The girls had so much fun attending the Mable House summer art day camps in two different weeks this summer. Each week had a unique theme, and we knew they would love both. The first week was all about animals. They couldn't get enough. The second week was all about travel which they loved. Each day they looked forward to telling us about what they had created and how. The instructors were great. They are all Cobb County public school art teachers, so they are not only very talented artists, but they are great with kids. The girls adored them and told us all about them. They couldn't wait for camp each day!
Not surprising, we had an awful lot of artwork after two weeks. I asked the girls to go through and save what they felt was their favorite and best work; we'll put it in a special folder where I keep this kind of stuff. I also offered to take pictures so we can see it as often as they like. Here are their selections of their favorite and best art projects.
Mia's kangaroo was my favorite piece that she made; loved it! Her favorite piece was this African tribal mask.
She really liked her jellyfish coloring and cardboard totem pole.
Mia was pretty excited about her jaguar bank too.
Lily made this drawing of a bear, and I love the elephant handprints. She knows I can't resist anything with handprints on it.
This is her painting of herself watching tv, with Atticus (our old cat) on the sofa and a bird cheeping in the corner.
She made the painting on the left of the new playground at Maggie Daly park in Chicago, and she painted a beautiful bird on the right.
It was a lot of fun to see their excitement and admire the artwork!
In the second week of camp, Lily elected to do an acting class in the afternoon instead of an art class; she still dreams of being a Broadway actress so this was right up her alley. The class of ten kids comes up with their own characters and general storyline; the teacher then helps them write a script. Lily wanted to be a cat. The play was quite interesting. The US was being invaded by bad guys, but then they found out they only wanted to be the dj's at a dance party, so everyone ends up happy and dancing. Lily had a few speaking lines, and she did a great job; she remembered them all, and she spoke clearly and loudly. We were proud.
These camps were tons of fun for the girls and kept their creativity going this summer!
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