Fine Arts

• Small Things with Great Love - Why Homeschool Drama Matters

  28 February 2012 / Fine Arts, Personal Growth / 2 Comments

  It always begins with a lesson the Lord is teaching me.  This time it was,

  "Everything you do, every seemingly insignificant thing MATTERS tremendously if it is done because of Christ."

  

  This book, Come Be My Light was an important part of the research for this script.

  I wanted to create a story that would become the script for Drama Camp 2008.  I knew that 25 or 30 teenaged homeschoolers were going to sign up for the summer's theater intensive, and I needed to find a way to get all of them some stage time while still sharing the lesson God had put in my heart.

  Drama Camp had grown over the years, and the sheer numbers of kids involved made it harder and harder to write scripts to accommodate them.  Our stage space is small, and while I didn't want to turn anyone away, I knew that just packing them all on there wasn't going to be effective.  I spent a lot of time asking God what this play was supposed to look like, because Drama Camp is really about ministry first; it's a ministry to teenagers using drama as a vehicle. 

  Suddenly, while I was driving one afternoon, I understood the answer - 3 stories, parallel journeys to the same destination.  I would split the kids into essentially 3 casts so they could all get a part with something to it, but the play could remain clear and orderly for the audience.  Before I knew it, I had roughed out an outline:

  •  There was a writer in the present who longs to create ART but writes for a textbook publisher to pay the bills while he waits for his big break as a playwright.
  • Running parallel to his story was the play he was writing, the characters in it facing the question of how to sacrifice for what you love to do.
  • And finally, the chapter in the upcoming textbook he was writing was a piece on Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her Missionaries of Charity who work with passion among the poorest of the poor.

  

  Jamie Miller and Mother Teresa in the original production

  On that framework I was able to hang the stories of three people facing the frustration of longing to do something huge and beautiful, but feeling trapped by the mundane tasks required for daily existence.  (Sound like homeschooling somedays?)

  As is always the case, God did something vastly beyond what I had anticipated with the script, the Drama Camp, the kids in the cast, our audience, and me as I directed the show.   We learned from researching Mother Teresa to do "the smallest things with the greatest love."  We learned as Stephen Curtis Chapman sang to the Lord in Magnificent Obsession that we "want You to be my one consuming passion."  And we learned from Jamie Miller, the writer in the story, that time "in Calcutta" can change your life forever -- it did for us in Drama Camp that year.

  All I did was ask God how I could communicate to a bunch of kids the lesson "every little thing matters" using Drama as a vehicle.  From that was born something larger and more powerful than I had ever expected, A Weekend in Calcutta.  (If you'd like to read the script, the sample download is just $0.99 in our EBookstore.  Full rights to produce the play with your drama group are available as well; see EBookstore for details.)

  What small things have you done with great love, only to find God multiplied them enormously?

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  Drama is a powerful vehicle for ministering to young people, and it also trains them to minister to the audience through effective storytelling skills on stage.  Many homeschoolers would love to act in a play but need someone in their community to organize a group with which that can happen.  Download the FREE white paper Why Drama is Important in Your Homeschool by clicking here.

  A Weekend in Calcutta is the first script published here at 7 Sisters, and there are several more coming in the next few months.  Sample copies will download for just $0.99 so you can read them in their entirety and decide whether they would be a good fit for the group of players you have assembled.

  Also coming soon to the EBookstore will be an in-depth instructional video and Manual detailing How to Run a Drama Camp Theater Intensive.  If you've thought about directing but haven't been sure how you could make it work, this resource will be an invaluable tool for equipping you.  Watch for it in the next couple of weeks!

• 5-Minute Friday: Delight

  17 February 2012 / 5-Minute Fridays, Fine Arts / 4 Comments

  On Fridays we link up to Lisa-Jo at www.thegypsymama.com and "stop, drop and write" for five minutes.  The idea is to refuse over-thinking and over-editing, and just write for the joy of it, using a prompt word she picks.  My extra goal is that I try to connect her prompt word to our blog theme for the week.  This week at 7 Sisters we've been looking at Drama.

  Lisa-Jo's prompt word is "DELIGHT."  Ready, set, go!

  What brings that look of DELIGHT to homeschool actors' faces?

  

  Is it the bright lights of the professionally designed theater?

