Handmade Arts
There is Joy in creating with our own Hands! And in that Joy is our Well-Being.
Making ‘Handmade’ is fun and refreshing, it can be therapeutic, developing our fine motors and creative thinking
Meet-n Make will resume as part of Conscious Designing Inquiry
We will make use of clean repurposed materials while inquiring how that affects our Waters
But only if we create consciously. Join our virtual meets to have fun creating and sharing Water stories.
. Fill the Meet and Make form to get involved
Share your Water stories by submitting the form on this Water Page
Practicing any type of Art will change the way we look at things. There is more appreciation for Beauty around us (specially in Nature)
There is no need for too many materials to create something for fun, we can practice creativity with whatever is available around us.
This might foster Lateral Thinking and also reduce unwanted need for more.
The activities below are archived for reference, some links might not work.
Community Art works around Water exhibited for Boneyard Fest 2023
The Recycled Crafts created in March (National Crafts Month) 2023 were displayed as part of Boneyard Art Fest 14-16 April at Planted, a plant shop in Champaign.
We are grateful to the owners, Kristyn and Riley for letting us be part of their space and help us with exhibit setup. The beautiful space and living plants enhanced our displays.
Thanks to all participants who joined us in exploring Sustainable possibilities with Art.
Some snapshots of phase I activities below.. Groups participated- community kids, Champaign Mixed clovers 4H club, cultural language group, friends of Ascend Art360
4H Club Flower-making with recycled flyers
Dolls with zero waste material
Paper crafts with repurposed papers- magazines, flyer, card papers.
Collaborative Crochet designs
Painting a scenery with waters
collage cover for notepads made with left over notebook pages at the UPD's Earthday for everyone, activity at meadow brook park
Embroidery with designs based on water elements.
recycled plastic bottle decorated with discarded fabrics.
We are grateful to Spurlock Museum for co-hosting National Crafts Month 2021 celebrations as ‘Crafts, Folklore and More’, a week of Craft zoom meets.
Some activities of past youth virtual meets here
Paper Crafts at 'Spurlock Sundays' as part of E2Re 2022 Fall Collaborative project. Paper tree inspired by Spurlock Museum's Samples.
Eco-Crafts workshops at Champaign Public Library- making standing structures with discarded papers
Drawing and Painting yard Flowers during Arts and Humanities month.
'Faces' created using discarded metal scraps at Anita Purves Nature Center during America Recycles Day event
Trying to teach Hand-weaving during creative virtual meets.
E2Re enrichment at Barkstall school Art class- making collage with with magazine on Maps from PACA.
Sketches, drawings from Nature Playdates in parks started from Environmental day.