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Art and Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home / Week 4

April 4, 2020 by Barbara Rucci 1 Comment

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It’s hard to believe that this is our FOURTH guide for learning at home! We are thrilled to hear that so many of you have established a rhythm and routine for the day through our weekly guides, found bright spots of curiosity and creativity, and created memories while making things together. This week is no different – it’s chock full of engaging and super imaginative projects that you can adapt to fit your family’s needs. 

This Art and Play guide for learning at home promotes math, literacy and science through creativity. Join us for construction week.

Art and Play Activity Guide: Construction!

This week we are so excited for stacking, building, balancing, counting, and everything that comes with CONSTRUCTION.

Are you looking for ways to start and end your day in a meaningful way? Our morning routines and afternoon rituals will help center your family, and keep your sanity in check.

Do you have a toddler and a preschooler or early elementary schooler at home with you right now? We’ve got tons of easy to pull off, adaptable projects using all of your recyclables.

Our activities are geared towards children ages 3-8, but we’ve included at least 30 variations for younger and older children. Some moms have even reported doing our art experiences on their own!

Watch this video to get excited about the week ahead!

We know you have lots of places to go for creative ideas, but it can feel overwhelming to scroll through endless suggestions. As in weeks before, this week’s Art & Play Guide bundles all of our best ideas in one convenient place and gives your day a little bit of structure and a LOT of imagination.

Our first 3 weeks have been free! (See links at the bottom.) Starting this week, a small $5 fee will be collected for access to our guides so that we can continue to help you frame your weeks and offer your children fun and imaginative experiences. We hope you will continue to join us!

Purchase our WEEK 4 guide for just $5

Click below…

Art & Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home: Construction

This Art and Play guide for learning at home promotes math, literacy and science through creativity. Join us for construction week: Day 5: Imagination Grab Bags / Process Art

We’ve heard from so many of you – whether you’re a parent, a preschool teacher, or an elementary educator – that THIS guide is what is getting you through these challenging times.

You love the curricular connections (wait till you see this week’s math mobile!)…

The ability to pull off creative days at home using what you have (your kids are going to flip for treehouse constructing)…

And the memories you’re making together (will you try bobbing your head like a pigeon with us this week?)

This Art and Play guide for learning at home promotes math, literacy and science through creativity. Join us for construction week: Day 5: Imagination Grab Bags / Process Art

Here’s what you’ll get when you purchase our Art & Play Activity Guide for Construction Week:

  1. Five days worth of Art & Play activities centered around building and construction, with over 35 variations for younger and older children.
  2. Morning and afternoon rituals to anchor each day.
  3. Printable versions of each day if you want to take notes and keep them in a binder.
  4. A private Facebook group to create a community and share ideas.
  5. Exclusive color printables made just for our subscribers.

Purchase our WEEK 4 guide for just $5

Click below…

Art & Play Activity Guide for Learning at Home: Construction

We are so very honored to support you and your family in these stressful, uncertain times. Come construct with us! 

xo, Shannon and Bar

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Do you want drawing, sensory, and collage ideas? Get our first 3 weekly guides for FREE!

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Filed Under: Learning at Home Tagged With: shoebox, community, mobile, sticks, building, construction, tree house, Curriculum, map, homeschool, grab bag, math, child-led, social studies, theatre, literacy, science, nature walk, process art, storytelling

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  1. Rebecca Suhre

    April 5, 2020 at 12:21 pm

    Hi Bar and Shannon!
    Thank you for doing this – I will gladly support you as you are supporting me!
    Do you think there will be a way to eventually have an auto-pay option to receive each new week as a subscription?
    Just a though…
    “Teacher Becky”

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I have been thinking lately about so many big idea I have been thinking lately about so many big ideas. They seem to be stuck, though, in the cogs of my brain. I need to articulate and connect these ideas together, but I can’t find the right words, or medium. It feels like trudging through thick mud, and then making the choice to set up camp in the muddy place. Maybe this is always what motherhood + living a creative life will be. And I am ok with that, too. Life is mucky, and even though I crave clarity, I am also acutely aware that this is why I also crave art. Music, books, museums, film, gardens… these are the mediums humans turn to when they need to find connection and, if we are lucky, clarity. But I feel more protective of my human-centered ideas these days and less willing to share them in spaces like this where they are open source. I don’t even know what is real sometimes. And how am I contributing to this landscape of creative and intellectual robbery. I think I am headed in a different direction but I don’t know what that is yet. Meanwhile, I am camping in the mud and looking for beauty where I am. 

