Archive for 2019
It’s so sticky.
For most of the year we have been thinking through cardboard. Cardboard has helped us to express our ideas about ships, shapes, characters, and design. We are now bringing cardboard back to its beginning, back to
Farewell…
In recent weeks, we’ve revisited photos and written narratives in preparation for the closing of our year. With so many experiences both big and small, it’s hard to encapsulate the richness a short year together can
Oh No It Falls!
Lila and Ellie arrange the animals in a circle. The Mommies and Daddies encircle the babies. Let’s put the birds and foxes in there because they are the babies. The big ones are the Mommies and
We didn’t realize we were making memories we just knew we were having fun. -Unknown
Over these final days, we’ve introduced new materials, many with qualities similar to those we have learned our children especially enjoy. As expected, they have been relishing in the novelty of these new materials, often inspired
Spiders
During the past couple of weeks we have offered the children a selection of materials, clothes pins, pipe cleaners, wiki-stix and a variety of papers. Butterflies, people and bugs were made. A spider made on Friday
Is our boat finished?
For months we have been busy working on our cardboard boat! Each day during our gathering we invited children to sign up for a small group to add new parts to our boat or revise their
“We made a city!”
When we last left off on the building and city thread, the children had just visited Saul Melman’s Best of All Possible Worlds sculpture (other wise known as The Doors) and each of them had done
A Collaborative Installation
The excitement is building. Preparations have been ongoing all week for our annual Family Day on Saturday. We have been collecting natural materials from the sculpture park and learning how to connect them together. Working with
“This looks purple, but it’s white.” Elliott
On Wednesday and Thursday, children from Studio Red went outside in pairs to join a small group. Alongside children from Blue, Yellow and Purple, we helped dye cotton fabric using natural materials: water, vinegar, turmeric, beets,