Visual Arts
day one
9:00AM
Follow The Stretch Video with Miss Arica (I can link stretch videos here)
10:00AM
BRACELET MAKING
Activity Materials: String, something to hold you bracelet (example: clipboard)
Activity Description: Using templates and tutorials to make different styles of bracelets out of of string/yarn
11:00AM
ORIGAMI
Activity Materials: Any type of paper
Activity Description: Creating shapes out by folding paper, using online templates and our own imagination
12:00PM
Lunch Break
1:00PM
ZIPLOC BAG PAINTING
Activity Materials: a zip lock baggie, a piece of paper, and acrylic paint.
Activity Description: Place the paper inside the zip lock bag. Add a few squirts of paint. Close the bag completely. Allow the child to squeeze the paint inside the bag, mushing it around, to make a colorful piece of art.
2:00PM
THEMED COLLAGES
Activity Materials: Magazines, old books, printer or construction paper
Activity Description: Students will cut images from magazines, pictures, and drawings of their own and attach them to paper to create a collage. Students can pick their own theme for this project such as travel, sports, dance, etc.
3:30PM
JOURNALING
Activity Materials: Paper or a notebook, a writing utensil
Activity Description: Campers can journal about their thoughts and their day, and add pictures and color if they want. They are free to do what they want with their journal as long as they are using the time to wind down and reflect.
4:00PM
Zoom meeting with campers and teachers to talk about the activities we did
DAY TWO
9:00AM
Follow The Stretch Video with Miss Arica (I can link stretch videos here)
10:00AM
CRAYON ART
Activity Materials: Crayons, a piece of thick paper, a blow dryer (optional)
Activity Description: Line crayons up on the piece of paper and either let it sit in the sun, or put the blow dryer on the crayons so they melt and create a design
11:30AM
PENCIL LINE
Activity Materials: Writing utensil, paper, device to play a song
Activity Description: Turn on a song that you like. Place your pen or pencil on the paper and do not pick it up for the entire song. Move the pen or pencil around as if it were “dancing” on the paper. Let the music guide this line drawing. At the end of the song, look at the dance pattern your pen or pencil created on your paper. Do you see sharp lines and corners? Do you see curves and spirals? Do you see negative space? Where do you see lines that looked tangled up? How did it feel to guide your pencil or pen through a dance on your paper?
12:00PM
Lunch Break
1:00PM
MARBLE PAINTING
Activity Materials: a baking pan, acrylic or watercolor paint, paper, and marbles.
Activity Description: Place the paper in the pan. Add a few drops of paint. Place marbles in the pan and let them roll around through the paint to create a work of art.
2:00PM
SCRAPBOOKING
Activity Materials: your journal and collage, a notebook or paper, writing utensils and anything else you want to put in your scrapbook (colors, pictures, etc.)
Activity Description: Use ideas from your journal and collage to create a scrapbook of your experiences doing “camp” this week.
4:00PM
Zoom meeting
RECYCLING
9:00AM
Follow the Stretch Video with MIss Arica
10:00AM
HAVE ZERO WASTE BY THE END OF THE DAY
Activity Materials: your imagination
Activity Description: Start brainstorming things you use in your everyday life that are not environmentally friendly. This hour, start doing things without those things, and think of ways you're going to stop using them for the rest of your day.
11:00AM
DIY FACE MASKS
Activity Materials: An unused sock, Scissors
Activity Description: Grab your sock, then cut off the part of the sock that reaches the ankle and up. (So it has two open holes on each side) then cut a diagonal line across the corners of the edges of the sock. Two cuts on the end in total.
12:00PM
Lunch break
1:00PM
UPCYCLE CLOTHING
Activity Materials: An article of clothing that can be reused
Activity Description: Grab this piece of clothing and either reuse or make it into something better!
2:30PM
TIE DYE (if we have materials)
Activity Materials: Tie dye, a piece of fabric or clothing you don’t wear, gloves, do it outside, rubber bands
Activity Description: Use the rubber bands to scrunch up the fabric or piece of clothing, put the tie dye in water in a bottle, squirt tie dye onto fabric and let sit for 24 hours. Come back, wash in cool water, and enjoy your new colorful creation!
4:00PM
Zoom meeting with other campers and teachers
Language
9:00AM
Stretch with Ms. Arica
10:00AM
LETTERING ACTIVITY
Activity Materials: Paper and pens/pencils
Activity Instructions: Learn how to write your name in different lettering styles like calligraphy and bubble letters.
11:00AM
ASL - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
Activity Materials: None
Activity Instructions: Learn the ASL alphabet and how to spell your name.
