Arts & Crafts of Spring (Ages 8-12)

Spring! Students will learn about various Spring traditions from around the world, create from scratch unique compositions in watercolor, acrylics, collage, and mixed media techniques, learn about various spring traditions from around the world, and master traditional spring crafts.

• ​Bring your own lunch and snacks.
• High-quality art materials provided.

Detailed schedule:

​Day 1:

• 9:00am-12:00pm: Paining the emblem of spring, flowers, from nature! Learning to sketch them from nature, see and represent individuality of each flower. Acrylic on canvas.
• 12:30-3:30pm: Making paper flowers!

Day 2:

• 9:00am-12:00pm: Painting water using water media! Rain, springs, creeks, and flooded spring rivers will be represented in the most appropriate art material: watercolor! Students will master dos and don'ts of this capricious media.
• 12:30-3:30pm: Greeting cards: we will create collages and prints inspired by Sakura branches, and other spring-related motives from Asian woodblocks and silk paintings.

​Day 3:

• 9am-12pm: Traditional Spring Crafts: decorating wooden eggs, Kokeshi dolls, Russian dolls, or a Mardi Gras mask!
• 12:30-3:30pm: making a sculpture of a bird and hatching baby birds. Recycling materials, felt.

​Day 4:

• 9:00am-12:00pm and 12:30-3:30pm: Spring landscapes from all around the world! Selecting and painting a spring scene from a place especially dear to your heart. Full day students work on two paintings or on a large painting with plenty of detail.

Day 5:

• 9:00am-12:00pm and 12:30-3:30pm: Spring Equinox celebrations from around the world! Maslenitsa in Russia; Equinox ceremony at Teotihuacán; Passover and Easter, Holi and Water Festival! Choose you favorite and paint a scene from it!