international children's arts network
Happy mountain day! Also known as ‘Yama no hi’ Mountain Day is Japan’s newest public holiday. Japan celebrated the first official Mountain Day on August 11, 2016. Today we’re appreciating… Read more ICAN COLOR! Mountain Day →
Ever heard the sweet song of a violin? The bouncing of a bass? The twinkling of a harp? If you have, then you’re already familiar with the string family! What makes an… Read more Learn and Listen- Strings! →
¿Han escuchado la canción sincera de un violín? ¿O el bote de un bajo? ¿O puede ser el centelleo de un arpa? Si dijeron que si, ¡ya están familiarizada de la familia de los instrumentos de cuerda!
If animals could write music, can you imagine what kind of music your favorite animal would create? Maybe a frog’s music would sound like chirping or hopping. Maybe a swan’s… Read more Animal Music! →
ICAN’s Audio Book Tour continues with author and illustrator, Cassandra Federman. Airing every third Thursday of the month at 5p PT, we feature new books from authors and illustrators. On… Read more Storytime Activity: This is a Sea Cow →
Zentangle? What’s a Zentangle? Zentangle is a really cool type of art that creates wild pictures, the ‘tangle’, through lots of thought and focus, the ‘zen’. Follow along to learn how to make zentangles.… Read more Zentangles →
This July, ICAN’s Audio Book Tour features Kevin Carroll’s A Kids Book About Belonging, Thursday, July 16th at 5:00PM Pacific. With a rebroadcast Sunday, July 19th at 8am. An empowering… Read more A Kids Book About Belonging →
Careful, this one gets messy. Splatter paint is as explosive and colorful as its history. It started in the 1940’s in New York, due to art censorship, or the banning of… Read more Splatter Paint →
Think it’s rude to point? These artists sure don’t! Pointillism is a French art style where dots of pure, unmixed color are placed on a canvas in such a specific way that the… Read more Pointillism →