SAINT PAT'S SUMMER SESSIONS

Saint Patrick's Episcopal Day School has a great series of 3 summer camp sessions, each of them with a particular theme. We at Make/Believe are happy to be working with them on art projects that correspond with each of the sessions. For the first one, they dubbed the theme "shark sensation diving destination", e.g. all things ocean, and above you'll find some quick snaps of a few of the projects the kids have been working on, including floating treasure boats, and interactive ocean "theaters." I filled in for fantastic Make/Believe teacher Sarah last week, and had a lot of fun working with the campers. 

You might be wondering if the campers also had a chance to take field trips, and if so, were they able to make it to the aquarium to pet sharks and have seahorses wrap tails around their fingers? The answers to these questions are yes and YES. Treasure-boat-ocean-theater-seahorse-handshake? Check, check, check!

MEMORY BOXES

Here are some of the "memory boxes" made this week in two Art After School classes. The students were asked to depict a memory they liked in mini diorama fashion. As simple as these are, it can be tough to conceptualize and execute a diorama-type piece in the course of an hour or less, and I thought the kids did a good job with the time they had. I liked hearing about the memories they chose, and the idea of having these little vignettes tucked away in closeable boxes. One of the funniest memories shared: a student walking into a pizza shop to find Santa sitting by himself, eating a chicken sandwich!

L: petting stingrays; R: Santa in the pizza shop

L: petting dolphins w/ family; R: helping her mother swim to shore

L: playing basketball in Spring; R: discovering Legos

L: going to Miami for Thxgiving; R: an apple orchard in Kyrgyzstan

L: a cruise to Ireland; R: first day at a new school