artomatic

The first half week of at-home-back-to-reality summer included a fun day baking with a playdate, a visit to the Creature Teacher (where Aiden was very impressed by the South American Cavy and KC was impressed with the sound of his own squawking so I got to stand in the hall with him), and the TGIF highlight, a trip to Artomatic for a mobile making kids' workshop. Artomatic would be great with a glass of wine, which they do provide for you to peruse the ten story abandoned office building chock full of art. The range of art was really interesting from $5,000 oils to spray painted toys glued together. The Peep diorama contest was definitely Aiden's favorite. My favorite was this illustrator that had cool line drawings of robots and monsters. For the kids' workshop, the artist taught the kids about mobile dynamics and showed them how to make their own. Then he invited them to play in his mobile garden by tapping them with their noses.