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Weekly WOW!

Monday, March 14, 2016

Weekly WOW! Yes! A Teen-made cardboard collaboration that benefited play for younger kids at a high school event! Creativity always gives back!
It was awesome to start with a task to build a play zone for kids who would attend an event that is primarily geared towards teens and young adults.
To start the task, they broke into small friend groups to start building, then bridged their structures to each others groups, connecting not only the cardboard maze pieces to on one another but connecting to each other too. This was collaboration at it’s finest and the undertone to the building process for these young adults meant that they had to tap into their kid within to get into the zone and they did.
WOW!

Cardboard Play Zone
Agoura High School Student and Parent Volunteers

TGIF!

Friday, March 11, 2016

Happy TGIF!
Join is for Messy Toddler Art Fun this morning at 10am.
We’re painting Shamrocks for seasonal fun! That’s a great kick-off to a creative day of mess, imagination and exploration. Come and play today. Drop in creating begins at 11 and goes til 6pm!

Hashtag Highlight #93

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Last week was a good week for thoughtfulness, revisiting hearts, retro transportation, and as always, craftiness @createstudio

Material of the Week!

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

3/7-3/13 brings International Dolls our way as Material of the Week!  They are sure to add worldly flair to any creation this week.

Weekly WOW

Monday, March 7, 2016

Eddie and his grandpa fashioned this retro Police car for his transportation project for M.AT.E.S.
There’s Nothing like spending time with people you love. It is easily one of the richest parts of life. School projects are a great excuse for time together. Though a task may seem daunting to add to one’s to-do list, there are great rewards to reap. Getting a project assigned is like getting an appointment card with an important person in your life. Eddie is a lucky boy, his grandpa was right by his side as they gathered, glued and painted their police car.
Now Eddie has a finished project and a memory of the time he and his grandpa built a police car at CReATE. That is so old school cool.

Police Car
Eddie
6yrs

Pinspired…

Sunday, March 6, 2016

I enjoyed last night’s creative festivities during our March 3rd Pinpsired Night. The hot item seemed to be maps, Portugal was the lead and inspired sayings were the tip of the day. Our Pinspired Nights do exactly what I had hoped. They provide a vehicle for creativity to unfold in everyday people who need a little me time in their giving days. They come in and see the materials, the chosen picks from Pinterest and they take off! The results are treasures made from the heart with a little bit of soul thrown in for good measure.
I like to think that everyone goes home a little wholer for having taken some time to tune into who me is, using creativity as their guide.

 

TGIF

Friday, March 4, 2016

TGIF! We have a creative day for you!

Join us for Messy Toddler Fun today at 10am for “Dropper Painting” fun!
$11 per Toddler

D.I.Y. Art fun 11am-6pm – Let your imagination fly! -regular studio fees apply.

Pinspired Nights for grown ups who like to get crafty 7-10pm. We have 5 fun projects to choose and make!
$25 per person. B.Y.O.B.

Let’s create!

Hashtag Highlight #92

Monday, February 29, 2016

It’s been a week to remember with a pretty paper flower, a creative reminder, our last batch of #createhearts, diva socks, a happy message and twighlight hues @createstudio on instagram.

Weekly WOW!

Monday, February 29, 2016

At our birthday parties grown-ups tend to join in on the creative fun . This sock diva trio is case in point.
Dress up a sock with a bit of blind and it’s all good.
It’s so fun to watch adults tinker and explore the way they might have moons ago. We tend to get away from our creatively playful side as we grown into grown-uphood but we need this. We need to listen to our creative core. The whole world would be the better for it.

Thinking like a Maker

Thursday, February 25, 2016

I have always felt like CReATE STUDIO is a Maker-type space where big possibilities can grow into tangible creations. The only diversion from Makerism we make is that we don’t (not just yet) build electric items a.k.a. machines, but we have all of the other aspects of this mindfulness in fill swing.
Perusing this weeks online issue of MAKE Magazine brought our maker point home, using a few household tin containers to make a wobbly robot. Check out their article if you want to go whole hog and get mechanical or come into the studio to make a bot using imagination as your power source. Being a maker means tinkering to explore creativity how ever you choose, the important part is engaging your imagination. Let’s all be Makers today and everyday. We see the wold with bigger possibilities and It’s good for the soul.

Credit: Photo & Wobbly Robot Article for MAKE Magazine by Ben Light.