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!

SUNSHINE AFTER A STORMY DAY

Hello sunshine!

Thinking that these bold, mosaic-styled watercolor sun faces bursting with color, will be a Summer Arts Camp project this June on Mexican Arts Day.

{This one made by Matthew.}

What do you think?

Join us in June to create your own sunshine and find out what else we will be doing on Mexican Arts Day...one of our favorite arts days!

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.

A MEXICAN FOLK ART FIESTA!

With a little inspiration from the SAC Team and some brightly colored supplies,

during week one of Summer Arts Camp 2014 the Camper Kids made their very own Mexican Folk art and tin engravings.

Their tools were simple ~ silver tin, ballpoint pens, Sharpies, wire, beads...and their creative minds.

Mobiles of color came alive at our campsite.

The tin panels strung together with colored wire sparkled from the sunlight and fluttered in the breeze.

Iconic Mexican images and patterns were drawn with impeccable detail.

Some mobiles were monogrammed, some showed love...

...others smiled sweetly.

ARTS AROUND THE WORLD

Are you ready to let your imagination travel around the world?  Get your passport ready, because this will be a first class journey!

During our Summer Arts Camp this June, one of our themed art programs will be an International Arts Day, featuring the arts of a different country each week.

This is just one example of some of the art we will be creating during our International Arts Day ~ Mexican Mirrors and Tin Engravings ~ traditional Mexican Folk Art.

We will also be travelling across the world to far away India and creating our own Indian Mehndi art, the traditional art of painting the hands or feet. 

Each Camper Kid will be making his or her own unique Mehndi Henna Hand Prints.  

We've got more stamped in our passport, but cannot give away all our secrets, so check back regularly for more sneak peeks of the artistic creations that you can enjoy every day during Summer Arts Camp 2014!

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Open registration has officially begun.  All children ~ boys and girls ages 7 to 10 ~ are welcome.
We hope you will join us!