Craft a Rebellion: Camp Crafts

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Camp Crafts

Napkin Holder made for an adult helper.

Drying Tie Dye

Over the past years, I have spent a few summers working at camps as an Arts & Crafts Instructor or Craft Hall Supervisor. I picked up a few tricks along way, got some great chances to work with all sorts of kids, adults, volunteers, and families. I have had fabulous opportunities to be a positive influence and to encourage creativity in many people, to build on my skills and knowledge, and to let my own creativity grow (often times on a very, very limited and nearly non-existant budget). These are a few highlights from one of those summers.

(I loved camp life... most of it anyway and I loved some of the experiences and peoples who's lives I got to be a part as a result.)

Pet Rocks

Drying Table

Mosaics from Misc. Objects

Tile Coasters

You can also find some of these crafts where I have posted them on www.cutoutandkeep.net (yes, this is a favorite site of mine):

Cement Garden Stones

Tie Dye
Napkin Holder
Mosaic Tiles
Concrete Stepping Stones

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Gertie said...: These were all from a 4-H camp I worked at.; March 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM

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You might be curious to know about me and about and my creative background. I grew up with a other who sewed and taught me to sew by the time I started kindergarten. We grew up learning how to make paper flowers and foll houses from boxes and old magazines. It seemed as if there was nothing we couldn't come up with a way to do.

I grew up as a Girl Scout and then 4-H when I became old enough, in which I took everything from cooking to woodworking to clowning. I started in theater at a young age helping build costumes for a college production when I was still only in middle school. I learned to take on new creative challenges with a type of fearlessness than many are cautious against. I found not just a love, but also a need to create whether it was something made, something written, or something performed as I took on and played an instrument as well. I learned that y own creativity could take e to places that do not or cannot exist any other place.

In later years, theater has become an even larger part of my life than even when I was younger, both onstage and offstage. y love of costumes has only deepened as I have constantly learned a true love in the arts and of creating something out of nearly nothing. (Which seems to happen a lot in smaller theaters where budgets are small or non-existent.) I supervised and taught Arts & rafts at two different summer camps into my early twenties. I get the joyous task of being able to continue to share and teach and constantly learn. I have volunteered and been a part of outreach projects, as well as write hoping to never loose the desire to create.

Rebel against that which keep us down and make us loose touch with ourselves CREATE SOMETHING!

Favorite Quotes

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. ~Kim Nance
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" ~Howard Ikemoto
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~Stella Adler
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ~Leonardo da Vinci

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Camp Crafts

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