Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Camp 12 - Fiesta, Luau, Party (older), Camp 11 - Fiesta, Luau, Party (younger)

Camp 12 - Fiesta, Luau, Party (older), July 27 - 30th

This week was a celebration of art, music, traditions and fun. We learned about celebrations all over the world and used this as an inspiration for our work. We also sampled a variety of different foods.

Concentrating ...

Mardi Gras masks

more masks

masks and attitude

masks and beads

Celebrating Kodomono-hi - Children' Day in Japan
This is a special day for boys

Celebrating Hina Matsuri in Japan - a special day for girls

Dolls for Hina Matsuri - some were painted

Some had fabric embellishments

Extra height was added to this pair

A procession of elephants - celebrating Wesak or Buddha day

Rangoli decorations

Another Rangoli pattern




Camp 12 - Fiesta, Luau, Party (younger), July 27 - 30th

Our morning party camp had a lot of fun - it was a busy week. We worked on drawings, made beautiful masks and flowers, tried making sun prints but the cloudy rainy week didn't cooperate - we also tried a variety of foods from around the world.

Finished Mardi Gras masks - check out the party beads too

Decorated with feathers, Sweet Tarts, Runts, and gems

Kali - part of the Indian Divali festival

Kali has two sides - one good, one evil

Trying different food was fun

These drawings combined two celebrations in Japan - they aren't celebrated together. We were short on time so we used some artistic license and combined them.

The dolls in the boat are part of Hina Matsuri - a day set aside to honor girls and hope they grow up healthy, happy and beautiful

The fish kites are part of a special day for boys called Kodomono-hi.  Families of boys fly colorful streamers and enormous kites in the shape of carp the carp represents strength and determination and flying the kites remind boys of the importance of these qualities.

Watercolor painting

Painting the base coat for the Mardi Gras mask

Drawing the fish kites

Friends with Cinco de Mayo flowers

Dragons!

More flowers


Making flowers and friends

Flowers and food!

A few more dragons

These were our Cinco de Mayo sun prints - when the sun didn't shine we came up with an alternative solution and used chalk pastel. They turned out much more colorful this way.

Friends at party camp


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