Children's Art Club is a free art classroom setting for the local children, ages K-8, in Menomonie and surrounding areas. I had the opportunity to be a co-coordinator of this wonderful program with another pre-service educators named Elsbeth Bandli. On average between 7-14 students every week. My coworker and I worked to develop, promote, and teach this weekly program.

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        Elsbeth and I are also program leaders through this program as we work one on one with many first year education students to create a lesson plan and teach at Children's Art Club. Being able to mentor my peers has really made me love the art education program and want to continue to create a supportive atmosphere for all pre-service educators within the program.

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          This program is funded through the Arts Integration Menomonie (AIM) grant which provides pre-service educators the opportunity to gain teaching experiences before they even start student teaching! This has allowed me to grow as an educator in a supporting environment which I will cherish for years to come!

          Below are the posters that I created in order to promote Children's Art Club to the surrounding areas around campus. Elsbeth and I were able to choose a theme for the lessons that would be taught for the year and we decided that "Art In Nature" would be an interesting yet successful theme. The following year (2020/2021) we chose the theme "Artists Past, Present, and Future."