Unlocking Creativity and Empowering Individuals with Autism Through Art Classes
At High Tide Art School, we believe in the transformative power of art to inspire creativity, foster self-expression, and promote overall well-being for kids and teens with Autism. Our school offers specialized Art classes designed to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where kids and teens with Autism can explore their creativity, develop new skills, and build confidence.
Our Mission
Art and Craft program for kids with Autism. What is it? We offer a wide range of craft, visual, and digital courses for kids and teens with autism, including an introduction to graphic design, web design, video design, coding, and computer animation. Some of the courses from this program are presented below This program is for Kids with Autism from Grade 1 who love Art, Craft, computers, video games, coding, animation, and game creation and modern technologies. This course does not require any level of computer knowledge and will be interesting to newcomers as to “experienced” kids. Connect with fellow participants, share insights and experiences, and celebrate each other’s achievements in a supportive and uplifting community.
Winter Course. January 9, 2025 – March 27, 2025 1:3 ratio 1:3 Teacher to Student ratio. All instructors are police-checked, first-aid trained, and triple-reference checked. Our instructors have a University education in the field of fine arts and pedagogy and many years of experience. ScratchJr is an introductory programming language that enables young children (ages 5-7) to create their own interactive stories and games. Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves — then use the programming blocks to make their characters come to life. ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language, used by millions of young people (ages 8 and up) around the world. In creating ScratchJr, we redesigned the interface and programming language to make them developmentally appropriate for younger children, carefully designing features to match young children’s cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development. Starting with the basics of using Scratch, the course will stretch your mind and challenge you. You will learn how to create amazing games, animated images, and songs in just minutes with a simple “drag and drop” interface. The Tynker Junior icon programming course collection, comprised of 7 different adventures, helps early readers develop foundational programming skills. To use these courses in your classroom, you must download the Tynker Junior app from the App Store. As they progress through the coding icon adventures, students learn about sequencing, parameters, events, loops, conditional logic, and nested loops that help to establish foundational coding skills. Then they apply their coding skills in free-form coding studios where they build their own projects with art, music, and animation. Tynker Junior is designed specifically for young children aged 5-7 — who have limited motor skills and are still developing hand-eye coordination — to help them learn to code using big blocks, pictures, voiceovers, and tap-tap-tap interactions, without words or drag-and-drop or any other actions they may find too tedious or overwhelming. Tynker Junior currently includes 5 adventure courses, 5 studio courses—with over 200 coding challenges: Construct is aimed primarily at non-programmers, allowing the creation of games in a drag-and-drop fashion using a visual editor and a behavior-based logic system. Does your child enjoy art or perhaps want to create beautiful digital cards, posters, slides, or videos for their school projects? Now they can make all of these fascinating projects with Canva – a powerful and trendy graphic design platform with a simple interface (and creating an account is free)! Furthermore, we will introduce them to basics of the AI art for photo editing, turning their imagination into images, videos, and so much more. Unit 1 of this course explores examples of great graphic design and video storytelling. Your child will learn to use the intuitive drag-and-drop tool in Canva to create their designs and share their creations with friends or teachers easily online. You will be amazed to see how creative your child can be with this fun digital design tool! Unit 2 incorporates AI elements to create even more beautiful designs. We will use state-of-the-art kids-friendly AI art tools to create imaginary places, cool game characters, concert or sports posters, cinematic movie clips, cars of the future, and storybook illustrations – anything your child can dream up, they can create! Create beautiful graphic designs and videos with beginner-friendly Canva. Learn how to use HTML and CSS to make web pages. HTML is the markup language that you surround content with, to tell browsers about headings, lists, tables, etc. CSS is the stylesheet language that you style the page with, to tell browsers to change the color, font, layout, and more. Classes are held once a week in Kennebecasis Public Library. Each lesson has three parts. As in any regular class, your Coding for Kids course begins by viewing a slide presentation and watching a video leсture or by listening to a lecture. Students have to do some home assessments for 30 – 45 min. once a week. As in any other class, students should take notes in their notebooks as they study the learning material. Students should complete a home assessment at a convenient time before the next time and bring this assessment to class. Students will have to complete a certain number of tasks for each week of study. Most assessments are small projects on the basis of the previous lesson curriculum. Larger long-term assessments (projects) are to be completed at the end of each month of the study or semester.
