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The Art Tent
SUMMER CAMP 2017
CHOCONUT VALLEY SUMMER CAMP
I was the arts counselor at an academic elementary summer camp. Throughout camp, we explored forts, the school garden, monsters, color, and themes of identity.
Exploring
FORTS
Campers built forts from cardboard, string and sheets. We discussed the challenges of building with different materials, particularly on a windy day. They then used wax-resist techniques with crayon and watercolor to draw imagined "forts" and other fantastical buildings. Finally, campers put their drawings together and collaboratively plotted out different ways to travel to one another's forts.
Exploring
MONSTERS
Campers invented monsters––some scary, some benevolent. Older campers created oil pastel portraits of their monsters, contextualizing them in a habitat and discussing adaptations that allow them to survive. They then created comic strips, putting their monsters in action. Younger campers created paper bag monster puppets and performed for their friends. They also drew their monsters in action as a group.
Exploring
THE GARDEN
Choconut Valley Elementary School is beginning to grow a community garden. This garden became both a subject of exploration through art, as well as a site for exploration of other art activities. Campers explored the garden through texture rubbings, magnifying glasses, drawings of unexpected findings, and discussion about the vegetables being grown in the garden. Campers also created garden sculptures to guard holes in the fence from unwanted pests who might eat the garden's produce, created found poetry, and engaged in center-based exploration.
Students investigated textures in the garden through crayon rubbings.
Students created observational drawings after investigating the garden through magnifying glasses.
Students created observational drawings after investigating the garden through magnifying glasses.
Students made abstract "scarecrows" to guard a hole in the fence around the school garden, protecting it from pests.
Students made abstract "scarecrows" to guard a hole in the fence around the school garden, protecting it from pests.
Students created found poetry on book pages in the garden.
Students created found poetry on book pages in the garden.
Students created found poetry on book pages in the garden.
Students created found poetry on book pages in the garden.
Exploring
IDENTITY
Younger campers made masks, oil pastel self portraits, and chalk portraits of each other.
We also read On Monday When it Rained and discussed, drew and acted out emotions.
Exploring
COLOR
Campers explore color and mixing through tie-dye, creating marbled paper, and a collaborative paint mural.
Campers made marbled paper using shaving cream and food dye.
On "Camp Carnival Day," students participated in creating a group mural. Campers were invited to mix paint, stamp, draw, and leave their handprints on the collaborative mural.
On "Camp Carnival Day," students participated in creating a group mural. Campers were invited to mix paint, stamp, draw, and leave their handprints on the collaborative mural.
On "Camp Carnival Day," students participated in creating a group mural. Campers were invited to mix paint, stamp, draw, and leave their handprints on the collaborative mural.
On "Camp Carnival Day," students participated in creating a group mural. Campers were invited to mix paint, stamp, draw, and leave their handprints on the collaborative mural.
On "Camp Carnival Day," students participated in creating a group mural. Campers were invited to mix paint, stamp, draw, and leave their handprints on the collaborative mural.