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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!

Summer Time Blast: Art, Art and more Art!

Summertime Blast: Build purposeful memories in this last month of Summer! Go to the ocean, take creative selfies, build sandcastles, and eat lots of ice cream!

To find the pearls in life’s ocean, you have to venture out far past the shore. -Author Unknown

Since we live so close to the ocean, why not learn from it and paint it with watercolors? Bring the ocean to life with your imagination; add fish, cityscapes, surfers or….

Oceans represent at times calmness and peace while at other times, chaos and turbulence. It is large in size and seems to have no end in sight. The ocean is filled to the brim with different species of animals!

Los Angeles Ocean GIF by merylrowin - Find & Share on GIPHY

View this article to learn how to draw watercolor animals with crayons and watercolors! You can even download templates of the animals here.

Ocean Animal Watercolor Painting for Kids

Still not sure how to keep your kids busy in the fall? FALL in LOVE with ART Classes!

http://dev.clairescreativeadventures.com/art-adventures/class-descriptions/#10

Keep having a blast this summer! Be sure to join us this fall! (Ages 3-15)

Portraits of Sound

As a music lover and as an artist who loves to portray the emotional aspect of music on people, this show looks very enticing…. Will let you know! http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/portraits-sound

Through June 7th @NYPL for Performing Arts on the UWS

DIY Snowman Dough Recipe-East Coast Tuesday Project!

It’s coming down in buckets the snow! So why not have some fun with a cup of hot cocoa, popcorn and this simple kids’ project with household items:

SNOWMEN: Dough (below), sticks/ Popsicle sticks, felt/ paper or even stickers, glue or gluestick, a baby carrot, buttons or found objects, large bowl, measuring cup, spoon/stirring tool.

Take turns (a good learning opp.) with each ingredient, including mixing. Mix dry ingredients first. Then add the water slowly. Stir well, then, mix with hands: Squeeze, press, pull; Build muscles in those hands and arms! Use both together then wash (FYI: Avoid if any cuts on hands, as salt may irritate or hurt.)

Separate and play with it, use tools or just hands, how many things can you do? When finished:
Roll 3 balls of 3 sizes and stack
Cut various paper for hat & glue onto top of popcycle stick, then press into center of snowman
Decorate w/ buttons, eyes, sticks, etc.
Add a carrot for the nose, it will be fun to watch over time.

Recipe per person (makes 2 snowmen): ½ cup salt, 1 cup flour, 1/3-1/2 half cup water. Another trick? To make it air dry in about a day, use a teaspoon of Alum! (Available in any pharmacy, yes it’s safe.)

Don’t eat the dough, it’s not sweet like cookies!

Related for younger: “Frosty the Snowman”, “Let it Snow”, “Dough is for rolling, rolling, rolling, dough is for rolling on a winter’s day”

DIY Chritstmas Tree Project for Kids

Picture an outline of a fir tree, star on top, colored in, on poster board or foam core… Poke holes with a pencil. Take colored Xmas lights and push through the openings! Voila!

Make a large tree, and buy the shortest lights:) Color it in with markers using repeated strokes or scribbles. Have fun with your kids. Put it in a window. If you try it, send us pics to post!

How do you go from an example of Venice to this?

In our Venice Mini-Set Building Parent-Child Workshop Saturday, students learned exactly that. Artist Cliff Gokenbach showed us how…

Check out the slideshow below, to see how it was done. Some students are already working on their next city dioramas at home!

(We love it when parents become learners with their children:) Way to go Mariella!

And a great big THANK YOU to Cliff!

: Transfer process: cover back of photo with pencil

: Flip image and draw base

: Transfer the cityscape

: Transfer the bridge

: With acrylic-based paints, water down and make a “wash” after outlining with a permanent marker

: When they dry, attach with folded card stock and tape

: On small paper tubes (easy to make), paint blue and “twirl” when adding the white stripe!

: Make several and attach by poking a hole with a pencil into the foam base

: Draw or transfer a Gondola!

: Add other details- like people and the tops of the poles (this was done with Model Magic)

: We loved how it turned out!

: And so did mom! Venice Set Building Parent-Child Workshop Saturdays, lead by Cliff Gokenbach

: Cliff taught us that through learning how to transfer from any photograph or drawing, then using Sharpees, washes and values, students re-created Venice complete with poles and Gondola! Model Magic for the tops of the poles made it pop!

This Friday 3:45pm: Children Can Experience Color & Mood w. Impressionists @ the Met w. Hands-On Projects!

Post Halloween blues? This Friday from 3:45-5pm, kids can create Monet’s mood through color, Van Gogh’s swirling lines in metal and hide Rousseau’s animals in the jungle… In our Friday Met Children’s Tour, ages 6 and up. Artists of all ages will love the projects and come home with a goodie bag…. full of art! Not candy! (Adults welcome to participate.)

Visit www.ClairesCreativeAdventures.com/register

Creating the Perfect Disguise at our Venetian Mask Party

At our Venetian Mask Party (great for all ages,) we adorned our own Venetian Masks with jewels, feathers, and so much more.

Take a peek at how we dazzle in our disguises!

: Love the rosettes on this mask!

: The feathers were a big hit!

: Love the butterfly!

: Our sticky mural was a hit with window markers to add designs of lines.

: So many creative and beautiful masks!

This Saturday 4pm: Parent/Child Disguise-Making for Halloween!

This Saturday, October 5th:

Create your own Venetian Mask!
4-5:30pm
1st Saturdays Parent-Child Workshop

Are you ready for Halloween?
Come create a Venetian mask that you can wear with style while trick-or-treating! Ages 5 and up should carve out time for this easy way to make an authentic-style disguise.

This Friday & Sat: Be inspired by the Impressionists! Join now.

Join Museum Adventures and Discover the Impressionists @ the Met!

This Friday, October 4th @3:45-5pm
This Saturday, October 5th @1-2:15pm
Ages 6 and up

Tours include hands-on diverse materials, on site at the museum.