Family Camp: Days 2 & 3

Finalllllyyyy

I get to sit down! 

The past few days have been crazy busy, but I will try to catch up..

Tuesday was hectic crazy busy, but started with a really fun activity! I taught some of the little ones how to make play-doh faces. It all started when I was playing with some play-doh on Monday night and made a troll head. The kids were all excited and started trying to make their own, but they couldn't figure out where to start.

blue troll grumpy face man

THE KIDS KNOW ME SO WELL

zombie face!

 I started the lesson by teaching them face forms. We made oval shapes and smoothed them out on the table. Next we pushed our thumbs into the form - about halfway- and then pushed our finger in between the eyes to make a nose hole. The kids took the next steps to make details and add googly eyes.. I laughed my butt off the whole time. They are so funny!

"look! It's the eyeball.." "What's the pink stuff?" "That's blood!"

a much more tame zombie face haha

 After we made zombies we worked on some fuse bead creations again. The kids really like those.. I have started offering that as an activity rather than just coloring/drawing.

After lunch I spent several SEVERAL hours cleaning up the craft cabinets and doing an inventory list. It's great that I have so many supplies, but really! I am already up to page 3 and all I have is two cabinets listed out. Crazy.

right cabinet, check

Some art from a camper :) He really likes my snake. He has his own ball python at home!

Cézanne was ready to make some art! Kinda!

I had a full craft cabin during the second hour and the kids were really productive! They were working on string art signs of all shapes and sizes. Some of them made signs and others made more decorative designs. I also taught more than a handful of the campers how to weave and they worked on those, too :)

One of the kids started nailing EVERY SINGLE POINT from his stencils. Crazy.

drawing is always an option! Cool dragon

weaving projects! most of these were more than halfway done by day 3

MORE fuse beads

The kids accomplished a LOT on Tuesday, and so did the craft lady. I still have a lot of work to do in Rockland in terms of cleaning and organizing, but the kids are really fun to work with so I have to make sure I STAY on task.

Today was really productive as well! I will add more pictures as the internet cooperates.. and I need to take updated pictures of the work the kids are doing.
The first craft I tackled today was God's Eyes. I did a quick background of the origin of the craft and made sure to apply the Christian beliefs as well. (Because Duh).

he caught on right away!

I started working on a BIG one.. just to present a challenge for the kids.

 The second craft period was super busy. I think ALL of the kids were in the craft cabin working on projects. Some of the kids were really close to finishing their weaving projects today, while others continued work on drawings or their string art. Some of the campers were working on God's Eyes and even more of them were working on individual projects. One of the kids was tracing a logo onto a piece of styrofoam to make a sign - his method? hammering a needle gently into a shirt, tracing the design, with the foam underneath to make imprints. I learn something new every day!

I made sure to freeze some cans today for a luminary project, part deux, on Friday afternoon. Tomorrow afternoon we are going to try and make salt dough trinkets.

I suggested that the kids could write their names, or the family names, on the trinket. Or maybe they could write the dates they started coming here? Something like that to commemorate their time at camp. My coworker sent me the link and I tried out the 'recipe' today. It worked out really well! I won't post a picture of my example though.. it's bad haha. Hopefully tomorrow I will have some good pictures to share of the kids' and their trinkets.
We might also do leather bracelets tomorrow, if we have time... we'll see.

Time to get some rest. I have projects to work on in Rockland... but I won't spend too much time in there. Need to sleeeeep and conserve energy for all the activities tomorrow.

Two more days...

Ms. K