Crazy Crafts Returns 7/28-8/1 Week 6
Crazy Crafts returns for a second round of magical zany fun where the sky’s the limit for creativity and imagination. Little hands will work with different types of mediums and mixed media for a fun-filled week of unique and unusual crafts.
Fun with Sewing 7/7-11 Week 3
Create, stitch, and bring your ideas to life with fun sewing projects like stuffed animals, pillows, and custom designs for clothing. Whether you’re fixing a button, patching up your favorite hoodie, or making fun stuff like a stuffed animal or a cool tote bag, sewing is both useful and creative. In this adventure, students will learn all the basics—stitching, embroidery, and even how to use a sewing machine. Let’s get stitching and bring your ideas to life!
Drawing & Painting Creatively 8/11-15
Explore different ways to draw and paint on a variety of surfaces like clay, wood, fabric, aned mulberry paper. Let's create unique banners, collage boxes and simple pillows.
All About Kites 7/21-25 Week 5
We will use repurposed/recycled materials and our imaginations to build functional kites. Participants will learn how to make simple paper kites and some sewing and more advanced kite-building skills to build, paint, and decorate beautiful flying sculptures from recycled fabric, bamboo and bicycle spokes. We’ll also learn about kite-building traditions and celebrations from different cultures, and have some fun hand-building with air-dry clay to make and decorate some very fancy kite-string winders.
Art Of Africa Week Art Of Africa 7/21-25 Week 5
Students will learn about different artistic and cultural traditions throughout the continent of Africa and make a Wodaabe mirror pouch from Niger, paper beads from Egypt, A Kua-ba dolls from Ghana and much more.
Art Of Asia 8/18-22 Week 9
We will start in India and make a twirling palm puppet, then go to Japan and make a paper Uchiwa (fan). Then make a Korean dragon puppet before we travel on to China and make a traditional paper cut, and much more.
Art Playground 7/14-18 Week 4
Work with clay, make masks decorated with colorful tissue paper, build with wood and found natural objects. Explore painting with watercolor and colored sand. Make paper dolls, animals, birds, insects and any kind of imaginary creatures. Children will spend time cutting and folding paper, stomping, splashing, blending, texturing, mixing colors, drawing from observation and creating portraits.
Art Playground 7/7-11 Week 3
Work with clay, make masks decorated with colorful tissue paper, build with wood and found natural objects. Explore painting with watercolor and colored sand. Make paper dolls, animals, birds, insects and any kind of imaginary creatures. Children will spend time cutting and folding paper, stomping, splashing, blending, texturing, mixing colors, drawing from observation and creating portraits.
Beach Dune Buggies and Space Ships 8/11-15 Week 8
Imagine wild ideas for cars, Ubers, airport shuttles, satellite rockets, and build models of them! We'll use clay, cardboard, wood bits, beads, paint, charcoal, shiny stuff, cloth. Make people to ride in them, and a shelter for vehicles. Use all kinds of materials, learn about fitting things together, and make them move. We're making sculpture, and painting it, to make it real.
Beaded Bliss 7/14-18 Week 4
Journey into the colorful magical world of beads to create colorful one-of-a-kind jewelry. Young artists will design their own unique bracelets, necklaces, anklets and more. A variety of glass, resin and metal beads, glass cabochons, beading wire and findings will be provided. Project focus will be on how we adorn our bodies to express our unique personalities and highlight the use of colors and patterns to create rhythm and emotion. Class requires a little patience with lots of imagination.
