Today at Fishtown Recreation Center, we began to celebrate the month of December, and it was lots of fun! We started with making the candy canes. The goal of this activity was not only to celebrate Christmas, but also to teach the children about shapes and patterns! We drew the …
The previous week we heard requests from the students to learn how to draw anime characters, so that’s what we did. I printed out a few of the more popular characters, and Kristin gave them step-by-step instructions as she drew a character on the whiteboard and they followed. While this …
Today with our older class we decorated houses. The were pre cut, so the students were tasked with creating the different furniture and rooms. It was a simpler project, but it brought out a lot of creativity in them and allowed us to get to know them better. Kristin read …
We had a lot of fun celebrating fall this week at Fishtown Recreation Center! We began with the scarecrows. We gave each student a brown paper bag with buttons and construction paper for the hair, hat, and nose. The children were able to glue the construction paper onto the bag, …
Dear Friends, Hope you will always have as many reasons for Thanksgiving in your heart as in ours and that you have a very happy holiday! This year you have helped us… empower youth to make art out of anything, to recycle and repurpose (see self-portrait sculpture made with blocks …
Jalene, Jamie, and Xin working on their kites Nathan tied his kite to his backpack so it would fly as he walks the next time After a week off, we were back at Southwark with 2 classes in a row. Like last time, we started with the middle school group. …
Today was our second week of working with our 5th, 6th, and 7th-grade class. In honor of it being an especially windy fall day, we decorated kites. We asked that they try and make these kites about them (things they liked, disliked, hobbies, etc.). Our goal was to be able …
Students show off their art. On the left, the skeleton is wearing a custom dress and demonstrating the “dab” with it’s creator. The sixth-grade class had a good time putting together their skeletons. 10-30 at Southwark Last Tuesday was the second week at Southwark. We jam-packed the afternoon with two …
