Our local Paint your own Ceramics shop just started a story art hour for pre-schoolers and moms. While Frog isn't wild about art projects I thought we'd give it a try. The set-up was similar to what we do at home: Listen to a story, eat a snack, do a short art project based on the theme of the story, done. Unlike the library story hour, quietness is not strictly enforced. It is also helpful that Diva is a regular at the shop and I went to high school with the owner.
The first session we attended went better than I expected. Frog spent some time rocking and singing while he took in the environment. A little boy I knew of through a mutual friend introduced himself to us, talked to Frog, and showed us his finished project from the week before.
The story was Winter's First Snowflake
by Cheri Hallwood. Frog had some trouble staying in the room for the story. Another young child wanted to play with the toy kitchen Frog was sitting in front of. Frog wanted to get to the door behind this child and leave. The third child wanted to hear the story and spent a good deal of time shhhshing the other two and telling Frog to take the toys out of his mouth.
When the story was over we moved Right on to the project. We cut our own snowflakes out of wet clay. we decorated them with stamps and painted them. Frog enjoyed the feeling of the clay and let me help him push down on the cookie cutters and stamps. He opted to finger paint his snowflake with a mixture of blue and white paint. When we were finished, we were both well painted ourselves. We left while he was still in a good mood to make sure it was a positive experience.
We did not get to go again yesterday, as Frog was in a very messy mood and had me cleaning up all morning. But Diva and I picked up his finished snowflake that the studio had glazed and fired for him.
7 comments:
That is awesome looking!
Hi CC!
Just met Frog's new para today. He may start school next week which would mean no more story art - But I was impressed with what he did too - we may have to make our own story art play dates at the art shop :0)
Perfect post, perfect. I am grinning for ear to ear!
Awesome! I love the snowflake he made and that program sounds great!
That is such an awesome experience for him and you!!! I am so glad that he was able to tolerate it - bay steps is what I say right?
Hi Rainbow Mummy, Hi Julie, Hi Krystal!
Frog and I just finished a lesson on Dinosaurs. He wasn't thrilled with the simple art project (stamping dinos onto magnetic backed paper). He did answer a ton of RPM questions and used the rolled letter chart to spell d-i-n-o-s-a-u-r-s (more an exercise in perseverance than spelling). I’ll have something to post at Frog's School!
I love the snowflake! I wonder if our local ceramics shop does that? Hmmm will have to check it out. Sounds like it was a very cute day.
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