MORNING PROGRAM

WEEK 1: JUNE 23-27
Artful Tales
We all have stories to tell. Tap into your creative energies and share your thoughts on your handmade paper. Create a comic strip, design shaped books, and illustrate stories and poems that capture your imagination! Make a flip book! Design and create your own magazine that will soon be "hot off the press!"

WEEK 2: JUNE 30-JULY 3
Another Angle
Take a "line for a walk" with some angles, circles, and shapes! Make amazing connections between art and math by creating interesting patterns and puzzles. Construct a kaleidoscope, design a maze plus make a mosaic mask and use mosaic tiles for other exciting artwork! Tickle your fancy with a tessellation or two!

WEEK 3: JULY 7-11
Build It !
You be the architect! Join us for a week of building, constructing, and arranging all kinds of materials! Let's build a 3D amusement park, a shoebox raceway, a suspension bridge, and a cereal box city. Want to make a mini bowling alley? A parachute? Create a kazoo? Go for it! Build it!

WEEK 4: JULY 14-18
Viva la France! Customs, Festivals & Art
Celebrating holidays, visiting museums, theater and enjoying leisure time are essential to the French. Enjoy Bastille Day with a "fireworks" and flag display on July 14th! Continue the festivities with a Mardi Gras masque and celebration of Poisson d'Avril (April Fool's Day). Travel to the countryside and build a chateau, the Avignon bridge, and paint like the plein air painters. Create a fleur-de-lis bowl, a Medieval illuminated manuscript, and a ceramic Sun King.

WEEK 5: JULY 21-25
Fantastic Heroes, Creatures & Tales
Welcome to the magical, mythical world of fantasy! We'll use our imaginations to create whimsical characters and art: Peter Pan puppets, felted elf hats, ceramic dragons, aliens, Harry Potter's pet, Hedwig the owl, and more. Follow the yellow brick road to Oz and beyond! You may not want to leave Never, Never Land!

WEEK 6: JULY 28-AUG 1
Journey Along the Nile
Cruise along the Nile River, considered to be the longest river in the world, as it flows northward through nine countries of the African continent. As we stop at ports of call, we'll learn about the people of the Nile and their crafts. Visit the Massai Reserve to make tropical birds, a "leather" shield, cowrie shell adornments and a Kenyan batik kangas skirt or kikois sarong. Next stop, Zaire, make royalty masks; travel on to make Ethiopian magic scrolls. Finish in Egypt drawing hieroglyphics on "papyrus," construct ancient Egyptian sandals, a pyramid, and more!

WEEK 7: AUG 4-8
Jewel of the Earth: The Amazon Rainforest
Discover the natural beauty of the Amazon rainforest and its exotic wildlife and vegetation. Like the Spanish conquistadors, search for Eldorado, the city of gold. Explore the "lungs of the planet" and the unique relationship between its inhabitants by making a flora mobile and wildlife diorama. Create a terrarium, papier-mâché birds and animals, a liana vine string, and a tree house. Celebrate the people of the rainforest by constructing a miniature canoe and basket.

WEEK 8: AUG 11-15
Great Artists, Great Art
What makes a work of art "great?" Is it skill or how the work makes us think? How do we develop our own visual guidelines? Take a close look at artists and their work to see the exciting ways they developed unique styles and what influences changed the way they looked at the world. Check out the folk paintings of Grandma Moses, the rounded sculpture of Henry Moore, Romare Bearden's collages, and Keith Haring's active figures made with bold lines and primary colors. Use these artists' techniques to develop your own style of art!