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Don’t ever think that your family can’t make a difference….just like today’s featured guests, your family can shine a light, even in your own neighborhood.:) Derek, Rye, and Haye, over at Free Art Project, are a family who paint; they paint pictures and inspiring words on cardboard, and then they post that art in their neighborhood. They have one particular fence that they frequent….
This all started as a family activity just for fun, but when they put up their first sign on an abandoned house in their neighborhood, a sign which read Hope, it started the project. They’ve actually had people take their art, and that’s ok. They put it out there to inspire and give hope to others.
What they do is they paint the pictures, and sometimes before the picture’s even dry, they’ll take a trip to put the pictures up, using only zip ties and the fence. It’s a pretty cool way to spruce up a neighborhood. Personally, I can’t get over the Hope picture left at the abandoned house….it really does inspire, and to me, it’s almost a mental image that even when everything seems hopeless, there is still hope….
Want to get involved? Well, this family wants you to get out your paints and show some love to your own neighborhood. They want you to share your art with the world! And you don’t have to be an artist to do so. Just paint what comes, and find your own fence to put it up on. Then email the pictures to thefreeartproject@gmail.com, so they can share them on their blog. What a great way to shine your light!
Thank you so much to Sarah at The Fifth Street Palace for first writing about this family, letting us all know about their story.
Time to just relax for a few minutes, and enjoy a few goodies that I’ve found lately or that someone else has brought to my attention.:) There are some awesome homeschool resources out there in the blogosphere and on forums….all you have to do is Google. Anyway, enjoy, and have a wonderful day! Don’t forget to link up your giveaways below!
Do you want to teach your child how to sew? Chez Beeper Bebe has a really adorable, homemade child’s sewing kit that might just motivate your child to get started.
My MamaBuzz partner introduced me to this blog, Lil Blue Boo, and oh my gosh, this blog is wonderful! She has a Beanbag Tutorial, which will take you through the steps of making your own beanbags, that will in turn help your child learn how to spell. Very cute!
Lesson Planet is truly an awesome resource, in my opinion. They are an online database of approximately 150,000 lesson plans for teachers to use for any subject, at any time. For me it was way easier to use Lesson Planet’s searchable database than to sift through hundreds of results on a regular search engine….mainly because everything is categorized and simplified within Lesson Planet. They offer a Homeschooling Web Guide for Teachers, as well as a Lesson Plan Curriculum Calendar, in which you can find ideas by the date. In fact, there are several different ways that you can search, to help you cut down on the number of results that you have to sift through. Here’s a short video to show you what I mean:
Lesson Planet doesn’t just have lesson plans, though; they also have printable worksheets. I actually sifted through multiplication worksheets, since that’s something we’re really working on right now. They have a variety of different types, including Problem Solving, Word Problem, Coloring, Drawing, Word Scramble, Printing Practice, Word Puzzle, Graphic Organizer, Essay, etc. If your child needs specific help with a certain subject, it’s easy to find something to fit his needs. Not only that, but you can look up the standards for each state on Lesson Planet. These standards tell you what your child should be able to do within each age group.
Since I sometimes have a hard time finding art projects for us to do, I decided to look up lesson plans for arts and crafts. I was able to narrow it down to Preschool arts and crafts. I came up with 796 results, which I could further break down by rating or topic (main type of craft). There were some very cool crafts within the database.
As a member of Lesson Planet, you can also share/create your own lesson plans. You can actually try Lesson Planet free for 10 days. After that it is $39.95 per year. You can become a fan of Lesson Planet on Facebook.
Don’t ever think that your family can’t make a difference….just like today’s featured guests, your family can shine a light, even in your own neighborhood.:) Derek, Rye, and Haye, over at Free Art Project, are a family who paint; they paint pictures and inspiring words on cardboard, and then they post that art in their neighborhood. They have one particular fence that they frequent….
