Kindergarten Art

My four and six year old have had great success with Sharon Hofer’s Creating a Masterpiece dvd program.  They have produced beautiful works of art that are hanging in our home.  It teaches children how to create fine art – so no artist appreciation and definitely way beyond crafting.  It’s a program you’d enjoy doing with him and could use again when he is older.

My daughter is enjoying Artistic Pursuits this year.  They have a variety of grade levels.

You could do one level per year, but it depends on how much time your child spends on each lesson.  Most lessons are designed to take an hour, but sometimes with my girls, we’d stretch it out because they’d want to spend more time, but we always tried to stop at around the hour mark.  I’m also not as diligent as I should be in doing our weekly courses (as opposed to daily things) so for us four a year is a good number.  Also – the pencil drawing one is a bit detailed, so I wouldn’t start with it, but we did great with the pastels (both levels) and the sculpting and have friends that have done the painting with their little ones and colored pencil with a son the same age as yours.