Children’s Creative Art Challenges 2011

Parents looking For something educational and creative to do at home with your child?
Do you have creative child at home always looking for something to make?
Teachers, needing a creative class lesson to compliment your arts program,
with a great class prize up for grabs?

· Check out our Monthly creative art and craft competitions. No extra materials, or equipment needing to be purchased, just some time and imagination.

· All entries will be displayed in our shop in Gardentown for public viewing.

· Prizes awarded to a winner in each age division and for their school class or Kindy.

AGE DIVISIONS:2-5, 6-9 & 10-12-FREE ENTRY

Monthly Art Challenges 2011

February-Punky Family Portraits
Families can mean lots of things to lots of people.
Create us a portrait of who is in your family,
showing as much information about them as possible.

March-Easter Hats
One of the most popular activities to celebrate Easter.
Bring us your original design and display it in our shop window.

April-Sports Shirt Design
Did you know some people have the job everyday of designing
and making uniforms for all sorts of sports. Use the
template to design a uniform, but don’t forget to tell us which
sports it is for, and the name of your team.

May-Makin Maps
Make us map of whatever you like. It could be a real or pretend
country, your fire escape plan for your house, a treasure map,
mud map of your neighbourhood, or a map which shows how to
get to another place from your house. Don’t forget to tell us what
you chose to do.

June-Crazy Colour Charts
Pick your favourite colour, and fill an A3 piece of paper by collaging anything you can find that is the colour you picked out. Because you are only using one colour, it will be called a monochromatic picture.

July-Paper Collage
Only using paper, assemble a collage. Do whatever you like, but only use paper. Papers you could include are: newspaper, magazines, tissue paper, wrapping paper, paper towels, coloured paper, origami paper.

August-Mobile Mania
Mobiles are interesting arrangements of things hanging together from above. Use whatever you can find around the house, to put together your creative mobile.


September-Perform a print
We makes prints everyday…..foot prints when we walk in the sand, fingerprints when wet ouch things with dirty hands, handprints when we cover our hands with paint and press it onto paper. Select your favourite way to make prints and bring it in to share with us.

October-Milk Bottle Battle
Have you ever thought about what you could make with your milk bottles, instead of throwing them away each time. Have a play, what can make?

November-Handmade x-mas cards
Christmas cards are a way of wishing people a happy Christmas and New Year. Do you have any good ideas, that would make great Christmas cards. Enter as many as you want.

December- Sizzling Sandcastle Sculptures
Entries Close by the last day of Each MonthSand Castles can be traditional, big, small, made by one person, or a group of people. Whether you are playing on the beach these holidays or at home in your own sand pit, send us a photo of what you can make in the sand.

Entries Close by the last day of Each Month. Bring your named enrt into the shop accomapnied with your entry form. ENJOY!!!

January School Holiday Program 2011

JANUARY 2011

Week 1 10th-14th January 2010

Monday 10th January 2010

9:30-10:30- Flutterby Butterflies Ages 2-4 (parents must stay if under 4)

9:30-11:00- Flutterby Butterflies Ages 5-8

12:00-1:30- Woollie Wallies & Dollies Ages 4-12

Tuesday 11th January 2010

9:30-10:30- The Lollyshop Ages 2-4 (parents must stay if under 4)

9:30-11:00- The Lollyshop Ages 4-8

12:00-1:00- Printmaking Ages 4-12

Wednesday 12th January 2010

9:30-10:30- Painting Project-Starry Starry Night Ages 5-8
9:30-11:00- Painting Project-Starry Starry Night Ages 9-12
12:00-1:30- Toymakers: Pinnochio's Paper Mache Puppets Ages 4-12

Thursday 13th January 2010

9:30-10:30- My PLate Thing Ages 4-8

9:30-11:00- My Plate Thing Ages 5-12

12:00-1:30- Pop Art Prints Ages 4-12

Friday 14th January 2011
9:30-10:30- A Morning In The Museum Ages 4-8
9:30-11:00- A Morning In The Museum Ages 8-12
12:00-1:30- The Paper Petal Flosrist Shop Ages 4-12

Week 2 January 17th-23rd 2011

Monday 17th January 2011

9:30-10:30- Flutterby Butterflies Ages 2-4 (parents must stay if under 4)

