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Watercolours on canvas

Last Thursday Rachel and the kids tried their hand at watercolour on canvas.  I must say, the results turned out very well!   This week will be our last R-tworx session before the Summer Club begins.  I just can't wait!  Hope to see you all there.   Cheers, Jenn S.

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Gazing Stone Art – Do’s and Don’ts

Not all garden projects turn out the way you'd expect and our gazing stone project was definitely one to remember.  (What a mess!!!)  As I had made up an example stone I already knew that the grouting process was a little messy so thankfully Rachel and I divided groups and she went off to make … Continue reading Gazing Stone Art – Do’s and Don’ts

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Mini Masters Program

If you're looking for something fun to do, the mini masters program starts on Saturday! It's from 10-11 at the Carlyle Public Library for kids ages 2-6 and their parents. Join us for an art project and fun games. Everyone welcome!

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Pop Art Fun

Nothing makes a statement better than BRIGHT, BOLD colours.  So last Thursday that is exactly what we did!   1.Using markers, paints and bingo dabbers our student create bright and bold backgrounds on cardstock and left them to dry. 2.While they were drying students then drew self portraits on separate paper and coloured them in bright and … Continue reading Pop Art Fun

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Seedlings!

 Check out how much our seedlings are growing!!!  Do you remember when they were just little seeds?  Today the garden beds were ordered for the vegetable gardens, planting will be a bit late this year, but it was a long cold spring.  Aren't you glad Winter is over??? 

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Rainbow Garden

This week at the Small Lot of HOPE the Garden Club planted our "rainbow garden".  On a recent trip to the Country Garden Greenhouse, here in Carlyle, the children decided to plant the beds with a variety of different coloured plants in the order of a rainbow.  Unfortunately the plants had to wait at the … Continue reading Rainbow Garden

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Garden Art

Our garden is beginning to take shape.  In the last month we started our seedlings, did our Spring Clean Up, chose our bedding plants, made clay pot wind chimes and have now hung the fairy houses.  (I couldn't find enough large bird houses for everyone... so the children are quite excited to have fairies instead.)  … Continue reading Garden Art

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Background Blending

  On May 2nd the Library R-tworx group practiced watercolour blending techniques.  This class helped to teach the importance of painting the background first.  We taught different brush strokes and water colouring techniques for background and foreground.          

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Rain Fun

For this activity we used: Clear plastic cups (mason jars or drinking cups would work too) Shaving Cream Water Food Colouring 1. Fill your container 3/4 full of water. 2. Fill the remainder of the container with shaving cream (these are your clouds) 3. Slowly drip food coloring over the clouds.  As the dye builds … Continue reading Rain Fun

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Volcanos!!!

Last week at the Carlyle Public Library the Grade 2-3's made some fantastic erupting volcanos!  To start each student was given a small glass bottle and some clay.  (Since we had a class of 33 we used a variety of clay to make different looking volcanos: Crayola Model Magic, Crayola Air Dry Clay and No-Name brand Modelling … Continue reading Volcanos!!!