12:00PM
Lunch break
1:00PM
MADE UP LANGUAGE
Activity Materials: paper and pens/pencils
Activity Instructions: make your own alphabet and/or symbols. Write them down and what they mean. If the alphabet is NATO phonetic, spell your name with the symbols
2:30PM
ALPHABET YOGA
Activity Materials: none
Activity Instructions: try to make as many of the letters in the english alphabet and the alphabet you made yourself with your body. Try to spell your name with the letters.
3:30PM
FOREIGN MUSIC
Activity Materials: computer
Activity Instructions: look for a song that you like that is sung in a different language than your first language.
4:00PM
Zoom meeting
Film Making
9:00AM
Stretching video with Miss Arica
10:00AM
MAKE A STOP MOTION VIDEO
Activity Materials: Download the free app Stop Motion Studio, a couple of toys
Activity Description: Make a stop motion video using your toys!
12:00PM
Lunch Break
1:00PM
MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO
Activity Materials: Any materials you want for your video
Activity Description: Pick one of your favorite songs and make your own music video to it! Must be appropriate music and does not have to be above and beyond.
3:00PM
MAKE A VIDEO OF “A DAY IN THE LIFE OF _________
Activity Materials: Any props you feel necessary
Activity Description: Make a video that summarizes your entire day!
4:00PM
Zoom meeting with other campers and teachers
CULINARY DAY
9:00AM
Stretch video with Miss Arica
10:00AM
BON APPLE TEETH
Activity Materials: Apple, peanut butter/nutella/other spread, marshmallows
Activity Description: Slice an apple in small wedges. Spread a little peanut butter on one side of each apple slice. Place a line of mini marshmallows in the peanut butter between two slices. The two apple wedges should look like smiling lips, and the marshmallows will look like teeth.
12:00PM
Lunch break
1:00PM
MAKE YOUR OWN FOOD!
Activity Materials: Felt and/or polyfill
Activity Description: Create your own foods by shaping your materials to look like them. For example, if you have purple and green felt, you could shape it and make grapes.
2:00PM
FRUIT KEBABS
Activity Materials: Assortment of fruits, kebab sticks or toothpicks
Activity Description: Make a fun pattern of fruits on a stick and have a nice, delicious, healthy afternoon snack!
4:00PM
Zoom meeting with other campers and teachers
9:00AM
Stretch with Ms Arica
10:00AM
EGG CARTON GARDEN
Activity Materials: Empty cardboard egg carton, soil, and seeds. (markers or paint for decorating)
Activity Instructions: Cut the egg carton in half on the seam and decorate it with paint or markers if you want to. Next, fill each of the compartments with soil halfway. Add the seeds in the compartments and fill them up the rest of the way with soil. Water the plants and place them on a window in the sun.
11:00AM
FLOWER CROWN
Activity Materials: Dandelions
Activity Instructions: Make a flower crown :). Instructions will be provided.
12:00PM
Lunch break
1:00PM
PLANT SHAPES
Activity Materials: The outdoors
Activity Instructions: Go outside and look at trees and plants to see similar shapes and patterns they make. Try to create a string of movements, based on the designs in nature.
2:00PM
BIRD FEEDER
Activity Materials: Clean tin can, birdseed, thick twine, optional paint
Activity Instructions:
Step 1
On the side of each tin can, use a ruler to measure about a 1/4-in. from each end in a straight line. Then mark a dot at each of these points with a permanent marker. Use a drill or metal punch to make holes about 1/4-in. wide where the marked dots are. These two holes are where you will insert the twine for making a hanger later on.
Step 2
In a well-ventilated area, spray paint the outside of your tin cans in various colors. Apply as many coats as needed for full coverage and let dry 24-48 hours.
Step 3
Lay the open end of each can centered on a foam flower. Trace around the circle opening with a pencil. Centered inside the circle either freehand or use a compass to draw another circle about a 1/2 inch smaller all around. Then use a ruler to draw several crisscrossing straight lines inside the original traced circle (like the way a pizza is cut). First cut out the small inner circle. Then cut along each crisscrossing line, stopping at the traced outline of the original circle. This will make several tabs around the inner perimeter.
Step 4
Lay the foam flower face down on a flat surface. Apply a ring of hot glue around the perimeter of the traced circle. Then place the open end of the can aligned on top of the hot glue ring. Hold the can firmly in place until the glue dries. Hot glue each of the cut tabs down on the interior of the can rim to further secure the foam flower in place.
Step 5
For the hangers, first cut a 12-18 in. piece of twine for each of your cans. Thread one end through the back hole, inside of the can and back up through the front hole. With even lengths of twine, place several large beads on each loose end. Knot the top of the twine to secure the hanger with beads in place. Repeat for each tin can feeder.
4:00PM
Zoom meeting
GARDENING
DAY ONE
Throughout the gardening week, collect seeds from fruit that you eat, like apple seeds, peach pits, and grape seeds. At the end of the week, plant them in your backyard.
