MAGICAL MUSICAL MEXICAN MARACAS

Let's make some music!

Summer is almost here!

Summer Arts Camp is just a few weeks away and we are celebrating by creating some hand made Mexican maracas and making music with these iconic folk art instruments.

If you are joining us in June, you can make some too ~ and the secret on how to make these magical musical Mexican maracas will be revealed!

SWEETER THAN SUGAR

Each year during Summer Arts Camp, we celebrate the arts of our world.

This year for International Arts Day, we created a project that I have been wanting to do with the Camper Kids for a long time...

Mexican sugar skull masks!

 

With a rainbow collection of Sharpies, pretty papers, flowers, feathers, beads and baubles, and a pile of mixed media...

...sweet as sugar skull masks were taking over!

  
Each mask reflected the personality of each Camper Kid in a crazy sort of way...

Each, unique, creative, and thoughtful.

All wonderful!

With some time to spare, we then made our very own Mexican tin engravings.

When the panels were complete we strung them together with colored wire and beads so we could hang them up.

 

Some sweeter than sugar Camper Kids!

MEXICAN ARTS DAY ~ WEEK ONE

Mirror, mirror...

who is the fairest of them all?

The Summer Arts Camper Kids!

We celebrated our International Arts Day during our first week of Summer Arts Camp by creating hand painted Mexican mirrors and engraved tin.

Beginning with some black Sharpie markers, the children designed circular patterns and then painted their intricate designs with watercolors.

When the painting was complete, they engraved tin with patterns using ball point pens and then they colored the tin with Sharpie markers.

The result ~ beautiful Mexican mirrors.

Gorgeous works of art.  

Every single one unique.