Yesterday at Herman Park we beat the heat with homemade fans, brought to us by Artist Wendy from Center for Arts-Inspired Learning (you might remember her from the awesome kite making workshop she led earlier this summer). It was the perfect project for a summer afternoon, and we all had a blast! The half-dome design was easy enough to cut out, but these kids got creative with how they decorated each fan. Some fans ended up with cat ears, and at least one looked exactly like Micky Mouse (we have some Disney fans here at Herman Park). Can you spot Wolverine from X-Men on one of the fans below? One hour of crafting was simply not enough! The artists were still hard at work when our craft hour came to a close, and Wendy was kind enough to leave us with a stack of paper to keep working with. You wouldn't believe the kind of origami these kids are capable of: fortune-tellers, flowers, and paper lanterns, oh my! By the time I finally had to head back to the office we had made a whole bundle of origami, and the kids were still crafting away. I was the lucky recipient of a beautiful paper rose, which has joined the growing array of wonderful art I've collected this summer.
If you missed out on the fun this week, make sure you join us next Wednesday; Wendy will be back with another fun art project, and it is going to be AWESOME. See you then!
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