The things kids come up with…
Emma got inspired by theses mini magnifying glasses to make the ultimate bug observation station.
So clever.
Category Archives: creativity
Inner Strong
Sunday, February 18, 2018Loved our Block Print Bag project for this weeks Girls Club Class to connect with the topic theme-Love.
The girls had a great time decorating the bags their way and Cindy Williams who teaches the class and I had a blast seeing how their new printing skills and personalities tied their bag looks together. In addition to block printing the girls could use markers and gems to bedazzle their bags. What showed up around the table was a refection of what they have been learning through the girls club series over all. This bag by Cate was a fitting example of what I mean- keep in mind that the girls were told that they had only one bag each to work with so if they made a mistake, something they didn’t like, it was up to them to make it work which is a tall order but a good habit to practice.
After class I got to really look at the bags left behind to dry. When I read Cate’s bag I thought, she gets it! The lessons and conversations during Girls Club stay with her and they showed up on her bag. The first tell tale sign was that she turned a mistake into a colorful doodle over the heart and a blob of paint into a bedazzled smiley face giving them both purpose and value. Wow, she applied the important message to work through her mistakes. She turned them around and made the whole look of the bag fun because of it! That is one of the big lessons I see unfold in Girls Club classes that Cindy teaches. Then she wrote words that powerfully affirm her, “I AM ME“! This is another valuable learning in Girls Club that I see, own who you are, be you! She also validated others, “BE YOU” and “LOVE WHO YOU ARE” and YOUR YOU. Another important part of Girls Club teaching is being a friend to others. The girls in our 1pm class are 7 to 9 years old. They are getting these valuable life skills NOW and they can grow up with them. I just love that! I wish I had Girls Club for my girls when they were younger! I wish I had Girls Club when I was a girl! I had lots of friends but I took whatever came my way, I didn’t know I could choose people, paths or a view of myself. I am developing those things now, as an adult. The bag’s wowness may not look like much to the naked eye but to me, a grown up Girls Club girl with a young me tucked away says, Yes! That’s the stuff we need to feel the power we have within us to be all that we can be. Thank you Cindy! The world needs you!
Yummy fun!
Sunday, February 18, 2018Now that’s our kind of cake! Donuts all the way!
Valentine
Friday, February 16, 2018Feeling the love during our Girls Club @ CReATE class for Valentine’s Day.
Painted heart love.
Love
Wednesday, February 14, 2018Happy Valentine’s Day from CReATE STUDIO! We wish you an amazing day of love and kindness.
The standard.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018Ah, the school project science standard, the Volcano!
Our modern twist is using shredded documents vs. newspaper to get the built up mass. Mixing the shred and glue is a gooey highlight.
Happy Tuesday!
Tuesday, February 13, 2018Come share some creative time with another this afternoon and enjoy our two for one deal fun!
(Two create for the price of one)
Love
Monday, February 12, 2018What a treat today! Caught @doubletapcrochet putting this piece up in our parking lot out of a sheer love and a desire to spread kindness. We also happen to be Spotlighting YARN this month. Lucky us in every way!!!
Imagine.
Sunday, February 11, 2018I found myself talking to parents this week about an AHA moment I had recently. The reason children go for the box instead of the gift inside is because they, (the children) are brimming with imaginative thoughts all the time and plain boxes are a giant unpainted canvas! The box can become anything they dream up!
No wonder I see children getting all but lost when painting and gluing an egg carton or such. They get in the zone where the partnership between imagination and creativity collide and become a state of mind, body and hands-on fun when they play or create with simple things.
As they get older they start to shift away from the blank canvas of a box and into STUFF and all of it’s fanciness. They loose, a little at a time, their readily firing imaginations and the magic it’s held for them.
By the time they are grown they have all but forgotten that the simplest thing can have the biggest impact on their imaginative side.
There are lots of tools to help us rediscover the simple things. Try the book Not A Box by Antionette Portis, which can bring us adults back to simple yet fantastic imaginings when reading with children. Time outside to be present, to be in the wonder of it all and, of course, good old fashioned play are great places to start.
As adult we seek hobbies, gyms and nature to help us get back in our zone of nowness and the beauty of our imaginations. We want the magic of our imaginations back.
Just for exercise, take a look at your next Amazon delivery box and wonder, if it could be anything, what would it be?
For the good…
Thursday, February 8, 2018Stop by the studio today to make a simple Valentine to give away! Its free to do and fun to make! We oen until 6pm.
The Conejo Valley Chapter of the Family Service Club will be passing out valentine cards for the third year in a row this year. Families with children of all ages will meet at various assisted-living homes to sing songs and pass out valentines to residents.
This year they will pass out cards at Sunrise at Woodranch in Simi, Mary Health of the Sick in Newbury Park, Brookedale in Camarillo, Hillcrest Royale Retirement Community in Thousand Oaks, and Fairwinds in West Hills.