  Is it the elaborate set pieces on which they perform?

  Is it the expensive costuming, sewn by expert hands?

  I've seen literally hundreds of delighted faces among homeschool student actors over the years, and in my experience the lights, the sets, the costumes are not the source of delight.

  Take a look and tell me what you think:

  

  Our sets are folding tables and chairs, a couch, or a wooden box.

  Our lights are the track lights installed in the ceiling above our church's platform.

  Our costumes came out of our closets, or were picked up at the local thrift store.

  So what is the source of delight?

  It's delight that comes from TELLING WONDERFUL STORIES.  Actors are storytellers, and when we encourage them to step out in a character's skin and tell an amazing story to the audience, they can't help but get excited.

  It's delight that comes from TEAMWORK.  A cast is a team, and working together to produce a show helps them learn to truly have each other's backs.

  It's delight that come from DOING ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD.  Being in the spotlight isn't the same thing as hogging the spotlight.

  An actor with his or her heart set on God steps into the spotlight and instantly makes us all aware of the greater Light that came into the world to bring us salvation and life.

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  Interested in learning more about Drama, and all the delightful ways you can include it in your homeschool?  Download the FREE white paper, Why Drama is Important in Your Homeschool.

  Going to Teach Them Diligently Convention in Spartanburg, SC in March?  Sabrina is speaking there about Drama....it will be a blast!  Comment and let us know you're coming to TTD...we can't wait to meet folks!

• Homeschool Alumnus Talks About Drama

  15 February 2012 / Fine Arts, High School, News / 1 Comment

  

  Ezra and Sara's son, Steven, were in several drama camps during high school

  Homeschool graduate, Ezra Tillman, talks about drama and homeschooling.

  Let’s face it, drama is useless for homeschoolers. In fact it’s worse than useless; it’s a waste of time!

  Now those statements may cause you to cringe or they may arouse an amen! Well, I guess the real question is what is useful? I’ll tell you one thing; I don’t remember 90% of the content I was taught in high school (if I’m being generous). What I do remember are the skills and principles that were instilled in me either explicitly or implicitly from my teachers or the work they had me do.

  Well, that’s all fine and dandy you may say but what’s that got to do with drama? Well, simmer down and I’ll tell you!

  Drama teaches you skills and principles out the wazoo.

  If you are in a play:                                                                                    

  

  Much rehearsing, much patience

  
  

  -You learn teamwork and social skills

  (such as helping fellow actors out when they forget a line; and  cooperating with others to get the best performance)

  -You learn to be disciplined

  (such as memorizing difficult lines and practicing self-control because you can’t just go bouncing around all over the stage- you can only do what is appropriate for the scene)

  -You learn patience

  (a lot of the times, you aren’t on the stage or the director may need to rehearse a certain scene with you over and over because you aren’t doing what the scene requires)

  

  Drama gave Ezra confidence in public speaking- here he's giving a speech at his best friend's wedding

  -You learn humility

  (such as realizing that you aren’t the right person for the lead role and that you need to sacrifice your pride to achieve a final result that is bigger than yourself)

  -You can grow spiritually

  (A director is in a powerful position to encourage students to think bigger than themselves and realize that ultimately the play and life are in God’s hands. We students learn that everything we do, whether we eat or drink or do drama, should be done to the glory of God. Some of the times I have felt closest to God and my brothers and sisters who were with me were during Mrs. Justison’s Drama Camps.)

  Now in order for any of the things I mentioned to happen a student must be willing to learn and participate; and a teacher or director must be intentional. If well done the skills and principles students learn through drama can serve them very well throughout their lives.

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  Why Drama is Important in your Homeschool by Sabrina. FREE whitepaper. Download it today!

  ----------Now, here is some of Ezra's drama in action:

  Transcendentalism: an Interview with Ralph Waldo Emerson

   

• Review: Resources for Drama Classes and Clubs

  14 February 2012 / Fine Arts / 1 Comment

  (This is not a sponsored post.  We just like to share resources that have been favorites in our homeschools from time to time.)

  A really fun way to introduce drama into your homeschool fine arts plan is to form a class or club with other homeschoolers and work on producing individual monologues and scenes rather than starting with a production of a play.

