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Backyartists Curated process art and sensory exploration for children ages 18 months to 7 years

Last Monday was our last Messy Minis class of 2025. The Littles were super busy interacting with the provocations and on...
12/22/2025

Last Monday was our last Messy Minis class of 2025. The Littles were super busy interacting with the provocations and one another. Together, we sang of our favorite songs, and shared smiles and laughter under the parachute!

The adults reminisced on the semester and how much each child has grown and developed since the start.

It has been such a joyful experience facilitating this class every Monday, and I cannot wait to see everyone again in 2026!!

To register for classes in January and beyond: https://www.backyartists.com/art-classes-playgroup (click the camps/events tab)

Our Christmas themed party last weekend was a jolly good time! Children cooked lots of pretend cookies with gingerbread ...
12/19/2025

Our Christmas themed party last weekend was a jolly good time! Children cooked lots of pretend cookies with gingerbread scented play dough and festive loose parts, decorated wood slice ornaments to take home, and played with arctic themed “instant snow” sensory bins (no pics of this!! Whoops!). They also made lots of fun buildings with magnatiles, bells, and tea lights. What a great way to kick off the holiday season!

During our Hanukkah themed party, children pretended to fry up latkes and sufganiyot with play dough and loose parts. Th...
12/15/2025

During our Hanukkah themed party, children pretended to fry up latkes and sufganiyot with play dough and loose parts. They used red gems as the jelly filling for sufganiyot, white loose parts as sour cream for latkes, and yellow loose parts as applesauce for latkes. The last photo shows the inspiration pictures we had displayed. We also had a variety of real menorahs to look at while they created their own out of play dough, spools, tea lights, and real Hanukkah candles. Such a fun way to celebrate!

We loved dipping dreidels in paint and spinning them to create “action art” during our Hanukkah themed party this weeken...
12/15/2025

We loved dipping dreidels in paint and spinning them to create “action art” during our Hanukkah themed party this weekend! Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate 🕎

Children shared their Christmas wishes and play dough gingerbread cookies with Santa at our first Christmas Party Pop-Up...
12/13/2025

Children shared their Christmas wishes and play dough gingerbread cookies with Santa at our first Christmas Party Pop-Up. What a jolly good time we all had!

Our older children used washi tape on canvas to create shapes. They then used acrylic paint to fill in the spaces they c...
12/12/2025

Our older children used washi tape on canvas to create shapes. They then used acrylic paint to fill in the spaces they created. After letting their paint dry a bit, they excitedly pulled the tape off to create white lines! So exciting!

Sign up for the Winter session at: https://www.backyartists.com/art-classes-playgroup

Have you noticed how early it gets dark these days? Our theme for this week was light! Children drew with brightly colo...
12/12/2025

Have you noticed how early it gets dark these days? Our theme for this week was light! Children drew with brightly colored oil pastels on black, nighttime paper, made collaborative collages by sticking brightly colored bits paper onto contact paper displayed vertically, and explored bubbly soapy blue water bins filled with floating light up ice cubes and glow sticks! We had a glowingly good time!

Sign up for the Winter session at: https://www.backyartists.com/art-classes-playgroup

Register for Winter Process Art & Sensory Play classes by Tuesday, December 9th to be registered for our drawing to win ...
12/03/2025

Register for Winter Process Art & Sensory Play classes by Tuesday, December 9th to be registered for our drawing to win a $25 gift card to Henry Bear’s Park - just in time for holiday shopping!

Winter Sessions start the week of January 6th and run for 13 weeks, until April 9th. Our classes for children ages 18 months to 8 years old run on semesters, but our classes for our youngest artists, ages 6-18 months, run on a week to week basis.

Join us today! Register at: https://www.backyartists.com/art-classes-playgroup

Connection is happening! Our Messy Minis crew are very interested in one another - whether that means playing closely al...
12/02/2025

Connection is happening! Our Messy Minis crew are very interested in one another - whether that means playing closely alongside someone, or wanting / sharing the same ball, or observing and smiling at others… it’s all happening!

Only one class left in 2025! Monday, December 15th 9:00 - 9:45 am. Register at https://www.backyartists.com/art-classes-playgroup (click the camps/events tab)

More classes to come in the new year :)

Register for our Winter Session of classes or purchase a gift card today and support your local small business, Backyart...
11/29/2025

Register for our Winter Session of classes or purchase a gift card today and support your local small business, Backyartists Art Studio, during Small Business Saturday! We wouldn’t be here without you!

Register at: https://www.backyartists.com/art-classes-playgroup

In Sensory Fun (18 mos - 5 yrs) classes this week, children created “popsicles,” “football pasta (gnocchi),” and more wi...
11/21/2025

In Sensory Fun (18 mos - 5 yrs) classes this week, children created “popsicles,” “football pasta (gnocchi),” and more with cinnamon and clove scented playdough, fun tools, and ice cube trays. Many of these creations “baked” in our popular cardboard oven.

Squeezing glue is one of our favorite hand strengthening exercises and one the kids love. This week children squeezed glue onto cardboard and used their fine motor skills to pick up and place dried beans, peas, and lentils onto the squeezed glue.

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