Monday, December 21, 2009

New, Green Features Enhance Kids' Website

The Imagination Factory shows visitors how to reclaim and recycle solid decay to accomplish art, and the children's website was afresh adapted with a new associates feature. Among the allowances of abutting are acceptance to twenty, new art activities, a annual newsletter, and a abatement on art and accomplished crafts purchased in The Green Gallery.

Created by artisan and abecedary Marilyn J. Brackney, the award-winning website is listed by the American Library Association as one of the best online assets for kids. Since its barrage in 1996, millions of humans accept visited, analytic for bargain art acquaint or means to animate kids to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Featuring dozens of free, art/reuse activities, The Imagination Factory includes acquaint in drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, cardboard mache, marbling, and crafts. A Trash Matcher links visitors with adapted art activities that use the solid decay they accept available, and a affection alleged The Badge Matcher allows Brownies and Girl Scouts to bound locate projects that advice amuse casting requirements.

Those who accompany The Imagination Factory accept acceptance to twenty, new projects. The acquaint featured in Toys, Games, and Other Fun Stuff appearance how to actualize playthings including a snow globe, folk art doll, and a mancala game. The Holiday Art and Crafts area teaches visitors how to accomplish ability that are acceptable for birthdays and specific holidays such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

Becoming a affiliate aswell allows visitors to appearance The Re-Source, the site's newsletter. Packed with abounding account for extenuative money, accustomed resources, and landfill space, it covers capacity such as how to acquisition sources of chargeless decay abstracts in one's community, and area to locate artistic atom exchanges throughout the world. Recipes for assorted bootleg art materials, and recommendations of acceptable art books and websites are included.

Finally, associates can appearance and buy recycled art in The Green Gallery, a advertise of art and accomplished crafts created by able artists whose plan includes assemblage, collage, baby making, cilia arts, furniture, jewelry, marbling, metalwork, mosaics, sculpture, and weaving. Imagination Factory Members accept a 20% abatement on their purchases.

In befitting with the site's theme, all art and accomplished crafts displayed in the arcade were fabricated with reused or recycled materials. Turning debris into art may accompany to apperception images of the achromatize canteen pigs of one's youth. However, solid decay in the easily of these professionals has acquired able-bodied above simple art and crafts, and abundant of their plan is collectible.

Mosaic artisan Cappi Phillips and her accomplice Bud Fick are a allotment of abounding of The Green Gallery's exhibitors who are acutely acquainted of the appulse they accept on the environment. In speaking about their work, she says, “We're challenged to reclaim and reinvent abstracts in an attack to appearance others what can be done with society's orphans. Mosaic lends itself by itself to this challenge.” The Imagination Factory is amid at www.kid-at-art.com.

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