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14th Annual
Charity Golf
Tournament
DATE: Monday, May 2, 2011
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS
OF ATHENS
LOCATION: Lane Creek Golf Course
1201 Club Drive, Bishop, GA 30621
HOW:
Sign-up as two-man teams
ACTIVITES: Lunch @ 11:00
Shotgun Start @ Noon
Raffle
PRIZES:
I st , 2 nd , 3 rd , Last Place,
Closest to Pin & Longest Drive
Registration includes food and beverages - $100 per person
Mulligans for Sale! MH|
DIRECTIONS: Take 1-85 N toward GreenvHle.
Exit on GA-316 toward Lawrenceville/Athens. Go
approximately 27 miles, and then turn RIGHT onto
HOG MOUNTAIN Road. Cross over HWY 78. Stay
on HWY S3. Turn right onto Cole Springs Road.
Cross over Snow’s Mill Road and Lane Creek is
approximately 1.5 miles on the right.
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tan tax in-store or call or email Lindsey Pierson at
706-548-7277 or IpiersonCcDlocosgrill.com.
NEWS FROM THE JUICE BOX SET
Quick, all you parents out there: it's a
pop quiz. Head out to your recycling bin and
grab some newspapers before it rains. Or go
out to your backyard and grab some sticks.
Then, when your child starts complaining that
they're bored, take these items and use them
to create some super-cool afternoon crafting
activity that will set your young Bob Ross on
the path to creative genius.
Did you pass the test? Don't worry, I didn't
either. For months now, I've had this crazy
idea that I can convert found objects into
wholesome afternoon art activities with my
daughter. So far. I've failed miserably.
But luckily, we parents have a cheat sheet,
of sorts. In recent months, several kid-friendly
crafting spots have cropped up around Athens,
with activities that are better thought out
than anything you're likely
to cobble together.
Take some of the proj
ects Hope Hilton puts
together at Treehouse Kid
and Craft (815 W. Broad
St., Athens; www.tree-
housekidandcraft.tumblr.
com). Treehouse sells hand
made toys and DIY-themed
goodies, and the craft
ing table is always open.
•Hilton and Treehouse owner
Kristen Bach scour websites
and DIY blogs for kid-appro
priate crafts, then organize
them into hour-long weekly
sessions throughout the
week. Drop-in classes (10
a.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesdays,
4 p.m. Thursdays, $10) can
have a theme, but some
afternoon classes are more
free-form, when Hilton puts
out paper, crayons, sticks,
glue and any other odds
and ends, and lets the kids
go to town. At 10 a.m.
Saturday mornings there is
a story, followed by a cor
responding craft, and older
kids can create their own
fairy worlds with workshops
at 1 p.m. on Saturdays.
Another children's store with weekly art
activities is Learning Express (Georgia Square
Mall; find a calendar of events on the store's
Facebook page). It seems toy companies have
lots of samples to share, so the store has
started sharing them with customers as part
of weekly "playdays" (typically 10:30 a.m.
and 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays, but the sched
ule may vary some weeks). If the activity
includes a cost to the stor§—for example, an
upcoming playday involves painting plates for
Mother's Day, and it costs the store to glaze
the plates—it's passed on to the participants
in the form of a class fee. But otherwise, most
events are free and there's no pressure to buy
what you're crafting with (though, of course,
you can buy the items in the store if you're so
inclined).
Then there are the weekly art and crafting
classes at Whole: Mind Body Art (160 Tracy
St. next to ATHICA; www.wholemindbodyart.
com). Michelle and Brian Vaught have a space
where they try to enrich the body as a whole,
so that means sometimes a yoga class may
end with an art lesson, or maybe a crafting
class also includes a lesson on, say, Cubism.
Weekly art classes include a basic beginning
kids' art class (12 and younger; $12 drop-in
or $10 prepaid) or more specific topics using •
recycled materials or a lesson linked to a
story. Older kids (16 and up) can learn basic
sewing techniques. Kids' art classes are 3:45
and 5 p.m. on Tuesdays.
And tucked into a former recording studio
next to Big City Bread, Arrow is another spot
where parents and kids can chill out and have
some fun with art on Saturday mornings (11
a.m.-noon every other Saturday, including
Apr. 23). The Saturday art classes, taught
by Rachel Barnes, an art education student
at UGA, may include puppets, fingerpaints
or something inspired by nature. In general.
Arrow is more of a playspace for younger kids
(4 and younger) compared with the other ven
ues, which usually aim for ages 2-8. At Arrow,
parents and their toddlers can drop in for $12
a visit (your first visit is free), and there are
multiple membership levels you can sign up
for, depending on how often you plan on com
ing by to play ($40-$175).
All of these classes come with an added
benefit: no clean-up! But parents can learn
from these classes, too. Both Michelle Vaught
at Whole and Hilton at Treehouse say it's the
simplest things that can make for good crafts.
Cardboard cut-outs stuck onto coffee stirrers,
for example, can become characters from a
story. A stick wrapped with yarn can be the
top of a whimsical found-object mobile.
'They love simple crafts," Vaught says. "As
adults, we forget to think like a child. The
knowledge you can gain by looking through a
child's eyes—that's enriched us."
And if you can use up more of that news
paper from the recycling bin, even better.
Kristen Morales
Kiddie Dope is a monthly column exploring the pos
sibilities for families with young children in Athens.
Know a good activity or have an issue yuu’d like to see
addressed? Email it to kiddiedope@flagpole.com.
8 FLAGPOLE.COM • APRIL 20,2011
KRISTEN MORALES
