Welcome Kids & Families

Check out this selection of video activities to do at home!
Parents and kids with smiling faces holding up art they made together.
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Meet your Magic Pencil

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  • A composite image. Center- A photo of a first-grade girl showing holding her drawing over the lower part of her face. She has drawn a vairety of lines and used shapes to make a drawing of a pencil. Left- A child's pencil drawing of a pattern using spirals inside of squares framed by short dark diagonal lines. Right- A child's pencil drawing of a character made out of squares, circles and triangle teeth & spikes.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/hK_A1mHC830
    What kinds of lines does your pencil want to make?

    Teaching Artist Chris Ignacio is curious about what kinds of lines his pencil wants to draw.  What kinds of lines does your pencil want to draw?  What do the lines make you imagine?

     

     

  • Artist Chris Ignacio uses a pointed finger to practice drawing shapes in the air.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/dwrL5yiVUn0

    What shapes does your pencil want to make?

    Chris’ pencil wants to use lines to make shapes! What lines does your pencil want to use to make shapes? What do the shapes make you imagine?
  • Artist Chris Ignacio holds his pencil up to his ear to pretend to listen to what kind of texture idea the pencil has.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/nkkeE7J_fY0

    What textures does your pencil want to make?

    Can your pencil give you ideas for how to add texture to your drawing? What lines will you use to show how it would feel if you touched it?
 

Go on a 5-Senses Journey

Create your own journey
 
  • Teaching artist Kari Morris with a very excited expression gesturing towards a picture of a giant slide.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/zzcinT3VyJo

    Let’s go to the playground!

    Take a journey to the playground using your imagination and your 5-senses with teaching artist Kari Morris.
  • Teaching srtist Psacoya Guinn pretends to catch and grasp stars in her hand while animated stars appear overlayed.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/zXt3DH0zFak

    Let’s go to outerspace!

    Take a journey to outer space using your imagination and your 5-senses with teaching artist Psacoya Guinn.
 

Explore Character!

 
  • Teaching artist Kari Morris wearing a sparkly fedora, smiling and showing emojis that express different emotions that your animal character might have.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Tc3cniwtIg

    What’s your favourite animal?

    Show how your animal moves, sounds and feels with teaching artist Kari Morris.
  • Teaching artist Kari Morris wearing a sparkly fedora, smiling and holding up a purple rabbit puppet they drew with colored pencil and taped onto a popsicle stick.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/dJ9vtZnXZoA

    Make your favorite animals into puppets!

    Make a simple puppet using easy to find materials with teaching artist Kari Morris.
 

What can you make with just 5 shapes?

Get the shapes!
 
  • Close up on teaching artist Susanna Brock's face as she attempt to make the same facial expression of her puppet face that has a tear drop shaped mouth placed horizontally, drooping almond shaped eyes and high arched eyebrows.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/COZ5c6e0fnY

    Make expressive puppet faces!

    How many faces can you create using just 5 shapes? Explore facial expressions through visual art, physical expression and puppet play with teaching artists Susanna Brock.
  • Closeup of hands arranging black, cut out shapes to make an animal creature with a big tail that looks like it could be howling.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/E1gTrFfOQY0

    Create forest animal shadow puppets!

    Teaching artist Susanna Brock makes forest animals shadow puppets with her hands and with 5-shapes.
 

Try torn paper collage

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  • Teaching artist Sarah Provost with a perplexed, concerned look on her face, holding up a puppet head that matches her expression made out of torn construction paper.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/WWGIQb4ldWk

    Collage a puppet character!

    Collage a puppet face to express emotions using torn construction paper or recycled materials. Watch this video to get ideas from teaching artist Sarah Provost.
  • Teaching artist Susanna Brock looking surprised and excited by making her zoom background a picture of a torn paper collage setting.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/nRFkVsT8wDU

    Collage a story setting!

    Teaching artist Susanna Brock gets help and inspiration from paper friends to create a troll forest! What kind of story setting will you create?
 

Get inspired by a puppet show!

 
  • Teaching artist Ron Sopyla showing his table top puppet set up holding up two goat puppets, each one on its own mountain on either side of his table with a bridge in between.
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/KfcaIM2gxjc
    Storyteller and puppeteer Ron Sopyla tells the story of Two Goats using table top puppetry.

    These goats have a problem!  When you play with your puppets what kinds of problems could the puppets have?  How could they solve their problems?

 

Workshops for Families

Bring ArtsConnection to your New York City school, community center or place of work to do a Bridges workshop for families! Email Info@ArtsConnection.org for more information.

 
  • Kids and parents sitting at tables in a classroom playing with torn paper puppets on sticks and torn paper collage settings in folders.
    Family workshop at PS 382X!

    Enjoy these photos of the torn paper collage puppets and story settings that these families made together!

  • Teaching artist Erin Orr leads a torn paper collage exploration to a classroom with kids and their families.
    Family workshop at PS 382X!

    Enjoy these photos of the torn paper collage puppets and story settings that these families made together!

  • Kids and their families hold up torn pieces of construction paper in the shape of a triangle as they explore the different ways to tear paper.
    Family workshop at PS 382X!

    Enjoy these photos of the torn paper collage puppets and story settings that these families made together!

  • Mom and daughter play with a torn paper puppet they made together.
    Family workshop at PS 382X!

    Enjoy these photos of the torn paper collage puppets and story settings that these families made together!

  • Birds eye view of dad working with their kid on gluing down the big pieces of torn paper on the setting they are making.
    Family workshop at PS 382X!

    Enjoy these photos of the torn paper collage puppets and story settings that these families made together!

  • Boy holding up a puppet made of torn blue and yellow paper in front of a torn paper collage setting where one side has a building and road and the other has medium size torn pieces of green and purple paper scattered around the page.
    Family workshop at PS 382X!

    Enjoy these photos of the torn paper collage puppets and story settings that these families made together!

  • Girl sitting with her mom at at a table working on tearing small pieces of black paper for the hair of her puppet.
    Family workshop at PS 382X!

    Enjoy these photos of the torn paper collage puppets and story settings that these families made together!

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