We are coming to the end of the Art Garage season. The window was set last year to end with a blow-out bash on Halloween, and already as we enter October we are preparing. Projects are great, and I have wanted to encourage more of a project focus, but it is hard when you meet once a week. Enthusiasm for something seems to wane quickly. Small activities that give a finished project in one week have been the most successful. But now we have one of the favorite holidays of children across the USA. Halloween. So we made a list of all the things that should be in a haunted house. Actually, first we decorated cookies. As Roy Baumeister has shown us we need a little glucose to get the brain going in the afternoon. I was even given two by the appreciative AG members. Once decorated and tasted for goodness, we were ready to make our list. Bats, scarecrows, skeletons, kissing skeletons (provided by the romantic), ghosts, brains, haunted shoes(!), zombies, and the very creative idea of Zom-babies. Yikes that is a bit of a twist. Then we started creating tombstones for the lawn, and signs, and ghosts, one of which would be the Bloody Ghost. Progress not perfection. I have been struggling to see how the Art Garage should evolve, and wondering how to reach out to others in the neighborhood. It seems that the word does get out and the final activity is a way to invite new members.
The goal is community and connection, and I do feel that every day.
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