SO I often begin an art class with a silly story that we all make up. Today we, in this case adults, stood in a circle and I began with, “There was a kingdom deep underneath the earth of magical creatures and the leader, named Thorka realized that ….” And then the next person went from there and we continued many rounds around the circle until we knew we were done. In this story, the gophers were part of that magical kingdom making their world out of tulip petals they had s

On the first day of school, I had everyone pick from 4 containers pieces of paper with phrases on them which then formed a scene to draw. Make sense? Examples: The green and orange striped dog flew over the large purple tree. And then they draw it! A fun game for all ages. Let me know if you need the google docs for the phrases and words I created. You can also let the group help you with ideas also.