Crafts & Kindness Club
A new
5-week session begins 4/28
Hello! Welcome to the Crafts & Kindness Club page. The Crafts & Kindness Club is a special club where the participants (grades 2-6) learn new handcrafting skills using paint, clay, needle felting, printing, leather, alcohol inks, fabric, jewelry, and/or metal. While honing their crafting skills, they will also create beautiful and thoughtful items for themselves AND others. These after-school crafting sessions (4:15-6:15 pm) are offered in a package of multiple sessions. The current session is full, but The Spring II session begins April 28th, and upcoming dates are: 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, and 6/2 (PLUS A FREE MAKEUP CLASS 6/9).
This special art club has been created with the idea that spreading kindness and "paying it forward" is essential to developing the human spirit. Students are taught skills that enable them to make items of quality that are more than just "crafts" - they are functional art pieces or paintings with a purpose.
Additionally, students will learn a little about the nonprofit or entity their items are being made for and can enclose a note of kindness with their handcrafted items. Examples of items on our schedule are: stuffed animal teddy bears with handpainted shirts and supportive handcrafted necklaces for the bear OR the recipient; beautiful handmade specialty soaps and polymer clay soap dishes; leather dog collars for animal shelters and leather bracelets for our students (all dyed and stamped with metal tags); handcrafted containers for flower arrangements for the elderly via "Petals Please" nonprofit; polymer clay backpack charms that hold supportive hidden messages for kids who have experienced loss; handpainted fabric bags to hold essential items for those experiencing homelessness; metal stamped zipper pulls for winter jackets being distributed to kids, and coffee painted shelter pet portraits to hang in coffee shops to raise awareness...
Expanding artistic abilities while expanding hearts! If interested, please register below. The next session will be added shortly! Please email with any questions: freerangeartclasses@gmail.com
