Into the Woods: Families Making Art in Nature
Discover your family's inner artist in the great outdoors! In Into the Woods, artist and teacher Sue Fierston has created 12+ chapters of family-friendly games and art activities designed to engage the senses and get your family in touch with nature at any season.

From fish prints to outdoor meditation, Into the Woods makes it easy to go outside with your family and have fun, whether your kids are 5 or 15. You'll try:

  • Printing with real fish and making a t-shirt in an afternoon

  • Relaxing and meditating with your kids as you silently sit on your porch or in a park

  • Becoming a citizen scientist and investigating nature's patterns

  • Playing with contour drawing and color in a nature sketchbook

  • Building a stomping press and a walking press for printing leaves

Many of the simple and inexpensive activities are right for kids of all ages and include instructions on how to adapt each activity for age, the season, and the time available, so it is easy for families to discover the fun and peacefulness of being outdoors. Let STEM education turn into STEAM as you combine the science of close observation with the tactile fun of printing fish and leaves together.

Each chapter contains a complete materials list, clear step-by step instructions, and photographs of the process and finished work. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, Into the Woods is also appropriate for kids 12 and older to use independently, and it will enrich kids at wide range of skill levels.
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Into the Woods: Families Making Art in Nature
Discover your family's inner artist in the great outdoors! In Into the Woods, artist and teacher Sue Fierston has created 12+ chapters of family-friendly games and art activities designed to engage the senses and get your family in touch with nature at any season.

From fish prints to outdoor meditation, Into the Woods makes it easy to go outside with your family and have fun, whether your kids are 5 or 15. You'll try:

  • Printing with real fish and making a t-shirt in an afternoon

  • Relaxing and meditating with your kids as you silently sit on your porch or in a park

  • Becoming a citizen scientist and investigating nature's patterns

  • Playing with contour drawing and color in a nature sketchbook

  • Building a stomping press and a walking press for printing leaves

Many of the simple and inexpensive activities are right for kids of all ages and include instructions on how to adapt each activity for age, the season, and the time available, so it is easy for families to discover the fun and peacefulness of being outdoors. Let STEM education turn into STEAM as you combine the science of close observation with the tactile fun of printing fish and leaves together.

Each chapter contains a complete materials list, clear step-by step instructions, and photographs of the process and finished work. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, Into the Woods is also appropriate for kids 12 and older to use independently, and it will enrich kids at wide range of skill levels.
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Into the Woods: Families Making Art in Nature

Into the Woods: Families Making Art in Nature

by Sue Fierston
Into the Woods: Families Making Art in Nature

Into the Woods: Families Making Art in Nature

by Sue Fierston

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Discover your family's inner artist in the great outdoors! In Into the Woods, artist and teacher Sue Fierston has created 12+ chapters of family-friendly games and art activities designed to engage the senses and get your family in touch with nature at any season.

From fish prints to outdoor meditation, Into the Woods makes it easy to go outside with your family and have fun, whether your kids are 5 or 15. You'll try:

  • Printing with real fish and making a t-shirt in an afternoon

  • Relaxing and meditating with your kids as you silently sit on your porch or in a park

  • Becoming a citizen scientist and investigating nature's patterns

  • Playing with contour drawing and color in a nature sketchbook

  • Building a stomping press and a walking press for printing leaves

Many of the simple and inexpensive activities are right for kids of all ages and include instructions on how to adapt each activity for age, the season, and the time available, so it is easy for families to discover the fun and peacefulness of being outdoors. Let STEM education turn into STEAM as you combine the science of close observation with the tactile fun of printing fish and leaves together.

Each chapter contains a complete materials list, clear step-by step instructions, and photographs of the process and finished work. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, Into the Woods is also appropriate for kids 12 and older to use independently, and it will enrich kids at wide range of skill levels.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940162925149
Publisher: Swinging Bridge Press
Publication date: 06/08/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Sue Fierston's art studio is just outside Washington, D.C. She leads classes in gyotaku, the Japanese art of fish printing, in the studio arts program at the Smithsonian and is an artist-in- residence at Yosemite National Park.

Her prints and paintings are held in public and private collections, including the National Institutes of Health and MedStar Lombardi Cancer Center in Washington, D.C. Most recently, she completed "Garden Meditations," a mural at Georgetown University Hospital covering 18 nine-foot concrete columns with colors reflecting the healing garden beyond.

For over 15 years Sue Fierston has been a teaching artist, collaborating with teachers to bring art into schools. She grew up in the Marshall Islands, wading with tropical fish on the reef at low tide.
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