Creative You Summer Camp

This past week was Creative You Summer Camp through 4H.  Kids spent Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday exploring several types of fabric dyeing including, ice dyeing with ice cubes and powdered Rit Dye; tie dyeing t-shirts and socks;  Sun painting with Setacolor by Pebeo;  wool felting with needles and rocks.  After fabric had been created we added extra embellishments.  On Thursday and Friday the girls used their fabric and sewing machines to create clothing and accessories.  It was a great week!!!  If any of this looks like so much fun you'd like to try it visit the Rit Dye website for great instructions and projects.  Search the internet for "ice dyeing" for lots of interesting ideas.  The paint we used for the sun dyeing is available online at www.dharmatrading.com.  It's called Setacolor.  Visit the spinners and weavers in the sheep barn at the Kitsap County Fair (August 21 thru 25, 2013) for more information about felting. ...or...hey.... ask any of these kids...  they all did an awesome job!

 Sun painting

 Sun Painting

 Sun Paining

 Sun Painting

 Learning to card wool on a drum carder

 Ice Dyeing

 Ice Dyeing

 Ice Dyeing

 Rinsing Ice dyeing

 Rock Felting

 Early stages of  rock felting

 Ice Dyeing

 Rock felted Snowman

Needle felted butterly

 Felted Rock Santa

 Felted Rock Panda

 A darling purse made from sun painted fabric

 Our tie dyed sock drying tree

 Using Sharpies and rubbing alcohol

 Rock Felting... this was so coo,l!!

 Adding extra "bling" to our dyed fabric

 Needle felting

 Showing off a sun painted t-shirt, a scarf and a purse

 The girls are learning to needle felt

 This was done with Setacolor Sun painting

This was a piece of ice dyeing

We created Journals with notes about our process and pictures of what we did.

 This project was done with Sharpies and rubbing alcohol

Brooke's Mural

My good friend and past student, Brooke Murray just finished painting this beautiful mural at Poulsbo Elementary School.  She is a talented and amazing girl.  I am so proud of her!

 

Stars and Stripes

This month art class has a patriotic theme.  Kids were told to use stars, red, white and blue and create a design.  Makes me want to hum "America the Beautiful"!

This week's post is a little late because I promised the kids I wouldn't post until I was sure every mom was surprised...  We made Mother's Day cards this week.  I used a negative space art lesson to have the students create vases.  I photographed each student's profile and printed out the pictures.  We traced the outline, flipped the picture and traced it again creating our "vase faces".  The students filled them with anything they thought their mom would like.  This is one of those times when I just stand back and marvel at their creativity!!  Everyone got exactly the same instructions.  Check out the results.  Happy Mother's Day, everyone.

This week we created art cubes.   Each student traced around a template for a box and cut out on the traced lines.  Markers, colored pencils and watercolor were used to color all sides of the boxes.  When they were finished we glue sticks and tape to secure the edges.  Each box had a theme and everyone was unique.  We stacked them all up and tried several arrangements switching the sides that showed.  “You can’t do that when you just draw a flat picture”.