Artsonia
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Want to see your daughter's first self portrait on your mouse pad? Artsonia is a free website that lets you can upload and share your child's art. If you're a teacher, you can use the site to display your students' work where parents can see it. From this point, it starts to get interesting, at least from a business angle. Because it is a public image (think Flickr, with kids art), anyone can post comments, including admiring grandparents or smart-sounding elementary art teachers, eager to say things like, "We looked at some famous landscapes, such as Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night, and discussed background, foreground and middle ground. Students created their landscape from cut strips of paper, then added aliens and objects in the sky, colored with construction paper crayons." You can also compare a project with other children of the same age, or who chose the same topic. Other items include pen holders, boxes, bears, award plaques, stickers, greeting cards, stickers, a tote bag, mugs... you get the picture, perhaps too literally, and it will set you back a mere $12, for a mouse pad, anyway.
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Teaches: art, creativity