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Artful sensory experiences for little creators
Where Creativity Takes Flight ✨

Check out our upcoming themes! Which one stands ou

Check out our upcoming themes! Which one stands out for your little creator(s)? Which could be fun to branch out and explore? 🌴 Comment below and/or share with a friend. Thank you so much for the local love and supporting us in our mission. 🫶🏻

A little background: Chrysalis bridges young learners’ connections within a variety of topics, mediums, books, real-life artifacts, sounds, music, and hands-on learning through sensory play, processed-based art exploration, and engaging craft projects that still celebrate multiple pathways or final products. We help children build upon their prior knowledge and vocabulary skills to construct their own understanding of the world with confidence and joy. We welcome your family with open minds and hearts!

Emerge.Imagine. Create. Repeat! 🐛🌱🎨 🔁

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Thank you so much for all who were able to meet up

Thank you so much for all who were able to meet up, bring a friend, play, make, and share the sweetest smiles together. Much, much love. 🎨🩷Ms. Kristin

#chrysaliscraftclub @kristin.alise.anz

So grateful for art’s ability to connect us in so

So grateful for art’s ability to connect us in so many ways. Visit our site (link in bio) to build creative outlets into your creator’s August schedule. Fall opportunities coming soon!!

#howardcountymoms #elkridgemd #catonsville #ellicottcitymd #chrysaliscraftclub

Ahh yes. Ocean week. 🌊🐚 Our Chrysalis creators had

Ahh yes. Ocean week. 🌊🐚 Our Chrysalis creators had so much fun embellishing sea shells following this simple process:

✏️Trace the shell on a napkin of your choice. (Soo many great patterns out there in budget-friendly home decor stores.)
✂️Cut out the shape to fit on the underside of the shell and use only the very top thinnest layer of the napkin.
🖌️Paint a layer of a glue-based seal on the underside of the shell, stick the napkin shape down, and smooth out any wrinkles. Top with another painted layer of the seal again.
⏰Let it dry.

Artists can also tear and quilt together pieces of different napkins, draw on the napkins before sticking, paint the other side of the shell, etc. The world is their oyster!! 🦪

Getting our hands in the sand, exploring sea animals and real ocean artifacts, freely mixing colors to paint shells, and drawing on sea glass with acrylic paint markers left us in awe of their splendor! 🐚 🐙🐳🐠

Emerge. Imagine. Create. Repeat! ✨

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We send our heartfelt gratitude to @patapsco_tv fo

We send our heartfelt gratitude to @patapsco_tv for helping our mission and offerings reach child-centered spaces, neighbors and friends on tv’s streaming across our local businesses. We 🩷 people helping people!

If you are a local business owner in Columbia, Ellicott City, Catonsville, Hanover and surrounding areas, check out Patapsco Digital Marketing’s IG page to learn more about this supportive network! 📺

#hocomd #chrysaliscraftclub #patapscostatepark #catonsvillemd #localbusinessesworkingtogether

ROAR!! Animals were on the agenda this week, with

Watermelon week 🍉🍉🍉 at Chrysalis was the perfect w

Watermelon week 🍉🍉🍉 at Chrysalis was the perfect way to officially kick off summer and use our five senses! Our artists combined shaving cream, red tempera paint, and black beans to create faux watermelon mixtures. We stamped paper in them to dry and create beautiful prints for our watermelon pop-up/peek-a-boo surprises. There was even a watermelon zombie and some little ponies that joined the party. A quick and fun project was using watermelon ice cube trays, green sticky sand and black beans to make watermelon slices to explore. Fresh watermelon was a perfect juicy treat. 🍉 If you live in or around HOCO, MD and are looking for creative, hands-on experiences to engage your child(ren) this summer or in preparation for the fall, register at Chrysaliscraftclub.com. (Link in bio) 🩷🫶🏻We can also come to you for art play dates. Enjoy the sunshine! ☀️

@kristin.alise.anz #hocokids #howardcountymoms #ellicottcitymd #elkridgemd #columbiamd

Rocks | Part 2: Mindfully made mandalas and the ab

Rocks | Part 2: Mindfully made mandalas and the absolute sweetest inspired artisans graced our studio, and even included me, so thoughtfully. I was honored to join in the exercise of drawing concentric circles with paint markers and then gradually layering shapes and patterns with dark and light colors to compliment one another. I’m excited to keep adding more details and outlines to my rock in a pot entitled, “Lady with a beret.” ☺️ Note the imperative message on the back by one of my wise artists. Enjoy your week and remember that you matter, too. 💜🎨🌈

