How do I get more art in my Home-school?

This question has ben bothering me for awhile now. I feel like “art” is slowly slipping out of our everyday life. In our first couple of years of formal homeschooling art was almost everything —we explored letters, shapes, math, and science through art — we experimented and used all our senses exploring the world through art and artistic expressions and now suddenly everything is textbooks, workbooks, and math equations — where has all the art gone from our wonderful school days and how can we get it back?

I love art and I express myself through drawing, painting, poetry, photography, acting, signing, felting, always creating stuff. I want my kids to experience art and not be afraid of the blank paper or empty canvas and just go for it. Art is such a big part of who I am as a parent, teacher, yes—basically I don’t who I am, if I don’t create. I really want to pass that amazing feeling and love for art on to my kids.

Madison is still so little — so in her case it is more easy to slip art in everywhere — actually it is a necessity. Mathilde is older and the core subjects seems more and more important to master — but I don’t want our school days to be just textbooks and assignments — I want us to wonder and marble in fun creations and taking in knowledge through art-making — but how?

I have created a little plan. First of all, we will use lots and lots of main-lesson-books — ours are not traditional Waldorf main lesson books — but more like unit-study-note-books full of drawings and notes and stickers and what not. Our unit studies should be filled with art projects, cooking, drawing, painting, creating, sculpting, felting us through history, nature and science.

Secondly, Mathilde loves the Great British Bake-off so one of the things I hope to implement in our homeschool is to make amazing cakes and cooking projects as part of our unit studies — I think Mathilde can be really artistic in designing and creating beautiful cakes and most importantly, I think she will love it.

I will also be implementing a weekly art day for our family — one day a week where we work on an art project either together or separately. Mathilde get to decide and if she hasn’t any ideas I have tons and in emergencies I also have some boxed art-kits we can pull out for the days where everything flunks.

This blog is also a creative outlet for me and Mathilde wants to help me — she loves making videos, writing small books, and making drawings —and I think it is so fun to work on a project together that we both love.

Madison is still in that baby sensory stage where she is just discovering the world and I don’t know if everything is art to her or nothing is? But for her I will create experiences — smells, textures, visuel sensations— like the sensory joy of clay, magnificent colors, temperatures and wonders of nature and the world all around us. She is with us on the art journey and I will involve her as much as I can in my creations and make unique projects for her to enjoy to.