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A Blog for Art Teachers and Moms

In this blog, you will discover free art resources, creative ideas, and activities to engage kids. Additionally, the blog serves as a promotion for kid art courses, summaries of art resources for purchase, and personal stories from A. M. Snyder the art teacher and mom behind Snyder’ Sunshine Art Studio. She looks forward to being you companion along the journey of teaching kids art. All posts in this blog are geared toward the art minded adult who wants to shine the creative process on young minds.

12 Promising Interactive Art Activities To Kickstart The School Year

Caterpillar Lines

Use line and shape along with raised relief caterpillars to connect art and nature.

How to make a picture of a Reindeer with Shape

Combining the two categories of shapes helps build our pictures.

Let’s Answer the Question: Why do people make art?

How to use scribbles with art students

Make a Paper Sculpture in an Hour

10 Ways to use Crayons in the Art Room

An eBook that guides teachers on how to use the basic inexpensive crayons to produce many different works of art with their students.

Look for the Snowman Shape in Art

Here are many objects that start with the two stacked circles that are like drawing the popular snowman.

Male Artists who use Hearts in Art & Art Lessons

A Quick Christmas Activity to Fill Time

2 Easy Christmas Art Lessons with Stocking & Reindeer

2 Fun & Easy Fall Art Lessons

How to use a foundational Circle to draw Many Different Sea Creatures.

The very Patterned Caterpillar in 40 minutes.

How to draw a pair of rain boots!

How to draw different flowers with lots of lines.

Starting out as a Teacher Entrepreneur

How do you teach color in a virtual world?

What is a Leprechaun Trap

No Sharks with Hearts on Valentine’s Day Cards

How to Engage Children Creativity in God’s Word

Starting a Business is like taking a Course

Family of 4 on New Year’s Eve

Candy Houses

Clay Cookies

Sharks in the Bedroom

Owl Mural

One Heart Art Lesson that Gets Kids Excited

3 Different Snow-Persons art lessons

Marks and Dots

Radial Balance

Printmaking Owls

Flower Craft

Beautiful Butterflies

Glitter Paint

Flying Rockets

Art Teacher Artist

Color is Beautiful