I had so much fun today! There's a great group of parents and kids in our little corner of paradise that put together a 'summer camp' each year. For four days, over 40 kids ages 6 - 13 spend their summer days out at a local campsite doing various fun projects each day. This year's activities included; 'fun with liquid, solid, and gas', baking cookies with a solar oven, making organic chocolate truffles and a chocolate house, cray-pas mandala creations, designing and building a huge temporary (over 20 feet!) play structure out of cedar trees complete with a see-saw and swing, making molds of wild animal tracks in the woods,
tye-dye techniques, acrylic painting of self-portraits and a large group mural, fairy house construction, three-legged stool construction, and dance/movement. (I want to attend an adult version of this!)
Clipping the willow branches until they're just right.
This fairy house is made entirely of animal bones he found in the woods! (Except the small human skull, I hope!)
This little girl wanted the wind to blow the bottle caps on this fairy house to make them jingle.
I created this fairy house to use as an example for the kids. It's not yet complete, but stay tuned there will be many more photos coming in August after the "Fairy Chairity" event! You'll be treated to some pretty elaborate creations at that time, by artists throughout the area!
My friend Gail, the fairy house guru, created this one, complete with little eggshells at the entryway.
Notice the raindrops on this house. He covered it later with more of them made out of hot glue.
Is there some mystical symbolism here with the rib bone topper?
Close-up of the entryway of this fairy house. Love the black fur door mat, every house should have one!
We had a great time! The houses will all be placed in the kids' gardens at their homes and wait for a fairy to move into them. I'll let you know if there are any fairy sightings soon!
I had so much fun today! There's a great group of parents and kids in our little corner of paradise that put together a 'summer camp' each year. For four days, over 40 kids ages 6 - 13 spend their summer days out at a local campsite doing various fun projects each day. This year's activities included; 'fun with liquid, solid, and gas', baking cookies with a solar oven, making organic chocolate truffles and a chocolate house, cray-pas mandala creations, designing and building a huge temporary (over 20 feet!) play structure out of cedar trees complete with a see-saw and swing, making molds of wild animal tracks in the woods, tye-dye techniques, acrylic painting of self-portraits and a large group mural, fairy house construction, three-legged stool construction, and dance/movement. (I want to attend an adult version of this!)
Clipping the willow branches until they're just right.
This fairy house is made entirely of animal bones he found in the woods! (Except the small human skull, I hope!)
This little girl wanted the wind to blow the bottle caps on this fairy house to make them jingle.
I created this fairy house to use as an example for the kids. It's not yet complete, but stay tuned there will be many more photos coming in August after the "Fairy Chairity" event! You'll be treated to some pretty elaborate creations at that time, by artists throughout the area!
My friend Gail, the fairy house guru, created this one, complete with little eggshells at the entryway.
Notice the raindrops on this house. He covered it later with more of them made out of hot glue.
Is there some mystical symbolism here with the rib bone topper?
Close-up of the entryway of this fairy house. Love the black fur door mat, every house should have one!
We had a great time! The houses will all be placed in the kids' gardens at their homes and wait for a fairy to move into them. I'll let you know if there are any fairy sightings soon!
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I want a black fir door mat. Did you see Lina's this weekend?
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