Get outside with your little artist(s) and admire the foliage all around us! This craft is all about using the beauty of the outdoors as inspiration to design your very own leaf garland.
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We are in the midst of Autumn, leaves are changing color, cooler temperatures are sailing in, and that warm cup of coffee or tea is sitting just right in our bellies! With all of these changes, comes a new wave of books for the month of October! Take a stroll to your library or to your local bookstore and check out some of Minni’s top picks!
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Create your own winter wonderland diorama using just recycled cardboard and paint! Put simple shapes together to create a landscape, then add texture by using some special painting techniques!
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Sharing meals and telling the stories of our food traditions is one of the many ways we celebrate community and family. Think about a favorite food or recipe you’d like to eat and share with others and recreate it in 3D paper collage!
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This month we’re reading books about our favorite topic, art! Artists big and small know the art-making journey is often just as interesting and rich as the finished piece itself. Taking ideas from conception to fruition can be tricky! In addition to highlighting how art beautifies the world, these stories also encourage us to embrace the messiest parts of making.
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This month we’re getting cozy with books that recall the magical feeling of the shifting seasons. Like the changing leaves, these characters and their surroundings are in metamorphosis. Sometimes, change can seem strange or even scary, but these stories revel in the excitement of discovery, transformation, and reinvention.
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Celebrate sunflower season with this textural collage project! This project is best for ages 4+, but can be adapted for little ones too.
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Year-round Classes for Ages 1.5–10 are live! Minni offers a complete suite of weekly classes for children ages 18 months to 10 years old. Classes at Minni are designed with current health and safety protocols in mind, utilizing our outdoor patio space (weather permitting) and limiting each session to eight students. Ages 1.5–3 will be limited to six students and six caregivers.
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With a chill in the air and decorated Fall doorsteps, we know Halloween is coming up! To get our storefront ready, we’ve been brewing up another project for and your little one(s). Grab a pumpkin and let’s make this fa-BOO-lous autumn piece!
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Join us Saturday, October 31st in your Halloween costume! Hop onto your broom and soar into this spooktacular Halloween event with an art-project-to-go! Shop Creative Kits for at-home projects, newly stocked candles, art supplies and more. Can’t make it into Minni? You can print out our spine-chilling coloring sheets at home!
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Embrace the autumn weather and get outdoors! This project will have you FALLing for bright colors and intricate patterns. Collect a variety of leaves and let’s get printing to make this colorful masterpiece!
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We have dreamed up exciting new classes to get your little one making, fashion designing and even woodworking in our studio.
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MinniArtists have designed and created right through our late fall classes, leaving the Minni studio brighter and more colorful than before. Students have designed dollhouses, engineered floating boats, and sticked and stacked the coolest toppling towers.
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Minni’s first fall session of art + design classes is coming to a close! Little builders, designers, painters, and explorers have taken over our studio and created the most inspiring works of art, from toppling towers to paintings of water and waves. A heartfelt thank you to all that made our first fall a reality, including Minni fall instructors Denise, Eugene, and Nina.
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