Week 4’s theme was Art Adventures
Week 4 was our second to last week of camp, and the theme was Art Adventures! We channeled our creativity all week with Tara Fahey, an established local artist, teacher, & puppet maker.
Investigator wearing his chess piece puppet
Tara walked us through the process of creating our own puppet shows! First, we designed our characters and then made them into puppets using cardboard, spoons, and other materials.
Explorers working on puppets for their group show
Investigators crafting their puppets
In groups, we came up with ideas for our puppet shows and created storyboards to plot them out. Then, we took some time to rehearse. Everyone’s ready to perform for parents this Thursday!
Explorers practicing their puppet show
Miss Len did some glitter glue art with the Explorers (grades 1-3). We decorated puzzle pieces and made lots of colorful, textured art!
Glitter glue art made by Explorers
Miss Len also spent time teaching photo editing to the Investigators (4-8). We used Pixlr Express to edit our photography from Week 3, playing around with colors, digital stickers, and AI effects.
Photo edit made using Pixlr
Investigators also did some reading this week. We chose from a variety of books in GMCC’s collection and wrote reflections about what we read. We also crafted paper mache models of Earth!
Paper mache Earth projects and book selection for Investigators
On Friday, we walked over to Stewart Park for the LakeStreet Youth Labs Olympics! We started the day off with a youth vs adults kickball game, dodgeball, and some free play in the gym.
Youth team’s turn to kick during the kickball game
Dodgeball in the Stewart Park gym
After eating lunch outside, we went back to the gym to watch a performance of Z Puppets Rosenschnoz’s The Amazing Gnip Gnop Circus! The blacklight show featured glowing acrobats, clowns, and tightrope walkers – all made out of ping pong balls and found materials! Our campers really enjoyed the show and had a lot of questions to ask the entertainers about how everything worked.
Scene from “the Amazing Gnip Gnop Circus”
Performers answering questions about their puppets after the show
After the show, we ended the day with a relay race, football throwing game, basketball, and some yummy popsicles to beat the heat!
Relay race including sprinting, sack race, three-legged race, and egg-and-spoon race
Football throwing game
Thank you to our partners for this week!
And thank you so much to our youth funders for supporting our program!
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