Art camp round up

Art camp was such a success!
(Giant  potato-printed poster)
(Paper mache ladybug)
(Tissue paper picture frames)
(Salt dough creatures)
...and there was so much more! It was a great week.

Linking us together - the giant paper chain project

It goes on and on... So many people have added their own links! A metaphor for the many individuals who are so strongly connected here at CPSC...

No parking on this muffin!

We had a cooking adventure this afternoon at CPSFC, making cornbread muffins and silly decorations. After all the measuring and mixing and pouring, we put them in the oven to cook, and worked on making some mini flags to go on top. You can see that some of the kids were pretty territorial over their muffins:

"DO NOT EAT IT!"
 "nooooo parking!" (at penalty of pirate takeover)

Finger puppets!

The older kids made some fabulous finger puppets today!

Painting cheeks

Here are a few photos I took at the Durham Earth Day festival at Central Park with my partner, Eli. We saw a lot of kids we knew from CPSFC and Schoolhouse of Wonder (where Eli is the Program Director) and painted well over a hundred faces! We were pretty tired afterwards.

...and this tiny screech owl was right behind us:
 Also, I ate a hot dog from a food truck, which I have to seriously not recommend.

Mini dot journals

I spent some quality time with the paper cutter making a stack of pre-cut "pages" for this project in After School.  I showed the kids how to use pencil erasers as a "dot" stamps, and they created beautiful journal covers on cardstock, which we then assembled into little handmade books...