dreambeast poems
  inspirational poems, art & stories for kids by mark bird ...

Thank you to Ventorros Press for sending me an advance copy of The Realm of Smaller Things by Kent Knowles. You can follow Kent on ...

I always look forward to teaching my class about Frida Kahlo: her amazing life story and her brilliant art. The children love learning...

What amazing artwork Salvador Dalí can inspire in primary school kids. Yes, I am a believer that we should not rely on old, male and...

Some things are good enough to just be recreated as is. And there's not many works of art I create with the children at school, take...

A simple idea, elevated by getting the children to draw on the pages of an old book. What language is this? All I know, it looks...

I had to share this. The best ideas really can be the simplest. I don't the know full details of the project or how it was set up but...

I used to the love Batman when I was a kid - the original TV series I mean. They'd play the repeats on a 70s Saturday morning - once the...

I love teaching my class about working with a limited palette and how this can enhance their art beyond belief. However, working with...

Read this short chapter story about a boy who can't help cutting hair in school and whose mean headmaster, Mr Barker, has made it his...

Another day at school, another inspiring work of creativity arrives in the hands of a proud eleven year old. Like Mo-A's poems earlier in...

Yesterday was brilliant. Don't you just love fun-filled, love-drenched brilliant days? Why so good? First one of my pupils came to school...

Or Art! Or Both ... Photo by RhondaK Native Florida Folk Artist on Unsplash

Peter Max #PeterMax is a #PopArt genius. Behold this wonderful work we created as a whole-school Maxx-inspired project (Aged 4 to 11) ....

My class of Year 6 children started their art project based on the work of Zaria Forman. Zaria Forman documents climate change with...

We were inspired by L.S. Lowry #Lowry to explore #perspective and #proportion and the the lives of the industrial North. These Year 6...

I'm not sure how many teachers use Peter Max's work to inspire children's art.... but believe me you should. They love his work and are...

David Almond's brilliant book #Skellig inspired my Year 5's charcoal display... it was so powerful and spooky that the Reception children...