Children across our early learning centers LOVED creating their own Nurtury t-shirts to wear at their Moving-On Ceremonies this month!🎨👕 In September, many of the children in our preschool and Boston Pre-K classrooms will be leaving Nurtury Early Education to move on to Kindergarten, so we host ceremonies in August to celebrate their next steps. Children used spray paint and stencils to create their own unique designs — expressing their favorite colors, symbols, & overall creativity on their shirts.⭐️ These shirts were a big hit last year, so we decided to bring them back. Two of our centers have already rocked them proudly at their ceremonies, but we still have one left to go!🎉🎓 (fb)

Last week, our Learning Lab hosted a Process Art Playground Party for our preschoolers and their families!🎨🎉🌸 Process art aims to focus on the experience of creating, rather than the end product. For this event, we had four different activity stations: Spray Bottle Painting, Potion Making, Fence Sewing, and Sidewalk Paint Making! This set-up allowed children to explore at their own pace and learn through play. We had so much fun watching our preschoolers experiment with different materials. Children were quite literally jumping for joy!!✨ These types of open-ended art activities are also a great way to utilize and repurpose materials you may already have in or around your home — fabric scraps, spray bottles, bed sheets, flowers, water, etc. — to think outside of the box and create something new! Thank you to our incredible arts educator, Stacy Davidson Minicucci, for always bringing such innovative ideas to our arts program. (fb)