Listen and sing along to Here Comes Santa Claus here! Download the PDF handout and Color Along! Hum the tune from the song. Listen again and look at the lyrics to sing. Color the Santa and the sign that says “Santa Claus Lane”. Cut them out and hang them on …
Celebrate International Tea Day this December 15th with this tutorial on how to draw a teacup! Fun facts about tea: It takes about 2,000 tea leaves to make one pound of tea. The first “iced tea” was served at the 1904 World Fair in St. Louis when it was too …
Listen to and sing along to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer here! Download the handout and color along! Hum the tune from the song. Listen again and look at the lyrics to sing along. Think about what the lyrics mean and try to learn all the reindeers’ names! Draw Rudolph and …
Video: The Birth Of Pop Predating Rock n Roll, traditional Pop refers to post-big band music. Traditional pop drew from an assortment of songs written by professional songwriters and were often performed by a vocalist that was supported by either an orchestra or a small band. In traditional pop, the …
Video: The Birth Of Folk Music From its origins, folk music has been the music of the working class. It is community-focused and has rarely enjoyed commercial success. By definition, it’s something that can be enjoyed by everyone, something that everyone can understand. Folk subjects include war, work, and civil …
The Persistence of Memory by Lluís Ribes Mateu, (CC BY-NC 2.0), via Flickr Video: Surrealism Best known for its comparison of uncommon things, Surrealism consisted of uncomfortable, illogical scenes and creatures made from everyday objects, painted in photo-like detail, with the main idea being the merging of the awake and the dream world, …
Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), Public Domain (CC0), via Wikipedia Video: Cubism In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up, and put back together in an abstracted (not realistic) form—instead of showing objects from one view, the artist presents the subject from a bunch of different viewpoints to …
Multiple Authors, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Video: Expressionism Coming from Germany in the early 1900’s, Expressionism was best known for drawing or painting something with a single perspective or view. These paintings would be very distorted (not normal, strange) to show whatever emotion the artist wanted At home, you are going to …