#howardcountymoms #elkridgemd #ellicottcitymd #catonsville #mindfulness

Creativity “ROCKS”! A truly natural art form inspi

Creativity “ROCKS”! A truly natural art form inspired this week’s Chrysalis creations. We learned beautiful lessons about sharing your gifts to spread joy with the story, Scribble Stones, by Diane Alber, formed our own silly scribbles with paint and oil pastels, created caring rock creatures and creepy cactus rocks, and used paintbrushes to move rocks and tempera paint around a canvas. We also had some “inspired artisans” visit the studio to mindfully move paint pens in repetitive shapes with bold colors to create rock mandalas! (Check these out in a reel coming soon.) With artists spanning from age 21 months to 11 years, this week really brought the joy. Rock on! 🤘🏼

Emerge. Imagine. Create. Repeat! 🐛🌱🎨🔁

#howardcountymoms #howardcountydads #ellicottcitymd #hocokids #rockart

Extra, extra! 🗞️ Visit Chrysaliscraftclub.com to r

Extra, extra! 🗞️ Visit Chrysaliscraftclub.com to read all about the exciting, creative opportunities we have in store for the “small but mighty” artists in your world!
🌎 🫟 ✨📚🏠🖌️ 🌳

Emerge. imagine. Create. Repeat. 🐛🌱🎨🔁

@kristin.alise.anz

#howardcountymoms #hocokids #elkridgemd #catonsville #ellicottcitymd

Gettin’ buggy wit it. 🐛 🐞 🦋 🐜 🐝 Chrysalis embraced

Gettin’ buggy wit it. 🐛 🐞 🦋 🐜 🐝 Chrysalis embraced its inner insect while artists created oil pastel transfer and watercolor prints, impromptu mini Mason jar terrariums (thank you to a talented 4-year-old creator who inspired the idea, along with her addition of paint and oil pastels popping on black scratch art paper!), and sensory bins with some cherished characters, including a very hungry caterpillar, a lonely firefly and a grouchy ladybug. We love you @officialericcarle! Freedom was celebrated with watercolors, dot dabbers, and golf balls to form textured caterpillars living on vine covered paper towel trees. Buggy fun was had by all. 🌳☮️

🐛🌱🎨🔁 Emerge. Imagine. Create. Repeat.

#hocoartclasses #hocokids #howardcounty #ellicottcity #elkridgemd

Kids creating sensory bins is art in itself! What

Kids creating sensory bins is art in itself! What a joy it was to dream up this buggy world…part realistic, part fantastical. I spy some familiar characters fostering a literacy connection! 📚💕 Can you find them? 🐛

Note: You know your child and learners best, so when choosing or playing with sensory items be mindful and stand by to model and keep little explorers safe.

#howardcountymoms #howardcountydads #elkridgemd #sensorybin #catonsville

Hello Creative People, Families, Caregivers, and f

Hello Creative People, Families, Caregivers, and friends! ☀️ Summer is near! If you are still looking to create some experiences that build confidence, outlet energy, build-in social time, maintain learning skills, or to just get a breather, register and see the sweetest things unfold. Some Chrysalis community-building events are also in the works! Thank you for following along. With ❤️, Kristin (founder/owner)

Now onto the fun, for-reels! We had a blast stamping bright, beautiful flower arrangements with paint and gallon bags filled with water. Our bags had a purple hue because we used from a previous project with a little leftover pink and blue paint. Gotta love teachable moments.

After testing on paper, our artists stamped on canvas and cut loose with some rapid spreading and “smushing”! (That’s a technical term.) They designed cardboard vases with markers and oil pastels and an impromptu move to add artificial flowers and leaves from one of our sensory bins. There was also some mindfulness and fine motor work happening, and the possibilities were endless!