  When I have done this in the past, I have preferred to meet weekly, but you could meet bi-weekly instead if your schedule doesn't permit more than that.  Meeting only once a month means you lose a lot of the momentum of your developing actors; it's better than nothing, but I wouldn't recommend a once-a-month format.

  Here are some of my favorite resources for finding material.  Please note that many of the scenes and monologues contained in these collections would NOT be appropriate due to offensive or age-inappropriate material, but the collection overall contains enough good material to make it worth my dollar.

  • Scenes for Young Actors edited by Lorraine Cohen
  • Play the Scene   and
  • The Actor's Scenebook, both edited by Michael Schulman and Eva Mekler
  • Neil Simon Monologues and Neil Simon Scenes edited by Roger Karshner
  • The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues edited by Nina Shengold

  An evening of scenes and monologues is a great performance alternative to the challenge of producing a full play.  With simple costuming that merely suggests the characters, simple sets of chairs and a table or two, and simple props to indicate setting and time period, your actors can perform a series of unrelated scenes that thoroughly entertain your audience.

  By using these "cuttings" (only a small portion of the script lifted out of the whole) you can often perform material from a show that would be inappropriate in its entirety.  You can help your audience more fully appreciate the characters and stories they are watching by including a brief synopsis of the plot of the play from which the cutting was taken in their programs, or simply explained aloud by you before each scene begins.

  Foundational goals to set for young actors include the following:

  • Projection -- Clear, loud speech
  • Memorization
  • Character research and development
  • Non-verbal communication -- body language and posture on stage

  With only these 4 simple goals as a starting point, you can spend many rewarding hours working with young actors as they prepare their cuttings for performance.

  (Be careful not to violate copyright/royalty law by charging admission to your show; as long as you perform without selling tickets, you are using the material in fair use percentages of the whole, and it is solely for educational purposes.  If you sell tickets, you are in violation of the law, even though you are not performing the work in its entirety.)

  If you decide you'd rather go for the whole play, homeschoolers can do that, too!  It's a different kind of project that I'll address in future posts about Drama, but for now, I'll just share this promo video for the homeschool production of  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat we did at Mt. Sophia Academy a couple of years ago.  We had to think WAY outside the box when we decided to produce this musical...if you notice, we have a total of only 6 brothers (instead of 12), and most of them are girls!  Hey, we're homeschoolers; we make it work!

  (And yes, that's me onstage with the kids...good times!!)

  What have you done to incorporate Drama into your fine arts plan for your homeschool?

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  Have you downloaded the new white paper, "Why Drama is Important in Your Homeschool"?  Click here to get it today!

  Now that we are past the half-way mark, wouldn't it be fun to start thinking about NEXT year???

  Explore the EBookstore for lots of ideas as you begin to plan for your next year of homeschooling.

• What Makes a Drama Camp Amazing?

  14 February 2012 / Fine Arts, Personal Growth, Relationships, Social Skills, Stories / 1 Comment

  For the last 12 years, I have offered a Drama Camp for homeschoolers every summer.

  

  Final Curtain Call: that moment when my eyes always leak

  A Drama Camp is a theater intensive.  That means it's a chance to put most of the rest of life on hold for a few days and focus on the production exclusively, rather than the traditional format that stretches rehearsals out over 8 - 10 weeks in chunks of a few hours at a time.

  When I began offering Drama Camps to homeschooled students in 2000, I was making things up as I went along, learning as we muddled through.  Our early productions (I like to write original plays for the kids to do, but you can certainly direct a camp without also being a playwright) were put together in ONE week, not two, and produced a 45 minute show.

  We grew and stretched, and eventually were working for ONE week and producing a full-length two-hour show!  That's when I realized that there was too much good stuff going on to cram it all into one week, and I expanded our format to two weeks so that the kids would have time to explore the deeper layers of acting and stage production.  I told you that to tell you this:  Drama Camps offer an arena in which students can find out just how much they are truly capable of accomplishing when they work hard and work together. 

  But why the drama??  Human beings have a need for stories.  We observe our own life-story being written all around us every day.  We learn about other people as they share their stories with us.  Jesus used story-telling to communicate truth about God and life when He was ministering on the earth.  Drama production is a beautiful way to tell stories, and Drama Camps offer unique benefits to those involved in the story-telling process on stage.