9:30-11:00- Flutterby Butterflies Ages 5-8

12:00-1:30- Woollies Wallies & Dollies Ages 4-8

12:00-1:30- The Paper Petal Florist Shop- Ages 9-12

Tuesday 18th Janury 2011

9:30-10:30- The Lollyshop Ages 2-4 (parents must stay if under 4)

9:30-11:00- The Lollyshop Ages 4-8

12:00-1:30- Printmaking Ages 4-8

12:00-1:30- Pop Art Prints Ages 9-12

Wednesday 19th January 2011

9:30-10:30- Painting Project-Starry Starry Night Ages 5-8

9:30-11:00- Painting Project-Starry Starry Night Ages 9-12

12:00-1:30- Toy Makers: Pinnochio's Paper Mache Puppets Ages 9-12

Thursday 20th January 2011
9:30-10:30- My PLate Thing Ages 4-8
9:30-11:00- My Plate Thing Ages 5-12
12:00-1:30- Pop Art Prints Ages 4-12

Friday 21st January 2011

9:30-10:30- A Morning In The Museum Ages 4-8
9:30-11:00- A Morning In The Museum Ages 8-12
12:00-1:30- The Paper Petal Florist Shop Ages 4-12

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS:

Toy Makers: Pinochio's Paper Mache Puppets: Step into our toy making factory, where we make toys come to life. Using plastic cups, make your own marionette puppet come to life.

The Pit Stop: Start your engines, as we build car things, decorate racing cars with logos, and make edible racing cars & drivers.

Bread Bakers: Wear a bakers hat, knead some dough and create some bread sculptures ready to take home for dinner tonight.

Flutterby Butterflies: Celebrate Spring with your own moveable bitterfly. We also look at the patterns on butterflies and symmetry.

Christmas Craft: Enjoy traditional passtime of making handmade christmas decorations. Some activities are traditional and some with a modern spin.

Woolie Wallies & Dollies: Create a world of new characters, all with pipe cleaners and wool. Give them names, friends and a personalized wardrobe.

Printmaking: Turn your drawings into prints, using foam printing boards. Once completed decorate with collage items and drawing meadias.

My PLate Thing: What will you make with your plate?????. A agrgoyle, jellyfish, Lion or will you come up with your own idea.

Fimo Fun: Have a fun time modelling items out of fimo. Fimo is a great product that can be baked hard, but still looks like plastercine, Create magnets, beads, mini worlds etc.

Mobile Mania: Using recycled items such as: newspapers, magazines, create your own mobile that you can hand as soon as you get home.

Cup & Cake Bakery: Welcome to our shop of fake food. Create cupcakes and cakes, that look good enough to eat, but aren't actually edible?????

The Lollyshop: Make larger than life lolly wrappers to cover your larger than life lolly. Make some play lollies and use lolly colours

Painting Project:Starry Starry Night- This workshop looks at the famous artworks of Van Gogh. Children try to mimic his picture by using the same wet on wet techniques.

A Morning In The Museum: Step into our pretend Museum, as a curator, and create a pretend historical display in the form of a diorama. Learn some new facts, and build some dinosaurs skeletons.

The Paper Petal Florist Shop: The best flowers in the world. Our flowers never die. Create a beautiful floral arrangement using a colour scheme, and different methods of making flowers.


Bookings Are Essential
COSTS: $20.00 per child per workshop aged 5-12 or 4-8

$15.00 per child per workshop aged 2-4 or 2-5

Discounts apply for multiply bookings

Please ensure your child has gone to the toilet before starting

Gardentown Holiday Workshop-The Paper Shop Project

During The second week of the September School Holidays. The Artsorted Worx, will be running the Gardentown children's Holiday Program as well as our own. Its called The Paper Shop Project......

Which place does a parent frequent the most? Shopping centres would certainly rate high on the list. At some stage in everyone’s childhood, they played ‘SHOP’. Whether it be selling cars, pretend food or homemade artworks they have created.
Some of the best lessons in math, language development, science, and social studies are hidden among the boxes, bags, and cans on the shelves, and in the glass cabinets of the local shopping centre.
Making shopping engaging can keep children involved in this wonderful learning experience and less likely to whine and fuss. This is turn ensures fewer disruptions to a parent's to do list whilst shopping and the potential to accomplish all they set out to do!
As the festival is being held in a shopping centre, it is a great opportunity to draw inspiration from the surrounding atmosphere. Each workshop/activity will have a shop theme; exploring not only the experience of going shopping in role as consumer, but also from a shop keeper’s point of view in displaying stock , finding products etc.

