Lower School Art Camp

This week in LS Art Camp was a whirlwind... we had a ton of fun and made a LOT of projects... I will let the photos do most of the describing:

On the first morning, we made wind chimes out of clay- the pieces were cut from rolled slabs of clay and the top were pinch pots. I didn't remember to take any other pics of them as they were glazed and fired- oops!

  Paper mache ice cream cones being constructed:

 Buttons glued to painted canvas to create adorable monograms:

 Don't let this smile fool you... this project was hard work! Over the course of a couple of days, campers stuck pins and assorted nails into Pringles cans (2 cans per camper = 38 cans of Pringles!) to create rain sticks- I thought I might be absolutely nuts giving tiny straight pins to young kids, but we had not ONE stick with a pin!!

 Painting the paper mache ice cream cones:

 Creating beautiful paintings of vases of flowers (some flowers are hand prints):

 Creating collagraph printmaking squares- foam shapes on chipboard. They were later printed on colored paper but I forgot to take photos of the final products!

 Glazed ceramic flip flops out of the kiln- I didn't get pics of campers glazing and accidentally wrapped these all up to go home before taking more pictures:

 Finished ice cream cones- complete with shiny Mod Podge surface and cherries on top!

 Finished vase paintings (I took these photos outside in the sun- they aren't this blown out in real life):

 Painting plastic sheeting and the inside of dome cup lids with glitter medium and acrylic paint- we later cut the plastic into strips, as well as iridescent film and glued it all together to make jellyfish mobiles:

 Painting rain sticks (we covered them with paper mache after finishing with all the pins and nails and filling them with various beans and beads- they sounded amazing):

 Friday ice cream sundae party (an Art Camp tradition!):

 We tie-dyed our white camp t-shirts on Tuesday and they were sent home Wednesday to be washed and were ready to wear by the end of the week:

 Hope to see some of these smiling faces again in camp next summer!