Pride Academy School is Ready to Travel

Look out, the VW bus at Pride Academy School is learning about traveling through the United States.  This is Ms Tindle's 5th grade class.  It is also my Grandson, Devin's class.

Ms. Tindle mentioned that the kids were having a lot of testing at this time of year.  Zentangle is the perfect deflector from stress of testing, also calming down and focus after recess or lunch.

The class is currently working on planning cross country road trips and what better vehicle to use than a VW bus?  She was excited to have an art project to display for "Lunch on the Lawn" coming the end of May.  When the rest of the school see's all the cool VW buses in their class window, they will think "the entire class are artist".

That is what The Zentangle Method does - helps all those folks that are intimidated by art in the past and takes the "hard" out of art.  No art experience necessary. 

Kids LOVE Zentangle - no mistakes, no erasers, no rulers.
If you can draw a circle and a straight line - you got this.

Oh - warning comes with each Zentangle Class:  Zentangle can be addictive

Below is my grandson, Devin.  He came up to me after class and said "WASN'T IT AWESOME?"  Ahh, that summed up the whole day for me.  That's why I love teaching Zentangle - putting smiles on faces, whether young or old - it never gets old.  Thanks Devin.  P.S.  Your VW looks amazing.

GOOD JOB KIDS.

I didn't get a chance to snap a pic of Ms.Tindle, but she said during the Zentangle class was the most relaxed she had ever been in a classroom.   That's pretty hard with a class of 33   -  "your welcome".

Side story.  Thinking about cross country trips:   When I was 19, two friends and I jumped into a pinto (not a horse but a car) and drove to Tijuana, Mexico (about a 40 minutes drive from my house), to buy 20+ leather purses and stained glass lighting.  One of our Dad's built a big wooden box for the top of the car, like a luggage rack, and we filled up the box overflowing with the stain glass and purses.  Those items were going to be our means to paying for our road trip.  Boy, did those leather Tijuana purses go over big in New York. We were gone for two months driving from West Coast to East Coast and back.  We never had to pay for hotels because we had enough relatives that stretched over the entire United States to stay a night or two and continue on our trip.   This trip was one of the greatest memory of my young life.  Oh, I forgot to tell you - one of my friends on the trip, had a two year old that joined us.  Whoever sat in the back seat with him during the drive had to entertain him, change diapers and feed him.  I bet to this day he doesn't eat cheerios.  He was a great kid to travel with.  

Where will your VW bus take you?