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. …
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 …
10-23 Southwark The past two Tuesday afternoons were full of excitement for me and for the students at Southwark. We started off our semester on Tuesday, October 23rd with some weather-related projects to coordinate with what the kids were learning in class. But before the fun started, we helped them …
This week at Fishtown Recreation Center, we got to celebrate Thanksgiving! We started off with a very exciting class learning activity. We cut out fruits, vegetables, and a cornucopia from construction paper, and we asked the children what fruits and vegetables they enjoyed eating. The children were then able to …
This week at Fishtown Recreation Center, we continued with our fall theme! Our first activity was making landscapes. We cut ovals for trees, brown strips for the ground, and white paper for the moon out of construction paper for the children to glue onto blue backgrounds. We then showed them …
Continuing with our October theme, we made sugar skulls to celebrate the Day of the Dead! The children colored in and decorated their skulls, while they learned about the history and meaning of the sugar skulls and the Day of the Dead. They were very engaged and had lots of …
We had lots of fun celebrating the month of October and Halloween again this week! We started off by making ghosts out of construction paper. Each child was given a moon, a ghost, a bat, and black circles for the mouth of the ghost. They then glued the ghost and …
