Very soon the results of the Children's Contest of Arts and Crafts devoted to Rainbow Hummingbirds will be known and we, the authors of Parents' Ideas are announcing a new Contest – the contest for children's land art works (what land art is you can learn in the interview with Richard Shilling, an English land art artist and sculptor.
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Meet the new participants of the contest "The Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds"!
Maxim, Yana's friend
The hummingbird sitting on the tree brings happiness to one's house
Olya Reutova, 4 yrs, Ukraine
This hummingbird is made of millet, rice and fried peas! Читать дальше…
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We've got tons of Arseny's gouache paintings. Till some time I'd put them into a folder hoping that I'd get some idea of how to use such beautiful material in design 
. Just to keep "for memory" is not interesting as everything important and marking some landmark has been already photographed and we are not inclined to creating archives.
It seems, we finally got an interesting idea – see for yourself:
This example just illustrates the technology of using children's paintings for the interior design but one can find lot's of ways to use this idea Читать дальше…
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After talking to Richard Shilling the walking with our little daughter (23 mo) got a new dimension.
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So, what honourable mention prizes are waiting for the participants of the Contest "The Month of Rainbow Humingbirds"? Ekaterina has guessed right: stickers the hummingbirds on which (from the nest to the flights) are drawn by the authors of "Parents' Ideas". Here you can read more about the main prizes.
One more image from the gift set of stickers:
Paintings and crafts are still coming and today we are introducing you five more participants of the Contest: Читать дальше…
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Have you ever heard of such kind of art as Land Art?
It involves making art and sculptures using materials you find in nature, such as leaves, fir cones, twigs, pebbles, rocks, sand and shells. Usually, sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape is the means of their creation.
Endless Knot
Land Art can add so much fun, beauty and positive emotions into the process of the child's upbringing. Moreover, it can unite children and adults when they create "as equals" contributing to each others' ideas and learning from each other and from nature.
Floating Leaf Boat
When creating art and sculptures among nature both children and adults:
Today we are very honoured to introduce you Richard Shilling, an English land artist, sculptor, photographer and film-maker who has recently published the first of a series of Land Art for Kids books in partnership with Julia Brooklyn.
In the frame of our Project
Richard will tell us more about Land Art and how kids can be involved into it. Читать дальше…
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The contest of children's arts and crafts on " rainbow hummingbirds" continues as well as the quick contest devoted to our honourable mention prizes. So, what is this honourable mention prize like? The one who'll guess right will get the prize without participating in the main contest.
And now we are publishing a second part of the honourable mention prize prepared by the "Parents' Ideas" (read more about the main prizes for the contest here: Children's Arts and Crafts: a Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds!).
We've got one more art work from the participants of the Contest Читать дальше…
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