Hi, Rachelle here...

With new members joining Schoolhouse this weekend, we're helping them organize art spaces to encourage and support the growth of creativity and imagination.

Maybe that's on your mind, too?

Let's start with this fun activity:

Which three words describe your child’s art-making area right now? Or the art making area of your classroom?

Like so many people, I get a thrill from scrolling Pinterest to see gloriously designed art spaces, but let’s be realistic: Most art spaces don’t actually look like that once a child (or their creative parents) start to actually make things in it, do they?
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In my home, for example, if I've had a chance to tidy things up or maybe arm-bend my kids into helping me with that 😜, the space feels organized, colorful, and, ahem...unused. 🤷‍♀️
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But as soon as one of us has a project in mind, watch out! The sewing machine is on the table, paint cups and brushes abound, scraps fly, and suddenly the art area is chaotic, magic, and overflowing. ⚡️
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I might feel slightly frustrated knowing clean-up looms ahead like a mean, dark cloud, but I’m also elevated by the buzz of my kids’ ideas, their sparks of imagination, and my own understanding that creativity is born from chaos.
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Once a project runs its course, we do our best to put things back where we found them so we’re ready to go once again, fully inspired by our earlier effort to bring order that enables creative chaos to emerge once again.

Would you like to see how this could actually look?

How does an art space inhale calm and exhale chaos over the course of a week?

Check out this post: Evolution of the Art Table.
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So how about your art area?

Message me back to let me know which three words describe your space. ⬇️ 📨
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Warmly,

Rachelle

Founder, TinkerLab