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Roxanne Lingle, The Maker in Residence for September/October 2019, is a mixed media artist and teacher. She has been teaching for many years and loves to inspire her students and see them “come alive” when they realize they can do something they never thought possible. She loves mixed media art and all its variety of color, texture, and amazing avenues for creativity. Roxanne has taught many types of mixed media classes in the Pikes Peak region as well as across the United States.

Visit PPLD's Maker/Artist in Residence page for more information about this program.

Celebrate our 2019 Summer Adventure theme, A Universe of Stories, with these stellar offerings about outer space. Scroll down for picture books to share together, chapter books for independent readers, and nonfiction titles to satisfy curious minds. Click on the link below for booklist.

Supplies:

  • Round-ish rocks
  • Feathers or paper cut in the shape of wings and tail
  • Googly eyes or paper and markers
  • Glue
  • Yellow or orange paper (or use markers to color white paper.)
  • Scissors

How to:

  1. Wash your rocks if you’ve gathered them from the roadside like we did and allow to dry.
  2. Glue on feathers for wings and tail.
  3. Glue on googly eyes.
  4. Fold a scrap of orange or yellow paper in half, snip a triangle out from the fold, and glue on for a beak.

From: https://www.thecrafttrain.com/rock-chick-craft/