ArtMix Blog

Clay Penguins!           At ArtMix we made clay penguins! I learned a lot from this experience. As usual I spent most of my time with the youngest student, Frederick. I discovered that kids at this age do not understand the challenge of rolling clay into a ball. The problem that occurred the most was the kids wanted to make the clay balls into cylinders. They couldn't understand the actual rolling of the hands part. When making the penguins body and after they squished the clay balls, we asked them to pull their penguins body to make the bodies more of an oval instead of a circle, which brought another issue! What happened is they wouldn't stop pulling! So instead of a clay oval it was clay string! We would have to re-start the whole process! It was a large majority of chaos. A great day at ArtMix!!   Frederick Painting!  Regina's Penguin!

Caterpillar Party! Today at ArtMix I got to go to a Caterpillar party!! It is very similar to the Butterfly projects ArtMix does there. You get a Caterpillar cut-out, put it in a tray, then get wiffel balls (no more than 3-4) and dip those into paint then you get this really cool pattern/design on your cut-up caterpillar! They paint their canvas and they make their flowers using glue cut-out flowers in different sizes and jewels. The clouds are a hand made stamp which is really cool and the butterflies we hot-glue on. It is super cute and the kiddos loved it! That was my adventure at ArtMix.