Another camp has come and gone

Step One: Paint your tiles

Step Two: Take a hammer to 'em

Step Three: Glue

Step Four: Grout [if you have ever done grout work, you will know to be glad that you aren't a part of this step]

Step Five: Beautiful Mosaic. [this is the example, you'll have to join us on July 11th to see the beautiful masterpieces the kids put together today {and they really are incredible} :]

See you then!

Its hard to believe we only have one more day of Mosaic Art Camp! It's been a little chaotic at times with fifteen kids, but with this bigger group, we have had a lot of fun. This afternoon it will be awesome to see what the kids come up with together in their groups to make a mosaic of the future of the community...

Journey to the Past...

After learning a little bit about paintings from different time periods in art history, these kids painted ceramic tiles of some event in their past. These are the first of those tiles that will make up our mosaic artwork together. More painting this afternoon and tomorrow we will work together in our groups piecing together something beautiful. Join us at the LYN House on the 11th of July to see their finished product!

a blank canvas...

There's nothing like giving a kid a blank canvas and seeing what they do with it. This first day of camp we learned the color wheel and how to mix our primary colors to make the rest. We painted on some cardboard sheets to experiment, and then set them loose on their canvases. And we got some interesting and colorful masterpieces.

The kids seemed to enjoy themselves getting to be creative and mix and paint...

Pretty Pizzas

This cooking class today got a little competitive. As you can tell, we have four beautiful pizzas which came about as a result of four teams of two working hard to make the most creatively presented and delicious pizza. The great thing was, to vote we got to try all of them, and everyone's pizza tasted pretty great.

These are the kids' pizzas, it may be a little hard to tell from this angle, but they made some funny faces with the toppings.

We also learned about Japan and tried nori [dried seaweed], which none of the kids seemed to appreciate very much, but at least they tried it!