Summer Studio Kids Ages 8-11

Join us as we blast back to the days of yore. Projects include designing and sculpting unique tabletop-sized castles from scrap wood, cardboard, wire, and string, and creating our own mammoth, mythological beasts–think dragons, unicorns, and more!

Do you love color and pattern and making stuff you can use? This week, we'll experiment with a wide variety of stamps–some we find and some we'll make. Then, we'll use our smorgasbord of stamps to create cool patterns on fabric using colored inks. From this fabric, we'll sew crazily creative banners for our rooms and another project: Perhaps a one of a kind bandana for you or your pet, a pillow cover, a belt or scarf or a project of your own design.

Leonardo Da Vinci is celebrated for his wildly inventive imagination. In addition to being one of the greatest painters of all time, Da Vinci was a scientist, musician, architect, engineer, and inventor. All the way back in the 1400s, he imagined and sketched a flying machine, a helicopter and solar power, in addition to his painting and fascination with nature and anatomy.

Throughout history, people have ornamented themselves using such materials as paint, flowers, feathers, beads, precious metals and gemstones, and now, bling! This week, we'll look into the ways this ornamentation becomes amazing art forms.