Be Proud of Learning New Art Skills This Summer

Summer Day camp not just gets children outside swimming and running in sunlight, in addition, it enables them unleash their own artistic imagination in lots of ways. From character collages to friendship bracelets, handmade musical creations and wearable art, children' day camp offers a lively mix of artistic endeavors.

Brilliant paints, vivid markers, colored clays and all the amazing treasures of the woods and fields provide so many ways to have fun creating masterpieces and memorabilia at summer day camp. Painting,  pottery for kids , ceramics and 3-D art are all camp favorites, and kids in day camp love delving into piles of canvas, clay, crayons, paper mache stencils and feathers to fashion their own unique and exciting artwork.

With lots of free time to just relax and let their imaginations run wild, kids love to paint, draw and just mess around with colors, designs and materials. Well-trained camp counselors have an amazing variety of clever crafts ready to go, along with big doses of encouragement.

Confidence, creativity, group co-operation and a sense of the fun of the creative process itself makes art projects at camp especially enjoyable for kids. Be sure to send them in old clothes on art project days, perfect for enjoying a messy, magnificent day of making masterpieces.

Nature's treasures offer plenty of artistic inspiration for everything from collages to wind chimes and seashell castings; of course a big part of the fun is scouring the woods, fields and beaches for pine cones, acorns, leaves and berries.

Projects like nature panoramas, personalized memory boxes, feathered dream-catchers, bird-feeders and seed mosaics all encourage an appreciation and love of the mysterious and wonderful natural world.

After a rambling nature walk, kids can sit down together and create bright leaf stamp paintings, acorn people, pressed flowers, leaf rubbings or painted rock paperweights. In addition, using materials like braided plastic bags to create jump ropes or necklaces also provides an important hands-on lesson in recycling and the importance of going green.

Wearable art is a big hit at summer day camp. Not only is it fun to make your own funky, colorful attire, but these T-shirts and bracelets serve as happy reminders of long summer days with friends.

Personalized camp T-shirts can range from Tie-die to make-your-own-cartoon and nature-themed stencil designs, and attire decorated with fellow campers' titles or handprints are big favorites. If or not a brightly-hued friendship necklace, stenciled baseball cap, vibrant beach tote or elaborate lanyard necklace, wearable artwork frequently becomes a cherished keepsake of relaxing camping times.

A Cool mixture of visual arts and theatre, making sock puppets and easy marionettes encourage children to have fun producing vibrant personalities and dialogue. Some camps include theater by allowing campers compose and perform skits with their very own funky creations.

Campers get to Design and construct the puppet theatre, make a story and write their own Dialog; they could also create easy musical instruments to accompany The series. Hand-made masks are another perennial favourite, and children can Allow their creative urges loose creating humorous, frightening or just plain absurd Layouts.