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Blossom this Spring

April is the best month in NYC to see the cherry blossoms all over the city- especially around the Reservoir in Central Park!

Try making one of your own after an OUTDOOR ART HUNT for the natural materials!

Materials

Collect: Tree branches, grass, rocks

Tissue Paper, Toilet paper Tube, Newspaper, Gold Paint

Hot Glue or Paper Clip, Scissors

Flour

Directions

  • Papier mâché (flour/H2o mixture like pancake mix + newspaper strips) the cardboard square base + toilet tube together after taping together (leave a hole for the tree branch!) 

  • Add rocks & grass with glue. 

  • Tissue paper for Flowers: Overlap/ stack 2-3-4 (smaller size) square colorful tissue sheets, fold in ½, fold in ½ again, cut curvy edge (on non-folded part), twist to a point (the bottom of folded part) hold tight and open into a flower! 

  • Hot glue (or paperclip) your flower bases all along the tree branch.

  • For Extra fun -First add Paint: *Add gold color to the tree branch and let dry before attaching flowers!

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Spring Break Fun

Happy Passover!

Fun Fact: “Passover is often celebrated with great pomp and ceremony, especially on the first night, when a special family meal called the seder is held….”

Create a spring cup to place your mini art supplies in!

Passover Cup or Yarn Cup

Supplies  

Colorful Yarn  /Glue or Mod Podge / Scissors  

Plastic Clear Cup: Wine Glass Shape 

First, cut string depending on how much of each color you want on the cup. Second, take small portions of the cup to use a paint brush to Mod Podge or use Glue to make the surface sticky. Then wind the string around the cup. Third, continue the process until the whole cup is covered with different color strings. Fourth, glue gems on the outside of the string. Then allow it to sit and dry!  

-Craft and PC: Elijah’s Cup Passover Craft, Toriavey  

Need outdoor fun next week? Join our SPRING BREAK CAMP! Summer Camp Registration is also OPEN for registration (Starts June 5) Click here to learn more

Spring Ahead!

Springtime is the land awakening! The March winds are the morning yawn. -Lewis Grizzard

Celebrate spring by creating a bright colorful, robot puppet with your kids! Then in the afternoon, take the robot puppet outside and put on a puppet show!

Robot Puppet 

Supplies: 

Scissors, Glue, Markers or Oil Pastels and Water Color   

Dowel or Carboard Tube “(we used the white tubes around wire hangers which you can score for free from most dry cleaners)” 

Brads, Cardboard, Duct Tape 

Fun Options: Gems, Buttons, Tissue Paper, Scrapbook Paper 

  • “Choose a shape for the head” or “cut a 5×5 square.”

  • Use oil pastels to decorate the head and paint watercolors over for an awesome effect. Then glue the fun options from gems to scrapbook paper for added detail.

  • Follow all the steps for the body, arms and legs that you did for the head.

  • Glue the head to the body. Use a hole puncher or toothpick to punch holes where the arms and legs need to connect to the body. Then add a brad to connect each piece- the robot can now move and groove!

  • Take the dowel or cardboard tube and duct tape it to the back.

  • Create a fun puppet show with your creative, colorful, spectacular Robot! 

-PC and Craft: Make Robot Puppets, Meri Cherry Art Studio 

Don’t take a break from Creativity! 5 ways to stay Creative this Spring (Parents and kids!) Creative problem-solving for families in need of educational entertainment:

  1. In-Person Summer Camps: Kids will explore all types of art media. Outdoor Courtyards are used for sketching and outdoor art! (weather permitting) Daily easel painting, dry art murals, free-choice art stations, storytelling + inspiring art processes to tantalize and engage every age and skill level! Learn/practice simple French and Spanish. June to August/ Full week or once-a-week options/ Age Groups: Late 3-6′s/ 7-11′s /Mornings or Afternoons. LIC & UES locations.  Click Here to Learn more!

2. Spring Break Camps: OUTDOOR PAINTING, MOVING AND CREATING ARTStory Adventures. Ages 4-9. Introduction to French and Spanish! Daily Art and Movement in Outdoor Courtyards + Drawing, Painting, Sculpting, Multi-Media *Friday field trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Begins March 22-April 2, Monday-Friday*In-Person@1157 Lexington @ All Soul’s Church. (2 hours) 9:30-11:30am / 1-3pm / 3-5pm. $550 per week/ Limited to 6 spaces for safety. Reserve a time as a Pod. Click Here to Learn more!

3. April/May Classes:  Outdoor and indoor creative & inspiring art development (in-person) programs: Inquire Here and share your scheduling needs & location: Click Here to Inquire.

4. Personalized Private Classes: A great way to stay practiced and learn new skills!  Painting, Sculpting, Drawing, Multi-Media, Photography… Tell us your interests! Click Here to Inquire

5. Virtual ARTStory Adventures: (Siblings receive a 50% Discount!) Socially distant learning: 1 hr. Zoom classes with jam-packed ART KITS and added DIY video extras to choose from (for in-between classes) like additional drawing lessons, dance, movement and experiments. Monthly series. Happening NOW-May. Join us for anIntroductory Week: and receive 2 classes + Art Kit with all Drawing, Painting, Crafting and Building supplies… for only $97! Check it out & join us: Our next Adventure begins in 2 weeks! Click Here to Register!

St. Patrick’s Day

Prepare Early for the holiday with this awesome drawing project!

