{"id":2699,"date":"2007-09-03T23:40:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T07:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/first_you_co-opt_painting_like_a_lunatic_banging_junk_and_generally_making_a_mess_from_the_pre-school_set_then_you_teach_it_to_them.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:34:45","slug":"first_you_coopt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/first_you_coopt.html","title":{"rendered":"First You Co-Opt Painting Like A Lunatic, Banging Junk And Generally Making A Mess From The Pre-School Set, Then You Teach It To Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some parents send their children to Montessori school. Others, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevillager.com\/villager_226\/makingasplashblue.html\">Blue Man Group<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Bright colors, fun music . . . blue heads? While those are all staples at Blue Man Group shows, only the first two will be common elements at the theater group&#8217;s preschool next door to its 434 Lafayette St. theater, the Blue Man Creativity Center Early Childhood Program. Gearing up for its first year of operation for 2-through-4-year-olds, the center pulls from the sights and sounds of the Blue Man Group, focusing on &#8220;sensory tactile experiences&#8221; that help children grow emotionally and creatively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We draw inspiration from the educational philosophies that children do some of their most important learning through play,&#8221; the center explains on its Web site, theblueschool.net.<\/p>\n<p>With a logo that incorporates a splash of paint, an electrical plug and a DNA double helix and a Web site that includes everything from a white paper on tot conflict resolution to a link to the Blue Man Group&#8217;s online create-your-own-art game, the program looks to address the needs of the whole child by way of creative expression. According to the school&#8217;s philosophy, such expression is a means of exploring and understanding both one&#8217;s own emotions and those of others.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The Blue School expects to eventually run through the eighth grade.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some parents send their children to Montessori school. Others, the Blue Man Group: Bright colors, fun music . . . blue heads? While those are all staples at Blue Man Group shows, only the first two will be common elements at the theater group&#8217;s preschool next door to its 434 Lafayette St. theater, the Blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,64,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap_your_pants_say_yeah","category-please_make_it_stop","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}