Come to Our Arts Fair!

Ready for a fun-filled fair where you and your friends exhibit your favorite arts and crafts? Invite art lovers with these 3-D posters!

1. What was the earliest art exhibit? It might have been a display on cave walls. People around the world still find clever ways to celebrate their arts and crafts. With several friends, plan a neighborhood arts fair. Here are some ideas to get started.

2. Plan! Decide on a safe site with plenty of room away from traffic. Ask for permission and help from parents and businesses. Choose a date and times.

3. Advertise! Create posters and invitations with the date, time, and location of the arts fair. To make 3-D posters, fold oaktag in half, horizontally. Draw your design wtih Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils. With the under colors in Crayola Overwriters Markers, color the background of your poster. Using the over colors, print words (Come to the Neighborhood), draw maps, and add details.

4. Color white Crayola Model Magic with color from Crayola Washable Markers. Knead to mix. Form letters, such as Arts Show. Air-dry letters overnight. Glue to poster with Crayola School Glue. Air-dry glue. Hang posters around your neighborhood.

5. Invite art lovers! Create matching invitations on construction paper. Invite all ages of artists to enter and art-lovers to attend—friends, neighbors, relatives, teachers, and town officials. Encourage artists to frame and title their work.

6. Organize displays. What are some easy ways to display art? Use recycled boxes to hold sculptures or stack as kiosks. Hang art from fences and trees, ladders, or lines strung between chairs. Mount art on cardboard and prop against walls and fences. Drape bright fabric behind displays.

7. If you wish, include snack tables. Set up sidewalk chalk drawing or mural painting. Consider unusual categories such as bike decorating or paper doll clothing design. Add your own ideas to make your fair unique!

Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—

• Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
• Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
• Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
• The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
• Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
• Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
• Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.

Dancing Alphabet

My Shining Star

Baggy Fish

Crafts

crayola supplies

• Erasable Colored Pencils
• Overwriters® Markers
• Model Magic®
• No-Run School Glue

household supplies

• oak tag
• recycled file folders

"Our Children’s Neighborhood Art Fair was so successful that we plan to make it an annual event."
Abu S., museum docent.

"Since the arts fair, our son seems to stand taller and smile more often. He heard so many admiring comments."
Clementine B., mother of 10-year-old.

On Thursday, September 12, 1940, on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees, four curious teenagers discovered 15,000-year-old drawings on the walls of a Paleolithic cave they were exploring. Their discovery included paintings of large red cows, yellow horses, bulls, and black stags. It was one of the most famous archeological discoveries of the 20th century. In 1963, the cave was closed to protect the artifacts, and a life-size replica of the cave, Lascaux II, was created nearby. It has been open to the public since 1983. An even older underground art gallery, dating to 30,000 years ago, has since been discovered in Chauvet Cave, in the south of France.