  Here's why Drama Camp has been jokingly called "The Weeks When Life Has Meaning" :

  • We anticipate.  Students who have been involved in the past begin looking forward to Camp months in advance, and talk to the newbies they know who are thinking about giving it a try.  They set the bar high long before I have even finished my own plans for Camp!  They anticipate a week of personal growth, hard work, and tremendous accomplishment.

  • We pray.  We pray together before every day of camp, and we spend significant chunks of time praying for and with one another as we draw close to performance, but the prayer begins long before the sign-up sheet is full of names.  I pray for God to bring the right group of kids together for the plan He has for our Camp.  He knows what we all need better than we do!  I pray over the script-writing and editing process, asking God to tell the stories that will change our lives according to His plan.  Prayer is da bomb!

  • We focus.  When students sign up for Camp, I warn them that the rest of life needs to be pretty much set aside for the two weeks of Drama Camp.  They will be at the theater Monday through Friday from 9:00 - 3:00, but at night they will be learning lines, researching for the production, pulling together props and costumes, working with their fellow cast members, etc.  Laying aside other things that we typically enjoy for the sake of a special endeavor is a great way to get your mind and heart open to hear from the Lord.  Similar to the experience of going away on retreat, that change in life-pattern opens us up spiritually.

  • We are unified.  The students are constantly challenged and reminded that they must be operating in unity for Camp to be a success.  They pray for one another.  They work alongside kids they may not like very much, and they learn to love them whether they like them or not.  They pick up the slack for each other when one is tired, or struggling, or frustrated.  Each Camper is vitally important to the production, and we teach that through words and example.  Everyone completes the camp knowing on a deeper level that God made them unique and wonderful, and He has a place for them in the body of Christ that no one else can occupy.

  If you are interested in Drama (or have a homeschooler who is), I will be publishing a couple of white papers and putting them in the EBookstore as free downloads in the next week or two.  Click here to download "Why Drama is Important in Your Homeschool,"  and check back soon to take advantage of even more freebies.

  If the idea of directing an intensive two-week Drama Camp intrigues you, a manual and instructional DVD set will be released in March in the EBookstore.

  Drama has proven to be such a good vehicle for social and spiritual development in the students I've directed in Drama Camps!

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  Give it a try by taking advantage of the FREE downloads available, and find out how convenient the .pdf format and instant delivery are.  Click here to conquer your fears of technology, and download an epublication from 7 Sisters today!

  The new white paper "Why Drama Is Important in Your Homeschool" is a FREE download.  Click here to check it out!
  

• Fine Arts on the Homeschool Transcript

  12 February 2012 / Curricula, Fine Arts, News, Teaching / 2 Comments

  

  Jake earned music credit in this photo by homeschool graduate/professional photographer Joanna

  You are invited to hear Sabrina talk about teaching drama to homeschoolers at the Teach Them Diligently Conference (March 15-17 in Spartanburg, SC).

  To get in the drama mood, let's look at the MANY ways you can get fine arts onto your homeschooler's high school transcript.  (This is adapted from a post originally run last year.)

  Most homeschooled high schoolers need to show at least one fine arts credit on their transcript.

  There are lots of good ways to do that. Here are some ideas:

  1) Log hours to earn a Carnegie Credit (120-135 hours according to your umbrella school or state requirements)  OR

  2) Work through a curriculum OR

  

  Umbrella school praise band

  
  

  3) Take a for-credit course (with homeschool group or community college)

  The 7 Sisters' kids have earned fine arts credits in lots of different areas:

  -Drama (camps, classes, church and community performances)

  

  Sabrina runs a yearly homeschool drama camp

  
  

  -Music (choirs, lessons, bands, orchestras, theory, worship teams)

  -Art (photography, drawing, painting, sculpting- theory, lessons, classes)

  -Cinematography (clubs, classes, productions)

  -Appreciation (attending performances, visiting museums, studying textbooks)

  -Art History, Music History, Drama History (texts integrated into homeschool co-op classes)

  -Media Production (video production, movies, audio recording, vlogs)

  Here is a Vlog by Sabrina's son, Sam and my son, Ezra: Manasseh King of Judah

  Transcripts look good with fine arts, but more importantly our kids have enriched lives, increased skills, (and for some- career preparation).

  What are some ways your homeschoolers have done fine arts?
  

