Happy New Year
Rock on 2011! We’re dreaming big! These are our creative vision blasters. (Electric Guitar Camp)
We played with shading the past and making the future brighter. (Time Warp Camp)
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I love that Crafty Cow featured our new year memory string project over the holidays.
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I had fun looking at these new books at the Alameda Library! Bold Graphic Wow.
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2010. That’s about 20 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 89 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 142 posts. There were 220 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 28mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was June 16th with 126 views. The most popular post that day was DIY Handmade Kids Holiday Gift Club: Father’s Day Pop-Up Card.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were artyowza.com, belladia.typepad.com, sfgirlbybay.com, decor8blog.com, and networkedblogs.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for funny products, alphabet art, drawing lessons, one hour art projects, and beard art.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
DIY Handmade Kids Holiday Gift Club: Father’s Day Pop-Up Card June 2010
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Foil Action Figures= Green Art April 2010
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Alphabet Moustache November 2008
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Inspiration Board February 2010
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Alphabet Houses 2 November 2008
Bubble Symphony and the Comic Relief Posse
Yes, we sometimes get silly at the end of the day.
Bubbles in symphonic style.
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Alphabet Playgrounds
We created parks,and obstacle courses with letters at Alphabet Spaghetti Camp.
We piled up all our letter name parks here.
How to Create an Exquisite Corpse
Teal Lemur, Blue Tiger and Art Yowza want to show you how to make an Exquisite Corpse. It’s a fun drawing trick you can do at parties or with a classroom of kids. The secret to making it fun is not to peek between steps because it makes the big reveal at the end even more hilarious.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
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We made a photo tutorial slide show also to help you learn.
We had some surprising results. Here are some of our magical mysterious pictures.
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Yo! Hello! Funny Mugs
Blue Tiger (age 11) and Teal Lemur (age 8) show ARt Yowza how to use Mac photo booth effects.
We’re starting an exciting collaboration with the Turbinegeneration Project at the Tate Modern .
Assignment number 1 is to make weird faces.
We’re hoping our wild and crazy mugs will attract a silly fun partner school.
We’ll keep you posted!
Kids make animations easily
young animator, doink.com
Blue Lizard, age six would love to share his first animation with you….
He told me this next animation was very musical….
It’s a very intuitive interface, go give doink.com a try! We’ve had a lot of fun with it.
How to make a cartoon book
Purple Penguin and Puppy Buttercup explain how to make an awesooome cartoon book….
Cartoon Book Secrets Revealed
We’ve been making a lot of cartoon books!
Purple Penguin tells the story of Bo and Elly who get in double trouble …
Curious about the background story? Rebecca interviews Purple Penguin …
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