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Podcast: Talking with Tata
Episode: Celebrate Creativity with Smocked Art’s Rachel Silver
Description: Sensory play is a lot of fun. It offers many benefits for child development including motor skills, emotional regulation and supports brain development. Smocked Art founder Rachel Silver served as an elementary art teacher in Miami for eight years before starting Smocked in 2020 during the Covid pandemic as a way to stimulate and engage her two young daughters. She has since built a curriculum of classes - from newborn to toddlers and their caregivers - that include thematic art activities each week using play dough and safe ingredients like beans, flour, cereal and water. She explains the importance of...