3 different themed workshops will run 3 times a day @$15.00 per child per session. Ages 4-8.

10:30-11:30am

12:00-1:00pm

1:30-2:30pm

Themes:

THE TOP HAT BOUTIQUE:Top Hats are back in fashion!!. Help our Boutique owner to keep up with supply, and new designs.

THE PAPER PETAL FLORIST: Learning secret tips from the florist, create your own arrangement with the freshest and latest flowers

THE CUP & CAKE BAKERY: Decorate but do not eat, your very own designer cake collection.

CONATCT US FOR BOOKINGS.

Interest In Childrens Cooking Classes

We are currently looking for interest in running childrens weekly cooking classes starting in November 2010.Ages 7-12

Classes will be SOSE based, which means our menus and recipe choices will be based on learning about cultures, languages, countries and people from around the world and through out history.

Cost:$ 200.00 for 7 weeks. Each class will be 1 1/2 hours long.

Class Times: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 3:30-5:00pm
Please contact us to register your interest or for more information.

September School Holiday Program 2010

COST: $20.oo per workshop aged 5-12, or 4-8-Includes: 1 1/2 hr workshop, all materials and equipment, use of apron/smock
Discounts:2 workshops booked or 2 children booked-$36.00. 3 workshops booked or 3 children booked-$55.00
$15.00 per child per workshop aged 2-5 or 2-4- Includes 1 hr workshop, various themed activities, all materials and equipment, use of apron/smock.
Discounts: 2 children booked-$28.00. 3 workshops booked or 3 children booked-$40.00

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL and can only be registered once a min dposit of $5.00 per workshop has been made. We accept Eftpos, cash and bookings can be paid for over the phone via credit card-PH 46384943

MONDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER
9:30-11:00
The Pit Stop- ages 2-5 (parents must stay)
Drawing Revolution-Things that go- ages 9-12
12:1:30
Pretty Princesses-ages 4-8
Prince Charmings- ages 4-8
2:00-3:30
Professors Challenge-ages 5-8
Professors Challenge-ages 9-12

TUESDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER
9:30-10:30
Lettuceheads-ages 2-4(parents must stay)
9:30-11:00
Lettuceheads-ages 5-8
12:00-1:30
Pretty Princesses-ages 4-8
Prince Charmings- ages 4-8
2:00-3:30
Stationery Station-ages 5-8
Stationery Station-ages 8-12

WEDNESDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
9:30-11:00
Pirates Ahoy!-ages 4-8
Blanket Making-ages 9-12
12:00-1:30
Waterworld-ages 4-8
Watercolour Paint project- ages 4-8
2:00-3:30
Toymakers: Pinocchios Puppets-ages 5-8
Toymakers: Pinocchios Puppets-ages 9-12

THURSDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER
9:30-11:00
Construction Time-ages 4-8
Construction Time-ages 9-12
12:00-1:30
The Pit Stop-ages 4-8
Drawing Revolution-Things That Go- ages 9-12
2:00-3:30
Smarty Arty-ages 4-8
Screenprinting-ages 9-12

FRIDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER
9:30-11:00
Down By The Swamp-ages 4-8
Drawing Revolution-Dinosaurs
12:00-1:30
Bread Bakers-ages 4-8
Masterchef Masterpieces-ages 9-12
2:00-3:30
Flutterby Butterflies-ages 4-8
Blanket Making- ages 9-12

SATURDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER
9:30-10:30
Little Heros-ages 2-5 (parents must stay)
9:30-11:00
Drawing Revolution-Superheros-ages 6-10
12:00-1:30
Pretty Princesses-ages 4-8
Prince Charmings- ages 4-8
2:00-3:30
Smarty Arty-ages 4-8
Screenprinting-ages 9-12

MONDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER
9:00-10:00
Little Heros-ages 2-5 (parents must stay)
12:00-1:30
Drawing Revolution-Creating Superheros-ages 9-12
2:30-4:00
Waterworld-ages 4-8
Watercolour Project- ages 9-12

TUESDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER
9:-10:00
Stationery Station- ages 2-5 (parents must stay)
12:00-1:30
stationery Station- ages 9-12
2:30-4:00
Smarty Arty-ages 4-8
Screenprinting- ages 9-12

WEDNESDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER
9:-10:00
Toymakers: Pinochios Puppets- ages 2-5 (parents must stay)
12:00-1:30
Professors Challenge- ages 9-12
2:30-4:00
Down By The Swamp-ages 4-8
Drawing Revolution-Dinosaurs 9-12

THURSDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER
9:-10:00
Pretty Princesses & Prince Charmings- ages 2-5 (parents must stay)
12:00-1:30
Screenprinting- ages 9-12
2:30-4:00
Bread Makers-ages 4-8
Masterchef Masterpieces- ages 9-12

FRIDAY 1ST OCTOBER
9:-10:00
The Pit Stop- ages 2-5 (parents must stay)
12:00-1:30
Blanket Making- ages 9-12
2:30-4:00
The Pit Stop-ages 4-8
Drawing Revolution-Things That Go- ages 9-12

Workshop Descriptions:
Pirates Ahoy!: Based on the classic children's story "Treasure Island". Come along and search for treasure, design a map, construct your own treasure chest and join in the fun. Workshop includes games to get into character, a take home treasure chest filled with treasure and a pirate eye patch.
LettuceHeads: Using plants as hair, create hairstyles and personalities using recycled items and imagination.
Smarty Arty: A great workshop for boys and girls alike. Each Artist is given artistic license to transform a blank canvas into a work of personalized Art. We look at colours schemes and collage Workshop includes painting equipment and a take home ready to hang piece of Art.
Toy Makers: Pinocchio’s Puppet: Step into our toy making factory, where we make toys comes to life. Using plastic cups, make your own marionette puppet come to life.
Masterchef Masterpieces: Put on your chef hat, step into our kitchen and cook without any food. We look at Pop Art and the recreation of popular meals using a dough mixture.
Little Heros: Bring a long your special little hero, to be fitted out with their very own costume, try out their magical powers and save the world.
The Pit Stop: Start your engines, as we build car things, decorate racing cars with logos
Screenprinting: Create a personalized logo stencil
A Drawing Revolution:
Things That Go: Learn simple techniques to draw animals with pencil and chalk pastels. Create your own mythical made up animal. Try different papers to experiment on. You will complete a pastel drawing ready for framing.
Creating Superheros: Learn simple tricks on how to draw body shapes and action figures. Students will experiment with Water colour pencils.
Dinosaurs: Explore the Prehistoric world of Dinosaurs. and even create your own. This workshop looks at creating texture using drawing media.
Water world: waterplay, art activities that use water, water craft and more!
Watercolour Paint Project: Create a peaceful landscape learning and using the techniques of water colour paints on special water colour paper.
Down By The Swamp: This is the one for dinosaur lovers! Come along and hunt for bones; make your own fossils, footprints, and dinosaur models. Share your knowledge and join in the fun as we find out about those fascinating creatures.
Diva Dolls: Princess fashions in your favourite colours. Make a jewelled tiara, bracelet, and a colourful purse as befits a princess. With stories of beautiful princesses and frog princes, there’s fun and games for everyone.
Stationary Station: Create your own stationary to suit your personality. Using recycled paper (the older group makes paper), various embellishes. Even write a letter to a long lost friend and post it straight away.
Bread Bakers: Wear a bakers Hat, knead some dough and create some bread sculptures ready to take home for dinner tonight.
Professors Challenge: Be challenged on how to problem solve the professors challenges. What can you build to protect eggs from cracking a from high levels., and how can you build a straw bridge strong enough to hold a toy car???
Blanket Making: Put together your own no sew colourful blanket, all you need to know how to do is make knots. Have it ready to go for those cold rainy days.
Pretty Princesses and Prince Charmings: Welcome to our castle. Be treated like royalty, as you create customized tiara, crown, and do princess and princey type things.
Construction Time: Build them up, build them up and up and up. Using our left over recyclable items, help us to construct a city to play in.
Flutterby Butterflies: Celebrate Spring with your own moveable buuterfly, we also look at the patterns on butterflies and symmetry.

Term 4 Creative Art Classes 2010

Creative Art Classes
Each class provides a fun, positive and social atmosphere which benefits all children and parents from different backgrounds.

