How Does Our Garden Grow? at Middletown and Phoenixville Libraries

My latest interactive theatrical storytelling event Dig! Plant! Water! Sunshine! Love! How Does Our Garden Grow is a big hit! I've been busy all summer sharing it with mostly camps and preschools. But tonite at 6:30 at the Middletown Library in Lima PA and next Friday at 10:00 a.m. at Phoenixville Library this show is open to the public.

Participants become crops (tomatoes, carrots, peas, corn, lettuce, strawberries, watermelon and flowers),
pollinators (birds, butterflies, bees), worms, farmers, scarecrows or predators (deer, groundhogs and stinkbugs) and together we create a beautiful garden. SO CUTE!

Afterwards each child makes their own little rabbit farmer puppet to take home.

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Come Join the Rainbow in Phoenixville

I just cannot get over how incredibly CUTE and visually appealing Come Join the Rainbow is.
Here's some pics from a story in Phoenixville Patch about the event.

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Come Join the Rainbow Open to the Public at Local Libraries

This is a busy week, as all summer weeks are. I will be traveling to a couple of Malvern Schools, and a couple of Kindercares for private shows.

But Come Join the Rainbow is open to the public at the Marple Public Library on Wednesday at 4:00 and at the Lamott Library on Thursday at 11:00.

and next Monday August 8th at the Phoenixville Public Library at 10:00!
(thanks to a grant from Phoenixville Sunday Soup)

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Firebird Wand Making was Fantastic

Firebird Wand Making was great and I can't wait to see them at the Festival..

 I think these three kids were brother and sisters. Their firebirds look kind of related too.

Here's a mother daughter showing off their wands.

It was wonderful to see adults making them too.

I colored all day for two days and made many wands,

which will be available for purchase at the ArtyPantz booth in the Arts Bazaar.

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Handmade Paper Song Birds

I've been so busy making all kinds of bird items for the Arts Bazaar at the Phoenixville Firebird Festival, and some other local craft shows. Here is a picture of the paper birds I'm cranking out today...!

These paper song birds are so pretty, and the tail fans out! Can't find my camera as usual, but scanned this one in........made special envelopes for them too.

In addition to the Firebird Festival.....

ArtyPantz will have a booth at Camphill's Christmas Cafe on Nov. 27th

This ever-popular Christmas Cafe´ will be held November 27, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Please join us for unique holiday shopping opportunities, refreshments, and a chance to meet old and new friends! 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Blue Room at Karl Koenig Schoolhouse at Beaver Run.

Also coming up is a Holiday Soiree at the Center on Central on December 9th. This will be an evening of buying crafts, making crafts and socializing.......

I love to make things and this is just a sneak preview of some of what will be available at these various venues....as soon as I find that camera more pictures will appear.

Before the Arts Bazaar, ArtyPantz will be at the Farmers Market the morning of the Firebird Festival December 11th with a booth and a free kids activity.....probably something to do with fire and birds.

Families! Make sure to reserve Friday or Saturday December3rd and 4th to come and  make Firebird Puppets/Wands at the Phoenixville Libray, either day, anytime between 9:30 and 4:30. Go to the Firebird website for more info about this and other events.

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Special Events this Weekend!

Come to the Phoenixville Library on Second Street this Saturday March 6th for the First Saturdays Family Creativity Workshop. This month we'll be making colorful hanging paper birds for your own mobiles.........Come anytime between 10 and 4:00. For ages 4 and up. Suggested donation is $5 per participant.

Also this Sunday March 7th, The Center on Central in Paoli is hosting a performance of Going on A Sleigh Ride at 2:00 p.m. Click on the image here to go to their website with a larger view of the flyer! Hope to see you and your kids there......It is such an adorable show. Don't foget your camera because there will plenty of photo opportunities.

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Make Snowflakes at the Phoenixville Library

SNOWFLAKE WORKSHOP
Saturday January 2nd 2010
Come one come all families with kids ages 5 and up.
at the Phoenixville Library on 2nd Street in Phoenixville
Learn how to make giant 3D spectacular paper snowflakes!
Come anytime between 10 and 4.
suggested donation is five dollars per snowflake.
I hope to see you there!

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Come Learn How to Make a Snowflake!

Come learn how to make your own gigantic spectacular 3 dimensional paper snowflakes at the First Saturday Family ArtyPantz Day Saturday January 2nd 2010 Phoenixville Public Library 2nd Avenue in Phoenixville PA for ages 5 and up Come anytime betweeen 10 and 4 to make snowflakes. suggested donation $5. per flake

The Lantern Making event went so well that the library and I decided to collaborate and offer a creative family event there on the first Saturday of every month. So this is technically the first one. Hope you can make it!

If you can't make it come to The Center on Central in Paoli, PA on Saturday January 23rd from 3 to 6 p.m. for Family ArtyPantz Day there! 24 West Central Ave. Paoli PA 610-710-1487

More on the Center on Central later, but for now it's a new and fantastic community arts center in Paoli and I'm thrilled to be working with them on this and other programs.

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