Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, Kansas

ARTSmart! Classes for Early Childhood

Cost $3 per child, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art members $1.50. Call (785)532-7718 or email klwalk@ksu.edu for reservations. Children must be accompanied by an adult. If you need to cancel your reservation, let us know so we can call those on the waiting list.

August: Beetles I

These classes are based on the art of Eric Carle. Children will create painted and printed patterned paper for a beetle collage during the first class. In the second class children will focus on the shapes of beetle bodies and wings, as they cut out and put together a beetle.

August 12 10-10:30 toddlers and twos
August 13 10-10:30 toddlers and twos
August 25 10-11 ages 3-4
August 26 10-11 ages 2-3
August 26 4-5 siblings (all ages)
August 27 10-11 ages 4-5
August 27 4-5 ages 6 and up
August 28 10-11 siblings (all ages)

September: Beetles II

These classes are based on the art of Eric Carle. Children will create painted and printed patterned paper for a beetle collage during the first class. In the second class children will focus on the shapes of beetle bodies and wings, as they cut out and put together a beetle. Paper will be available if you are unable to attend the first class.

September 2 10-10:30 toddlers and twos
September 3 10-10:30 toddlers and twos
September 22 10-11 ages 3-4
September 23 10-11 ages 2-3
September 23 4-5 siblings (all ages) September 24 10-11 ages 4-5
September 24 4-5 ages 6 and up
September 25 10-11 siblings (all ages)

October: Legs!

Children will create 3-D creatures focusing on legs – spiders, grasshoppers, etc. – utilizing clothespins, pipe cleaners, electrical wire, and other media.

October 14 10-10:30 toddlers and twos
October 15 10-10:30 toddlers and twos
October 20 10-11 ages 3-4
October 21 10-11 ages 2-3
October 21 4-5 siblings (all ages)
October 22 10-11 ages 4-5
October 22 4-5 ages 6 and up
October 23 10-11 siblings (all ages)

November: Caterpillars

Children will create folded segments (simple origami) with patterned origami paper and put them together in a pattern to create a caterpillar.

November 4 10:10-30 toddlers and twos
November 5 10-10:30 toddlers and twos
November 17 10-11 ages 3-4
November 18 10-11 ages 2-3 (Classes are Full)
November 18 4-5 siblings (all ages)
November 19 10-11 ages 4-5
November 19 4-5 ages 6 and up
November 20 10-11 siblings (all ages)

December: Butterflies

Children will use a variety of methods to create symmetrical butterfly wings. Methods include creating a one side pattern which will transfer and creating symmetry free hand.

December 2 10-10:30 toddlers and twos
December 3 10-10:30 toddlers and twos
December 15 10-11 ages 3-4
December 16 10-11 ages 2-3 (Classes are Full)
December 16 4-5 siblings (all ages)
December 17 10-11 ages 4-5
December 17 4-5 ages 6 and up
December 18 10-11 siblings (all ages)

Home School Tuesdays at the Beach Museum of Art

1:00-2:30, 1st Tuesday of the month. Space is limited, reservations required. Cost is $2 per child.

September 1 – Origami insects – geometry, art and science
October 6 – The Culture of Bugs – science and art
November 3 – Illustrating the Wizard of OZ – Language arts and art
December 1 – Linoleum Block Printmaking