KIDS &TWEENWORX (Grades 1-7) Monday, Tuesdays & Wednesdays 3:45-5:15pm & Saturdays 10:30-12:00am.
This is a 1 ½ hour weekly class providing a child friendly environment and approach to art.
Kidworx introduces children to artistic techniques and builds confidence in using a wide range of materials and artistic processes. Activities are modified to allow each child to succeed in art and learn how to be original, creative and purposeful when creating artworks. Children at this age often develop their own style and are encouraged to build on their strengths as an artist, but to also work on their weaknesses.
Term- $165.50 includes all materials. Registration Pack- $27.50 (One off fee incl: childs apron, A3 folder & bag)

YOUTHWORX (Grades 8-11) Thursdays 3:30-5:30pm
This is a 2 hour weekly class providing personal tutoring catered for each student. Students are trained in how to use a wide range of media, both traditionally and untraditionally. Students are challenged to do artwork that may not fit into a school curriculum, and to develop strength in their own style. This is a great class for students wanting to extend their knowledge and practical skills from their school class, or for a student who has not chosen Art at school, but would still like to develop themselves artistically. This class focuses on being a creative thinker across many different areas and experiences.
term- $190.00 includes all materials Registration Pack- $33.00 (One off fee incl: apron, A2 folder, A5 visual diary & bag)

MESSY MORNINGS (ages 2-5) Monday-Saturdays 9:00-10:00am
This is a 1 hour weekly timeslot allows parents and children to socialise together and to do art together. Unlike the other classes offered, this class has little structure and allows the children to work at their own pace and to develop artworks freely using the materials provided on the day.
$88.00 for a term. Includes use of smock/apron and all materials. $12.50 for a trial/one off class (must be pre-booked)

Basic Adults Classes
This is a 2 hour weekly class in 5 week blocks these classes allow everyday people to learn basic Art techniques. No prior
experience is needed ,only a willingness to participate. Enjoy a relaxed, creative and fun atmosphere. There are three classes to choose from: Introduction, Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media. We are happy to design a course in a specific area if we get enough interest.
5wk blocks- $176.00 includes all materials, and use of an apron.

Why do Art lessons with The Artsorted Worx?

Children often enjoy art as it is an activity where they can socialize and build friendships whilst learning. It is also a kinesthetic learning experience, which allows children to physically learn as well as mentally.

Art lessons should be a place where students can participate in artistic experiences, they can’t anywhere else. They can make a mess and experiment without getting into trouble for wasting materials. But above all they can enjoy themselves, no matter what skills they come to the class with.

Art can be used as a tool to build many principles, such as self teaching, confidence, patience, problem solving, time management, independent working and developing creative thinking in many areas other than fine Arts.

We teach skills and techniques from traditional (drawing, painting, realism etc) and contemporary art areas( abstract art, Expressionism, collage etc)
We provide opportunities for children to use a wide range of materials and explore artistic industries most schools are not able to do.
Each activity is individually designed for the relevant age group and interests of the group.
Students learn more than just technique they are also exposed to: relevant artists & historical background.




For more information, or enrolments please contact
The Artsorted Worx by:
SHOP: Level 2 Gardentown (diagonally opposite LOOT), Cnr Victoria & Maragaret St Toowoomba 4350
MAIL: PO BOX 3773 Village Fair 4350
PHONE: 46384943 or 0411624639
EMAIL:theartsortedworx@aapt.net.au

Professional Development For Early Childhood Workers

Creative Development for Early childhood Teachers-OutlineIntroduction
· Introduce myself

Group Brainstorming
· Provide a definition of Art.
· What is Art to you?
· What can it teach children?

Creative Thinking
· What does it mean to be creative.
· How do you develop creative thinking for yourself and children.

Exposure-Experiment-Experience

· Exposure-Variety of exposure including-displays, music, examples, inspiration, historical and contemporary.
· Demonstration and then, brainstorming & hands on activity.
· Experiment-Variety of materials, different combinations, variety of purposes, problem solving activities, a chance to try old and new ways of using media and materials.
· 2 or 3 hands on activities to experiment with different media- (possibly pudding paint, melting colour experiments, and a drawing experimental Grid)
· Experience- Hands on activity-drawing experimental Grid, using a wide range of drawing materials.

Resources provided:
Media experimentation grid template
List of collectable items for centre community to collect.
Recipes for activities
Templates for planning a program for the Art area.
Formula for coming up with new activities.
Example of 2 weeks of planning.