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Art with Anything: 52 Weeks of Fun Using Everyday Stuff (Mary Ann Kohl Books) Paperback – June 1, 2010

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With 52 weeks of fantastic art projects using easy-to-find, everyday materials, Art with Anything provides a year of creativity, imagination, and fun for children ages 4-10!

Organized alphabetically by material, each week features one everyday material (address labels, fabric scraps, leaves, rocks) and provides five days of unique activities, increasing in complexity with each day. Art with Anything uses materials like buttons, cardboard, hole-punch dots, junk mail, masking tape, sandpaper, and salt, which encourages recycling and reusing!

Children will love making “Glitter Photo Jars” or working on “Shake-It-Up-Bag Paintings,” and projects like “Family Finger Puppets” and “Fluff-N-Puff Mobiles” will keep them entertained for hours and stretch their imaginations.

Whether at home or at school, in child care or an after-school program, exploring the process of creating art is one of the most compelling ways children learn, and Art with Anything keeps children learning creatively all year long!
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    3 - 5 years
  2. Print length
    128 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Dimensions
    10.9 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
  5. Publisher
    Gryphon House
  6. Publication date
    June 1, 2010
  7. ISBN-10
    0876590857
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0876590850
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"This lively compendium of family-friendly art activities [is] highly recommended as a resource for parents...and caretakers." - The Midwest Book Review --Gryphon House

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With fifty-two weeks of fantastic art projects using ordinary materials, Art with Anything provides a year of creativity, imagination, and fun! This new book uses best-selling author MaryAnn F. Kohl's mantra "It's the process, not the product" to explore making art every day from everyday materials. Organized alphabetically by material, each of the fifty-two weeks features five days of activities, increasing in complexity with each day: Day 1 is basic, Days 2 and 3 are more challenging, Day 4 is a craft project, and Day 5 is multi-faceted or fancy. Materials include address labels, fabric scraps, hole punch dots, junk mail, leaves, rocks, salt, and many more! The activities in Art with Anything are creative, fun, and geared to children ages four to ten. Children will love making Glitter Photo Jars or working on Shake-It-Up-Bag Paintings, and projects like Family Finger Puppets and Fluff-N-Puff Mobiles will keep them entertained for hours, while stretching their imaginations. Exploring the process of creating art is one of the most creative ways children learn, and Art with Anything will keep children learning creatively all year long!

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gryphon House; Large type edition (June 1, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0876590857
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0876590850
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 3 - 5 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.9 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

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MaryAnn F. Kohl

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MaryAnn F. Kohl is the author of over 20 books about art activities for children. She believes in children creating through exploration rather than copying something an adult has made, or "process not product". Of course children enjoy the products too, but it is the process of discovery and creating that is most important to them. Visit her blog and her website for many free ideas, inspirations, and resources.

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MaryAnn is a frequent speaker and workshop leader around the USA, and would enjoy bringing art to your group in your country too. Hands-on art is the best part of the workshop!

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Marie
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Resource!!
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2010
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I own many of MaryAnn Kohl's books and love using them. Art With Anything is a new approach that will add great depth to the art experiences in my classroom.

As a teacher, I'm always looking for free or low-cost materials that will provide high-quality art experiences for children. We save egg cartons, berry baskets, bubble wrap, cardboard tubes, old CDs, and lots of other "stuff." But I was running out of ideas for what to do with these classroom favorites. Art With Anything is just what I need!! MaryAnn has so many fresh, creative suggestions for using just about anything I have saved or can buy inexpensively. The cool thing is that she presents five (and sometimes more) ideas for each item, so that I can use the same materials for a week or more. Day 1 is the most basic and the other four days build on the first, allowing children to experiment and explore.

Not only does Art With Anything give me new ideas for using what I already have, it gives me lots of ideas for materials I hadn't even thought to use-- junk mail, hole-punch dots, old blurry photos and CD cases. I like how the book repeats types of projects with different materials. There are numerous collage activities, printing techniques and mobiles so children can refine their skills.

The format is user-friendly and visually appealing. Having five days worth of projects on a two-page spread makes it easy to plan my curriculum. The lists of materials and directions are clear and compact. It's amazing how many ideas fit in this book---cotton balls, clear plastic wrap, coffee grounds, cotton swabs, jigsaw puzzle pieces. I'm convinced we really can art with anything!
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Crow
4.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas for Libraries
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2013
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This book is geared to 4-10 yr-olds, but many of the ideas can be adapted to work with 3-5yr-olds. If you are a teacher or librarian looking for fun process art ideas-this is a great resource!This book has a great layout. Each week she explores a different medium and carries it through for a 5-day lesson. Some of her ideas are ones that many of us with a creative brain have already figured out, but I love how she takes an idea from Day 1 and uses it again on Day 3 or 4. This will come in very handy for library programming.
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Sister-Mom
5.0 out of 5 stars TONS O FUN!
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2014
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This is a MUST HAVE for any parent, caregiver, Nanny, Grandparent for summer vacations, VBS, etc. Most everything in this book is already in a normal household and ready for play....except really, really stock up on GLUE!
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monica_andrade05
5.0 out of 5 stars must have book for people working with very young children
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2013
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great book to have handy, it has helped me look at materials differently and help save lots of money. my child loves many of the activites here and inspired spin offs of our own.
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Mountain.Girl22
3.0 out of 5 stars Visual Representations of the Art Projects are not shown...
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2017
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There are some good ideas for arts and crafts in this book, so it will be useful for me in my work with young children. I am giving it only three stars because it would be so much more helpful if pictures of the final projects would have been added to the text. In fact, pictures or visual representations would have been the most important part of the book for me had they been added.
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Ellen J. Homitsky
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, open ideas but a bit repetitive
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2013
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I have other books by this author and love them. While many ideas are open-ended, there was an element of repetition in this book that I had not noticed in the other books.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2016
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awesome book
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Merle Green
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2016
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eclarke
5.0 out of 5 stars So many great ideas using readily available objects
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2014
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I found this in a local library and had to buy a copy. I'm starting out as a childminder and there are so many great ideas here. It's set into one object per week, with 5 craft ideas. I've tried out a few with my kids and they've all been hits. The list of materials required is very clear for each project. Ideal for pre-school and early school years.
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Christina G.
5.0 out of 5 stars very nice
Reviewed in Germany on May 12, 2013
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give a lot of different ideas on crafts, definitely doing these as soon as it gets warm enough outside! T
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