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.