Purple Twig

During the week we will transform a plain box into an underwater ocean scene for all kinds of sea creature puppets.  Each day the students will create a poriton of their theater and on the last day we will make puppets. 

We thought it would be a good time to make a fort so clear some space in your living room, on your porch or in your backyard. Using cardboard, fabric, recycled materials and more, we will all make forts. For this camps parents should be prepared to help with taping together and cutting windows and doors on the first few days, but after that we will be decorating and doing pretend play. 

We will be supply the materials you will need but I am also sure you and your kids will come up with ideas that we didn't even think of so some materials will come from you. 

Each morning we will have a Zoom meeting to go over the supplies for the day and the possibilities in making as well as sharing ideas. 

This is a color theory week. We will be mixing, mixing and mashing colors together. This class will explore color in its many forms. Students will be painting using watercolors, tempera and paints we will be mixing ourselves. Students will create collages sculptures and doing some science experiments. 

We will make our own stamps and printing plates to print on fabrics to make banners, on cardboard to make sculptures. We will do mono-printing, foam printing and printing from everyday objects.

We will plan out a few different cities discussing the needs of the people who occupy the cities and we walk about our own neighbohood. We will make drawings and build using wood and a variety of found and recycled materials. 

Exploring paint and its many forms will be the subject of this week, watercolor paint, tempera paint, sumi ink, powdered paints Kids will make large scaled paintings, collaborative paintings,  self-portrait paintings, abstract paintings, black and white paintings. We'll also explore color by mixing our own paints. 

Inspired by the Russian Contructivist movement of the early part of the 20^th century, this class focuses on combining disparate materials to create harmonious sculptures and collages sometimes abstract, sometimes representational. We will make mobiles, wire sculptures and create constructions using materials both found and traditional. This week will explore patterns. 

Students will spend the week creating scultpural treats, from donuts to fruit towers. We will use food to make art like printing with fruits and veggies and making sculptures that look like treats like shaving cream cakes.  This is a week of using a large variety of both sculptural and 2-D mediums. 

This week is full of sensory play and artmaking from shaving cream to ice sculptures and potion making. This week is for that young artist who finds sensory materials both invigorating and relaxing.