How to Show Off Your Child’s Art Work in Your Home

With a new school year here, children are bringing home many beautiful projects. As children grow and learn they look for different avenues to express their thoughts and creativity. The most common route for children to express their creativity is to create artwork. Artwork comes in various forms and can be paintings, drawings, sculptures and more.

As the artwork becomes plentiful, it can be challenging to display it around the house without it taking over every aspect. Follow these useful tips to show off your children’s artwork without losing your space.

Five Ways to Apply Glazes Successfully

You’ve created a beautiful piece of pottery. You’ve painstakingly hand built or thrown it, and perhaps carved an intricate design in it. Now all that’s left to do is glaze and fire it.

Glazing pottery can be accomplished in several ways. Here are the basics of each technique.

* Dipping – One of the simplest ways to glaze your pottery is to dip it. You simply put a medium-thick glaze into a container larger than the pottery and immerse your piece for a few seconds. This method is quick and easy, and it provides a nice, even coat. Another advantage of dipping is that it allows for the application of glaze to the outside of a pot and not the inside.

Basic Pottery Tools

Pottery is a fulfilling hobby. The items you create can be very useful, or they can be beautiful works of art. Many pieces fit into both categories.

There are catalogs filled with nothing but pottery supplies. To those who are interested in giving it a try, this can be rather discouraging. But you don’t need an entire studio full of stuff to get started. Just some basic tools will be sufficient for your first projects. These include:

Pottery: Handbuilding or Throwing?

Pottery is an ancient art form. Archaeologists have recovered pieces that were made many thousands of years ago, and the quality of some of them is astounding. Today, pottery continues to be a popular art and craft.

There are certain techniques that are universal, but each potter has his or her own opinion of the best way to do things. One of the most visible debates among potters involves one of the most basic options in pottery: Is it better to throw or handbuild?

Look What You Can Make With Dozens of Household Items!

The “Look What You Can Make With Dozens of Household Items!” craft book is part of the successful Look What You Can Make With series and incorporates eight previous books of the same series. The new compilation is spiral bound. Each individual book is labeled with a tab for quick and easy access to each topic.

Your kids will love creating artwork out of household items. Popsicle sticks, newspaper, paper plates, buttons, plastic bottles and egg cartons are some of the many items which can be utilized for fun and inexpensive art projects at home.

Have Fun Making a Birthday Pinata

Pi?atas are all the rage at kids’ birthday parties. There’s just something about getting blindfolded, trying to hit a brightly colored object with a stick, and picking up the candy that falls when someone succeeds that young people (and the young at heart) love. Pi?atas have become must-haves for birthday celebrations, but unfortunately they’re not cheap.

But did you know that pi?atas are really easy and fun to make? You can create a colorful pi?ata with just a few supplies, and you can find some of them around the house. Here’s how to make a simple one.
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