Affordable Art Classes for Kids in Flower Mound

Do you have a budding artist that is looking for art classes, but you don’t want to spend a fortune?  Hobby Lobby in Flower Mound is offering classes from Art Works for children ages 3 years old and up.   There are four sessions in which kids can learn drawing, painting, 3D sculpture and ceramics.  Each session holds four 1 hour classes.  Please note: preschool parents must stay in the store during the entire class.  You can sit with you child during class or shop in the store. 

The classes are taught by Kayla Mick who is an artist, mother of three and Texas certified elementary teacher who taught art at La Porte Junior High for nine years.

The age groups for the classes are as follows:

Preschool Picassos – Ages 3 & 4 – Tuesdays 11:30am – 12:30pm
Creative O’Keeffes – Ages 5-8 – Tuesdays 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Masterpiece Monets – Ages 9 & Up – Tuesdays 7:00pm – 8:00pm

The sessions offered this Fall include:

Session One – Drawing
September 1, 8, 15, & 22

Session Two – Painting
October 6, 13, 20, & 27

Session Three – 3D Sculpture
November 3, 10, 17, & 24

Session Four – Ceramics
December 1, 8, 15, & 22

And finally, the best part is the price!  You can do all 4 sessions for just $220 or $65 per session separately.  Another great deal is the 15% sibling discount.

You can pick up registration forms at Hobby Lobby or register online at www.ArtWorksClass.com.  Create away little ones!

 

School Supplies Added to Texas Sales Tax Holiday

The 2009 Sales Tax Holiday begins at 12:01am on Friday, Aug. 21 and ends at midnight on Sunday, Aug. 23rd.

We are all very fond of the Sales Tax Holiday weekend that we enjoy here in Texas each year in August.  Well, now it just got better.  The 81st Texas Legislature recently passed House Bill 1801 which expands the list of items qualifying for tax exemption.  Beginning this year, in addition to clothes, footwear and some backpacks, they have added school supplies priced less than $100 to the list.  We like this!  The only requirement is that they must be purchased for use by a student in elementary or secondary school.  The following is the entire list of qualifying school supplies:

1. Binders
2. Book Bags
3. Calculators
4. Cellophane Tape
5. Blackboard chalk
6. Compasses
7. Composition Books
8. Crayons
9. Erasers
10. Folders; expandable, pocket, plastic and manila
11. Glue, paste and glue sticks
12. Highlighters
13. Index cards
14. Index card boxes
15. Legal pads
16. Lunch boxes
17. Markers
18. Notebooks
19. Paper; loose leaf, copy paper, graph paper, tracing, manila, colored, poster board and construction paper
20. Pencil boxes and other school supply boxes
21. Pencil sharpeners
22. Pencils
23. Pens
24. Protractors
25. Rulers
26. Scissors
27. Writing tablets

So, there you have it.  Go out, stock up on your school supplies and back to school clothes and save a little money!