my school presentations

• overview of programs
• introduction to school program
• the assembly presentation
• grade-level workshops
• teacher reviews: assembly
• teacher reviews: workshops
• comparison to other presenters
• views of previous school visits
• drawings done in schools
• sample in-school schedules
• my books
• bio
• cost

my artwork

• digital samples
• art from Farley Found It
• line drawings
• pencil drawings
• pastel drawings
• watercolor illustrations
• drawings from schools:
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- my favorite school drawings

teacher helps

• Sparks: free writing lesson emails
• Sparks: Year One Collection
• The Limerick Challenge
• tips on brainstorming with kids
• Keep Kids Creative Week

writing acitivities

• Mugshots writing activity
• Build a Hero writing activity
• Story Kitchen writing activity
• Wacky Headlines writing activity
• Creative Times headline maker
• Invent a World writing activity
• Kid Tales writing activity
• Round Robin Stories activity
• Wordless Cartoons writing activity
• Write Your Own Cartoons collection
• Fortune Cookie stories

drawing acitvities

• DaVinci Doodles
• first grade sample doodles
• Igyft
• Drawing from nature
• tips on cartooning
• make a crazy sea monster

parent helps

• overview
• Magic of Making Stories:
- Why kids don't create
- Reading aloud
- Share your own stories
- Basic plots
• Round Robin Stories activity
• Wacky Headlines writing activity
• Creative Times headline maker
• Seeing with your imagination
• Historical examples
• Cloud shapes
• Seeing double
• What can it be?
• Scavenger Hike activity
• Town Treasure Hunt activity
• Indoor forts
• Adventures in Graceland
• Write Your Own Cartoon collection
• tips on brainstorming with kids
• food art
• The Limerick Challenge
• looking at paintings with kids
• using paintings to start stories
• a list of essential childhood experiences
• Brueghel's painting of children's games
• a guide to silent movie comedies
• Keep Kids Creative Week

essays

• Feast On!
• That's One Super Question
• Art That's Bold and Cold
• The Perfect Peanut Butter Partner
• Plotting Romance
• The Day of the Sparkly Castle
• Finding New Ways to Be a Kid
• An Audience of One
• Lessons from Dr. Seuss
• Yellow Snowflakes
• Creatve Free-fall
• The Voice in the Toy
• A Plug for Unplugging
• In the Field of Play
• A Legacy of Limericks
• Making Museums Fun
• Backyard Basics
• Open Roads, Open Minds
• The Man Who Played with Perceptions
• Cartoon Characters
• Chalk It Up
• Walled Gardens
• The Nine Lives of Copycats
• Tire-Swing Time Machines
• What Guests Leave Behind
• A Turn for the Verse
• A School Year's Resolution
• In the Mind's Eye: Books Vs. Movies
• To Boldly Go
• Fortune Cookies
• Tasting Excellence
• Keep a Puppet on Hand
• Surprising Angles

• It's Like This
• Pirates in Our Living Room
• Keep Me In Suspense
• Listening in Layers
• Background Music
• Sunny Side Up
• The Boy Behind the Wardrobe
• It's a Snap!
• How to Catch a Lightbulb
• Tale of the Tape
• Adventure on the Air
• Lessons from Norman Rockwell
• Wrestle Ball
• Blanket Forts
• The Frame Game
• The Man with the Big Picture
• Getting Unstuck
• Read-Aloud Movies
• Animation Nation
• April Fools
• Mysteries and Monsters
• Ifs, Ands or Butts
• Let's Put Our Hands Together
• Seeking Beauty
• A Cartoon Hero
• Hunting for Surprises
• Keeping Loose
• The Five Senses of Summer
• Outdoor Stories
• Exploring
• A Recharged Battery
• Reading Between the Lines
• Jack of All Trades or Master of One?
• Seeing the Aha! in Ha-Ha!

Things that amuse me

• how to juggle
• new way to look at constellations
• art monkeys
• strange ways people greet each other
• great guy films
• odd museums
• mythical American animals
• strange inventions
• the mystery of Lincoln's beard

Great Creators

• C.S. Lewis
• Edward Lear
• Norman Rockwell
• M.C. Escher

Keep Kids Creative Week

• main page
• Getting Started
• Buidling a Mental Library
• Ways to Celebrate
• Press coverage

Downloadable Books

• Let's Get Creative STORE
• Sparks: Year One
• Sparks: Year One - Homeschool Version
• The Adventures of Pirate Dog
• Write Your Own Cartoons