NEW YEARS ART! 12/28/12 & NEW! FAMOUS ARTIST SERIES 1/4/13

Sign ups are OPEN:

NEW YEARS ART - 12/28/12 from 10am-1pm
Let's ring in the New Year with art inspired by reflecting on the past year and helping your child focus on the things they are most excited about and creating goals for 2013! After we explore these ideas through art, let's time travel to new places with our imagination through drama games and creating our own story!

Cost is $40 and includes all art supplies and take home art.

NEW! Famous Artist Series:  Jackson Pollock - 1/4/13 from 10am-1pm

Once a month we will devote a special class to a famous artist, exploring their particular talents and influence in art and our lives.  Starting off 2013 we will dive into influential American painter Jackson Pollock, famous as an abstract expressionist.  We will explore his work through our own drip painting and splatter artwork.  This is going to be fun and messy!  Students will really have a chance to let go and enjoy the feel of flicking paint onto a canvas!  Afterwards we will get loose with some fun drama games!

Cost is $40 and includes all art supplies and take home projects.

Email Tracy at tracyrandolph@hotmail.com OR Call/Text at (925) 822-5435

 

Upcoming Classes...

NOVEMBER 2012

Crazy T-Shirt Day!

Thursday 11/1/12 from 10am-1pm

(NOTE: THIS PARTICULAR CLASS IS ON A THURSDAY, NOT FRIDAY AS USUAL)

Come join us for a fun day where we will take an ordinary t-shirt and make it extraordinary!  Students will have access to puffy paints, fabric markers, funny stampers, and tie dye colors!  T-shirts will be supplied, but students are welcome to bring their old ones from home to recycle them into something new and improved.  Once these creations are done we will take the fun outside to create a one of a kind play with costumes.  Cost is $40 and includes all art supplies and take home project.

MAZE-O-RAMA

Friday 11/9/12 from 10am-1pm

Let's use our logic skills and investigate spatial relationships as we create our own mazes!  Let the fun begin as we re-imagine new possibilities for our mazes using boxes, cardboard, and broken down toys.  After building, painting, and decorating these interactive mind puzzles we will take a journey to Maze-O-Rama land, creating cooky characters who will perform in our made up play.  Cost is $40 and includes all art supplies and take home project.

GRATITUDE TURKEY

Friday 11/16/12 from 10am-1pm

Looking for that perfect centerpiece for this Thanksgiving?  How about an awesome hand made turkey of gratitude made by your child!  We will use our imaginations to up-cycle ordinary discarded objects into a very special and meaningful Thanksgiving Day decoration.  Be surprised and take delight in finding out what your children are most thankful for as we encourage students to explore what they are most grateful for in their lives.  Afterwards we will enjoy a story and play improvisation games!  Cost is $40 and includes take home project.

LOVELY LIT UP LANTERNS

Friday 11/23/12 from 10am-1pm

Create a lovely keepsake lantern!  Students will turn an ordinary jar into a fantastically beautiful lantern using various beads and covering our jars in a mod podge of tissue paper colors.  These lanterns look stunning once lit up and decorating your home!  After our craft we will explore new worlds as we play a variety of drama games and even create our own play.  Cost is $40 and includes all art supplies and take home project.

OLD FASHIONED BEAN BAG TOSS

Friday 11/30/12 from 10am-1pm

This is a one of a kind group experience as students get to choose from a variety of fabrics to sew and fill up their very own bean bags.  Students can choose to hand or machine sew with guidance after they fill up their bean bags.  Concurrently they will be designing and painting their own toss game for the bean bags.  Let's have fun as we play an old fashioned game of tossing bean bags along with drama games!  

DECEMBER 2012

Descriptions coming soon! 

