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Art In The Garden: Summer Camps!

We're so excited to offer two special Seeds of Creativity visual art and garden camps this July and August.

Seeds of Creativity Camps are about enjoying and nurturing the garden, making all kinds of beautiful art and building skills together. Kids will be in the art studio and the back garden this summer creating and exploring new art techniques and mediums through individual and group multi-media projects. Every Artist-Camper will take home beautiful artwork and create a personal sketchbook for recording, planning and drawing throughout the week.

Each Seeds of Creativity camp week offers a distinct theme and unique projects and experiences. Guest teachers will be visiting Acorn Studio and sharing their special talents and knowledge each day. Artist-Gardeners will be tasting and making delicious food and celebrating Friday with a homemade pizza lunch. Every day will include fun outdoor time, games and a community walk.

SEEDS OF CREATIVITY

Visual Art and Garden Camp

@ Acorn Art Studio, Oakwood Village

Ages 4 - 10

Monday - Friday 10 AM - 3PM

$280.00 + HST per child / 1 week

JULY 18 - 22

CURIOUS GARDEN

Exploring : Garden mysteries. Garden planning and Planting. Garbage helps our garden grow!
Artists will experiment with different art techniques this week, hear great stories and make a mural. This week includes :

Growing Vegetable Soup! Making our Sketchbooks and Sketching a Garden Plan
Planting seeds. Compost and Earthworms! String painting
What's the Buzz about Bees? Games and picnic in the Rawlinson field.
We're making a bean pole tent! Jack and the Beanstalk
We're making a salad and pizza lunch for ourselves! Vegetable Printing Mural

AUGUST 8 - 12

CITY JUNGLE

Exploring : Urban gardens. Rainbows and colour theory. Growing our own food. Water!
Artists will experiment with different art techniques this week, hear great stories and make a mural. This week includes :

Planting a rainbow! Making our Sketchbooks and exploring Colours
Drawing plants. How does our garden grow? Seedlings
Insect Art. Games and picnic in the Rawlinson field.
Rainbarrels. Bulding a Fountain and Painting Stone Creatures.
We're making a pizza lunch today! City Mural

All art materials included. Every child will receive a sketchbook.

Please bring a packed lunch each day except Friday. Additonal snacks and refreshments will be provided every day.
Growing as artists. Inspired by nature. Exploring our surroundings through art and our senses.
Join us in July and August for Seeds of Creativity Camp!
There are only 8 spots available each week.
Contact : acorn.art.toronto@gmail.com

Please contact us for any information on Art After School

or any of our Seeds of Creativity Camp Programs.

Acorn Art Studio

416 573 7619

Glenholme Ave @ Earlsdale in Oakwood Village

acorn.art.toronto@gmail.com

ART AFTER SCHOOL WINTER SESSION STARTS JAN 5th

Hello Friends!

We have a new ART AFTER SCHOOL Session staring in January-
Come Join Us!

ART AFTER SCHOOL 8 WEEK WINTER SESSION

Tues January 5 - Thurs February 25
Tues, Wed and Thurs from 3:30 - 5:30
$176 + HST / 1 afternoon for 8 weeks
= $198.88

*After school pick up available at Rawlinson Community School.

ART AFTER SCHOOL is a fun 2 hour after-school arts program.
Featuring special curriculum taught by skilled childrens’ arts facilitator .
We make beautiful art. And we have tea time!
Quality instruction and materials. Lovely, cozy home studio with kitchen.
On Glenholme Avenue steps away from Rawlinson Community School

Here are the available ART AFTER SCHOOL program spots as of today:

TUESDAYS: 7 SPOTS
WEDNESDAYS: 2 or 3 SPOTS - right now this group is 4-7 year old girls.
THURSDAYS: 3 or 4 SPOTS - right now this group is 6-8 year olds.

Would your child like to join us for ART AFTER SCHOOL?

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:30-5:30.

Please contact us for any information on Art After School

or any of our Art Camp Programs.

Acorn Art Studio

416 573 7619

Glenholme Ave @ Earlsdale in Oakwood Village

acorn.art.toronto@gmail.com

P.S : We're also going to enjoy sweet sweet creative day camps here in the Studio.

Kids will have fun and learn a lot while exploring creative themes through inspiring art projects.

Learn more about Winter Break, PA Day and March Break Camps HERE!

We're On Our Way!

Climb aboard: A new 6 week session for ART AFTER SCHOOL starts next week!
Our new session runs from November 24 to Jan 14 (2 week break in December).

Art After School
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 3:30 - 5:30
Kids enjoy tea time, neat stories and fun art making at Acorn Art Studio.
Quality instruction and materials in a lovely private home studio.
On Glenholme Avenue in Oakwood Village- steps away from Rawlinson Community School.
After school pick up available :
http://acornartstudio.blogspot.ca/p/art-after-school.html

Attention parents! Fun holiday crafts, story and activity days in December :
Winter Break Art Camp Days
Monday Dec 21, Tuesday Dec 22, Wed Dec 23
Terrific art activities, stories and outdoor time
9AM - 12 PM $40 and 1PM - 4 PM $40 or All Day 9AM - 4PM $65 /child :
http://acornartstudio.blogspot.ca/2015/11/winter-break-pa-day-and-march-break.html

Here are some pictures from our last ART AFTER SCHOOL session:

Finding the middle. Making colour wheels and learning colour theory.

Pumpin posters. Pastel still life.

White pumpkin Collage by Lia

Night sky stage 1

#chalkface

Wynken Blynken and Nod by Rachel

Please contact us for any information on Art After School

or any of our Art Camp Programs.

Acorn Art Studio

416 573 7619

Glenholme Ave @ Earlsdale in Oakwood Village

acorn.art.toronto@gmail.com

Winter Break, PA Day and March Break Camp Dates

We're going to enjoy sweet sweet creative day camps here in the Studio.

Kids will have fun and learn a lot while exploring creative themes through inspiring art projects.

Artists will enjoy stories and games, play outside and make tasty foods too.

Small groups allow for better connection, support and instruction.

We only have 6 spaces available in each Acorn Studio Day Camp.

Winter and March Break Camps will run from 10 - 4

P.A Day and Summer Camps will run from 9 - 3:30

(Before and after care will be available).

Kids enjoy tea time, stories and art making at Acorn Art Studio.

Quality instruction and materials.

Beautiful private home studio with kitchen and large garden.

On Glenholme Avenue steps away from Rawlinson Community School!

Would your child like to join us for ART AFTER SCHOOL?

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:30-5:30.

Please contact us for any information on Art After School

or any of our Art Camp Programs.

Acorn Art Studio

416 573 7619

Glenholme Ave @ Earlsdale in Oakwood Village

acorn.art.toronto@gmail.com

Rawlinson Parent? We're Steps Away!

MAKING COLOUR WHEELS

Somtimes colour wheels are basic.
This colour wheel features just the primary and secondary colours.

We're kicking off our ART AFTER SCHOOL learning by creating our own colour wheels.
It's great to start the learning year with this activity, a fun way to explore basic colour theory.
Making a colour wheel teaches kids how to mix and is a helpful tool when choosing colours.

This color wheel shows the tertiary colours. These are the colors formed by mixing a primary and a secondary color.
That's why the hue is a two word name, such as blue-green, red-violet, and yellow-orange.

This wheel demonstrates Hue Tint Tone and Shade.

A colour wheel can show a little information, or a lot!
Colours that sit next to each other on the colour wheel are called
analogous colours. When combined their effect is harmonious.
Complementary colours sit across from another on the colour wheel and have a strong contrast,
like green and red or purple and yellow.

You can start making a colour wheel with paper shapes and stickers.
Put a primary colour in each third of a paper plate, and built on that!

Love chalk pastels AND they are a great tool for introducing colour mixing.
Plus you can remove chalk with an eraser.

I give kids a extra piece of paper to try out their colours and blending.
We can try out fingers, brushes, q-tips and sponges.

I have had students use paint and chalk.
This artist concentrates hard as she labels her colour wheel.

Filling in spaces around paper shapes with chalk.

This artist sees if she can make purple by putting blue chalk on a red shape.

Weekday afternoons kids enjoy tea time, stories and art class after school

at ART AFTER SCHOOL in Oakwood Village!

Quality instruction and materials.

Beautiful private home studio with a kitchen and garden.

On Glenholme Avenue steps away from Rawlinson Community School.

Would your child like to join us for ART AFTER SCHOOL?

There's room for up to eight students each afternoon from 3:30-5:30.

Please contact us.

Birds and Nests

Birds and nests are some of my favourite art subjects.

Kids like to talk about flight, the migration of birds and their role in nature.

Learning about nests, eggs and bird behaviour is a wonderful way of exploring stages of growth, family and interdependency.

Here are a few bird and nest art pieces created by students.

Rainbow Owl
Sharpies, Pastels and Acrylic Paint

Eric Carle Inspired Bird
Paint, Cut Paper, Pastel

Making a Nest
Straw, Moss, Feathers, Paper and Paint

Bird Mask
Paper Mache, Acrylic Paint, Feathers

Owl and Mouse
Cut Paper, Stamps

Owl Mask
Paper Mache, Paint, Feathers. Pipe cleaners

Charlie Harper Inspired Owls
India Ink, Watercolour

Fantasy Bird
Pastels, Tempra Paint, Sequins

Blue Jay
Inspired by Bateman's Backyard Birds
Oil Pastel

I often suggest kids outline in oil pastel and 'fill in' with paint.

Nest
Cut Paper, Pastels, Watercolour Paint

Budgies
Pastels, Tempra Paint

Owl
Crayon, Water Colour Paint
OK I admit it owls are my number one favourite :)

Plus I found some inspirations for future ART AFTER SCHOOL projects:

Clay Birds in Nests
Always looking for clay projects that are 'do-able' for younger kids with a stable base and not so many break-y parts.

Super beautiful street art
Love the scale and colours

Birds in flight wire sculpture.
I love wreaths.

Lovely little bird ornament.

So cool- I think these were installed in a playground somewhere.

I would seriously love one of these.
I could just replace my livingroom furniture with a nest- and force everyone to hang out in it.
"No I'm sorry Nanny we don't have a couch, just the nest. Now climb in."

Most of my art projects are inspired by stories and literature and there is no shortage of wonderful books featuring our feathered friends including

Make Way for Ducklings

Lost and Found

Owl Moon

Backyard Birds by Robert Bateman

and little kids love this Nest book - featuring rabbits!

Rabbits and Raindrops