9:00AM
Stretch with Ms Arica
10:00AM
PINEAPPLE CLONING
Activity Materials: A whole pineapple
Activity Description: Chop off the top of the pineapple to use it in this experiment. Get a jar or bowl of water, and place the pineapple top in the water. It may take a week or two, but you should see a new pineapple growing from your pineapple top! (Enjoy the juicy parts of your original pineapple as a snack.)
11:00AM
BIRD FEEDER CONTINUED
Activity Materials: Clean tin can, birdseed, thick twine, optional paint
Activity Description: Continue working on your birdhouse from yesterday
GARDENING
DAY TWO
MAGIC
9:00AM
Stretch video with Miss Arica
10:00AM
LEARN A MAGIC TRICK OR TWO
Activity Materials: Depends on the trick
Activity Description: Find a magic trick you thought was cool, and try to figure out how they did it. Then try to do it yourself. Eg. Try to make something disappear.
11:00AM
DECK OF CARDS DANCE
Activity Materials: A deck of cards
Activity Description: Using the deck of cards creates a dance. Each card in the deck represents a different movement. Pull 5 cards and do the movements assigned to each to create your own dance segment. The movements for each card are as follows:
A: jump
2: hop on one foot
3: lay on your belly
4: lay on your back
5: star shape
6: do a spin
7: slide to the right
8: slide to the left
9: scoop the air with two hands
10: hands float up
J: head circle
Q: clap
K: squat
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
MAGIC MARKER MISCHIEF
Activity Materials: Markers, people to play with
Activity Description: This is a messy game, and there really aren't any rules. Each participant gets a washable marker, and engages in a free-for-all game of tag, where everyone is "it". Have fun marking all over each other's arms, legs, faces, etc. This game has always been a load of silliness and giggles in our house.
MOVEMENT
9:00AM
Stretch with Arica
10:00AM
UPSIDE DOWN DANCE
Activity Materials: Your imagination
Activity Description: Hang your head off the couch, your bed, or a comfy chair. What do you see? Can you make shapes and movements using only your hands and arms over your head? If there is a light on the ceiling, you may see shadows of your arms on the floor. Play with creative arm movements, hand shapes, and finger movements. Can you see a duet happening with your arms and the shadow of your arms on the floor?
11:00AM
IMPROVE DANCE AT HOME
Activity Materials: Your imagination
Activity Description: Find something in your house that inspires you, and use is at a prompt for you to improve.
12:00PM
Lunch
1:00PM
SITE SPECIFIC CHOREOGRAPHY
Activity Materials: A place to dance
Activity Description: Find a place in your house (couch, bench, outside, etc.) and choreograph a dance that is specific to that area, and wouldn’t be able to be danced anywhere else.
3:00PM
WEATHER IMPROVE
Activity Materials: Your imagination and a place to dance
Activity Description: Take a look at the weather. Create a dance or improve keeping the weather in mind. Is it cloudy? What’s the temperature like? Is this the kind of weather you like? Keep all of those concepts in mind.
4:00PM
Zoom meeting with campers and teachers
Science
9:00AM
Stretch with Arica
10:00AM
EGG IN VINEGAR
Activity Materials: An egg, white vinegar
Activity Description: Fill a cup with white vinegar and set the egg in it, The vinegar should be completely covering the egg. Some back in 24 hours for a fun surprise!
10:30AM
MAKING OOBLECK
Activity Materials: Corn starch, water, optional: food coloring
Activity Description: Mix two parts two parts cornstarch with one part water. See what happens when you hit it with something versus when you put your finger in it slowly.
11:00AM
MELTING ICE
Activity Materials: Ice cubes, 3 substances around your house (camper can choose), ziploc bags
Activity Description: Put two ice cubes, in a plastic bag along with one substance of your choice. Do this three times, each bag with a different substance. Keep an eye on the bags for the hour next couple of hours and see which bag melts fastest.
12:00PM
Lunch break
1:00PM
COKE AND MENTOS
Activity Materials: A bottle of coke soda, a package of mentos
Activity Description: Make sure you are outside for this one because it can get messy! Open the bottle of coke and place a mento in it. Now stand back, and wait for the reaction! Maybe even try to mimic the reaction with your body.
2:00PM
MILK AND FOOD COLORING
Activity Materials: Dish soap, paper plate, a cotton ball, food coloring, milk
Activity Description: Put some milk on a paper plate so it completely covers the bottom, then drizzle your favorite colors of food coloring in the milk. Put some dish soap on the cotton ball, and set it in the middle of the plate. Watch as the color spread away from the cotton ball.
3:00PM
“EXPERIMENTAL” DANCING
Activity Materials: None
Activity Description: Think of your experiment today, and make a dance or improve it. Think about what the reaction was, like if it was fast and startling like the coke and mentos, or calming like the milk and food coloring.
4:00PM
Zoom class with teachers and campers