The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles offers a number of opportunities to engage youth in educational, art-making activities. Participation in our in-school educational outreach program for second and fifth grades helps teachers meet California state content standards in visual arts, mathematics and social studies. Our on-site Kids Create program celebrates the rich cultural diversity of the Bay Area with stories, crafts and folk traditions from around the world. Arts Express, produced by the Office of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Jose, provides visual and performing arts experiences for students in grades 4-12.
Kids Create is a multicultural arts program for elementary school children. Kids Create provides a fun and lively forum for kids to be exposed to the art and folk traditions of other cultures and then to put their knowledge to work with a hands-on art project. An important program for a multi-cultural city like San Jose, it promotes an understanding of the traditions of the many cultures in our community. Kids Create helps San Jose parents fill the gap in arts education that exists due to budget cuts in the public schools. Each Kids Create program includes a story, a discussion of an art or folk tradition and then an art project.
Kids Create is for children aged 5-10. The program runs in one session, from 1-2:30 pm, and is held on one Sunday each month. See below for schedule dates and session themes.
Program fee: $5.00. Must pay program fee in advance to reserve space in the session. Fee may be paid online or at 408.971.0323 x14. Walk-ins accepted only if there is room at the session.
Download the Kids Create Calendar
January 8, 2012
Showy Shadows: Shadow Puppet
February 5, 2012
Woven Card
March 4, 2012
Snippet Quilt
April 1, 2012
Quilted T-shirt
June 10, 2012
Baskets or Kool-Aid Dyeing
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