Session II Begins!

This morning, I saw some very enthusiastic campers from the Red Group, visited Andrea's Ceramics Studio and saw the Purple Group hard at work, then stopped by the Orange Group's Bridge Room.

I found the Red Group in their classroom, between specials, and made 2 new friends who both told me "It's my first day here!" before answering that yes, they definitely wanted to come back tomorrow! Jenn had set up a play-dough table complete with lots of tools for molding and crushing up the dough, and fast friends Henry and Izyan were psyched.

Henry discovering the mallet tool

"You put it in here and go like this..." Henry squeezes the saw's handle... "And it comes out like this!"

Izyan smiles for the camera in between attempts to get his playdough out of the blue tube. He did it eventually, with the help of the stick end of Henry's mallet-tool.

Next, I went over to the Ceramics Studio where Andrea was guiding the Purple Group through the process of making coral reef tiles. They had rolled out their clay and already added some types of coral features, and were making starfish, by the looks of it, when I came in.

seasoned Summer Spree-er James (standing) gives his clay some water to keep it moist enough to work with. 

Purple group rolling out coils to form more additions to their coral reef tiles.

Back upstairs, in the bridge room, the Orange Group was working with black sharpies and watercolors, first drawing a scene in the Sharpie, then adding color with water colors.

Sarah supervises the watercoloring down at one end of the table...meanwhile...

New friends Ava and Kazi (finished their paintings) have fun with some flubber left over from Sarah's group in Session I. Never a dull moment at the Arts Center!