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Making Art Together

Articles from the Art Studio team document how we design and facilitate creative projects for all ages. Join us as we share materials, ideas, and reflections.
torn collage papers arranged into stripes
At Home Art Studio Collage Infants and Toddlers

Tear, Rip, Shred, Create!

Notice how paper sounds when it is crumpled, how it floats when tossed in the air, and how it feels as it is pulled apart. 
A town constructed out of cardboard and drawing tools.
At Home Art Studio Sculpture

Cardboard Sculptures

Create three-dimensional sculptures out of cardboard.
A hand pulling back a lift-flap on a hand-drawn book to reveal a crab drawing.
At Home Art Studio Bookmaking Collage Drawing

Books with Surprises

Explore bookmaking with lift flaps, pop-ups, and die cuts!
Colorful textures on notebook paper with labels saying what was used to create them.
At Home Art Studio Drawing

Texture and Shape Scavenger Hunt

Create your own patterned papers by going on a scavenger hunt around your home!
Art materials laid out on a white background.
At Home Art Studio Theory and Resources

At Home Art Studio

Create your own creative artmaking space at home.
A sign welcoming guests to participate in a Special Sunday project and two picture books, Triangle, and Kitten's First Moon.
Drawing

Anton's Special Sunday: Drawing in Black and White

Explore mark-making with black and white materials.
A red-tailed hawk soars across the meadow
Drawing Nature

A Year (almost) in Pictures

See the change of the seasons in Bobbie's Meadow at The Carle.
A brightly colored collage alphabet.
Collage Drawing Painting Sculpture

Creative Lettering

Play with forms, color, and movement to make your own creative lettering!
A tray of paper found materials including doilies, cardboards, and colorful papers.
Collage Nature Sculpture

Art Aquarium

Use found materials to create moving sculptures of sea creatures.
A monarch butterfly and caterpillar on a milkweed plant.
Nature

Nature and Growth in Bobbie’s Meadow

Read about a recent visit with meadow consultant Owen Wormser.
A display wall with colorful prints on long rectangular pieces of paper.
Painting Printmaking

Mural Prints

Create colorful prints inspired by Peter Sís's mural work.
A basket of green and brown paper materials.
Nature Sculpture

Andy's Special Sunday: Plant Inspired Mobiles

Create sculptures that move out inspired by nature.