GAJYUKU Art School for Children | Parent & Child Class — Course Details

Children and parents enjoy painting and making together

The Parent & Child Class aims to nurture a feeling heart and the urge to express, through art, while children enjoy creative play with Mom (or Dad) and friends. “Will it be OK when my child can’t even hold a pencil properly yet…?” Yes — children of this age can’t yet use their hands skillfully. That’s exactly why it’s so important to give their hands (and bodies) good stimulation through clay and drawing, guiding them toward a rich sensibility. Let’s spend a happy time together, parent and child, through art in a relaxed studio. We hope you will make use of GAJYUKU’s art programs in your child’s education — as preparation for preschool or as early childhood education.

A parent-and-child program for ages 2–3 that you can join from a single session

We have prepared 8 programs in which children not yet in preschool can encounter art. Choose a program and join from just one session (you may also take 2 or 3).

■ Capacity:
5 pairs per program (runs with 1 pair or more)
■ For:
Children aged 2–3 not yet in preschool, with a parent
■ Fee:
¥4,730 per session (incl. tax) (¥4,300 + consumption tax ¥430)
■ Locations:
Youga, Seiseki-Sakuragaoka, Mitaka, Musashi-Koyama, Mejiro, Den-en-Chofu, Karasuyama, Nerima, Kikukawa, Kami-Youga and Daita studios
■ Time:
11:00–12:00 (60 minutes)
■ Dates:
April 2024 – March 2025 (see each program below)
■ Instructors:
Youga, Karasuyama, Kami-Youga: Kaori Oshima; Musashi-Koyama: Yuko Kuraya; Nerima: Yusuke Abe; Seiseki: Chihiro Takeshita; Mejiro: Kaori Nonaka; Mitaka: Ryo Watanabe; Den-en-Chofu: Miho Kasamatsu; Daita: Keita Kawamoto; Kikukawa: Misa Yoshino

Session 1 “Color Water”

☆Lots of colors from just 3!☆
A first “color experience” with paint in the 3 primary colors!

Painting 1: “Touching Color”

□ Syllabus

Our first color play! We mix lots of colors from the 3 primaries and draw with droppers. Fish swimming in a sea of color? Birds flying through the sky? Let’s paint a world of color together with the teacher.

□ Aims

Using the three primary colors, children experience how color works with colored water, sparking an interest in color. The goal is to enjoy color by placing colors side by side and mixing them on the paper.

□ Lesson time

11:00-12:00 (60 minutes)

□ Schedule

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Session 2 “Pebble Mosaic”

☆Crafting with stones? A first craft: arrange and create☆
A 3D-art experience making “mosaic tiles” from colored pebbles!

Making 1: “Pebble Mosaic”

□ Syllabus

Our first craft! Color pebbles with paint and arrange them to make a lovely mosaic. Choose and gather little things and they turn into something new.

□ Aims

Using everyday pebbles, children have fun discovering — with color, too — how dots come together to make lines, surfaces and shapes.

□ Lesson time

11:00-12:00 (60 minutes)

□ Schedule

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Session 3 “Painting Outer Space”

☆What is outer space? Let’s talk about space while we draw☆
A painting challenge: “collage” with paint and crayons!

Painting 2: “Painting Outer Space”

□ Syllabus

Our first drawing! Draw all kinds of lines with crayons, cut them out, and they become stars. Make an all-black background with paint and collage (cut and paste) them on, and outer space appears. Tell us all about your space!

□ Aims

Understanding shape is very hard for little children. By combining a simple shape — a circle — in different colors and sizes, new stories are born. The goal is to expand the imagination through combinations of shape and color, and to spark an interest in shape.

□ Lesson time

11:00-12:00 (60 minutes)

□ Schedule

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Session 4 “Play-Food Sculptures”

☆Knead and roll: shaping practice with clay☆
Let’s cook!? We make dishes out of clay.

Making 2: “First Clay”

□ Syllabus

Let’s cook with clay! Knead, roll it out, chop chop — move your hands a lot and practice making. To finish, arrange it on a plate and pour on some gooey sauce!

□ Aims

Clay, which can take any shape, is wonderful stimulation for the hands. Children discover that they can change its form by rolling and pinching, and feel how shape and color convey emotion.

