We celebrated the beauty of Mother Nature during both weeks of Summer Arts Camp this year creating upcycled woodland gardens, tiny terrariums, flower fairies, and painted bird houses.
With some supplies from our sponsors, we created mixed media flower gardens by hand painting wooden boards, collected from Ahn's Karate {these were pine boards kicked in half during testings} and some crazy pieces of the same wood cut by Mr. Reg with the jigsaw.
Flowers made with bottle caps and Popsicle sticks were planted, bugs hatched from corks, and rainbows of butterflies flew out of a box of paint chips given to us by Acme Paint & Decorating.
While the paint was drying, the Camper Kids went on a hike in our woods and collected twigs, leaves, blueberries, roses and daisies, pods, and herbs from our garden. Suddenly a family of garden characters came alive in our SAC tent!
With the bare minimum of tools and lots of imagination the Camper Kids began to daydream and create their very own and very own personal garden creatures ~ each with their very own story.
Winged Flower Fairies and sturdy Green Guys.
A pine cone bird.
Taking a little time to smell the flowers.
A summer romance.
Boy sees Girl.
Boy chases Girl.
Boy gives Girl flowers.
Girl dreams of flowers.
Then came the Garden Fairy houses...or so some said! Petite bird houses were painted and bejeweled in a vibrant kaleidoscope of colors, each one unique and showing off the personality of it's owner.
It's easy to say that the Camper Kids had fun in and out of the garden on our Garden Arts Day!
