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Coffee was discovered by dancing goats, the beans are actually fruits, and the very first webcam was invented just to watch a coffee pot! [1, 2]

Fun Coffee Facts

Discovered by Goats: Long ago in Ethiopia, a goatherd named Kaldi noticed his goats were jumping and dancing around after eating red berries from a bush. Those berries were coffee cherries! [1, 2, 3, 4]
Coffee is a Fruit: Coffee "beans" are not actually beans. They are the pits or seeds hidden inside a bright red fruit called a coffee cherry. [1, 2]
The First Webcam: Scientists at Cambridge University in 1991 got tired of walking to the breakroom only to find an empty coffee pot. So, they invented the world's first webcam to watch the coffee pot from their computer screens!
 
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Tulips and Daffodils Make Lovely Art Project Ideas

 

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I found these wonderful renderings of tulips that has inspired me to come up with a flower project for my art students.  Make sure and subscribe to my Youtube channel to get the project right when it goes live.  

ONE of my favorite things to do is to find art on Pinterest and to deconstruct them to allow for a student as young as kindergarten to enter into the conversation with pencil and paint.  

THIS VIDEO offer a more mixed media approach to flowers:

 

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The Value of Boredom to Spark Creativity

 

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I love working on a series of paintings and I want to start incorporating this idea with my art students.  I remember when I was younger, I read a book where the protagonist had an art teacher who instructed her students to draw an apple for 100 days in a row.  I like this idea of allowing the mind to 'bore' itself into focusing on the nuances of an item.  I think we underestimate the power of boredom in a child's life.

Keeping with the nature them of this post (kinda), here is a video showing you how to create a bird art journaling page - which of course can ALWAYS be created on a larger canvas.

 

 

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When I first started really exploring my creative side, I filmed videos of my favorite art journal pages - low stress art journal pages.  You can find over 40 videos: CLICK HERE