□ Lesson time

11:00-12:00 (60 minutes)

□ Schedule

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Session 5 “Life-Size Me”

Do you know how big you are? An experience of proportion and scale☆
Trace yourself on a big sheet of paper! Where’s your face? Where are your hands? Let’s find them.

Painting 3: “Knowing Size”

□ Syllabus

Draw your face and clothes inside the outline of your body that Mom traced! Use your whole body to draw a life-size you, and experience what “size” means.

□ Aims

By learning the size and shape of their own hands, feet and body, children become interested in the size and shape of things. The goal is also to draw freely, using the whole body.

□ Lesson time

11:00-12:00 (60 minutes)

□ Schedule

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Session 6 “Snow Tree”

☆Making is fun! Shaping practice with different materials☆
Let’s have fun combining “wire,” “cotton” and “beads.”

Making 3: “Combining Materials”

□ Syllabus

Make a tree out of wire and decorate it with all sorts of materials — stick them on, glue them, thread them… A snow tree covered in fluffy snow. Making things is fun!

□ Aims

By choosing various materials and colors and decorating with them themselves, children experience the joy of making and expressing — seeing how things can look beautiful or fun.

□ Lesson time

11:00-12:00 (60 minutes)

□ Schedule

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Session 7 “Landscape with Butterflies”

☆Painting practice with scissors and fold-over printing☆
Cut, fold, stick — and look, butterflies are flying!

Painting 4: “A First Landscape”

□ Syllabus

Snip snip a folded sheet of paper with scissors, sandwich some paint inside and squeeze! We paint pictures on the theme of butterflies using fold-over printing.

□ Aims

Including some simple scissor practice, children experience the fun of color using a painting technique called decalcomania (fold-over printing).

□ Lesson time

11:00-12:00 (60 minutes)

□ Schedule

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Session 8 “Fancy Turtle”

☆Our first modeling! Shaping practice with clay☆
Knead paper clay and paint together on the theme of turtles. What shape is a turtle?

Making 4: “Three-Dimensional Shapes”

□ Syllabus

Knead paper clay and paint together into balls, then combine balls of different sizes and colors to make a turtle. Let’s decorate its back with beads!

□ Aims

Head, tail, legs, shell… Children make each part one by one, then experience how combining them creates the shape of a whole thing — a turtle. Let’s have fun learning basic structure.

□ Lesson time

11:00-12:00 (60 minutes)

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GAJYUKU Art School for Children
Painting & 3D art program
Parent & Child Class — 2024 Course Details

[A painting & 3D art program for parents and children aged 2–3 — join from a single session]

■ Course: Parent & Child Class

■ For: Children aged 2–3 not yet in preschool, with a parent

■ Period: April 2024 – February 2025
*Lesson dates differ by program and by studio (see each program).

■ Time: 11:00-12:00 (60 minutes)
■ Location: GAJYUKU Art School for Children — all studios
(Seiseki-Sakuragaoka, Youga, Mitaka, Musashi-Koyama, Mejiro, Den-en-Chofu, Kikukawa, Karasuyama, Nerima, Kami-Youga, Daita)
*Not held at Toyosu Megumi Studio.

■ Capacity: 5 pairs per program (runs with 1 pair or more)
*Places are allocated first come, first served on completion of online credit card payment.

■ Fee: ¥4,730 (incl. tax) (¥4,300 + consumption tax ¥430) (incl. tax and materials) *per session

■ Instructors:
Youga, Karasuyama, Kami-Youga: Kaori Oshima; Musashi-Koyama: Yuko Kuraya; Nerima: Yusuke Abe; Seiseki: Chihiro Takeshita; Mejiro: Kaori Nonaka; Mitaka: Ryo Watanabe; Den-en-Chofu: Miho Kasamatsu; Daita: Keita Kawamoto; Kikukawa: Misa Yoshino

■ How to apply:
 Please apply via the booking page (in Japanese)

Please note
*The fee is paid in advance by credit card online and cannot be refunded if you are absent.
*There are no make-up lessons.
*Your booking is complete once the fee has been paid.
*Bookings cannot be cancelled after payment.
*Lesson content and instructors are subject to change.

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