The FREE Waco Cultural Arts Fest 2011 starts in just 18 days at Indian Spring Park.
Here is information taken from our website www.wacoartsfest.org
about free activities for the community to enjoy on Sat. Sept. 17-Sun. Sept. 18, 2011.
"Arts for All"
ArtBeans
The Talitha Koum Nurture Institute brings ART BEANS to the festival. Beans of all shapes, colors and sizes act as the color or “paint” and a young child’s imagination brings them to form and meaning. A take-home keeper that says, “Bean there, done Art!”
BlockFest
When children participate in construction activities they have many avenues for creativity
as well as opportunities to refine perceptual and motor skills, problem solve and strategize
to find solutions, increase their visual and spatial awareness, sharpen manual dexterity and even develop pre-reading and pre-math skills. You might think children are just playing but actually they are delving into design.
Bubbles!
What’s more fun than Bubbles? The Mayborn Museum will once again be presenting Bubbles! Museum staff will be in the grass near the river making giant bubbles – some as big as 5 feet long and around 2 feet in diameter! Visitors will be able to blow their own bubbles with different size wands and dance through bubbles created by a bubble machine.
Book-Mark-It
At the Waco Calligraphy Guild booth, participants will have the opportunity to stamp a design, add ribbons and beads and then the calligrapher will letter their name on the bookmark.
Claymation
A ball of self-hardening Mexican Red Clay, eager hands, and a desire to explore---that is all you need to begin to create clay sculpture. Join Karin Gilliam, Director Martin Museum and miniatures sculptor Janys Frazier and student volunteers at Claymation.
Easel Art
Revel in the Colors! It’s time to bring out the artist in you. Paint your blank cardboard canvas thanks to the wonderful folks at Central Texas Corrugated, Inc. You can take home your masterpiece.
Facinations
Face Painting Transforms! Face Painting Entertains! Face painting is Magical!
Masks
“Behind the Mask" - masks encourage us to transform ourselves, and empower us to do so. They permit us to replace one reality with another. They can ultimately provide us with a better understanding of who we really are behind the masks we put on every morning to face the world, and take off every night in our dreams.
Paper Sculpture
Let your imagination run wild as you engineer paper into 3-dimensional headgear.
Puppets
From a paper bag, scraps of fabric and other fun stuff make a puppet. “Total engagement in the project and what is more, continual problem solving as children put the puppets together.
Puzzle Pieces
Waco Cultural Arts Fest is proud to support Autism in Action.
Help us send children with Autism to Summer Camp.
Make $1 minimum donation and create your unique puzzle piece to add to our “It’s a Puzzle” canvas.
Caterpillar Walk (Decision Making and Construction)
Our caterpillar needs a new coat; create a colorful new coat for our large caterpillar sculpture.
Fish and More
Our fish needs new scales to make him the brightest fish in the Brazos River!
More decisions choosing colors and where to paint on the biggest fish from the river.
Stick, Stack, Stump (Woodworking & Construction)
When children participate in Construction activities they have many avenues for creativity as well as opportunities to refine perceptual and motor skills, problem solve and strategize to find solutions, increase their visual and spatial awareness, sharpen manual dexterity and even develop pre-reading and pre-math skills. You might think children are just playing, but actually, they are delving into design and construction techniques from a child’s perspective.
Squish, Glob, Splat (Art & Sensory)
Most children naturally want to be involved in the messy, oooey –gooey highly visible experience of using paint, but did you know that not only are they learning about color and how to manipulate a variety of other media through their exploration, they are also developing large and small motor skills necessary for brain development? Children will not only use their creative abilities but will also develop insight into how they see their world and can then show others through self expression in individual and unique ways. They achieve great emotional satisfaction through these creative experiences that promote self esteem and a sense of wonder.
Activities: 1) make your own playdough to take home; play-dough area for children to use
2) gadget and texture painting: painting of the structure from construction area
3) make your own gak to take home; gak in the sensory tables**
Recipes will be provided
Wiggle, Waggle, Snuggle (Movement & Literacy)
Language naturally flows from the experience of music and movement. The three go hand in hand in the developing child who is stockpiling vocabulary at an enormous speed in the first three years of life. Children who are ready to, who are exposed to a variety of literacy opportunities and who are encouraged to “act out” the stories they hear receive invaluable benefits that will build on language skills both spoken and written. Puppets, costumes, and other props enhance the theme of the books and stories that children love to read.
Activities: 1) Five and under will receive a reading book while supplies last and there will be storytelling.
2) Costumes and dramatic play props for movement and acting
3) Soft spaces for reading
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