Supplies: Paper/Pencil/Colored Pencils/Markers
Quality family time, draw “St. Patrick’s Day folding surprise” together! Watch the whole video to see “this week’s Challenge-Time! Happy Early St. Patrick’s Day!

-PC and Project: How to Draw St. Patricks Day Folding Surprise + Challenge Time

We took inspiration last week from Alexander Calder’s mobiles and stabiles to create our own version of these Kinetic Art sculptures! We learned all about our line and shapes family: creating straight, curved and angle lines in our wires & pipe cleaners. Then connected these lines to our shapes! We were then introduced to the brand new medium of plaster wrap! Just dip in water & smooth with your fingers onto the surface. Our shapes were finally brought to life with a bit of watercolor!

Need a SPRING BREAK CAMP? March 22-April 2, Monday-Friday* Ages 4-6 /7-9. In-Person: Location: @1157 Lexington @ All Soul’s Church)

Week 1 & Week 2 / Choose AM or PM: (2 hours) 9:30-11:30am / 1-3pm / 3-5pm: Indoor + Outdoor art activities + *Friday field trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A full ARTS experience: Daily Courtyard Art and Movement, Drawing, Painting, Sculpting with exciting Multi-Media building of 3D Stories!

Click here to Contact us to Inquire or Register Now: (Limited Spaces/ 6 children per time/ Pods most welcome with a 6-student reservation.) $550 per week

Or join us for virtual ARTStory Adventures!

ArtStory Adventures includes abstract art games, drawing storybook characters, crafting with mailed art kits, storytelling, exercising, dancing, and so much more! Everything is digital and your kids can go at their own pace-3 hours of content: Monday through Friday!

Or Click Here for 1 hr. Zoom Classes or get (discounted) Digital only access to these monthly activities ($188). Or Try Introductory Week: 2 classes, art kits plus all videos for only $97!

Easy Animal Block Art

CO-VID days dragging? Need something simple to keep your kids busy? Try Animal Block Art!

Supplies: 

3 Blocks of Wood 

3 Printed: Black and White Animal Heads 

Paint/Paint Brushes/Cup of Water/Paper Towels  

Mod Podge Matte Finish (yellow bottle)/Brush: 1 inch. Purdy 

First, paint your blocks of wood with fun, bright colors: teal, pink, orange? Or red and purples? Or??? Up to you! Second, cut out the animal heads from the paper. Third, paint on a thin layer of Mod Podge on each block of wood. Then lay the animal head on the Mod Podge. Allow for the Mod Podge to dry. Then go back and put the top layer of Mod Podge over the paper. Then allow for it to dry. Now, you have beautiful artistic animal blocks to put on your walls! 

-PC and Craft: 11 Crafts for Kids to Keep Them Busy During Lockdown, Heart Handmade

Tips: How to decorate with Mod Podge (without bubbles and wrinkles)

-Addicted2Decorating, Youtube  

Kids stuck inside all day? Keep them focused on the joys of life with ArtStory Adventures!

Live, Zoom or DIY:  3 Weeks of Snowy ARTS Fun!

Each Week includes: Drawing animals, Painting snowscapes, Building, Creating… ARTS Education that’s fun!  Weekly 45 min.-1 hour art classes with Claire, suited to your family’s schedule.

Register now here to get your ART KIT delivery prior to class, to attend live classes @ All Souls Church/UES, or watch instructional videos to create with your hands, minds & CCA Art Kits: http://dev.clairescreativeadventures.com/classes/2021-virtual-art-classes/

Happy President’s Day! Did you know….?

“The oil-on-canvas painting illustrates George Washington, then a general in the American Revolutionary War, crossing the Delaware River with his troops on the night of Dec. 25-26, 1776. The crossing immediately precipitated Washington’s surprise attack on the Hessian forces in the Battle of Trenton in New Jersey….

Although the painting depicts a scene from the American Revolutionary War, the original was actually painted in 1851 in Germany — 75 years after the Battle of Trenton, says David Parrish, professor of art history.

German-born artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, who was born 40 years after the battle, painted “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in Düsseldorf.”

-PC and Information: Purdue University, Did you know ‘Washington Crossed the Delaware’ Painting?

Red, White and Blue Recycled Egg Carton Boats

Supplies: 

Half of a cardboard egg carton/ Red, White and Blue Fabric (keep kids busier longer with paper or napkins and markers) 

Brown yarn/Scissors/Glue/Small Stick,

Lego Figurines or Animals

Easy craft to keep your kiddos laughing and playing for hours! First, cut out large triangle and then wrap one of long edges around the craft stick. Second, cut out six mini flags out of the fabric. If you want this craft to take longer then get out construction paper or napkins, and markers for the triangles. Third, cut the brown yarn and then hot glue from the bottom of the carton to the top of the big flag. Make sure the string is tight. Fourth, glue the mini flags to the string. Finally, add your animal or lego characters to your boat and let them float on the floor. You can totally get these wet, just know that it will probably sink! 

-PC and Craft: 11 Crafts for Kids to Keep Them Busy During Lockdown, Heart Handmade 

Join our ARTStory Adventures!

All-in-one Digital & Live ART Classes in Drawing, Sculpting, Crafting, Imagination & Stories of Adventures! (Bonus short movement and dance videos included.) Click HERE to learn more.

https://www.hearthandmade.co.uk/crafts-for-kids/