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Tween Craft Club 2026

Tween Craft Club

Event Starts: Jan 22, 6:30 pm

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If your child melts down over mistakes… I’ve seen

If your child melts down over mistakes…

I’ve seen it as a teacher.
I’ve felt it as a parent.

The paper gets crumpled.
The tears come fast.
“It’s not right.”

So we’re practicing something different.

Process over product.

I model trying something and not loving it.
I say out loud, “Hmm… that didn’t work how I thought. I’m going to try again.”

We cut it up.
We turn it sideways.
We add to it.

We make it play.
Because when art feels like play, mistakes feel smaller.
They’re just part of the experimenting.

That’s what we’re really learning in here.

Follow along if you’re raising (or teaching) a kid who needs more space to try and less pressure to get it right. 🎨🤍

We're a mobile art + play studio with a vintage VW

We're a mobile art + play studio with a vintage VW van.

Let's bring it back to basics.

Follow along for more messy art + sensory play set-ups for kids 🫶🏻

If your child keeps asking, “Is this good?” — read

If your child keeps asking, “Is this good?” — read this.

The goal isn’t the product.
It’s the experimentation.

When kids think the goal is the final piece, they start performing.

They look sideways.
They compare.
They hesitate.

But when the goal is experimentation?

They mix the “wrong” colors.
They layer over it.
They cut it apart.
They try again.

And suddenly they stop asking if it’s good.

They start asking, “What happens if…?”

That one shift changes everything.

Less performance.
More exploration.
More confidence.

Follow if you believe creativity should feel safe — not evaluated. 🤍

Curious about a Van-Go session? Here's what you m

Curious about a Van-Go session?

Here's what you might find...

✨Class traditions that build engagement, comfort and risk-taking

✨ Invitations and opportunities to make decisions, try new things, and come back to independent projects

✨ Collaboration and communication amongst the members of the group

✨Guidance and a "let's try it!" approach, with lots of room for discovery

✨Few templates, models, or examples - emphasis on the process of art-making and play-building

✨Celebrations of curiosity, trial and error, making mistakes, making decisions and revising our thinking

Throughout all of this, we are building confidence, trust in oneself, and respect for each other, our community and our materials ♥️

Less, "Is this good?" and more, "Look what I tried!"

Spring sessions are now enrolling, as well as pop-ups, parties and community events. We'd love the opportunity to create, build, and connect with you and your families!

DM for more details and share us with a friend 👋🏻

Process art means we are allowed to change our min

Process art means we are allowed to change our minds.

Sit with that.

Allowed.

To change our minds.

In art, it looks simple.

Paint over it.
Cut it up.
Turn it upside down.
Start again.

No penalty.
No red mark.
No “but you already finished.”

But outside of art?

How many of us were taught the opposite?

Stay in the lines.
Stick with your first answer.
Finish what you started.
Don’t waste it.
Don’t quit.
Don’t change.

So we grew up believing that changing direction meant failing.
That starting over meant we did something wrong.
That pivoting meant we weren’t committed enough.

Process art quietly teaches something radical:

You are not stuck in the first version of your idea.
Or your plan.
Or your identity.

You can revise.
You can rebuild.
You can reimagine.

And that’s not weakness.

It’s growth.

What would it have meant for you to learn that earlier?

Follow for more child-led, open-ended art experiences that teach life skills far beyond the paper. 🎨✨

POV: I’m an art teacher and I taught scribbling to

POV: I’m an art teacher and I taught scribbling today.

On purpose.

No step-by-step.
No example to copy.
No “draw this.”

Just scribbling.

Because scribbling is expressive mark-making.
It’s movement.
It’s energy leaving the body and landing on paper.

For young children (and honestly, adults too), scribbling:

• Supports emotional regulation
• Releases tension
• Encourages big arm movement
• Removes the pressure to be “good”
• Shifts the focus from perfection to process

When there’s no image to get right, something softens.

They stop asking:
“Is this good?”
“Does it look right?”

And they start moving freely.

Layering.
Crossing over lines.
Adjusting pressure.
Following their impulses.

Process over product doesn’t mean the results aren’t beautiful.

They were.

Wild. Layered. Textured. Honest.

But the beauty wasn’t the goal.

The freedom was.

Follow for more child-led, process-based art experiences that build confident, expressive creators. 🎨✨

If your child keeps asking, “Is this good?” — read

If your child keeps asking, “Is this good?” — read this.

The goal isn’t the product.
It’s the experimentation.

When kids think the goal is the final piece, they start performing.

They look sideways.
They compare.
They hesitate.

But when the goal is experimentation?

They mix the “wrong” colors.
They layer over it.
They cut it apart.
They try again.

And suddenly they stop asking if it’s good.

They start asking, “What happens if…?”

That one shift changes everything.

Less performance.
More exploration.
More confidence.

Follow if you believe creativity should feel safe — not evaluated. 🤍

I said it. And I'll stand by it. Here's why: Th

I said it. And I'll stand by it. Here's why:

They worked on it.
They liked it.
It was almost done.

And then—

“Rip it up.”

Most of us were taught to protect the finished piece.
Stay inside the lines.
Don’t waste the paper.
Don’t mess it up.

But what if ripping it up isn’t ruining it?

What if it’s expanding it?

When children deconstruct their work, something shifts.

They stop creating to preserve.
They start creating to explore.

They realize:
Nothing is fixed.
Ideas can evolve.
They are allowed to change direction.

Sometimes the most powerful creative moment
is the one where we let go of the first version.

Follow for more child-led, process-based art experiences that challenge the box. 🎨✨

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