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"Playful Hearts # 1" - Teacher Stephanie
Dimensions: 24" x 48" canvas
When children play they are learning lifelong coping skills. While exploring the world through imagination, kids learn who they are, what fulfills them, and how to creatively problem solve. Most of all, play teaches children how to enjoy life. These crucial skills follow us all into adulthood and contribute greatly to our ability to seek happiness in life.
This painting investigates this very concept of linking imaginary play with real life joy. Each child was asked to talk about their hopes and dreams and imagine themselves floating towards them in a hot air balloon from their wildest fantasies.
The making of this multidisciplinary, multilayered piece includes painting the sunrise background, tracing, cutting, and patterning hot air balloons using tape and paint, designing, drawing, cutting, and painting animals and objects as the balloons’ baskets, photoshoots of each child pretending to ride their balloons, and cutting, gluing, glazing, and stitching the pieces together.
Children included in the piece:
| Henry J |
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Christian |
| Che |
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Ronan |
| Jameson |
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Izzy |
| Henry G |
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Pierce |
| Milo |
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Ariana |
| Hadley |
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Jonathan |
| Austin |
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Luna |
Connor S
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Dylan |
| Jasper |
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Molly |
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