ISSUE NO. 25 | SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
creativity connected is a weekly interactive publication from the Periwinkle Arts In Medicine Program at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers. We believe access to the arts is essential to our everyday well-being, especially in the most challenging of times. creativity connected is designed to provide digital access to enjoyable and educational art activities that give children affected by cancer and blood disorders the opportunity for self-expression, empowerment and healing through the arts. 
 
We send thanks to our Art Partners for joining us in this endeavor!
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In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Purple Songs Can Fly is sharing our Award Winning Documentary Feature Film, JOURNEY TO HOPE, on YouTube from September 12th through September 30th, 2020. We hope you will all tune in! With love from everyone at Purple Songs Can Fly.

Learn how to make your own rainsticks and shakers with Cecilia and Jesus from Young Audiences of Houston partner, Ars Lyrica.
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Periwinkle and Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers present the 30th Annual Making A Mark®, an exhibition of art and creative writing by children touched by cancer and blood disorders. This unique display focuses on the personal issues that surround childhood illness as expressed by the children themselves. 
Bug Hotel
Supplies:

  • Milk Jug, soda bottle or juice bottle
  • Scissors
  • 4 popsicle sticks
  • Marker
  • String
  • Tape
  • Talk a walk around your neighborhood and collect any nature that bugs would feel cozy in. A few examples would be pine cones, bark & twigs, moss, wood chips, nut shells, plant roots, rocks, grass, sand or dirt and shells.
To Make:
  1. Rinse out the bottle. With help from an adult, poke a hole in the middle of the milk jug or bottle with the scissors and cut a big opening on one side.
  2. Sort all the things you collected from your walk. 
  3. Start building your Bug Hotel by layering the items you have collected. Be creative!
  4. Once your Hotel is stacked full of nature items. Make a welcome sign with the Popsicle sticks. Using several small pieces of tape, tape the four sticks together in a row. Tape a piece of string to the top of both ends of the sign to make a hanger. Flip the sign over and use the side that does not have tape to write your welcome message on the sticks with the marker. Hang the welcome sign over the neck of the bottle.
  5. Find somewhere in your garden or yard to make its home.
  6. Remember to check on it after a few days and see how many guest you have visiting!  
The mission of Periwinkle Arts In Medicine Program at Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers is to provide enjoyable and educational art activities that give children, young adults, families and caregivers affected by pediatric cancer and blood disorders the opportunity for self-expression, empowerment and healing through the arts.