learning to draw has never been so fun, enjoyable and easy for your children! Improve your kid’s drawing technique and art skills with easy to follow video drawing tutorials. My how to draw videos are the perfect tool for kids and adults who want to learn how to draw. This week we are going to learn how to draw a pig.
Can’t get enough of these how to draw videos? Click here for our full playlist.
Art & Academics: 7th Graders Learn to Draw with You Tube Videos
We have been posting a Young Rembrandts’ How to Draw video, every week for a couple of months now. Based on the response we are getting, it seems parents are enjoying learning to draw as much as their kids. And it seems our videos are also good for kids of all ages. Check out the story I got from a teacher in California:
“I am a 7th grade teacher in southern California. We start each day with a zero period silent reading class that I also use as a math intervention session for my students who struggle with math. It is a great way to start the school day: students read or work in small math groups, while others can visit helpful math websites on their netbooks. The last two weeks of the school year are challenging because all library books and netbooks must be returned. Every year I look for worthwhile and engaging activities for my students to do in this early morning period. This year I discovered a wonderful resource – YouTube drawing lessons by Young Rembrandts.
Parenting: A Dad Life Video
We love dad’s and want to honor them all year but especially on Father’s Day. Take a few minutes to enjoy this musical tribute to suburbanite dad’s. Get ready for to see how they use playful rap to share their thoughts on raising kids, Disney movies, barbequing and landscaping.
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.
Want more how to draw videos? Click here to view the full playlist on YouTube.
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.
Can’t get enough of these how to draw videos? Click here for our full playlist.
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
