Mini Artists - 20 projects inspired by great artists

The twenty projects in Mini Artists are designed to engage children with art through making. Mini artists will discover drip painting with Jackson Pollock, carve soap sculptures with Barbara Hepworth, and create their own obliteration room with Yayoi Kusama. They'll also travel through time and explore art from different periods, from cave painting to Medieval stained-glass, and Chinese ink painting to washable graffiti inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Each project requires minimal set-up so the maximum amount of time is spent creating together, and the step-by-step instructions show photographs of the projects in progress so they can be followed at a glance. The projects use simple materials, from clay to ink to paint. Being grounded in art history, Mini Artists features a range of interesting art techniques that are ideal for teaching new motor skills.

Author Joséphine Seblon has a degree in art history and works in publishing but even more relevantly she developed all these projects for her own children and posted their results on Instagram as @weareminiartists. 

Who wrote it?
Joséphine Seblon, illustrations by Robert Sae-Heng

How does it come?
Paperback. 28 x 21.5 cm. 96 pages