Category: arts and crafts

  • Frida Kahlo artist study

    Frida Kahlo artist study

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    I remember learning about Frida Kahlo in high school. I forget exactly where I learned about her, if it was part of history class or maybe just a random thing I learned, but the big things I took away from learning about her: she really liked her uni-brow and she painted a lot of self-portraits.…

  • Diego Rivera artist study

    Diego Rivera artist study

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    As we studied Mexico, we learned about their two most famous artists and turned it into history lessons, well art history, but I don’t have an art history landing page… Hmmm…. I need to create that since I’ve actually got a fair number of them. Focus Ticia, we’re talking about the Diego Rivera art history…

  • Christmas Story bracelet and poem

    Christmas Story bracelet and poem

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    Years ago I shared about our Christmas Story bracelet we made for our Sunday School class. Well, I’ve changed a few things. The general Christmas story bracelet is staying the same, but I decided to add a poem for the kids to take home. This has been wildly popular with the kids in my Sunday…

  • Edvard Munch art history lesson

    Edvard Munch art history lesson

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    When I was in high school, my youth pastor used The Scream as the theme for a youth retreat. And then it became a thing in pop culture. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that, but there are all sorts of great parodies of The Scream (which I’ll link to some in this art…

  • Klimt artist study

    Klimt artist study

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    I’d seen Gustav Klimt’s artwork before. It’s one many people enjoy parodying, and like many famous artists, you can see his original work and the work someone found to be fun. Our Gustav Klimt artist study was part of our Austria unit (one of our geography lessons), but it’s also a fun history lesson as…