   

• Review: 4 Favorite Books of Book Lists for Homeschoolers

  30 November 2011 / Curricula, Fine Arts, Geography, Literature, News, Science, Social Skills, Teaching / 1 Comment

  

  These Tillmans started our family's homeschooling 2 decades ago

  I love to homeschool my kids using real books.

  Over the 24 years I've been homeschooling, we've probably read a gazillion books together or separately as part of our history, science, literature, art, and music courses. (Actually, I figured it is probably 2000.)

  How do you find books on whatever topic you need? I use books of book lists. Here are my 4 favorite:

  The Newbery & Caldecott Books in the Classroom by Claudetter Hegel Comfort

  This useful book has lists of the winners (my edition goes through 1995, since it is so old). It also has some questions and activities for many of the books. I've used this copy until it is in tatters.

  I think Newbery books are very, very important to read. Most are great historical fiction that illustrate times, locations, and cultures in a manner that textbooks never could. Even in high school, we read Newberys.

   Let the Authors Speak- A Guide to Worthy Books Based on Historical Settingby Carolyn Hatcher

  This is my favorite. (I borrowed it from Marilyn about 15 years ago. *ahem*)

  I have used this book each year to find books for my homeschoolers in history and literature classes. This wonderful guide lists books by:

  -reading level                                                          

  -setting/location

  

  Youngest Tillman caught NOT reading at the moment

  -time period

  -author

  -title

  Someday, I'll have to buy Marilyn a new copy...                                                                                

  U.S. History Through Children's Literature (2 editions- Colonial Period to WWII, Post-WWII) by Wanda J. Miller

  I just found these groovy books. Each has a reading list with some questions and activities for each book- a good place to start.

  Booklists are valuable resources for homeschooling moms. Do you have a favorite book or website with booklists?

  BTW- This is not a sponsored post. We just like to share resources...

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  Don't forget to download your FREE copy of the 7 Sisters Study Guide for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. This quick, easy guide helps explain the book. It  includes vocabulary and questions. It is FREE THIS WEEK ONLY- download it today.

• Homeschool Graduate Shows Thanks for Drama Camp by Hannah Thorp

  18 November 2011 / Fine Arts, Healthy Living, News, Stories, Thanksgiving / 0 Comment

  It all started with drama camp 4 years ago. (I won’t take the time to explain exactly what drama camp is or how amazing it is, that would take an entire post, which maybe I’ll write someday).

  The play that year was called, “A Weekend in Calcutta,” and it told the story of Mother Theresa and the impact she had in our world. That drama camp literally changed my life. Mother Theresa had a phrase that she based all of her amazing work off of and it was the mantra we learned that drama camp week, “You can’t always do great things, just do small things with great love. The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.”

  Small things, great love. That’s what Mother Theresa did and seeing her story through the glasses of that saying was awe-inspiring.
  That next year I met this pretty awesome girl. Her name is Stephanie. She has the biggest heart

  

  Hannah and her homeschool siblings and cousins

  for orphans that you will ever see. Specifically, her love is for the orphans of India. She shared with me all that she had seen on her many trips to India and just how hard God pressed upon her heart to love for those orphans (so hard in fact, that her family has adopted to boys from India). As I learned more and more about these precious children in India that live a hopeless life with no one to love them, no one to even tell them that Christ loves them, my heart burst open wide with love and care. I cannot even describe to you how connected I felt to every child in India, and I have never been there even once.
  I fully believe that the orphans of India were placed in a special place in my heart by God, the love I have for those children is too great to be from a human alone. In 11th grade I wrote my ten-page paper on the orphan crisis (because trust me, it is a major crisis) of India. I recently wrote a paper for my college nursing class on nursing in India and it reminded me of the ten-pager I had written in high school. I went back to that paper and read it again for the first time in over a year. Again I was brought back to how much I want to help those children.
  My heart is very much in and Indian orphanage. I know, I know, I’ve never been to an Indian orphanage, how can my heart be there? The answer? Because God put it there.

  I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I must go to India. I do not know how, and honestly part of me doesn’t even want to. It will be hard. Hard to get there, hard to eat there (I cannot stand spicy food), hard to find where to go. It will be terrifying and heart-wrenching, but I don’t know how to NOT go. This is my little special mission, to show at least one orphan there that there is a God who loved them so very much that he sent his son to die for THEM. I need to show at least one child that even though no one around them cares enough to give them the time of day, I pray for them every night.

