My Creativity Blog

My husband loves to watch Do-It-Yourself programs.  I think some of the most creative people in the world take one thing and use it to create something else entirely.  For example you can install beautiful counter tops made from recycled glass.  We watched a show where a man built his own company turning old composite [...]

The Art for Homeschool February Show is impressive.  If you have not seen the entries, go to Art for Homeschool.  Talk about creativity!  Children from ages 5 – 13 have entered a wide variety of art projects. If you want to be inspired to be more creative, simply look at their work.  Almost every genre [...]

Today you have a chance to view the results of an online art show. The show is sponsored through Art For Homeschool. You may have seen the links to the blog on a widget or in the information about me. On Art For Homeschool I started an online art show for homeschool students.  I did [...]

What does it mean to be a patron of the arts? According to Dictionary.com a patron is “a person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsement an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event, or the like”.  You can be a patron in many different ways.  Giving money is not the only way to support the [...]

Hi Everybody! I am excited about a couple of new creative ventures I am working on. First of all I have started a new blog. It is Art For Homeschool. Art for Homeschool is a website devoted to helping parents give their children art instruction through various ways.  You will probably notice that I have placed links to [...]

I found a website that will randomly generate “word clouds”.  The site is http:www.wordle.net.  You are given several ways to generate these interesting images. I had fun playing on the site. I created a “word cloud” by giving Wordle the address of My Creativity Blog. The image above is the one I chose after generating a dozen or [...]

Would you like to see an example of a homeschool movie project?  I wrote two articles about making movies as a homeschool project and have them posted on my blog. If you have not read the articles, here are the links: A Great Homeschool Project – Making a Movie Part II of A Great Homeschool [...]