We did self portraits at camp last week. The girls drew out their head, shoulders and hair. Next they painted just the skin, hair and shirt.
We set them aside to dry. Then once they were dry, they added features, details and background patterns with oil pastels. We had to go easy on the blush, didn't want to over do it. The nice thing about the pastels, was you could color over if you made a mistake.
Also, today we did weaving. This is with a 3by5 piece of cardboard with 4 slits cut in the top and the bottom and yarn. The kids picked as many colors as they could fit and went over under etc.
They also decorated the edge of the cardboard piece to add interest. They usually picked yarn that went with their boarder. Just Crayola water color markers did the trick.
We added beads to the necklace part and also a few fringy beady dangles on the bottom. They all came out great and are on display for the art show Friday.
Here's my sample that I wore. Not sure if it goes with my floral patterend dress, but I worked it anyway. 
It's only day 2 of art camp the second week and I learned so much the first time, that it has made this time around really easy. Today we made these houses out of popsicle sticks or craft sticks. The kids colored the sticks and added designs then we hot glued them onto a piece of black construction paper, added a few colored wooden sticks, used pencils and part of a ruler.
The end results are amazing. I mounted them onto a colored piece of construction paper and they are ready for our art show on Friday. 
At art camp this week, I drew a square on the concrete with chalk for each student. Then, I had them collect 15 pieces of plants from the yard. They could be leaves, stems, flowers, etc. Then each artist made a figure from the greenery. I then took a picture with my camera. I put it on the close up setting. I had each figure printed 8x10. They came out really cute. Can't wait to display them, tomorrow. 
Well we are half way through the week and art camp is going well. We have made mobiles, paintings, weavings, drawings and even some plant collages. Friday we will have an art show and display all our creativity throughout the week. 
Summer Art Camp is almost here and I'm getting excited. We are going to draw portraits of the sun at the beach. My sun is a girl and she likes building sand castles and boogie boarding. I got the sun faces from the Tru-Ray construction paper packets. I've been saving them all year.
Earlier I posted, my thrill with popsicle craft sticks, and how there are so many uses for them. We are going to color them in interesting patterns and then create a house on black contruction paper. I added a few recycled pencil stubs and some smaller colored sticks.
Here is a weaving practice. It's good to start with paper strips and then try your hand at yarn weaving. We will try and do both in art camp.
And, a recycled item mobile. I still haven't been to see the Calder exhibit, but we are going to create these whimsical pieces anyway. I can't wait for this one.
I've been to the beach, but I've also been blog hopping, getting inspired for art camp. I think we are going to try our hand at weaving and also making art easels out of craft sticks. I've been on a craft stick kick lately. There are so many things you can do with a craftstick, they are so handy.
