Yearly Archives: 2014

Weekly Wow!

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Plastic spools were the draw to Gavin’s eye. He spent a fair amount of time pondering his creative prospects to make one dinosaur, but when he saw the bright yellow spools he knew he had found the component he was looking for to make many! He had a blast developing his Dino menagerie into three fine specimens; a Stegosaurus, a T-Rex and a Sauroposeidon.  He was so clever in capturing their characteristics with the subtle elements of their features, a pine clone head, a plastic pliers head and a wiki stik jaw! All of this came to be when Gavin saw those simply eye catching spools.

Dinasours
Gavin
5yrs

 

Material of the Week 1/13-1/19

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Reusable Bags!
Embellish these “blank Canvases” with your own personal flair to create eye catching, conversation starting carry-alls for groceries, toys, books and more!

Field Trips

Sunday, January 12, 2014

We had such good times with field trip visits this week from Horizon Hills Preschool of Thousand Oaks and White Oak Elementary School of Westlake Village.
Creativity abounded for all ages as imaginations were explored and themes were developed.
While preschoolers explored sticky glue and cardboard concoctions , first graders gave California a bit of snow as they touched on a grade level theme to make anything winter. Needless to say, we had many snowmen, snow flurried homes, penguins and polar bears. Ah, to be a kid again…

Material of the Week 1/6-1/12

Monday, January 6, 2014

Mylar Bags make a fun shiny surface for covering, wrapping, decorating or embellishing…

Cardboard

Monday, January 6, 2014

Cardboard often makes it to the Weekly Wow post because it is so versatile. It’s moldable, build able, shapable and playable.
Bea and her mommy like to make little ladies like this at home all the time. I am told they have lots of puppet shows.
This is the stuff of life. In my view creativity is best expressed when it crosses the framework of our lives from one aspect like making “art” to human interactions like play, creating roots in or imaginative thinking and our memories.
To think a broad reaching concept can begin with a few bits of cardboard, some pastels or markers and a few dots of glue is just well, wonderful.

Puppet Dolls
Bea
3yrs