If you’re anything like me, craft stores are the equivalent of a hardware store for some of my other friends. I would say Amen. But I do know a lot of women who just simply can’t help themselves when it comes to stopping at a hardware store. But for me it’s a craft store. Anytime I’m in another city my radar goes off and I instantly can spot the craft stores, whether they be large national chains or small mom-and-pop stores. I do like to visit those “mom and pop shops” when I’m in other cities just because it’s fun and I fully support small businesses!
“Expressive Arts is a discipline of helping and healing that uses the arts as its basis for discovery and change. All five disciplines of the arts: visual, dance, music, theater, and writing can give you a richer vocabulary to work, play and grow a life you love living.”
I teach an executive functioning class to incoming sixth graders at my private school. One of the things we focus on is study skills; being organized and learning how to study are extremely important. I asked all the teachers in my middle school, some parents and some students what they felt we needed to teach them when they entered into sixth grade and how to actually study and organize themselves was top of the list!
What do Wicked on Broadway, hot subways and Time Square have to do with tie dye? For me, they all scream summer! Here’s why . . . I just had an amazing weekend in NYC, as I cling nostalgically to the memories of such a great trip. Holding strong to the experiences I had in the theater district, WICKED was amazing as always.
Getting creative with your kids at home and even your teens can be as close as your bathroom drawer. Painting our faces for fun, with creativity or to practice your “look” can all be great places to find connecting and creativity. Let’s talk about creative ideas for projects “the face painting edition”.
So is your centerpiece or your mantle decorations an altar? Are they considered art? In my opinion, anytime you take something and switch it up a bit, decorate it or manipulate it in some way; you’re making art. So let’s look at an altarpiece as a work of art and see how we can turn seasonal altars or any kind of altarpiece into different dramatic focal points in your house!
