Ms. Tia's Arts-N-Sparks brings theme-based hands-on learning Activity Stations to your organization or private party!!   

Arts-N-Sparks theme-based education stations and hands-on materials benefit schools, after school programs, special needs programs, hospitals and senior centers.  Our enrichment education materials and supplies will adapt to your clients' learning needs.   

We offer 

• Theme-based stations complete with exploration materials

• Equipment like microscopes, tracing boxes or hula hoops!    We carry, maintain and clean the inventory so you don't have to!  

• Collections and museum-quality items to illustrate lessons.  Arrowheads from the midwest, Fossils and Petrified wood, stamp collections with thousands of historical images, Hawaiian artifacts, bones clones, word games and puzzles.  The enrichment materials and mini "museum" come to you!  

•  Unique supplies and craft projects using both common and uncommon materials.... like these brand new styrofoam acorns rescued just before heading to the landfill!  

• Age appropriate Enrichment newsletter that helps your students teach family members, too!

Stop spending countless hours managing products, shopping for extra inventory, spending time planning crafts.  We'll do all that for you.  Just tell us what experience or memories you would like to create and we'll help you out!   All you need is a small space and a big imagination!  

You have all the benefits of our original activities stations.  We'll set-up these age appropriate stations, supply them with enrichment kits and materials.  Your school or organization will be able to have interdisciplinary enrichment experiences through activities we provide.  We deliver, set up and make sure you have everything you need to reinforce your theme or lesson.  Since we rotate these and other stations with other organizations, we provide everything on a first come, first served basis. 

Among our many themes ..Airplanes and/or Flight, Under-the Sea, Outer Space, Nature, Weather, Farms, Bugs, and many many more...

Just let us know what you're doing and we'll adapt our materials for your needs!   Imagine these:   

• BEADZBOP:  A beading station with introductory level beading opportunties.   Beads can reflect a theme, a culutre or the craft of jewelry making.  
  
• BEAKS and BONES:   Enjoy our hand held bird identiflyers with sounds of animals or our collection of Bones Clones.
• EASEL DOES IT: This paint station allows children to do all types of painting! Anything on paper or canvas is the way we play at this station.  We have a handicapped accessible art table/easel, which is perfect for our wheelchair-bound guests. From finger painting to watercolors, we've got the paints! 
   
• 3D PAINT CENTER: Guests at this station paint on things such as flower pots, wood items and paper mache masks. 
  
• DESIGNERS DESK: Graph paper, rulers, squares, levels and other supplies, and projects for learners who like straight lines and boxes.  Great to compliment math or architecture lessons.
  
• il-LOOM-inate: Special loom boards encourage weaving. This station also offers the opportunity for  weaving projects to be turned into incredible gifts.  
  
• TRACE EVIDENT:   Learn how to follow lines using tracing paper, colored pencils and light boxes. Great for working on concentration, fine motors skills, to trace or create cartoons.  
  
• GET GREAT NATURED: Explore all kinds of environmental activities and information. 
• THE CREATURE CORNER:  When possible we'll bring in live animals -- from bees and bugs to snakes and salamanders!
  
• STRING THINGS: From learning to tie shoelaces to nautical knots to macrame, this activity station helps kids of all ages with dexterity, concentration and creative expression.
  
  GETTIN' SKETCHY: Directed drawing with pencils, chalk or charcoal! Learn how to draw your all types of things!
  
• PUZZLE PLACE: Get it together! Get it apart! Whatever the problems, friends can try to solve 'em alone or with a friend.  
  
• GUTZ: what’s inside of it? Take it apart and see! From old shoes to the inside of flowers we'll bring "gutz"-y things to make your lesson stick!  Microscopes may be included. 
   
• MIX IT UP: Combine this with that and what do you get?  Discover what cool stuff happens when different things mix!  We think this science station is a blast!