Why do kids love to paint the bus? Because a vehicle is such an odd thing to be allowed to paint! You don’t have to have a bus to do this! Read and be inspired to facilitate creative exploration with unexpected items!
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Kids seem to really love creating layered foods burgers with seeded buns and all the toppings, tacos, pizza, salad, fruit bowls, etc. This really gets them mixing colors and exploring shapes and allows them to use their imaginations to create the tastiest, or weirdest versions of these foods that they want.
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Sticker boxes are an easy-peasy open‑ended art activity where children use boxes, fun stickers, markers, and more to explore their creativity and embrace self expression freely with no “right” result.
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Keep it by your front door or in your backpack, purse, or work bag. You want it handy because when the creative impulse strikes, you need supplies.
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Texture Scavenger Hunt is an open-ended activity where children explore the world around them by finding and collecting textures, then capturing those textures as impressions in air-dry clay.
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DIY Stamps is an easy, open-ended art activity where children create their own stamps!
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Wood Build is an open‑ended art activity where children use small wood items and glue to build their own structures, sculptures, or designs. There is no “right” result—the focus is on creativity, problem‑solving, and exploration.
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Some days feel heavier than others, and that’s when Studio on the Block matters most.
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Although I was set to facilitate this workshop, I still didn't have the means to acquire the teaching artist supplies I needed. But my inner drive to provide my skills and experience with those who I believe I share a profound connection with, continued to push me forward to do it anyway.
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In the nonprofit sector, much of the language used to describe program recipients is patronizing, full of bias, and connected with stigma—as a culture, we have been conditioned to understand the charity sector as the “haves” giving to the “have-nots”. At NOMAD we come to nonprofit work from a different mindset: functioning in an ecosystem of people where everyone has something to contribute. We try to reflect this in our writing.
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…we’re all standing in the river of life, and if something floats by—an idea, an email, a gem of a moment—and you don’t act on it right then, or mark it somehow for future action, it just continues downstream.
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People truly LOVE to gather and donate ‘trash’ when they know it is destined to be art.
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