Whew! It's been a crazy last few weeks! Exam week, a few half days, graduation, a professional development day last Friday for faculty and staff, and straight into my first week of camp this week... And what a great week of camp it was! I had 21 Lower School kids age 8-10 who worked hard on a bunch of fun projects and made a mess too (you can't have it any other way in the summertime, right?!) Here is a recap...
On Monday campers did mosaic on small terra cotta flower pots- can you see the concentration?
We also created the base of what became a paper mache fish, using a balloon as the form but I didn't get photos of that messy process! You can see them drying on the line behind the kids in this pic:
On Tuesday, tie-dyed our camp t-shirts. I always order white shirts for camp so we can do this, and they kids always have so much fun! Tying the shirts with rubber bands:
Dying (it rained on Tues so we had to do it indoors):
We also made seed paper by mixing paper pulp, water and seeds in a water bottle, then straining the pulp onto a screen. Next step was to squeeze as much water out as possible to create the flat paper.
Day 2 of paper mache fish- we added the details (eyes, tails, fins, mouths) and did another layer of mache to get the pieces to stick:
My High School helpers grouted the flower pots from Monday and assembled the seed paper flowers (the seed paper can be planted in the ground to sprout wild flowers!)
Wednesday we also glazed bisque mugs, many of the kids doing designs for Father's Day:
Here are some pics of the campers on Thurs and Friday wearing their tie-dyed shirts:
Painting the base color of the fish on Thursday morning:
Painting cupcakes on canvas!:
Some of the cupcake masterpieces:
Friday Morning- Using shaving cream and watercolor to make marbled paper:
We glued the marbled papers onto notecards to make these sets of three:
Friday we painted the fun details on the fish- gills, scales, patterns, eyelashes and even some mustaches! We also added embellishments like sequins, metallic paper, tissue paper streamers and more:
Showing off the colorful little guys:
Glazed mugs out of the kiln:
We created these clay bowls on Monday as well, but I didn't take photos. We underglazed them at the same time as the mugs and they came out of the kiln on Friday too:
Every day after lunch we had a 30 minute sprinkler recess- SO FUN!
Friday afternoon, we cleaned up and celebrated a very fun week with an ice cream sundae party!
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