Here's what I have planned for ART AFTER SCHOOL at Comet PingPong, using Comet's new outer space-themed back room as inspiration:
October 26, 2011 (4 – 6pm): POSTCARDS FROM SPACE
Youth will create postcards from other planets – real or imagined – either as themselves on a trip or as other-world inhabitants. Postcards will be collected and mailed to each child’s home at a later date. Translations of newly discovered languages and alphabets may be necessary.
November 2, 2011 (4 – 6pm): TIME MACHINE TREASURE CHEST
During this session, youth will imagine traveling to a time and place in either the past or future in search of lost treasure. They will decorate and fill small cardboard boxes to create “treasure chests” that represent the time period and narratives of discovery they have imagined.
November 9, 2011 (4 – 6pm): PLANETARIUM
After making their own invented constellation charts (complete with illustrations, labels, and small punched holes), youth will use flashlights to project their constellations onto a homemade planetarium “dome” in a darkened space.
November 16, 2011 (4 – 6pm): THANKSGIVING ON MARS
What would dinner look like on an alien planet? Youth will answer this question with the creation of a Thanksgiving-esque banquet table full of strange, cosmic grub, drinks, utensils, and centerpieces.
Since I secretly want to make half of my curriculums sci-fi themed anyway, I dug having an excuse to make that the basis of this mini-series.
