Create Your Own Art Camp For Kids This Summer
by Kate Halfey
If you are just a few days into summer break and your children are already discussing with you how they are completely bored, it's probably time to spice up your routine a bit. Signing up for some type of summer camp might be too pricey, but you can actually create your own, homemade summer camp filled with tons of great art projects. Here are a few helpful tips.
When it comes to art, children should be exposed to the knowledge that art comes in many forms, from sculpture to painting to collage. With this in mind, give each day a specific theme, and this also will help you with planning. Your first day can be a nature theme. After a good long walk in a local natural area, such as a park, children can bring home all of the cool leaves, flowers, pebbles and other items they collect and create a collage with all of these pieces. For a more advanced project, have them create a nature shadowbox using a shoe box.
Combine a field trip to the public library with an art project and you can grab some books featuring the great works of famed painters along with a chance to sign up for the library's free summer reading program. Spend some time with your children looking at art books, and select an artist that they like and mimic one of his or her works. For instance, you can create a project based on Kandinsky's famous painting of circles inside of squares or mimic a Jackson Pollack work by allowing children to splash and splatter paint on a canvas. Another option is to create a tessellation project based on the work of M.C. Escher.
Along these same lines, you can also purchase a special PDF mural featuring the work of a famous artist and have children work on this project a little each day. These are inexpensive, and all you have to do is purchase, download and print. Each printed page is a section of the painting, and children simply fill in the lines with crayon, oil pastel, paint, colored pencil or other mediums. After all the pieces are filled in, you arrange the pieces in order and paste them down on a canvas or large piece of paper and you have an amazing work of art.
In addition to painting and collage, add in some cool projects using different mediums. For example, create something cool out of papier-mache, such as a new species of animal, an amazing mask or even something simple such as bowl. You can purchase some clay or colorful play-dough and have children create big or small sculptures. If you purchase white clay, you can dry it or perhaps baked it in the oven and then have children paint it later. You can even create quick homemade modeling dough, create a sculpture, bake it and paint it. This can be made using ingredients you probably have in the house.
If you plan ahead, you can save and rinse milk cartons and also save cardboard food containers. Have the kids cover these items with butcher paper or paint over them and create storefronts, skyscrapers, apartments and houses to create a homemade city. You can even paint paper to feature roads and parks and maybe even a river or a pond. This can be played with afterwards for many days and is a great way to use recycled items and create new, fun toys.
Kate Halfey likes writing about art projects for kids. For additional details about art projects such as <a href="http://www.artprojectsforkids.org">Kandinsky for kids</a> or to find <a href="http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/search/label/recycle">recyclable art projects for kids</a>, please go to the ArtProjectsForKids.org site today.
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Title: Create Your Own Art Camp For Kids This Summer
Author: Kate Halfey
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Keywords: art for kids,art project for kids,project for kids,art ideas for kids,art ideas,art projects,home,family
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