"What Catches the eye, inspires the hand!"

Take a look at what motivates us to create art

We live by the inspirational words "What catches the eye, inspires the hand!"
We create an inviting and stimulating environment that will spark a childs imagination.
Inspiration to create comes from everything.
The classroom is everywhere.
We try as teachers to provide just enough guidance to let the child know how to create and to (not) just tell them what to create.
We strive to weave a web of creativity across all areas of curriculum.
We work towards keeping a childs eyes and mind open to all the beauty and possibility that there is in our natural world.

Just take a look at this sampling of our creative lessons.

Ocean Collage Created with recycled papers and wallpaper samples.	Tree of Life First graders oil pastel study of artist Gustave Klimt's Tree of Life painting.	First painting Even the youngest children can paint and create in our "Once Upon A Paintbrush" artsy storytime class for toddlers.
The Barn We made barns from recycled cardboard boxes during our farm themed summer art camp.	Patterns Everywhere Body painting to the extreme! This group of summer art campers spontaneously started pattern painting themselves to match their swimsuits.	Rainbow Bridge Making a rainbow bridge with loose parts is art too.
Kinetispheres The lesson on circles really got the kids spinning...literally!	Bridge Over Water Lilies Third graders painted their own versions of Claude Monet's famous painting Bridge Over Water Lilies.	Monoprint Sunshine After reading Arrow To The Sun by McDermot the kids created their own sun themed monoprints.
I Love School There is no tastier way to learn about the alphabet than to mix, roll, and squeeze out pretzel dough into letters. The message the students spelled out says it all!	Night Shapes Kindergarten students created these night sky shape prints by stamping with sponges, cookie cutters, corks and other items.	Valentine Art Party The kids had a great time making Valentine crafts at this party.
Name Bugs Fourth and fifth graders created these name bugs using writing their names in cursive and transfering it for midline symmetry.	Mr. Happy Preschoolers created these oh so cute faces during a pottery class.	Starry Night Shaving cream monoprints of artist Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night.
Petroglyphs Students in our Time Travellers Art Club got to explore the art of the petroglyph by carving their own into our dried up chunks of clay.	Stained Glass Hand Students learned about artist Marc Chagall's comissioned stained glass designs. After viewing postcards of his studies and the finished glass windows they did watercolor resist painting with contrasting warm and cool colors.	Color mixing trays Color mixing with ink .
Thanksgiving Turkey Preschoolers pinched out these finely textured turkeys after hearing the story and seeing the pictures from the book The Thanksgiving Ball.	Stripes Investigation: Are a zebra's stripes white on black or black on white.	Rainbow Fish This "Once Upon A Paintbrush" artsy storytime class created rainbow fish after hearing the storybook Rainbow Fish.
Tie Dyed Plates Marker colored coffee filter prints on paper plates.	Rainbow Ice Castles Sculpting with colored blocks of ice in the July heat was lots of fun.	Paper Chain Stories I love to tell stories while doing seemingly magical paper cutting to reveal to a class at the end. This class learned how to cut paper doll chains
Lion Masks The start to some fearsome lion masks during our safari themed art camp week.

"What Catches the eye, inspires the hand!"

Take a look at what motivates us to create art

We live by the inspirational words "What catches the eye, inspires the hand!"

We create an inviting and stimulating environment that will spark a childs imagination.

Inspiration to create comes from everything.

The classroom is everywhere.

We try as teachers to provide just enough guidance to let the child know how to create and to (not) just tell them what to create.

We strive to weave a web of creativity across all areas of curriculum.

We work towards keeping a childs eyes and mind open to all the beauty and possibility that there is in our natural world.

Just take a look at this sampling of our creative lessons.

Ocean Collage

Created with recycled papers and wallpaper samples.

Tree of Life

First graders oil pastel study of artist Gustave Klimt's Tree of Life painting.

First painting

Even the youngest children can paint and create in our "Once Upon A Paintbrush" artsy storytime class for toddlers.

The Barn

We made barns from recycled cardboard boxes during our farm themed summer art camp.

Patterns Everywhere

Body painting to the extreme! This group of summer art campers spontaneously started pattern painting themselves to match their swimsuits.

Rainbow Bridge

Making a rainbow bridge with loose parts is art too.

Kinetispheres

The lesson on circles really got the kids spinning...literally!

Bridge Over Water Lilies

Third graders painted their own versions of Claude Monet's famous painting Bridge Over Water Lilies.

Monoprint Sunshine

After reading Arrow To The Sun by McDermot the kids created their own sun themed monoprints.

I Love School

There is no tastier way to learn about the alphabet than to mix, roll, and squeeze out pretzel dough into letters. The message the students spelled out says it all!

Night Shapes

Kindergarten students created these night sky shape prints by stamping with sponges, cookie cutters, corks and other items.

Valentine Art Party

The kids had a great time making Valentine crafts at this party.

Name Bugs

Fourth and fifth graders created these name bugs using writing their names in cursive and transfering it for midline symmetry.

Mr. Happy

Preschoolers created these oh so cute faces during a pottery class.

Starry Night

Shaving cream monoprints of artist Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night.

Petroglyphs

Students in our Time Travellers Art Club got to explore the art of the petroglyph by carving their own into our dried up chunks of clay.

Stained Glass Hand

Students learned about artist Marc Chagall's comissioned stained glass designs. After viewing postcards of his studies and the finished glass windows they did watercolor resist painting with contrasting warm and cool colors.

Color mixing trays

Color mixing with ink .

Thanksgiving Turkey

Preschoolers pinched out these finely textured turkeys after hearing the story and seeing the pictures from the book The Thanksgiving Ball.

Stripes

Investigation: Are a zebra's stripes white on black or black on white.

Rainbow Fish

This "Once Upon A Paintbrush" artsy storytime class created rainbow fish after hearing the storybook Rainbow Fish.

Tie Dyed Plates

Marker colored coffee filter prints on paper plates.

Rainbow Ice Castles

Sculpting with colored blocks of ice in the July heat was lots of fun.

Paper Chain Stories

I love to tell stories while doing seemingly magical paper cutting to reveal to a class at the end. This class learned how to cut paper doll chains

Lion Masks

The start to some fearsome lion masks during our safari themed art camp week.

Sprouting HeARTS Studio

Sprouting HeARTS is a mobile studio using Agile Learning tools and resources for self directed learners. We are currently enjoying partnering with several local schools and sites for creative arts education outreach programming.