I know what you want to ask. “So what is it REALLY LIKE to LIVE with Kristin, the founder of ARTK12?” Well, probably a lot like you’d expect. It’s like fireworks are going off everyday. Confetti inexplicably falls from the sky. At times the rain stops just to let us cross the street. It’s like Disneyland on steroids, a perpetual vacation at an upscale resort…
ARTK12 News
PDF Downloads for Sale
Things are changing at ARTK12. Along with books and bingo cards ARTK12 will now begin selling PDF downloads. The first PDF we’re selling is a matching game based on our new online game: Monet’s Haystacks.
Draw Europe Video Review
Sarah Mackenzie does a short video review of Draw Europe posted on her website: Amongst Lovely Things. Thanks Sarah for the kind words!
Compliments for ARTK12 Geography Books
Recently my map books (Draw the USA, Draw Europe and Draw Africa) have been receiving more kind words from homeschoolers across the internet. Two websites, Under the Sycamore and Recipes for Family Life talk about using my Geography Draw Books with their children.
Draw Canada and Greenland is Published
The latest in my draw map book series, Draw Canada and Greenland, can now be purchased at Amazon.com. Like the other books (Draw the USA, Draw Africa and Draw Europe) it provides easy step-by-step instructions for your students to complete the map.
Only Passionate Curiosity Reviews ARTK12
ARTK12’s American Art History Curriculum was recently reviewed at Only Passionate Curiosity: Life and Learning on the Homefront. Heather, a homeschooler and mother of 3, reviewed American Art History: Volume I and Drawing American Art: Volume I and gave it 5 stars in all four categories (ease of use, ease of prep, quality, effectiveness and fun…
Serious Fun Classes End Spring 2014
It’s been a wonderful year teaching ancient art to a fabulous group of students. We traveled across the globe from the Nazca civilization in South America to Egypt in Africa to the Shang and Han Dynasties in China. We also covered over 15,000 years of history from Ice Age caves to the fall of Rome.…
Is There Such a Thing as Too Many Books?
Under normal circumstances I would emphatically say “no.” But recently I decided that I do not like the current format of my American art history curriculum. With four volumes of text, four volumes of drawing instruction and two bingo games it is both cumbersome and expensive. At the time I published it I did not…
ARTK12 Publishes Draw the USA
Draw the USA, Kristin Draeger’s new book, is now available at Amazon.com for 19.95. The book teaches your students how to draw the United States from memory. Through simple, step-by-step instructions, students learn to draw each state as it connects to its neighbors and, with a little practice, will be able to draw the country…
Mary Cassatt by the Biographical Bard
For my fourth and final book in the American Art History Series I have once again enlisted the help of that wacky wordsmith, the biographic bard, to give us the outline of the life of Mary Cassatt. This time he has set the story to the tune of Oh! Susanna. Take it away, Bard! Born…
Serious Fun: Homeschooling with Real Books Video
Kristin spoke to a group of homeschool parents on February 5, 2013 about homeschooling with real books…not textbooks. Over twenty parents attended and many purchased her book, Serious Fun: Homeschooling with Real Books. Watch the video of the event: Photos of the event can be seen here.
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Serious Fun: Homeschooling with Real Books is Published
Kristin Draeger’s new book, Serious Fun: Homeschooling with Real Books, has just been published and is available in both paperback ($14.95) and Kindle editions ($6.99). Over 1,500 Books for K – 8th Grade Serious Fun has an opening essay chronicling how Kristin used real books (not textbooks) to homeschool her son from Kindergarten through the…
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