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Summer Camp is here!

Hello!  Summer is here and camp has started!  Check back here for pictures and articles about what your child is doing at the Arboretum Summer Nature Camp!

Week 8: We Are The Arboretum!

Peacock Masks.

A new printmaking process explored...

Joseph Cornell-inspired Shadow Boxes!

Recyclable Castle!

Matisse-inspired paper cut outs!

Positive & Negative Space.

Week 7: International Week!

During International week, campers explored ecosystems, cultures and art from around the world!

Monday was all about AFRICA! Check out the amazing African Wildlife portraits we created with oil pastels and watercolors! 

African Masks... (and some Ninja masks too.)

Little Monsters!!!

On Tuesday we learned all about AUSTRALIA! During our morning art session, campers got in touch with their primitive sides, adorned with Aboriginal face & body paint, we created Aboriginal dreamtime stories with natural pigments in the Australian forest! Best day ever!!!

On a walkabout through the Eucalyptus!

Aborigines all day long!

Maille's AMAZING purse.. she created this all on her own from dried palms she found on a nature walk!

Australian Boomerangs!

Ms. Hilary the Aborigine.

Newspaper suits... after-care silliness.

DRUMMMSSS!

Mexico & Dia de Los Muertos Masks

Wrapping up International week, campers made their very own Olympic medals and Olympic Torches from repurposed materials!!!