Celebrating Creativity Month

Take out your art supplies and use your collage and art skills to create a vision board for your goals for 2024!

Listen to your favorite songs and talk about them as a family! Use these discussion prompts to get you started:

• Why is this your favorite song?

• What does it make you think about? What stories come to mind when you’re listening?

• How does it make you feel?

• Which instruments stand out to you?

• How would you describe the music?

• If you were the writer/composer, what would you change about this song and why?

• Challenge question: How would you describe the tempo and dynamics of the music?

Design your dream house! You can draw it by hand using any drawing or coloring materials, build it out of cardboard, recycled materials, or blocks or use any programs you know on the computer! When designing, think about…

• What does your dream house look like?

• What features does it include? Why are these features important to you?

• How many people does the house accommodate?

• How do you want to feel when you’re in the house? What amenities does the house include to create that feeling?

• What size is the house? How many floors? How many rooms?

• Where is the house located and why?

Visit amazing museum exhibitions all over the world without leaving your house by exploring Google Arts and Culture! As a challenge today, virtually:

• Visit one gallery

• Visit one museum exhibition

• Learn about one specific artwork

Then, share what you learned with someone!

Learn how to weave using recycled cardboard and any type of string!

Learn about Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, an American Sculpture in the 1910s and 1920s who lived and worked in Framingham! Then, visit her work in person at the Danforth Museum on 1/14 during Drop Into Art!

Learn about your history by creating a family or community tree! Talk to family or community members to learn where each person came from and to share their stories. Then, create a visual representing your biological or chosen family.

Play some theatre games with friends or family!

Take a walk outside and notice three things in nature. Then, create a piece of art about them. This could be a drawing, a painting, a poem, a photograph, a sculpture, or any other way you want to create!

Learn how to draw optical illusions!

Take a photo series! Choose a theme and take several photos related to it.

Visit Project B Gallery at the Mill Contemporary Art Studios, 2 Central St., Mill 1, from 5-7pm to attend the opening reception for All That’s Constant is Change, a Framingham High School drawing, painting, and photography show. While you’re there, visit the Mill Contemporary Art Studios open studios night to meet local Framingham Artists, see their work and tour their studios!

Learn a dance from a YouTube video!

Drop Into Art at the Danforth Museum! Take the whole family to this free Sunday event at the Danforth from 1-4pm where you can explore the museum and participate in an art project!

Create your own board game! Design the theme, the rules, and make it out of cardboard or other recycled art materials!

Learn about Tyree Guyton and the Heidelburg project, and read his book Magic Trash. Using this as inspiration, draw a picture of your neighborhood and how you would use your creativity and artistic ideas to make it look even more beautiful!

Write a song! Invent your own melody or write new lyrics to a song you already know.

Enjoy an evening of art! Stop by Cameron Middle School from 6-8:30pm for their Winter Art Show and Band Concert.

Spend a night out at the theater! Framingham Drama Company Presents: The Wizard of Oz at 7:30pm. Purchase tickets here.

Create a scrapbook for the year ahead! Print out images and photos to get started with your January page.

Build a fort with blankets, pillows, and other items in your house!

Spend the next few days developing your musical ear! Tonight, support our youngest voices by attending the Potter Road Elementary Kindergarten-2nd Grade Winter Concert from 6:30-8pm!

See the 3rd-5th grade students perform at the second Potter Road Elementary Winter Concert from 6:30-8pm!

Play Quick, Draw with Google AI and add your drawings to the world’s largest doodling data set, shared publicly to help with machine learning research.

Exercise your voice by attending the Walsh Middle School Chorus Concert from 7-8:30pm!

Write or illustrate a short story (or both!)

Make some digital art by exploring free and fun websites! Suggestions include:

• Pixilart

• Pixlr

• ThisIsSand

• Kleki

• Scrap Coloring

• MakeBeliefsComix

Make a playlist or design a soundtrack for 2024! When selecting songs, think about…

• What do you want the year to feel like?

• What goals do you have for the upcoming year?

• What are you hoping to accomplish or achieve?

• What do you want to be different about this year from last year?

Design your own superhero! Draw a picture that includes:

• What they look like

• What they wear

• Their sidekick(s)

• Their powers

• How they travel

• Their nemesis

Put your drawing and acting skills to the test! Find a friend and play Pictionary or Charades!

End the month of creativity with a lively performance at Walsh Middle School for their Winter Band Concert from 6:30-8:30pm!