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You are very welcome. I hope more will add here to. I like to hear new ideas.

This year my kids have a wonderful art teacher. They do open ended projects and are encourage to think and do more details. The assignment might be to draw an underwater scene but before the class begins that talk about how things look near and far and kids brainstorm for what could be in the picture.

Last year, a teacher read poems, Where the side walk ends, by Silverstein and the students drawed what they thought of. I remember doing this with music when I was in elementary school.

A great idea with art is to tie it into the cirriculium. A unit on Ireland can include Irish Soda Bread and Castles out of paper towel tubes. How about some irish music?

Now I'm getting myself thinking wouldn't that be a great Nonschool way to enrich a child at home. It would be wonderful to then bring this into school and show a teacher.