Some moments new and old, lately…

1. Painting at my easel, age 4 when we lived in England before moving to the US. 
2. I tried making a video of motherhood on mother’s day inspired by this song 🌙 but never finished. 
3. Planting dahlias 🌸
4. Year 2 of my veggie garden. It is not going well. 
5. We diagnosed our garden problem as not enough sun so cut down a tree to give the sun a little path but then the sun moved. Also failing at science 😳
6. When you see your habits in your children ❤️ 
7. My mom’s caretaker gave me a cake and now I am a whole year younger 🙏🏼
8. Thank you James for the treats, mom dreams of traveling to visit your bakery but this was the next best thing 🥐
9. Finding 50 bucks in jeans from 20 years ago 👏🏼 Always check the pockets!
10. The newly graduated makeup artist with her kit off to a job 💋 
11. When the birthday kid isn’t home it’s too sad. must make art. 
12. When I am so dumb and share it on the internet 🙃
13. My heart, my clarity ❤️
14. Another round of silkscreening! Things are happening. 
15. MUA by Ava, and hanging out with the help 😍
16. Reminder.
Happy Earth Day! Can we agree that every day is Happy Earth Day! 

Can we agree that every day is Earth Day? The older I get, the more I change my habits to be kinder to this beautiful planet. Lately, seeing the photos from Artemis II of Earth from space has really moved me to make even more planet-friendly choices. Here are some things we do at home, and of course, we could always be better, but I also think small changes are more doable and sustainable, and if millions of us did just one of these things, it would make a difference.

Ok, here goes! My hope is that someone reads one of these actions and thinks, I can do this! We cannot reverse the melting ice caps, but we can stop further global warming… humans can do this if we work together. It starts small and is community-driven, so share this with friends!

1. Eating less meat, eating more veggies (this is also called eating low on the food chain). A vegetarian or vegan diet is a low-carbon diet. Did you know switching to 2/3 vegan reduces your carbon footprint by 60%? 
2. Grow our own veggies. Save on emissions and packaging, and find joy in gardening.
3. Less food waste. Eat leftovers, clear the fridge.
4. Buy less. Buy local.
5. Repurpose, fix, mend, thrift.
6. Make homemade gifts.
7. Drive less, fly less. (This one is harder, but being conscious of it is really important.)
8. Moderate, steady thermostat settings can save so much energy. Try 67/68 F in the winter and 72/73 in the summer and don’t touch it.
9. No pesticides on our lawn. It may not be pretty, but we have never had a beautiful lawn, and I’m fine with that. We also live on a river so the thought of polluting that water so I can have a perfect lawn is crazy.
10. Using non-toxic cleaning products or making our own from vinegar.
11. This year, we will do “no-mow May” to promote biodiversity, help the soil, and reduce emissions.
12. Vote for candidates who take climate change seriously!

Add some things you are doing in the comments. This is a judgment-free zone, so no preaching! But for real, we all can do a little bit better. 

The blog post about these signs is on artbarblog.com, link in bio!
New blog post! It’s about time I share my favorite New blog post! It’s about time I share my favorite materials that I bring to the library. Read the post for links and tips for how to pair these materials to foster deep engagement. Children have always needed time in childhood to use their hands to make things and play, but now more than ever, the skills they develop through these experiences are imperative for their future well-being and success. I’ve been reading everywhere about children’s “lost skills” in this new ed tech world where screens have replaced so much hands-on learning in the classroom, even as young as preschool 😞 Communication skills, flexible thinking, regulating emotions, building empathy for others, innovating, even core strength and pencil grips are a struggle. Offering time and materials for making things and playing with ideas should not be a challenge; it should be as essential as filling bodies with fresh air and food. Play is how children learn! Anyway, I hope this post will inspire you to collect some things for making and maybe even join our Materials Matter course over on @the.creativityproject so that you, too, can become an expert at cultivating creative thinking through art making!
It’s almost impossible to concentrate or sleep or It’s almost impossible to concentrate or sleep or work or enjoy anything these days. I know joy is resistance, art is resistance, kindness and empathy are resistance, and I try and practice all of these things every day, and also boycotting and shopping local and volunteering and making calls and checking on my neighbors and bartering and keeping our big tree lit for the community. And still, it doesn’t feel like nearly enough. I know we probably all feel this way. And maybe the collective small things really do add up to bigger movements, I don’t know. It’s Sunday and my mom is in the hospital again and I miss my one at college and I had such a bad dream last night. My headspace is not in cheerleader mode which is my usual default. And yet… going through my camera roll to find photos of things I made did actually help today. And I have made a plan for future things to make. When I wake up in the middle of the night, the way I get myself back to sleep is by envisioning this one big installation idea I’ve had for years, it takes place in a forest and involves textiles. So maybe 2026 is the year for me to bring this to life, or begin the process. I think about this quote, and it helps, too: When you make art, you rebel against a world that fears vulnerability. Ok, I’m better. Thank you for listening 🤪❤️

Ps: It weighs on me that Meta should be part of the boycotts. If anyone has any ideas for building community and sharing somehow somewhere else let’s discuss.
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