Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Session 1 -Day 1

Summer Spree 2012 got off to a great start with lots of creative energy and campers full of ideas!

Our special project this session is the Phantastic Phoenix sculpture project with Bob Deane and Drew Arata.  Today the Turquoise group was the first to begin the making of the phoenix. Along with brainstorming ideas about what objects will make the certain parts of the body, the group collected items such as twigs and acorns which will potentially become part of the wings or an eyeball. The entire phoenix will be built out of bits and pieces from nature. A designated area was chosen to start the project and each group will continue to build around it.


Each group worked on a different part of the Phoenix project.  Some kids even "excavated" the surrounding area to locate raw materials (like the ones below)  for using in building the sculpture.


While the Purple group was eating their snacks together, a student made a crane with her napkin. The group thought it would be fun for her to teach them how to do it themselves. So, after their snack time she taught them step by step how to make their own paper crane.

Keeping with the Fly High theme, many of the groups worked on projects about flying things. The Green group drew and colored hot air balloons with pencil, crayons and markers and then painted them with water colors. The kids were very excited by the bright colors of the watercolor paint. This project was to prep the children for the next couple of days. They will be taking actual balloons and covering them with paper mache so when it dries they are able to paint their own 3-dimentional hot air balloon.


Many groups made personalized folders which will be used to put their works of art in and keep them safe. Campers drew their names on the front and decorated the folders with pictures of things that fly. Since the theme of this year’s Summer Spree is “Flying High”, prior to starting the project, the group wrote down ten things that fly then discussed what each person came up with.

At Summer Spree we do all sorts of fun stuff that you may not get the chance to do any other place, like making our own "flubber" out of borax and Elmer’s glue.


The week is off to a great start.




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