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Pia Leighton’s Artful, Mindful Method
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Pia Leighton’s Artful, Mindful Method

Pia Leighton’s Artful, Mindful Method, on The East Hampton Star

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Today we began by remembering how wonderful it feels to receive a card. Some of the kids shared memories of birthday cards, holiday cards, thank-you cards, or little notes given just because, and we all agreed it would be a beautiful idea to make our
There’s a special kind of magic in letting kids create their own stickers. They naturally weave in the stories we’ve shared—animals, people—and everything happening in their world at home. At this age, anything they encounter
Have you ever loved someone: your mom, dad, a sibling, or a friend, so much, that you’d travel all the way to the moon and back for them? That was our prompt today, and the kids turned it into the sweetest stories and books. One imagined trave
Today it rained, so our class turned toward houses and what it means to have a roof. We read an old poem about all the different kinds of homes: brick, mud, tiny, tall, and then each child drew and painted their own little house to place inside a box
Today in class we created new stories from history by cutting up pages from @natgeohistory and creating entirely new scenes. Each box took us somewhere exciting — from Perceval to the time of the Buddha and the Holy Grail, to ancient Cyprus, to
Today’s class was an amazing exercise in listening and following through and I love how the children are up for the adventures we come up with. We started by visualizing a painting step by step, settling into the process before moving to the t
Today in class we looked at a set of faerie cards from the south of Chile and had so much fun describing their appearance and inventing stories about their lives. The kids noticed tiny details, imagined their personalities, even said what they were
Oh my goodness—the cards they created today! Making our own deck has become a @whiskerandbrush ritual, but every time we do it, we work with a new intention. Today’s was all about creating a character and letting that character travel acr
Today’s class was all about glue guns! The kids were so into it that we dedicated the entire session to making sculptures from wood, wire, LEGO, cork, and clay—using glue guns as our main tool. We began with a short meditation to center o
Today in class we read a story about an alligator who goes to school and causes all sorts of trouble! The moral, of course, is that it’s probably best not to take an alligator to school—but we had a lot of fun imagining new scenarios, lik
Today we began by remembering how wonderful it feels to receive a card. Some of the kids shared memories of birthday cards, holiday cards, thank-you cards, or little notes given just because, and we all agreed it would be a beautiful idea to make our There’s a special kind of magic in letting kids create their own stickers. They naturally weave in the stories we’ve shared—animals, people—and everything happening in their world at home. At this age, anything they encounter Have you ever loved someone: your mom, dad, a sibling, or a friend, so much, that you’d travel all the way to the moon and back for them? That was our prompt today, and the kids turned it into the sweetest stories and books. One imagined trave Today it rained, so our class turned toward houses and what it means to have a roof. We read an old poem about all the different kinds of homes: brick, mud, tiny, tall, and then each child drew and painted their own little house to place inside a box Today in class we created new stories from history by cutting up pages from @natgeohistory and creating entirely new scenes. Each box took us somewhere exciting — from Perceval to the time of the Buddha and the Holy Grail, to ancient Cyprus, to Today’s class was an amazing exercise in listening and following through and I love how the children are up for the adventures we come up with. We started by visualizing a painting step by step, settling into the process before moving to the t Today in class we looked at a set of faerie cards from the south of Chile and had so much fun describing their appearance and inventing stories about their lives. The kids noticed tiny details, imagined their personalities, even said what they were Oh my goodness—the cards they created today! Making our own deck has become a @whiskerandbrush ritual, but every time we do it, we work with a new intention. Today’s was all about creating a character and letting that character travel acr Today’s class was all about glue guns! The kids were so into it that we dedicated the entire session to making sculptures from wood, wire, LEGO, cork, and clay—using glue guns as our main tool. We began with a short meditation to center o Today in class we read a story about an alligator who goes to school and causes all sorts of trouble! The moral, of course, is that it’s probably best not to take an alligator to school—but we had a lot of fun imagining new scenarios, lik

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