Arts Festival!
Each June, Winfield Children’s House transforms the playgrounds for Arts Festival. This year, we welcomed children and their family members to dance, paint, drum, make clay pots and more on the morning of Friday, June 6. The playground was full of art making stations as well as a snack area and face painting table staffed by wonderful parent volunteers. This event could not happen without the good will of area artist, who donate their time to demonstrate art making techniques to the children. This year, our guest artists included potters, dancers, painters and a children’s book author.
A special feature of this year’s Arts Festival was the chance to move our bodies creatively on a Story Walk(tm). We set up the Story Walk(tm) of Cathryn Falwell’s book Scoot! on the Toddler Playground. It was fun for the children to read each page of the story on a sturdy poster board and try out the movements of the animals to get to the next page. We were able to borrow this Story Walk from Maine’s 5210 Let’s Go! program, which offers programs to prevent childhood obesity across the state.
Here are some favorite photos of the Arts Festival:
