Wearable Arts Make Plushies, Pom Poms, and Shrinky-Dink Jewelry [Week 5]
This week we finished constructing happi coats and painting designs on them. For those who chose not to decorate their happi coats further, they had time to make felt and fabric plushies as well as yarn Pom poms and shrinky-dink…
Summer Programs Open House
Wearable Arts [Week 4]
Wearable Arts Continue Their Happi Coats [Week 4]
This week, we continued sewing our happi coats. We learned how to use heat activated interfacing to hem the edges. We also started designing the surface treatments and embellishments for our happi coats, including embroidered details, tie dye colors and…
Field Trip: Honolulu Museum of Art – Wearable Arts, How to Make An Apple Pie and Wow the World, Little Journalists, Drama: Summer Stars on Stage
Wearable Arts [Week 3]
Wearable Art Gets “Happi” [Week 3]
This week we had a field trip to the Honolulu Museum of Art where we learned about three different art mediums and had a short interactive tour of some of the galleries in the museum. In class, we began constructing…
Wearable Arts Eat Pizza in Style! [Week 2]
In anticipation for our field trip of the summer to California Pizza Kitchen, we did our first tie-dye project using Summer Programs T-shirts! We also learned how to hem fabric by hand and continued working on our embroidered pins and…