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Making New Years Habits

12/30/2014

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A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. A routine is exceptionally powerful.

DARREN HARDY, The Compound Effect
It takes 21 days to make a new habit STICK!  Here's a worksheet that you can use to plan out your new habit, your steps to success, AND your reward!  Plus you can mark-off all the days that you're successful at implementing your new habit!
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Dollar Store Treasures #2  - Spray Bottles

12/17/2014

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Some of our best "art" supplies come from Dollar Tree!  One of our favorite multi-taskers are our spray bottles.  

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In our preschool art rooms, our instructors use these bottles weekly to keep our watercolor trays wet while little ones paint. This keeps us from having to use water cups on our tables.  (keeping spills to a minimum)

We love this idea so much, we wrote a blog post about it here.  

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Often times, it's the little artists who want to spray things.  

[Anything.  They'll spray anything.]

BONUS: Dollar Tree spray bottles are small and lightweight...perfect for little hands!

We hang paper on our chalkboard and these become the "targets" to spray.  If you add some liquid watercolors to the water, you can get some pretty {wet} art from this activity.  We recommend liquid watercolors instead of food coloring because it's washable!  (this is the brand we use)

If you set up paper targets, make sure you lay some towels down underneath them to catch the drips!

From an early education standpoint, spray bottles strengthen little hands for writing.  Spraying on on a vertical surface also works on shoulder and core stability.

TECHNIQUES

Our artists who use acrylic paint, use these spray bottles to mist their palettes which keeps the paint from drying out while they are working. 

Our watercolor artists use them to re-wet their palettes or to wet their papers for wet-on-wet techniques.

It's fun to paint FIRST (with any type of water-based paints) and THEN spray it vertically.  The running colors and random drips make abstract art or the foundation/background for a mixed media work.  

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Sometimes we spray liquid watercolor or alcohol inks onto paper as it's lying flat.  The result is a soft speckled design.   We can place objects on the paper to MASK the spray and add visual interest.  Imagine a placing a doily on a sheet of paper, spraying it with ink, and then removing the doily.  You'd be left with a lacy design in the negative space.

We've yet to meet anyone (of any age) who doesn't enjoy this simple art-making tool!
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Inclement Weather Policy

12/15/2014

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In the event of inclement weather, ORANGE EASEL will not follow the Liberty School District or other local schools.  Class cancellations will be made on an hour-by-hour basis.  If at all possible, we will remain open during winter weather.  We advise our staff and our families and our students to use their best judgement in traveling.  Make-up opportunities will be available.  No refunds will be made for missed classes.

Please watch our facebook page and twitter feed to for updates regarding weather and closing.    
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Sparkly Snow Paint

12/9/2014

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This puffy sparkly paint is perfect for winter projects.  It's so easy to make.  As a bonus, the thick paint keeps that glitter contained!
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RECIPE
1 part white glue
1 part shaving cream
Glitter (to "taste")
Couple drops of peppermint extract (optional)

Mix together well.  We used a popsicle stick to stir it up.  Apply with brushes or craft sticks.  It doesn't SPREAD very well because it's so puffy.  Your best method for application will be a dabbing or dotting brush stroke.

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The final product, once dry, looks just like puffy, iridescent snow!

We combined this invitation with a set of washable markers.  This way older children could draw their snowscape first and then add the layer of "snow."  For younger children, our parents and instructors helped draw while the children added the snow to the snowman or the trees.
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Preschool Field Trips

12/5/2014

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Our studio was busy this week with two preschool field trips!  Our little artists had the WHOLE studio to themselves for the morning.  Our goal for them to be exposed to different materials, exercise some creativity, make a little mess, and leave our doors BELIEVING that they ARE artists.  
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Field trip outline

  • Large Classroom - Splat painting, coloring mixing lesson, group photos
  • Small Classroom - free play in a variety of creative stations
  • Lobby - drawing lesson, mini drawing books, snack
Field trips happen on Friday or Wednesday mornings from groups up to 48.  Contact us to schedule one for your group!
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New Christmas Tree

12/4/2014

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We have a new Christmas tree in the lobby that needs some handmade, creative, decorations!  

We invite our artist to bring in small art that they make to decorate the tree. 

(The Mom's Morning Our crew helped put the tree together and Thursday's PreK class made the star topper. )
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Learning Acrylic Painting 

12/1/2014

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Our Kindergarten through 5th grade classes are all learning about acrylic paints this month.  We started week one with the basics...how to mix without wasting paint, how to blend colors together on the canvas, how to keep their palettes from drying out, how to apply the paint with intentional brush strokes, how to care for their brushes...

These are all important skills for our budding artists! Next week, we begin our paintings on canvas!
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LIBERTY STUDIO
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Liberty MO 64068
816-407-9266
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7617 NW Prairie View Rd
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