The Art Tent

SUMMER CAMP 2017

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.

THE GARDEN

Exploring

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.

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.