More Rain Forest Pictures

The Rain Forest

This week we are all about the Rain Forest. Who lives there, what it sounds like and what the climate is like. They were able to paint on the wall, in mural like style and add their creations to it after they were done.

We have surround sound in the studio so the children were able to hear some really cool sounds of animals and rain. It adds a great atmosphere for the children to explore. Most of them walked in this morning looking at the ceiling thinking there were actual birds there.

Paint Your Face

It was a lively Sunday morning at our studio. Only one child managed to leave without painting their face. However he may have gone home with lots of glitter in his hair.

More Under the Sea this week

We are really enjoying the thrill these children get after they place their finished sea animals in the boxes. As you can see they are all hard at work assembling their pieces.

Under The Sea

Our theme this week is "Under the Sea" and the children will work together to create their community sea boxes. Our first group were Magical Explorations and ranged in age from 3 to 4 years old.

Less than two weeks old!

Today we were greeted by our youngest visitor. Less than two weeks old, Baby A. slept the whole time while his brother enjoyed his morning class.


















Painting is always something that parents love to get into themselves. We are happy to provide weekend classes so parents have special time to spend with their children.

Let them play!

Things are looking good at the studio. Lot's of little ones busy creating and interacting with one another. The parents are as wonderful as the children and our staff is really loving their jobs.

We've started offering classes for older children now so I'll post some pictures of their projects once I have a chance.

Trees and more trees!

One of our artists, Husan-Hsiu has been busy painting trees on our walls. Elizabeth another one of our artists had the idea of adding real tree scrubs (that she brings from home!) to the painting. We have started to add artwork from the children on to the trees. As you can see we have a few very pretty birds and some leaves that my son Cyrus loves to collect.

I've also added a few more pictures of the studio as it is becoming decorated with the children's artwork. We hope to have our multi-media projector hooked up soon so that we can play nature movies while the children create.

Shapes!

This week it's all about shapes, where they can be found and how they are used. We started with flash cards that had pictures of everyday things and had the children tell us what shape it was. From there it was off to the different stations, stamping with shapes, painting with shapes, making shapes from clay and finding shapes in the beans! We also placed shapes at the bottom of our water table and had the children add things that were similar in shape.

Color Everywhere!

The second week at Magical Minds Studio was all about color. We started off with colored fabric and a book, My Many Colored Days, by Dr. Sues. The children dyed water, mix color paints, made secondary colored clay by mixing primary colors together. Needless to say they had a colorful experience. Most of the children related to how color made them feel and gravitated toward a specific color.