Learning & Doing Art with the Mini Masters

Our summer Mini Masters programs cultivate and direct children's natural curiosity and imagination. Mini Masters programs are for children ages 3-6.

 Projects are largely hands-on because young children create best when building, shaping, molding, cutting, scraping and pasting. They are sensory motivated and need to experience each project using all 5 senses.

In People, Places and Things students learn about their world through art. Here, students use paiper mache to create sculptures using a favorite animal or person for inspiration.

 Then, they explored faces by drawing each other using different mediums of their choice.

And then made self portrait paper collages.

In another project, students read books about transportation. They learned about cars, planes, trains and bicycles; how they move and how they are driven. Then, students created roads with a city backdrop (because that's what it looks like when they drive with their families around town).

Students learned about landscapes by drawing their houses....

So much of art is derived from one person's interaction and perception of the world. It's no different for young children.

Satiating Creativity Cravings

Sharing more photos from our summer art program!

Students in Art Discoveries worked with different materials to make 2D and 3D projects. Here, students looked at Picasso's 3D cubist collage study of guitars.

 Then, using a violin for inspiration, students created their own 3D instrument collages.

Still under construction...immersed in the creative process.

Close up of violin "strings." (Our violin, cello and viola players are probably chuckling because the wires that vibrate and produce sound are called strings. We literally used strings for the sound producing wires in the violin collage project).

Behold a wall of finished violin collages and the real thing!