Circle of Hands
A Foundational Handwork Course with Mindy Upton of Blue Sky Craft Studio
Once-monthly, September 2023 through May 2024
Grab a cup of tea, your handwork basket, and gather online for this relaxing, once-monthly handwork circle. Nourish your soul while learning the foundational skills such as sewing, embroidery, needle felting and more through inspiring projects in a circle of camaraderie. Become more practiced at these simple skills while creating projects and learning new songs, verses, and stories that can be put to use in your program immediately!
This course is offered as an enriching experience for parents, care providers and educators, but is not available for CE hours.
How Will This Course Work
This course meets over Zoom once monthly on Sunday afternoons, 1-3 pm Central. In order to create a lively “in-person” feel to the course, these sessions are not recorded.
We will meet: September 24, October 29, November 19, December 17, January 28, February 25, March 24, April 28, May 19
A note about supplies: Mindy strives to create beautiful crafts that suit multiple skill levels or levels of desire, with upcycled and simple materials that you may have around the house. Materials or supplies may still need to be purchased, if you are new to handwork, and each participant is responsible for procuring their own supplies.
Details of the Course Content
For the remainder of the Spring, we will create a beautiful Lady Spring marionette and a pair of darling “Doves of Peace” to set within your nature garden branches.
For a detailed description of April and May’s projects please:
Mindy welcomes you to join us in creating beauty in a community of teachers and caregivers for this very rich study of Seasonal crafts and handwork.
The pace of work will be slow and sensitive to each students’ ability and skill. With crafting comes singing and short little tales of the season, which Mindy will share with you every session. We welcome our handwork friends from near and far to this wonderful journey!
About the Instructor
Mindy has been teaching Kindergarten for the past 40 years. She feels very fortunate to have been able to share her love of handwork, puppetry and fiber arts in the classroom with the children and families. She worked previously at her school, Blue Sky Kindergarten; and has recently opened Blue Sky Craft Studio in Niwot Colorado where she offers parent/child classes and art classes for children and adults. She has recently formed the “Three Wishes Puppet Troupe” that creates and performs Puppet shows for the Colorado community. This past summer, she was host to the Waldorf Association of Storytelling and Puppetry Arts Summer Conference. She is delighted to meet participants in our course and to enjoy the art of handwork together.
Learn more about Mindy and her craft studio at blueskycraftstudio.com.
Register for This Course
$40 per class
**After purchasing, you will be sent to a “Thank You” page that will give you a link to register in Zoom and/or Ruzuku. This step must be completed in order to participate in the course or workshop.
Refund Policy: Fees will be refunded in full up to 7 days prior to the start of the course, and at 50% if student cancels enrollment less than a week in advance. Fees are nonrefundable after the start of the course.
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