Fall Leaves Fall

To celebrate the beginning of this fall season, we read "Let It Fall" by Maryann Cocca-Leffler. What a great book! Our craft turned into 2 different ones... First, we took real leaves, painted them with watercolors and stamped them onto paper. Second we painted a coffee filter with fall colored watercolors, dried them, cut them into a leaf shape and finished it off by hole-punching each one to hang. Check out our work:)

Fall Trees - handprints Mommy and Me Class

Today's CCAA Mommy and Me class at the Exton Mall...  read "This Tree Counts!" by Alison Formento, sang the "Lion Hunt" and made wonderful handprint trees. We used beautiful fall colored wallpaper to trace our arm and hand to make the base of the tree. Then we used yellow, orange and red paint to make handprint fall leaves. Check out our beautiful trees!

Apple Trees! Mommy and Me fun

Mommy and Me School Buses

Some of our Mommy and Me friends have started Kindergarten this week or will start Tuesday, so we made one of their favorite parts of school... School Buses!!! We read two books about school buses and sang the wheels on the bus. Our craft was to paint a bus shaped piece of newspaper yellow, and glue on construction paper windows and wheels. Then we stamped on the red stop sign, white word "stop" and white wheel centers. And to complete our look we pasted it all on a piece of purple paper (yellow's opposite on the color wheel) and use the blow dryer to take it home nice and dry:) They turned out fantastic!!

My Fall Childrens Classes Starting in October....

Come play art with me at Chester County Art Association this fall Wednesdays and Saturdays!!!! You register by calling Maria at 610.696.5600

Wednesdays 10/03/2012 – 12/05/2012

Printmaking, Bookmaking and Collage    

Code: FY7    Ages: 7-11yrs.    Price: $140 m / $160 nm
10/03/2012 – 12/05/2012    10wks    Time: 4:30 – 6:30pm    Room: Print Room
Teacher: Sherri Schultz    Medium: Mixed Media
Students learn the art of printmaking techniques such as etching, monoprint, marbleizing paper, stamping and collograph. They will be using a printing press, hand press, as well as some old-world techniques. Their finished prints will be incorporated into collage and a finished hand-sewn book. $25 materials fee is payable to the instructor during the first class.

Saturdays 10/06/2012 – 12/08/2012 

Pottery    

Code: FY13
10/06/2012 – 12/08/2012    9wks Teacher: Sherri Schultz
Ages: 9 - 12yrs    Price: $145 m / $165 nm
Times: 10:00 – 12:30pm    Room: Far Studio Medium: Clay
This is an open-studio class that offers mini lessons each class for varied art techniques in handbuilding and wheel- thrown-pottery. Since this is an open-ended class without mandatory projects, it is strongly recommended that students keep an art journal with their ideas for projects or inspirations they would like to complete during the course. $40 materials fee is payable to the instructor during the first class. No class on Thanksgiving weekend.