Passport to Preschool Week Three and Four

We started our third week of P2P with two books, A Tree is Nice and The Giving Tree (one of my favorites). The children were able to sculpt their own tree with the boy in the book. We let them experiment with model magic. This is a great product because they can manipulate it, draw on it and glue things to it. As you can see from the pictures they were really engaged in sculpting these subjects. The story really came to life this morning!

Next was the letter B and the color blue. Children made their own blue pieces of art and then of course there were bubbles..


















Week Four started with the letter C and the CRAZY elephant named Elmer. We also talked about rectangles and the color yellow! It was a busy week but these students were on top of it.

"it is fall"

So it is Fall isn't it!? This evening we had a great deal of fun painting trees, making leaves out of crayon shavings and wax paper, using oil pastels to draw details on leaves and much more. Our Magical Creations L2 class did a great job assembling their mobiles with the leaves they created. Nice tribute to the season...

Passport To Preschool - Week One and Two

This week we welcomed students to our new program: Passport to Preschool (P2P). All the children were busy making their own personal boxes, cube pictures, painting their forms, painting with watercolor ice cubes at the light table, and making moon sand.

We read some books that introduced us to our lesson and helped us all get to know each other better. Here are just some pictures from the first day. See you all next week!











Week Two:
We started with the letter A and began by reading The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni. A great book that teaching the idea of letters that make up words and words that make sentences. In addition our shape of the day was a triangle and color of the day was green. The children were so busy today time flew by! From making "A"lligators to making Green dough, we had a blast. Can't wait until next week!

Various work at the studio

It will be our one year anniversary on October 22nd and we've accumulated a lot of artwork. I took some pictures to showcase the talent and creativity of the many children that grace our studio.

The end of summer or "The last fling" as we called it.

Elizabeth thought it would be nice to have the children remember their summer experiences by painting what they did...with MUD! Yes, we painted with paint and mud and parents couldn't even believe it was mud. I don't advise you to try this at home, it can get pretty messy but the kids loved it. It also looked great with blue paint...here is a close up of a union of mud and paint.

We also had the children make abstract images by blotting paint onto the paper and folding it. You should have seen their excitement when they would unfold the painting to see their creation. Take a look!

Layers and the many forms

This lesson touched upon many things. Layers are everywhere and shapes are too, we just need to look a little closer to see how they intertwine. The children enjoyed making felt from cotton balls and watercolor, they also made paintings with lines that weaved together and created patterns on the light table using colored tape.

Passport to Pre-School

Children learn in various ways, whether it be visual, auditory or physical, art has proven to work with all types of learning. Join us on a journey through literature based art as we introduce and elaborate on color, shape, the alphabet, numbers and dabble with science projects. Our program helps children prepare for preschool and kindergarten through creative exploration.

We take each subject and explore it in different ways introducing familiar and unfamiliar tools for children to work with. Each morning children will gather together for a story and then be broken into groups; 2 to 3 year olds and 3 1/2 to 4 year olds. Each group will begin their lesson which will include method arts (printing, puppet making, watercolor etc.). A collection of their work will be captured in a box that the children will decorate themselves.

Program starts September 14th and runs for 16 weeks.

Select from mornings 1, 2 or 3 days a week or afternoons 2 days a week.
Mornings: Mon, Wed, Fri - 9:15 - 11:30 am
Afternoons: Mon, Fr - 12:30 - 2:45 pm

Cost:
3 day program: $820 + $50 material fee
2 day program: $620 + 40 material fee
1 day program: $310 + 40 material fee

Call to reserve your child's spot: 708-948-7934