Hello I am incharge of doing crafts for our church kids camp this summer... the idea i have is decorating a back pac the first day so they have a place for towels and suits when we go to lake daily... Then someone suggested some plack , photo thing with decopage stuff? annyone have apicture or know where I can find one?? I am thinking of a wooden shingle thing and then put a photograph on that then glue on camp things like rocks yellow grass fox tails etc, can't put a frong on it though thats where I draw the line.. and then shalack or whatever on top of that? Notsure how it goes cause I never made one of these, I do have great ideas though aside from that... but they wanted this kind of think... I was wondering do any of you have picturs or ideas for making frames, they have to be easy to do with about 30 kids, its a small camp, and if its too detailed or breakable we wont so it.. natural things if possible...
Sit-Upons are great camp crafts. Get a vinyl table cloth, cut it in squares, and sew some newspapers between two squares with yarn. We made them in Girl Scouts about 35 years ago, and I had my kids make some before we took a month camping trip. They would use them sitting around the fire and things. We also made them when our church did a day camp a few years ago. They work very well. I still use mine to kneel on when I plant in the garden. As far as the frames go, you can get frames at Michael's. They look like cardboard, but they're paper maché. When I had my classroom, the kids glued puzzle pieces on them as a Christmas present for their moms.
You might check Oriental Trading for crafts or ideas for crafts you could do on your own. They have a whole camp theme to tie in with VBS.
yeah, true re oriental tradijng co, I am looking more local because we really only get about 30 kids at this point becuase of space available at our little camp. once they work on the land there mroe we will grow but for the moment its tiny.
and re Michaels, frames, I will have to check those out... I was thinking of that sort of thing....or the shingle idea of like making a plaque of the camp .. not sure what put on it, a post card even would be cool I think .. I still have some from the last years camp hehe, I got eveyrone one to make for parents this year I will come equipt wiht a stamp for each one and we can send them off from the near by town.
30 kids!!! WOW! I think that's a lot! We only had about ten at ours!!! I'm hoping to do a once-a-week thing at our church for the inner city kids this summer.
we actually take thier own tents to some land owned by one of the pastors, he lets us use it for free, its dry and kinda boring so while we are there we explore and do craft , then go swimming at lake, hiking at a waterfall, and more lake, then on way there and home we pic nic and swim at other locations... and get milk shakes on the way home too! quite fun!
My best friend was the art teacher at a camp I worked at and she had some great ideas. The first week, they made their own paper (you need a screen, a blender, and old magazines, newspaper etc...also scraps of things like flowers or feathers...I could get the directions from her but you can also probably find it online) then they bound the paper together to make journals/sketch pads, and then cut out pictures in magazines to make a collage on the front of the journals that represented each kid. They could use their journal/sketch pads when they finished another project early or when they first got to class and things weren't set up yet. She also did paper mache masks and puppets.
I think I should mention that time is limited becausse of the running back and forth, I LOVE the home made paper thing... I may get that ready ahead of time for one of my time spots ... at least to make the covers themselves? how long do youneed it to dry? Its dry there HOT HOT HOT 90-100 every day then
My friend only had about 50 minutes for her classes and they were *troubled* kids so it often took awhile to settle them down. She had everything set up already and spent several days with the kids making the paper and experimenting with different aspects of it (like adding the feathers) and I think just one day to make the covers....she bound them after class herself. I found this link that seems the most similar to what she did. She used a regular blender instead of a food processor and didn't make her own screens though...she had actual window screens she took out of someones trash. I don't remember how long it took to dry. http://www.essortment.com/hobbies/differentwaysm_smtk.htm
cool thanks, maybe we can make a picture that way if nothing else? I will put it on my listof possibly projects, thanks, anymore?
