Dripped watercolor paint creating pools of color
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Making Art Together

The Art Studio facilitates creative projects for all ages. Join us as we share materials, ideas, and reflections.

A young guest explores glue and its sticky qualities.
A young child gently places a crumpled piece of green tissue paper onto their background paper with glue.
Collage

Eric Carle Inspired Collages

Read how the Art Studio creates tissue paper collages inspired by Eric Carle’s process.
A person holding a painting of large raindrops made from spray dyes and droppers.
Painting

Painting with Drips and Sprays

Experiment with spray bottles and pipettes to create paintings.
A tissue paper collage of an animal in a landscape with a Ball jar of glue, two paintbrushes, and a no-spill cup.
Collage Theory and Resources

Homemade Liquid Starch Glue

Create your own adhesive to use in collage projects.
A young child picks a green piece of tissue paper out of a basket of papers.
Collage Theory and Resources

Tissue Paper and Liquid Starch Collage

Explore how the Art Studio adapts Eric Carle’s style for our drop-in programs.
A young child sticks feathers and papers onto a sticky piece of contact paper.
Collage Infants and Toddlers Sculpture

Collaging on Sticky Surfaces

Experiment with collaging on sticky contact paper with toddlers.
An array of colorful beads, seeds, and grains as well as funnels.
Sculpture

Marvelous Music Makers

Create your own musical instruments using found materials and natural objects.
A sculpture made of colorful rolled pieces of paper taped to a white piece of paper.
Collage Sculpture

Rolled Paper Relief with Susan Schwake

Turn beautifully patterned papers into 3-D sculptures.
A road and neighborhood made out of paper collages and drawing tools.
Collage Drawing

A Place To Call Home

Inspired by the picture book Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, create your own home out of collage materials and drawing tools.
A homemade wooden peg loom.
Sculpture

Weaving Fabric with a Handmade Loom

Make your own wooden loom and turn ordinary strips of scrap fabric into beautiful hand-woven swatches.
A sculpture made from layers of cut and hole punched papers, connected in all four corners with pieces of plastic straws.
Sculpture

Layered Paper Drawings

Create layered paper drawings using straws, yarn, scissors, and paper.
A young child holding their sparkly collage up to the window.
Collage Infants and Toddlers Theory and Resources

Toddler Art Activity: Contact Paper & Sparkly Things

Explore sticky surfaces and shiny materials with young learners.
Two people working on making a chalkboard using found materials.
At Home Art Studio Collage

How To Make a Chalkboard

Create your own chalkboard embellished with found materials!