HANDMADE GIFTS FOR MOM & DAD

12/7/12 from 10am-1pm

MORE HANDMADE GIFTS FOR YOUR FAMILY

12/14 from 10am-1pm

HOLIDAY CREATIONS

12/21/12 from 10am-1pm

NEW YEARS

12/28/12 from 10am-1pm

Let's Play! Photography for Kids

Session: 7 weeks - Thursdays 3:30-5pm

10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, (no class 11/22), 11/29, 12/6, 12/13

Location: Tracy's - Lafayette, CA (Most classes will be held outside unless raining)

Ages 5-12

This class is designed for the creative child who is interested in exploring the world through photography. Each week students will focus on a different aspect of photography and get a chance to shoot as many photographs as they like on a new Nikon L26 digital camera. At the beginning of class each week students will view a printed version of their best photos from the previous week's shoot. They will use their printed photographs to share ideas, positively critique, and ultimately to add to a personal scrapbook portfolio keepsake. As we explore different aspects and types of picture taking there will be an emphasis on play through various drama exercises and games. At the end of the session students, family, and friends are invited for a one of a kind gallery-esque photography showing of the work they are most proud of. During this potluck celebration students can celebrate their unique perspective of the world they see...photos of life through their eyes.

10/25:  Introduction to care and use of a digital camera. Create your own scrapbook portfolio. Focus on taking candids.

11/1: Portraits
11/8: Nature
11/15: Landscapes
11/29: Close-Ups
12/6: Tableaux
12/13: Gallery Potluck Celebration

Cost: $250 and includes use of new Nikon L26 Digital Camera, up to 70+ printed photos, Enlarged Gallery Photos, Scrapbook Portfolio, online share site with printing access to best of photos and all art supplies.

DISCOUNT!  Sign ups left for a special rate of $200 or less if you can bring your own camera.  Contact Tracy for details.

Sign up today!  (925) 822-5435 or tracyrandolph@hotmail.com

UPCOMING CLASSES!

Here's a description of my other October classes:

Friday, October 19th from 10-1pm:  

HALLOWEEN TREASURES @ Let's Play! Art & Drama Mini-Camp

Let's explore Halloween through stories, music, and creating one of a kind decorations to take home!  Bring your imagination as we create our own Halloween spooky story to act out.

Friday, October 26th from 10-1pm:  

MONSTER MADNESS @ Let's Play! Art & Drama Mini-Camp

Let's create our own Halloween Monster with goofy eyes and hairy fur!  Using some recycled art supplies, let's use our imaginations to create a one of a kind Monster surprise.  Nice Monsters welcome too!

And...I'm starting a really exciting new class that combines my love of nature, drama, and photography:

NEW!!!  Let's Play! Photography for Kids

Session:  8 weeks - Thursdays 3:30-5pm - 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, (no class 11/22), 11/29, 12/6, 12/13

Location:  Tracy's - Lafayette, CA (Most classes will be held outside unless raining)

Ages 5-12

This class is designed for the creative child who is interested in exploring the world through photography.  Each week students will focus on a different aspect of photography and get a chance to shoot as many photographs as they like on a new Nikon L26 digital camera.  At the beginning of class each week students will view a printed version of their best photos from the previous week's shoot.  They will use their printed photographs to share ideas, positively critique, and ultimately to add to a personal scrapbook portfolio keepsake.  As we explore different aspects and types of picture taking there will be an emphasis on play through various drama exercises and games.  At the end of the session students, family, and friends are invited for a one of a kind gallery-esque photography showing of the work they are most proud of.  During this potluck celebration students can celebrate their unique perspective of the world they see...photos of life through their eyes.

10/18:  Introduction to care and use of a digital camera.  Create your own scrapbook portfolio.

10/25:  Candids

11/1:  Portraits

11/8:  Nature

11/15:  Landscapes

11/29:  Close-Ups

12/6:  Tableaux

12/13:  Gallery Potluck Celebration

Cost:  $250 and includes use of new Nikon L26 Digital Camera, up to 70+ printed photos, Enlarged Gallery Photos, Scrapbook Portfolio, online share site with printing access to best of photos and all art supplies.  

DISCOUNTS!

