In short, I am busy: We Explore Artist Melissa Sweet

Art Project Part 1: Collages

I encourage kids and parents to cut out words as well as pictures to create their collage.

• Supplies
• old magazines/recycled picture books/galleys
• scissors, glue sticks
• Watercolor paper, heavy cardstock, or thin cardboard

Storytime

• Books
• Carmine a little more red
• Easy as pie
• Baabwaa and Wooliam
• Rubia and the three osos

Art Project Part 2: Watercolors

I've used actual paint for this, but you get better (and less messy) watercolors with watercolor pencils if they're available.

• Supplies
• Watercolor pencils OR liquid watercolors
• Water, paint brushes

Evaluation

• 10-3-18
• Attendance: 12
• Notes: I only read one book - the group was just too disparate, a very tiny toddler, four year old, and a sixth grader!
• 3-14-14
• Notes: Ideally, I'd do the second half of this with watercolors, but I don't have any so we just used tempera paint. I was so tired this week I was thinking about using crayons or getting colored pencils instead, but I soldiered on! I would have liked to have a more thematic snack (like pie or berries or ice cream or something), but without an official assistant I felt that was too complicated. I think this was my BEST yet. A great group of kids and, most exciting to me, three families drove 30 minutes from another town specifically because someone had told them about this program!