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  Try out one of Sabrina's powerful and delightful drama scripts FREE: Christmas Carol Wars is a great start for exploring script reading as a language arts/reading genre OR for your own drama production.

   

• Will You Be Grateful "By Thanksgiving" and Are You Thankful in All Circumstances?

  17 November 2011 / Fine Arts, Helping Others, Holidays, Prayer, Thanksgiving / 5 Comments

  Once upon a time, in a homeschool Drama Camp, not so far away, a group of students, their director (Sabrina Justison) and a surprising little drama entitled "By Thanksgiving", changed the way I pray. Really, they did!

  

  Bekah & Company in "By Thanksgiving"

   

  I felt I had come a long way in my prayer life over the previous 5 years, but that night I took a leap.  "By Thanksgiving" challenged the creator, the cast and the audience, myself included, to have more faith in our prayers and our God.

  Do you ever find your prayers are full of hopes and wishes but fall a little short on the faith that they will be answered? "By Thanksgiving" suggested that we should begin our prayers with Thanksgiving. (Must be good advice, right. After all, Paul told us pretty much the same thing. You know the one about giving thanks in all circumstances...)

  It goes something like this:

  • Dear Lord, Thank you that the weather has been so very mild these last 3 weeks while our heater has been broken!
  • Dear God, Thank you that my time on crutches is temporary.
  • Dear God, Thank  you for showing me that I need to lose "a few" pounds and get some of my upper body strength back before you heal my knee.

  Hope you get the gist of it. You thank God for the good part of your situation and you thank Him in advance, with faith, for what He will do.  This second part is a little trickier.

  My dear friend Karen and her family are fighting a tremendous war. Her son, Joseph, is nearing 2 years of battling Ewing's Sarcoma, an aggressive cancer.  While the past 2 years have been overwhelming and full of huge obstacles, Karen, Joseph and their entire family remain thankful for the tremendous outpouring of love and support from our community and around the world.  My prayer for them goes something like this...

  Dear Lord, Thank you so much for all the great work you are doing in Joseph and his family. We eagerly await the day that You heal him completely and thank you that You are God and that you are large and in charge of everything - even Cancer. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen!

  What are your prayers of Thanksgiving in ALL circumstances?

   
  

   

• Review: My Favorite Art Curricula

  16 November 2011 / Curricula, Fine Arts, Reviews / 0 Comment

  Some things are hard for a homeschool mom like me to teach- like fine arts. I love them in every form (drawing, music, drama) but the gift passed me by.

  Fortunately there are some usuable-for-non-artist-homeschool-mom curricula out there. Here are some I recommend. (BTW- this is not a sponsored post.)

  Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

  I love this one! Using simple drawing activities, it teaches kids to think from the creative side of their brain. It is not a theory book- it is a let's-get-creative book.

  My daughter, who got her BA in Photography and Art liked this book so well that she has incorporated it into the work she does now as an art instructor.

  Learning how to think creatively is a very important life skill- it is useful in writing, inventing, and problem-solving.

   

  God and the History of Art by Barry Stebbing

  This is another curriculum I love. We used it in co-op as part of our world history lessons. Barry Stebbing takes homeschoolers through art history and gives them hands-on lessons so that they can experience the types of art and ideas from each time period. I loved the projects he assigned.

  The program came with cards that had good pictures of the type of art being studied.

  I really appreciated being able to key in art with history.

   

  Alpha Omega LifePacs Art

  I felt my artistic kids needed some art theory when they hit high school. Not knowing any theory, I wanted someone to teach that for me.

  Lifepacs does that.

  Not that my kids enjoyed this. They didn't like the lessons, they felt they were uncreative, technical, and boring.

  However, they got theory in. (And it didn't kill their love of art, just got them irritated with me.)

  I am glad there is good homeschool curricula out there for our kids to get some experience in the world of art.

  What do you use to teach your kids art?

  While we're on the subject of fine arts, don't forget to download the FREE Christmas Play script from Sabrina (and watch for the launching of our drama department in January)!

  Whether we homeschool moms feel creative or not,

  Whether we are artistically gifted or not,

  We can teach our kids to be creative-

  And to have fun. With drama Christmas Carol War is a great start and it is free!