My Winter/Spring Art Lessons.

This upcoming January will be the start of our new co-op. I am excited to have begun this new group and the women forming our group are awesome! We are in the process of ironing out the details, but most of the planning is set.

I will be teaching Catholic arts & crafts and as well as rotating with the preschool class. I am especially excited to be doing my arts and crafts class with the K-2 class. It is a perfect size class with not too many kids, so I won't feel so overwhelmed trying to help kids in their work. Although I am not very artsy on my own, I did get to do some research and gather some projects through books of my own and the Internet.

Following is my weekly schedule. I have put links to projects if they are available. Many of my projects will all be altered to go along with our Catholic faith and perhaps the Liturgical Calendar. But you can use the links as a starting point for your own ideas.

Week	Activity
January 5	Holy Water Fonts to celebrate the Baptism of Our Lord
January 12	Prayer Pockets
January 19	Stitchery using saintly images
January 26	Shoebox Altar
February 2	Beeswax Candles in celebration of the Presentation of Our Lord and Candlemas
February 9	Heart Stitched Cards and Card Making for Saint Valentines Day
February 16	Woven Felt Wall Hanging
February 23	Carnival Scratch Masks and Lenten Alms Jar for Mardi Gras and Preparation for Ash Wednesday and Lent
March 2	Scapular and Sacrifice Beads
March 9	Watercolor and Wax Resist
March 16	Retablos. Stations of the Cross
March 23	Activity TBD
March 30	Rainsticks
April 6	No Class
April 13	Tissue Paper Collage Cross
April 20	Acrylic Mosaics
April 27	Painting with Tempera
May 4	Rosary Box with Rosary
May 11	Marian Lanterns to celebrate May Crowning

I hope that this list inspires someone to go out and get crafty! I'll be sure to post pictures once my class begins and once the kids start crafting. One thing is for sure...my kids are so excited to begin!!