Smith Street Maternelle

Puppetmaking in Carroll Gardens this week. ☺️

Next Saturday, May 16, 10–4, join us for our First Annual Spring Art Festival — art projects, music, puppetmaking, and a beautiful spring day for children and families.

More info + registration at the link in bio.

On espère vous voir samedi!

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Come celebrate children’s art, puppetry, and the beautiful work of childhood!! 🎨🎭☺️

Smith Street Maternelle’s First Annual Spring Arts Festival is coming to Red Hook the weekend of May 15–16.

This year’s theme is Puppetry, and the festival will feature children’s artwork, handmade puppets, storytelling, workshops, performance, music, food, and community.

Friday, May 15 | 7:00–10:00 PM
Adults-only Vernissage with French wines, apéritifs, local bites, live music, and a silent auction.

Saturday, May 16 | 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Family Arts Festival with puppet workshops, art-making, open play, Le Petit Café, La Boutique, and a puppet show.

202 Conover Street, Red Hook

Tickets are available now at the link in bio.

All proceeds support Smith Street Maternelle’s Tuition Assistance Fund.

L’atelier d’art avec Anouk en Moyenne Section à Gowanus 🎨

Les grands projets d’art en groupe are not only joyful and engaging, they also support essential developmental skills. Expansive, cross-body movement helps strengthen the foundations for both literacy and math learning. Just as importantly, working together invites children to negotiate, plan, and share ideas with one another. In the process, they are learning the give-and-take of collaboration — and discovering what it means to be in relationship with others.

Nous avons encore quelques places en Moyenne Section — n’hésitez pas à nous contacter pour en savoir plus. 💛

Life in Moyenne Section in Carroll Gardens this week 🌸

Block building, collaborative art projects, extra time outside, rain or shine ☔️ ☀️.

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The first real days of spring at the maternelle 🌸 💛

The work of childhood happens through doing: through painting and building, through stories, conversation, and play, through the satisfaction of trying, returning, and trying again. In a French immersion environment, language becomes part of daily life in this same way - embedded in songs, books, friendship, routine, and discovery. 🫶🏻🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾

At Smith Street, we believe children should not have to choose between a rich intellectual life and a joyful one. They deserve both rigor and wonder, both precision and creativity, both high expectations and the kind of care that pays close attention to the inner life of the child.

Le fond et la forme, thought and beauty, depth and delight. For us, they all belong together. ✨

All of these photos were taken by children in Magali’s Brooklyn Heights afterschool atelier 📸

Printmaking, photography, and play come together, all in French 🇫🇷

The learning lives in the making, the noticing, and the experience of being together. There is something so moving about seeing the world through children’s eyes 💛

Explore our afterschool offerings at the link in bio.