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Connect, Create & Educate
Need something to do while at home with kids? Engaging, educational & fun, we’ve curated each box to include all the supplies you need & easy-to-follow instructions. We do assume that you have a pair of scissors & a regular pencil, everything else is included.- Our instructions give enough easy-to-follow structure for anyone to feel successful AND also offer many opportunities to be creative! Our philosophy is to teach some skills & then let the artist try different things with a "no wrong answers in art" approach.
- Inside the Box: a picture book to inspire, detailed instructions, & high quality art supplies for 1-2 kids.
- Shipping is a flat $13.00 per box - no surprises.
- Boxes are shipped each month on or very near the 7th of the month. In December we will continue shipping every weekday through the 17th
- Boxes include materials for 1-2 artists. Great for holiday & birthday gifts, homeschool or quality time together!
Past Boxes from Outside The Box Creation
June 2021 Frida Kahlo Self Portrait Box
The June Box is a colored pencil project all about Frida Kahlo, portraits & self portraits! Kids will learn some basic colored pencil techniques & tips for drawing facial features. The colored pencils we've chosen are Faber-Castell World Colors 15 pencil set. They celebrate equality and cultural diversity by incorporating six blend-able skin tones with a traditional color pencil set. Children can create with confidence by drawing themselves,
Snowflake Bentley
Our December Box theme is snowflakes! Snowflake Bentley is the book, the element of art is contrast. This box also delves into symmetry and hexagons. The project utilizes watercolor pencils!
Matisse
Our November Box was about the art of Henri Matisse and organic and geometric shapes.
Positive & Negative Space Box
Our late December Box is a mono print project about Positive & Negative Space! Kids love this book which beautifully illustrates the concept of positive & negative space and blows their minds! Then they'll create their own artwork with a brayer, foam print plate & paint!
February Box
Our February Box was about the age-old symbol of love & connection, the heart! The book is the Invisible String and the project is clay, pop art hearts!
March 2020 Box
Our March box is all about Pointillism and the art of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. It includes a set of Reeves gouache paint tubes & lots of "dot making tools" for kids to experiment with!
April 2020 Box
Our April Box is STEM or STEAM at its best! It explores bioluminescence & the wild sea creatures deep in the ocean using creamy artist crayons called Gelatos.
May Box
The May Box is a super fun STEAM project that explores the ideas of creativity & individuality - expressing those through art and design thinking! The project utilizes shimmery gel pens.
June 2020 Box
Our June Box is wild about Picasso, Cubism, shapes & dogs! And who doesn't like dogs? Kids learn about realistic art vs abstract art and how to break their drawings down into smaller shapes that they paint with watercolor!
July 2020 Box: Summer fun with sun prints!
For the July Box, we selected a book by a black author, Max & the Tag Along Moon by Floyd Cooper, to show our support for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's summer! Let's have some fun in the sun with moon themed sun prints.
August 2020 Box
This box is an acrylic painting project Kids learn about Georgia O'Keeffe and paint flowers, first up close and then, really zooming in!
September 2020 Box
For September, explore line, shading, and form with pen and pencil drawing and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!
October Day of the Dead Box
The theme for our October Box is Day of the Dead, dia de los muertos. The book introducing Day of the Dead is bright & colorful, presenting it from a cultural standpoint, (not religious or macabre.) The project is a metal repousse´ project, reminiscent of Mexican Tin Folk Art. Subscribe by October 3rd to get the box.
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