Kids’ Activities

Express Yourself! Get inspired at “Rated K” (for kids)!  The purpose of this arts initiative is to promote children’s art and exploration of the arts within the community at the Wheeling Arts Festival.

By connecting art and art education through workshops during the festival, students will begin to appreciate the professional artists that will be exhibiting during the festival.  Children will connect arts making to professional art works and performing

Through a series of scheduled workshops students will have the opportunity to be engaged in hands-on sessions where students can explore, express and appreciate meaningful art making taught by professional artists and arts educators in individual and collaborative format.

Whether taking part in a class or being a part of a community collaborative piece, one thing is for sure… students will be having fun while learning.

Rated K for Kids 2013 Schedule

11:00 – 11:45  Clay Handbuilding

12:00-12:45 Cardboard Loom Weaving

1:00 – 1:45  -Sculpting with Paper

2:00 – 2:45 – Painting

3:00 -  3:45 – Screen Printing

4:00-4:45 – TBA

Ages 6-12

Ice Sculpture Demo – (Chris Kefauver)

Wall of Art Board – (on going, uninstructed)

Music and Movement 2013

Stacey Soos

10:00 a.m. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst)—Literature, instrument playing–       (ages 6-12) 20-25 minute presentation   Materials: Woodblocks, Tambourines, Guiros, Hand Drums

10:30 a.m.  Popcorn and Melted Butter (Kuper)–Movement focusing on energy  (ages 4-8) 10 min presentation

3 types of S: Smooth, Shaky, Sharp

11:00 a.m.  El Capitan (Sousa)—Plastic cup routine (ages 8-12) 20 min presentation

11:30 a.m.  Apples and Oranges (Kuper)–basic elements of folk dancing (ages 4-8) 10 min presentation

12:30 p.m.  Hands like this–(Ghana)–Movement/community– (all ages)

12:45 p.m.  The Wild Horseman (Schumann)–A stick horse adventure (ages 4-8) 15 min presentation

1:00 p.m.  Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa)—Flag Routine (ages 7-12) 20-30 min presentation

1:30 p.m. Making connections of literacy, music and movement using Nursery Rhymes (ages 8-12) 20-30 minutes presentation

2:00 p.m.  Tobacco Auctioneer–(Kriske and Delelles)–steady beat/paper routine—(all ages) 10 minute presentation

3:00 p.m. Finale to the Overture of William Tell (Rossini) –Guided Listening with non-pitched percussion (ages 5-12)  20 min    presentation

3:30 p.m. Finale to the Overature of William Tell (Rossini)– Parachute play (ages 7-12) 15 min presentation

4:00 p.m. Kokoleoko—(Ghana)–3 part canon/movement (ages 8-12) 20 min presentation

4:30 p.m. Click Clack Moo (Doreen Cronin)—Literature, instrument playing  (ages 4-8) 15 minute presentation, Boomwhackers

5:00 p.m. Music, Movement and Imagination (Kuper)–Movement, Guided Listening (ages 4-8)

5:30 p.m. Mmm, Cookies (Robert Munsch)–Literature, instrument playing (ages 6-8) 15 minute presentation

6:30 p.m. Hands Like This–(Ghana)–Movement/community– (all ages)

Ongoing—Aleatoric music making sessions