Musings for Art Day – 8/14/09

I’ve posted several times on this blog about my son’s love for art. We have been taking classes at an art studio in Hoboken called “Urban Arts” for two years (my son will be four this fall). I know that it sounds a bit absurd for a preschooler, but he has a passion for painting [...]

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O wind – a-blowin all day long – Chapter 3

Today was a sad day indeed – the last day of our wonderful science class at Liberty Science Center. If you’ve been following along, we have made three wonderful kites this month. Here is the first kite and here is the second kite.  In this third and final class in the series, the teachers shared [...]

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Art Project for Father’s Day

I’ve been wanting to blog about my son’s passion for art for some time now, but other projects kept coming to the front of the line. I did share our birdhouse project recently, but we haven’t really talked about plain old painting. Today we did an extra-special project for Father’s Day and so I thought [...]

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O wind, a-blowing all day long – Chapter 2

Remember our kite-making extravaganza from last week? Well, we’re back at Liberty Science Center this week for kite-making chapter 2! I had gotten the impression that in the three-week class, the first week would be making the kite and the second two would be flying it, learning about wind, etc. So we brought along our [...]

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