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The Value of Introducing Famous Artists To Children

I think there is value in teaching children to appreciate art. Often art is a doorway to the historical period in which it was made. So by studying famous artists of different times, the children gain insight into the times they are studying.

It teaches children to think more openly and more creatively by introducing them to the creativity of others.

20 Reasons Why Art Is Important for Children has a wonderful list of values that art offers.

If you are interested in homeschooling or the Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling, you might be interested to find out that Charlotte Mason felt that children should be exposed to art in their studies "In order that children may be put in touch with the contribution that each famous artist has made to the world's store of all that is beautiful and worthwhile."--from Art Appreciation the Charlotte Mason Way website.

Leonardo da Vinci Crafts and Lesson Plans
Suggestions for Paper Airplanes to go with da Vinci lessons for the kids.
Leonardo da Vinci Activities and Games
Leonardo da Vinci Coloring Pages
A Cool Youtube video
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Leonardo da Vinci Crafts and Lesson Plans

Incredible @rt Department has a load of great ideas for creative applications of different artists' styles. They are categorized several ways: by artist, by child's age, by subject, by medium, by art period and by integration.

Diary of 1's blog page: Leonardo da Vinci for Kids has a 4 part lesson plan with 4 different crafts for kids to do. All of these are related to different periods of da Vinci's life.

Mona Lisa Art Activity is a portrait painting activity for kids, with suggestions of ways to direct the kids' thinking.

Be an Inventor like da Vinci is an idea from my blog. After much agonizing, I came up with the idea of giving the children many craft items and telling them to be an inventor like da Vinci was in all his notebooks. It was really successful for my co-op class.

If you are working with kids about da Vinci, wouldn't it be a great idea to get a good paper airplane book? And then make some of them and fly them.? It would flow quite nicely with his love of flight and his creative inventions concerning flight.

Suggestions for Paper Airplanes to go with da Vinci lessons for the kids.

Leonardo da Vinci Activities and Games

A. Pintura: Art Detective In the style of the noir detective novels, this site covers 6 famous artists (Raphael, Van Gogh, Titian, Gauguin, Millet and Picasso).

Pac-Mondrian This is an art game in the style of Pac-Man. The tag line on the webpage is "Classic Gaming Meets Modern Art." Isn't that great?

Artsology.com is a great site with lots of interactive computer games. Some of the artists included are Mondrian, Picasso, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and others.

The National Gallery of Art has a great site with many activities for kids, including the ability to zoom in to many pictures to see the detail. (Just scroll down to the very bottom of the page to see this activity.)

Leonardo da Vinci Coloring Pages

A Very Nice Mona Lisa Coloring Page

A Beautiful Version of Lady with an Ermine Coloring Page

One of the famous self portraits of Leonardo da Vinci

Madonna and Child Coloring Book This is a great online coloring book, which includes a coloring page of da Vici's Madonna with St. Anna. There are also coloring pages of works by Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio, Paolo Veronese and Titian.

A Cool Youtube video

Leonardo War Machine Here is a youtube video I would suggest. Be careful about randomly clicking on youtube videos about Leonardo da Vinci, because many of them contain nudity.