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June 2, 2010
Last week I went rummaging through a thrift store in Maywood looking for the perfect junk. When I brought the cart to the counter I felt like I needed to apologize or explain why I was purchasing such an odd pile of odds & ends which looked like the “FREE” box that you stick out by the curb after a garage sale. But it didn’t seem to phase the cashier. I was in a rough part of town and I suppose stranger people had come through this shop.
Well, it’s a week later and this little lady above is who has emerged from the heap. I’m gearing up for summer camp. In a few weeks, the first camp at the workshop will be “Hand, Heart, Heritage” where kids will learn where their ancestors are from, what music they listened to & the stories that they told. We’ll make handmade toys, and create little books for letterboxing which is a quirky British hobby of hiding a blank book in the ground with a stamp and inkpad. There’s an entire society that does this, sharing stamps and notes with each other.
Next camp will be a Multi-media camp where kids will learn how draw and paint using all different kinds of media: watercolor, pencil, chalk, acrylic…. The highlight of the week will be producing a public piece of chalk art on the Union Pacific concrete wall near the workshop under the leadership of a new friend, Forest Park artist Doris Bartek. Our theme of the week will be “The Secret Life of Butterflies.”
And then comes Building and Nature Camp. We’ll go out and learn about nature, fill a nature journal with our findings and come back and build a RoboClock like Miss Rosie above. This camp is almost full. The other weeks are about 1/2 full. I’m SOOOOO excited! Now that Rosie is done, it’s time to hit the books and prepare…