Craft Camp 'Girls Only"...all that glitters is PLASTIC!

I forgot to post the morning group with their jewelry organizers...they turned out so well and today we worked very hard on filling them up!   Today was plastic craft day...

we worked with lots of beads and designed bowls.

It was a lot of fun and kind of warm with the ovens on all day!

 But it was worth it in the end...

 

because their bowls turned out so well!

 Aren't they gorgeous?  The group above was the morning class.

Then I pulled out one of my three all time favorite childhood crafts...Shrinky Dinks!

 Decisions, decisions...limitless choices in design, beads, colors, etc. Necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings and more!

They all went home with a new accessory wardrobe!

Yup...they were dripping in jewels.

The afternoon class...

This is like a candy store...yummy, yummy!

The bowl in production...

 and the end result...along with her ring, bicycle necklace, friendship bracelet, etc.

 It's girlie goodness

at its best!

Bored Kids Before School Starts?

Summertime blues start to set in about this time and here's a good cure!

Sign up your crafter for a Queenie Eileenie Craft Daze and get their creative juices flowing before school starts!  No real talent needed here...Eileen will help them find it!  Some of the best projects come from students who never thought they had a creative bone.  Sign your kiddos up now...classes fill up quickly.

Craft Camp Week Three=G.I.R.L.I.E.!

It's "Girls Only" week and we're glamming up their bedrooms and bodies with cool jewelry, jewelry organizers and wall art. 

 Picking out beads for necklaces is like shopping at the candy store!

Washer necklaces...

and Jewelry organizers!

Coming up next...lots of cool jewelry!

Hot Color Houses

I started class off by asking..."If you could paint your house any way you wanted, how would you do it?"  They started with choosing pieces of wood that they sanded down and chose an arrangement.  The kids got busy drawing their simple house on paper and were told to give it lots of detail and color!  

Sanding is an outside job and not very much fun...

but it's better than having splinters!

Planning the design and color scheme...

and applying it.

Choosing the colors of paint is the best part (after snack time, that is!)

 

 We had a great time with this project and especially glad its sunny and hot out today to help speed up the drying time!

Queenie and the gang with so many adorable houses!

 

Close ups of their hard work...

 

and they are ready to go home and hang all the good stuff!

Next session is July 21...girls only!

FaBuLoUs FlOwErS and FuNnY fIsH Day!

We crafted canvas wall hangings today and the kids chose to do flowers or fish...but only if they promised to use lots of color!  For the flowers we talked about concentric circles or ovals and the fish was all about simple shapes joined to make an image.

 Smudges and fingerprints are encouraged and we are slowly coming to terms with the fact that "perfect is boring" in art!  If the Mona Lisa was a perfect beauty, where would all the fuss be?!

 We also talked about balance and placement of color...

 

 Et voila!  Here are today's masterpieces!

Crafting Cuties! Week 2, Day 1...Mini-Me Sculptures

We had a great day creating sculptures of ourselves...first we sketched what we wanted to look like and started building our forms.  The best part was the messy part of applying the plaster.

Some created dancer sculptures, basketball and tennis players, twirlers and hip hop dancers,  cheerleaders and gymnasts...

then they painted the bases with bright colors.

and look how adorable they are!

We had so much fun...can't wait for the next class!