#howardcountymoms #ellicottcitymd #columbiamdmoms #catonsville #elkridgemd

Thankful for yesterday’s kindness and connection a

Thankful for yesterday’s kindness and connection at the Flea Market @themarketatcaplans 🍒 and a visit to the sweetest gem/a force for people, @backwaterbooks 📚

Look out for our lil flyers. 🐛🌱🎨

#ellicottcitymd #smallbusinesssupportingsmallbusiness
#howardcountymoms
#shoplocalhoco
#communitylove

Dreamy Shape Mobiles, free-spirited Shape people,

Dreamy Shape Mobiles, free-spirited Shape people, and fun texturing techniques were on the agenda this week at the Chrysalis Craft Club! We started by using good old fashioned golf balls and cars, as well as drops of paint to roll and create surprising textures on precut shapes. The collaboration and giggles were the highlight for sure! While the shapes dried, we dove into next steps.

Dreamy Shape Mobiles ☁️⭐️Our generous chrysalis tree provided sticks that our little artists wrapped in yarn. I attached three thin colorful strings and that’s where the beads and shapes brought the creations to life.

Groovy Shape People🕺🏻All it took were two craft sticks, tape, googly eyes (which you can never use enough), homemade shape shirts, foam blue zebra pants are we were in business!

The site is being updated often, including a new 2 hour drop off class for some ages, perfect for filling in summer gaps where screen-free creativity is needed. Visit Chrysaliscraftclub.com.

#howardcountymoms #elkridgemd #columbiamdmoms #preschoolart #ellicottcitymd

Emerge. Imagine. Create. Repeat! 🐛🌱🎨🔁

Sweet treats and a mini throwback to dino fun, wit

Sweet treats and a mini throwback to dino fun, with even sweeter company...🍭🧁 Many thanks to @kidfriendlythingstodo for the idea to wrap small styrofoam balls with tissue paper and top with “cherry”pom poms for the cupcakes! It is a blessing to see expanded ideas of my little creators while experimenting with the gem sprinkles and the painting of paper “wrapper” cups. A mama’s loving hands and her little’s hands creating and seeing surprises together is a precious gift. ✨

Emerge. Imagine. Create. Repeat! 🐛🌱🎨🔁

#howardcountymoms #elkridgemd #columbiamdmoms #catonsville #howardcountydads

A Spin on the 3 Marker Challenge!🖍️🖍️🖍️: My kids e

It was all about Dino’s and Unicorns this week at

It was all about Dino’s and Unicorns this week at the Chrysalis Craft Club, a magical collab from the start! 🦖🦄 We explored origami paper and watercolors, squishy blocks and tempera paint, rainbow scratch paper and cardboard, spiked mohawks and rainbow manes, paper towel volcanos and swirly paint portals, play dough and gem mines. Each creation transformed and our sweet artists decided on little details that made it their own. The same template for the body yielded different perspectives. Which does your #littlecreator embody more at the moment!? 🦕 or 🦄?

#howardcountymoms #toddleractivities #howardcountydads smallbusinessweek @kristin.alise.anz @janzures

I had to name this sweet explorer, Clementine 🍊🐛,

I had to name this sweet explorer, Clementine 🍊🐛, inspired by this beautiful accompanying tune/nod to the old folk ballad. While working on our Chrysalis Tree, which will welcome #littlecreators to class🎨, Clementine emerged. It was just the two of us for a bit and felt like a sign and message to pause. I felt a connection as I sat quietly, observed, and noticed an unexpected trek among beautiful colors, textures and the scattered feelings that come with the unknown. It aligned for me as I take a leap into the process of trusting, trying, falling, rising, learning, loving, and appreciating, aka Living. 🌱 Nature and art have a way of helping me settle and slow down. When I left the space and then returned, Clementine was gone. I suppose a leap was taken and while it may be our first and last visit, the sweet moment will stay with me. ❤️, Kristin (founder/educator at Chrysalis Craft Club)

Thank you @artbarblog for your painted tree post, which inspired an on-going project that has already brought so much joy.

#howardcountymoms #howardcountydads #toddleractivities #elkridgemd

After serving as an early childhood educator for t

After serving as an early childhood educator for the past 20 years, I am thrilled to share my founding and opening of the Chrysalis Craft Club 🐛🎨🌱, a cozy local studio, offering “small but mighty” creators the joy of sensory play, crafting, meaningful connection, school readiness, and a celebration of the learning process. 🎉 Please check out the 🔗 in our bio to view the website, register for current classes, share with family and friends 💌, and follow our journey!

With love, Kristin
(Mrs. Anzures to my sweet HCPSS families 🥹)

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