Drawing and Painting
Unique Craft Projects and Techniques.
A wide range of educational programs from the STEM area.
The Art of Video Games. Video game creation. Optional ( from 10 years old)
Digital Art and Computer Graphics. Optional ( from 10 years old)
The Art of Animation. Computer and traditional animation. Optional ( from 10 years old)Who this course is for:
This program is held every Thursday from 6:00 pm. – 7:00 pm. in the Kennebecasis Public Library,
We will study various techniques of fine art, painting, drawing, craft, computer game creation, coding, graphic design, web design, and video design. The whole spectrum of STEAM technologies and Introduction to AI are also in this program.
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Browse our schedule of Art classes and select the sessions that best suit your interests and availability.
Join our inclusive art classes and engage in hands-on activities led by experienced instructors who provide guidance and support every step of the way.
Explore different artistic mediums and techniques, experiment with colors and textures, and unleash your creativity in a welcoming and non-judgmental environment.
Express yourself through art, using your unique perspective and imagination to create meaningful works of art that reflect your personality and experiences.
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Course Curriculum
Module 1. Introduction to Visual Art Techniques and Art Materials
Module 2. All About Computers I
Introduction to digital literacy.
Topics
Module 3.
Programming and Game creation in ScratchJr
ScratchJr is a fantastic resource for young coders. It was built for pre-readers, so it is simple to learn and use. Any child younger than third grade should at least spend some time with the app before moving on to Scratch as it provides an excellent introduction. The app is offered on iOS (iPad only), Android, and Chromebooks. Here is a little background on the software from their website:
What you’ll learn
Module 3.
Learning to Code using Tynker Junior
Module 4.
Introduction to Construct 3. HTML5-based 2D game editor
Module 5. 3D Modelling with Doodle3D
The class is divided into 2 parts. During the first classes, kids are going to learn how to use a 3D pen. The last classes will introduce students to the fundamentals of 3D printing. A 3D printing pen would be a great introduction to give your kids an overall idea of what 3D printing is like and how 3D printers function. The Doodle3D is a great software for kids and teens to gain 3D printing knowledge fast. Here students will create their 3D models that will be printed using our state-of-the-art 3D printer.
Module 6. Canva for Kids: Design, Video Creation, AI Art Class
Module 7. Digital art class series for kids
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Intro to Web Design. Making web pages with Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) + CSS
Learn how to write simple CSS rules, select based on element, class, or ID, and change the colors of your page.Schedule & Tuition
11 weeks Winter course:
January 9, 2025 – March 27, 2025Each class consists of one 60-minute lesson.
Tuition fee:
$649 for 11-week course
( Monthly payments of $216.00 +HST with post-dated cheques or e-transfer)Register now
1 Landing Ct, Quispamsis.
Every Thursday from 6:00 to 7:00. Contact the school for details at (506) 647-0182
( Payment for the entire Winter Course with post-dated cheques for each four weeks is required).
Space is still available
Classes are held in Kennebecasis Public Library. 1 Landing Ct, Quispamsis. Monday – Friday from 3 pm to 5:30 pm. Contact the school for details.
6-7 spots left
Register now
How we learn:
Part 1. We use various visual editors and learn how to create our own computer games.
Part 2. Learning coding from the very basics. Work in a special professional editor for developers. We write computer code on the keyboard. We “write” our Web site using HTML and SCS, upload it to the Internet, learn to edit and update our site. your site and update.
Part 3. We use various graphic editor software and learn how to edit pictures for our Game and Web projects. We learn different Mental Math techniques. We learn how to use an abacus. Using an abacus, you can solve both simple and complex math problems. Study materials
What time do I need to study at home?
Home assessments
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