We have just finished a 5 week course with our students, grades 1-4 on Vincent Van Gogh. We started with an 8"x8" wooden box and focused primarily on Van Gogh's 3 paintings of his bedroom in Arles and his Starry Night in 1889. We teach this class in Spanish, and used...
We recently hosted five girls in our home studio to teach all about the frontier lifestyle. We used the frontier town of Walnut Grove, Minnesota from 1870 as our inspiration. We began with the spectacular modular homes from Little Sapling Toys. Our first step was to treat the outer surface...
We had such a blast spending about 4 weeks studying Ancient Egypt. We taught about Fayum Portraits and had the kids paint their own on the "doors" of their tomb. Inside the doors opened to shelves of their canopic jars and their pharaoh mummy. Here is an AMAZING resource for...
We are so excited to share with you our new children's board book, "(Not So) Blank Henry." Our book launch is on Tuesday, May 24th and we will be announcing a sale of the book on Instagram @goosegreaseshop. Juan and I made this book together, him writing the text and...
We have been diligently working with our Advance Diorama class on a super-fun theme, Ancient China. We studied pagodas and they made their own with cardboard and origami paper. We made slat books to learn about the history of Chinese characters, and the kids loved trying to write their own...