If you refer someone who takes a class with me, you will receive $10 off your next class!  

Space is limited!  If interested please contact Tracy at (925) 822-5435 or reply to this email.  Know someone who might enjoy a class like this?  Please pass along the info! :)  

Let's Play! Art & Drama Presents...

WEIRD N' WACKY ROBOTS!

Come join us THIS FRIDAY, September 28th, from 10am-1pm as we explore the world of Weird N' Wacky ROBOTS! Students will create robots through various art and drama activities and take home their own self made robot piggy bank and pencil holder. In all of our classes value is placed on usable and recycled art, ensuring that what has been made is not creating more waste and that we expand our idea of how many uses objects have. 

Cost is $40 and includes all art supplies.  Call Tracy at (925) 822-5435 to reserve your spot!

Medieval Times & Fairy Tale Worlds @ LET'S PLAY! Art & Drama

Calling all artists and thespians for a silly day making castles and creating our own medieval adventure play!

Samantha's castle

Zoe paints her castle and adds embellishments to decorate

Dale gets into the spirit of castle making with his Knights

Maya in the "creating zone"

Lunch time 

Cambree's silly face

Maya's silly face

Samantha's silly face

Zoe & Matty's silly face

Books for inspiration

Jumping fun

Dale explores his Castle with his Knights

LOVE these faces!

Drama games

Improvisation

Matty

Samantha

Maya

These actors know how to show their support to the performers onstage during an improvisation.

Drama is for everyone :)

Matty's castle in progress.

This week we designed, constructed, painted, and embellished our very own Medieval Castles with draw bridges and Knights to guard.

SOAP MAKING! 8/2012

We LOVE to paint!

Cambree shows her "muscle face" as she shreds glycerine in preparation for melting.

Kaia draws a self portrait

Soap making is fun!

Melted soap in our various molds

Jacob grates glycerine

Our "secret soap" where we hid coins.  As you wash, discover a treasure!

Kaia stirs our soap mixture after adding color and essential oils.

 

Making friends

Lunch time shenanigans! 

After soap making they decide it's time to be a monkey and build a fortress.

Friends reading at lunch

TRAMPOLINE + FRIENDS = GOOD TIMES

A bunch of knuckleheads :)

Strike a statue pose

A sample of Matty's finished soap...he used a plastic seaweed snack holder as a mold

Mini-Camps...ongoing!

Calling all Artists and Thespians!

Come join us THIS FRIDAY from 10-1pm as we explore SOAP MAKING and play drama games!  We will combine the science of soap making with your child's artistic design to make a one of a kind soap to take home.  The cost is $40 and includes all art materials.  RSVP as soon as possible as space is limited.  

Here is the general structure of our time spent together:

10-10:15 Arrive and get comfortable, Free Art at the art table

10:15-11:15 Art: (free draw, main art project of the day - w/ breaks for movement)

11:15-11:45 Story & Snack

11:45-12:45 Drama (movement/exercises/games/improvisation/storytelling/terminology/create a story and act it out)

12:45-1ish Last Art Project and Free Play 

I encourage parents to take time for themselves while their student/s are in class.  I teach in Lafayette right next to the Reservoir which is a beautiful location for a good walk surrounded by nature.  Use this time to support yourself! :)

Email me or call me at 925-822-5435 if interested!  Space is limited so please let me know ASAP as I plan and purchase all materials thursday prior to class.

Please pass on to anyone you know who might be interested...thank you!  It's gonna be fun! :)

Tracy

925-822-5435

PS - I also teach a weekly drama classes at Bloom: A Retreat for Mothers thursdays from 3:30-4:30pm for kids 4-8 years old...drop-ins welcome.  Call 925-939-6262 to sign up.  Cost is $60 for 4 classes over 4 weeks, or you can ask about individual class costs.

Let's Play! Art & Drama Mini-Camp 2012

Art

Let's Play!  Art & Drama mini-camp 2012

Making books