Summer is fast approaching and most moms like me are already all over Google looking for fun and exciting activities to register our kids with. I’ve got my eye on a couple of sports activities but Art Lab 2014 at Hobbes and Landes in BGC is one of the best summer workshops around that I think is worth investing in.
I’ve always believed that learning through hands-on experience is so much more effective than being given a bunch of names to memorize. Growing up through traditional learning methods, I remember not being too enthusiastic about school. I loved all of my English subjects – from Grammar, literature, composition but I dreaded my Math and Science classes because of the way they were taught. I just couldn’t grapple with the tediousness of the approach.
I know of many folks who take their kids’ academics way too seriously and go as far as signing up their kids for summer academics programs. I’m not really a fan of that. Although I understand that there are lessons best learned seated at a table, most of the time, we try to add a little play, a little more of what would be a more natural thing for them to do.
With my kids, fun works.
A few years ago, I wrote something about integrating Arts and Crafts into Education for the Pink Teacup Shoppe. Our home schooling is a lot like that. A lot of experiments, lots of running around and walking around our beautiful city, a lot of arts and crafts. Through the years, we’ve mixed our own finger paint, made our own clay, froze colored water, molded our own figures, attempted a garden, cooked and baked. My kids have access to all our art supplies — markers, crayons, paints, reams of paper, clay, and all that. But a lot of their learning happens when we do fun experiments.
With Art Lab 2014, your kids will discover the joy of science as they create beautiful art. I think that’s awesome!
Benefits of hands-on Science and Art for kids
Let me just tell you a few things about hands-on Science:
1. “Children are natural players! They love fun & games, exploration and discovery of new things. They love hearing new ideas. They most love the power of imagination! You see, when concepts are built first through first-hand experiences, the interest to learn what’s behind it naturally follows. They hunger to know more, to be fed more, to be introduced to more because learning is fun and exciting. Not rigid, tedious, demanding and boring.” (Fully Housewifed on Crafts it up, Pink Teacup Shoppe)
2. When children are doing hands-on, you’re teaching them to explore. You’re teaching them the value of logic, analysis and evidence. You’re teaching them to think independently, do research and balance rhyme and reason. You’re teaching them to gather data and interpret them before they make calculated decisions and conclusions.
3. They respond according to reason, not according to what they’ve been told to memorize. Because they’re involved in the process, it encourages them to present and explain data. They are also able to apply science with understanding to their everyday life.
4. It encourages them to ask questions, excites them to explore more and learn to discern between authority and advertising.
You can read more on the benefits of teaching hands-on Science here.
Sign up for Art Lab 2014 at Hobbes and Landes
Art Lab 2014 is open to kids ages 4 to 12 years old. Workshops will be held at Hobbes and Landes, Bonifacio Global City on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 PM, from April 7 to May 28. There will be 10 sessions for each class.
Workshop fee is Php 5,700 inclusive of VAT and cost of materials. There will be two moderators assigned per class. Walk-in participants can join for Php 750 per class but they limit the class to 10 kids so Walk-in participants will only be entertained if there are slots left for the day.
All instructors at Art Lab 2014 are graduates of Art Courses from the University of the Philippines. You can register for the workshop in any Hobbes and Landes branch but all workshops will be held at BGC. For inquiries, you can send an e-mail to: customerservice@hobbesandlandes.com or call their landline number: 02- 856-09-35.
May Palacpac, Storyteller 
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