Cindy at Dairy Barn Cultural Center's Art Camp:

 

 
 

 

 

  Theme: Ancient Egypt.  Probably 2003.

 

  

 Theme: Asian Cultures.  Probably 2004.  We'd made this dragon from paper mache and were taking it on parade around the building.

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Theme: Tribes.  Probably 2004.  We made this "village" of refrigerator boxes at the edge of the parking lot.  We were practicing a song which we sang (and drummed) for the parents when they came to pick up their kids on the last day of that week's camp.

  

At right, the "village" again.   The camera was not present for every great moment of Art camp, so I take the good-looking shots as I find them.

 
 

Theme: Kites.  Probably 2003. We're tracing around the edges of cloth to make wind socks.

  

Again, Kites.  This was a follow-the-leader exercise with a streamer on a stick.  Sometimes the little activities meant to fill out the last few minutes of class turn out to be very popular.

 
 

 Theme: Wizard Summer School, by far our most popular, evoking Harry Potter, dragons, Merlin, and all else magic.  These two photos are from 2006.  I frequently dress to follow the theme, and I'll have you know that's my Wizard Professor hat; it's supposed to stick off to the side.

  

"The Wizard" has been leaving us messages on the blackboard all week, and today he sends a messenger to speak for him, his pet dragon (behind the curtain).  See if you recognize the paper mache dragon created a few years ago for the Asian theme.     

  Themes: Tribes in the morning (2006) and Faeries in the afternoon (see the "Faerie Glen" under construction on the back wall). We were making drums. We also made a simplified version of my "petroglyph shirt."  

Another shot of Faeries from 2006.  This year we had to hold the Maypole dance indoors. 

  Faeries in 2004.  The kids had made Faerie clothes from feathers, leaves, paper, and toilet paper rolls.  Half the fun  is coming up with the projects.    
 
   

Theme: Airborne, 2006.  We made sky sculptures out of balloons, and played with this inflatable sculpture.  Box fans in the bottom of each triangular unit blow balloons up and out the top clear stack, which is light plastic and flaps.  Kids were feeding balloons into the triangles from the plastic connecting tunnels, so they became a living part of the sculpture.  So I told them, but mostly they had fun.    

  
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
   

 

    

 
   

Backgrounds courtesy of: Eos Development