Fresh Classes at Bullseye Santa Fe

I love getting emails from Bullseye. I feel like I’m in the “know” so to speak. So this emial was regarding fresh classes at their facility in Santa Fe, NM. Sure wish they had one closer…at least I’m going up to Portland in three weeks. Yikes!! Three weeks till BeCon. Yea ha!! Back to Santa Fe. Here’s their info from the email…

JUNE CLASSES

Survey of Kiln-glass | June 6-11
Get a broad introduction to kiln-glass practices—including glass cutting, fusing, slumping, kilncasting, painting with glass, and coldworking—with hands-on work time. Learn more

Introduction to Fusing and Slumping | June 21-22 and 24
Create two fused and slumped plates of your own design and leave class with enough info to keep working on your own. Discussions and demos cover kilnforming basics. Learn more

Thinking In Glass | June 27-July 1
Italian artist Silvia Levenson begins her work, not by thinking of what she can do, but rather what she wants to do. In this workshop, she’ll accompany students in realizing their works. No prerequisites.? Learn more

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

Have you read?