Wonderful Week of seed planting, animating and eco thoughts

This week has been wonderful!

We've been working on our art for the Dandy exhibit in April.

The art topics such as conscious consumerism, water conservation, deforestation, urban sprawl and many other important issues have brought up many questions and lots of thought on how to make art based on these ideas. They've been doing a wonderful job and I am so proud of how thoughtful and how committed they are to this project.

Ms. Maria taught a class on flowers, parts of flowers, planting flowers and honoring them. The children then decorated cups to put their seeds in and we are now sprouting Mongolian Giant Sunflowers in our window. The children have each given names to the flowers and Bob, Sunny and all the rest are safely resting and rising at the forest. Signs were made that state, "Be Mindful of the Mongolian Giant Sunflowers", that way other community that use the building will now how precious each of these seeds are.

Mr. Travis came as well as Thor, Thomas Thorspecken (local urban sketchartist) to the forest. I was so happy to see Thor as I had spoke to him about coming to the forest to "sketch" the kids and pick up on their amazing creativity. Travis and I worked with the kids in beginning their animation work from storyboard. Lots of work but this project is going to be amazing. I've had people dream of the results of it, literally. Quite wonderful for this to be part of the community. We are missing lots of friends who would stop by and poke their head in. If you are around town and you want a little Misty love stop by for an amazing time!!!!

Instead of words I thought I'd let the pictures do the talking of how much fun we have at the forest!!! Enjoy!

The boys and their unplanned
matching attire that I had to take
a picture of!


Our tradition of king cake.
Everyone is looking to see
if they can find the hidden
baby!


An amazing rainbow not
on the horizon but directly
over our heads at Misty.
It appeared near the moon
and these clouds. Spectacular
to see all of these things together!
We always see some amazing things
occur in the sky over the forest!

Joshua (in front) explaining his familys
tradition and roots of New Orleans
and the celebration of King Cake.

Ms. Maria is the cutest teacher.
She is so enthusiastic, especially
when she's teaching green!!!

The kids picked items out of
a box and talked about whether
or not it can be recycled and how
it can be reused or repurposed.


Our Valentine recycled art
tea boxes. The boxes received
valentines that began, "I love
the way or I love that...", fill in the
blank. They love when we do
themed gratitude and positive
boxes.

The unofficial Misty
premiere of Ice Age
3. Featuring our
very own Mr. John Hurst.

Ms. Angie's stand up and laugh
class. On this day we did improv
dress up. There were plenty of laughs
to go around!!!!


That's us! Ms. Maria did
caricatures of us!

Caricature Class with Ms. Maria

Is it too late for a happy 2010?

It's never too late to be happy, just a little too late posting the blog...

We've been busy bees the month of January getting back into the swing of things.....
We've already had a session of classes, a very creative session that is.
We animated, recorded voice overs and learned how to draw caricatures.
The final result from all this creativity is...a movie.
It's not feature length and it's not owned by Pixar but it's ours and we are so proud of it.
It's in the works and we'll keep you updated on when the premiere will be!

In other news. . .

Can you feel the love?

We can! You can actually see the love when you pull up to Misty Forest.
We've decorated the window with old architectural paper, tea bags and company stationary. An entirely recycled window display we are proud to say.
Our theme for the month is Love Thyself & Everyone Else!
Monthly we are now focused on an object of the month to base lessons and art on.
This month our object is tea, we are learning all about it and we've been using tea and tea parts in some very creative ways.

Edible Love

If you haven't heard of the local group DRIP you are missing out.
If you haven't heard of FRESH, Drips February event, well your "taste" buds will seek revenge.
Misty Forest is partnering with FRESH to bring a special Willy Wonka-like event to the Cameo theatre. Misty is offering complimentary childcare this Valentines weekend, February 13th and 14th for the FRESH special couples dinner events. Check it out and plan a special sweet treat for you and yours.. www.ilovedrip.com

One persons trash that should really be recycled and not end up in a landfill, is Misty Forests next art supplies!!!

Think about what you constantly consume...pickles, cereal, beer, soup, wine, applesauce...
What do you do with the containers, lids, corks and cans?
If you consume a large amount of the same thing how about dropping of its remnants to Misty?
It's easier to create canvases out of 20 cereal boxes than 2,
much better to have 15 milk jugs to make bird houses than 8,
life is wonderful when wehave 100 bottle caps to make recycled art windchimes, and
instead of collecting these things for a year to make one project, a one time or once
a month drop off from a local family makes our day!
So do your part, don't let the earth fart and watch us create fantastic art!!!!!!!!!!!!

After that lovely line, much love and Happy V Day!

Lucky stars above you, sunshine on your way, many friends to love you, joy in work and play-laughter to outweigh each care, in your heart a song- and gladness waiting everywhere all your whole life long!
a little bit of the Irish love before the green rolls in with March