TEACHING ARTIST SESSION CATEGORIES
Mindful Moves is a yoga-inspired program designed to help students bring calm, focus, and energy into their school day. Through simple yoga poses, breath work, and gentle stretches, students learn techniques to manage anxiety, boost concentration, and start their mornings feeling awake and energized. All activities are designed to be done right in the classroom, making mindfulness and movement accessible anytime, anywhere.
The Yarn Lab is an entry-level crochet program designed to introduce students to the art of crochet while building focus, patience, and creativity. In this hands-on class, students will learn basic stitches, follow fun projects, and discover how yarn and imagination can turn into tangible creations. Perfect for beginners, The Yarn Lab makes learning both engaging and rewarding. Adaptable for Special Education Single Session
Join Crawfish and friends for a toe-tappin’, hand-clappin’ Zydeco adventure straight from the heart of Louisiana! In this 42-minute interactive session, kids sing, dance, and laugh their way through fun YouTube hits like “Zydeco 123,” “Crawfish Shuffle,” “Don’t Eat My...
Students of all ages enjoy drawing with sidewalk chalk. This session will celebrate the season with short poetry forms, such as haiku, and groups will decorate the school’s concrete spaces with drawing and poetry.
Join the National Writing Project and the National Parks System and write outside! Students will create a paper journal and add natural elements from outside. If weather permits, students will take their journals outside in nature to write poems. The students will...
Students will paint and color a precut alligator form and glue onto construction paper and we will talk about fascinating facts about this very large reptile that lives in our Louisiana Swamps. Single Session
In this session, students will make a sunshine collage with hand-painted paper. The paper will be pre-cut, pre-painted, and organized by color. They will learn about the warm and cool color gradation as well as listen to the song You are my Sunshine written by...
In the session, the students will learn about the artist Henri Matisse and work on paper cutting and collage inspired by the artist. Single session
In this session, students will be introduced to abstract painting in a free spirited style of artistic expression using acrylic paint, markers, oils pastels and pencils. Single Session
This session takes students on a fun and interactive journey through the heartbeat of Louisiana music history, the drums of zydeco. Originating in the Creole communities of Southwest Louisiana, zydeco blends African, Caribbean, blues, rock& roll and R&B...