Focus: Story Poles

Campers this week will narrate a story, turn that story into a storyboard and then choose images from that storyboard to create sculptures.

Highlights of this week include:

• Using pinch, coil, and lab methods of construction  
• Storytelling elements, storyboarding, learning about narrative sculpture
• Access to slab rollers, press molds, texture tools
• Use of glazes and underglazes to explore surface treatment

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Focus: Dishes for Ice Cream!

Campers this week will create dishes fit for a sundae! At the conclusion of the week, we will have a sundae bar to celebrate!

Highlights of this week include:

• Using pinch, coil, and lab methods of construction  
• Access to slab rollers, press molds, texture tools
• Use of glazes and underglazes to explore surface treatment

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Focus: Fairies in the Garden

Spend time this week imagining the kinds of fairies and woodland creatures you’d like to attract to your house!

Highlights of this week include:

• Using pinch, coil, and lab methods of construction  
• Constructing fairy doors and houses as well as things found in fairy environments
• Access to slab rollers, press molds, texture tools
• Use of glazes and underglazes to explore surface treatment

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Theme: Backwoods

This week’s focus is on enjoying the outdoors and making observations.

Highlights of this week include:

• Fort making
• Lab- Plant Part Identification
• Food- Root beer and/or Hickory syrup
• Daily Games

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Focus: Clay in the Garden

Make your garden extra fancy this year with outdoor creations for your plants and wildlife!

Highlights of this week include:

• Learning pinch, coil, and slab-building techniques 
• Constructing flower pots, plant markers, bird feeders, and a bird bath!
• access to press molds, a slab roller, texture tools
• Use of glazes and underglazes to decorate

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Theme: Amazing Plants

This week we will be looking at all the awesome plants that surround us, both big and small.

Highlights of this week include:

• Leaf prints
• Lab- Tree ID
• Food- Flower soda and Sumac lemonade
• Daily Games

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Focus: Doodling and Decorating in Clay!

Do you like to doodle? Dream and draw? This week we will explore ways to draw and print on clay!

Highlights of this week include:

• etching or sgraffito, wax resist, and underglaze transfers
• pinch, coil, and slab-building techniques to build tiles, plates, and other forms
• access to press molds, a slab roller, texture tools
• Use of glazes

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Theme: Camp Cooking

This week we’ll be looking at different ways to make a fire outdoors, as well as cooking over it!

Highlights of this week include:

• Nature Photography
• Lab- Hickory Rock Candy
• Food- Cheese and cooking over fire
• Daily Games

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Focus: Dishes for a Feast!

Join us for this SPECIAL week of making clay dinnerware fit for a feast!

Highlights of this week include:

• use of templates and other supports to create cups, bowls, plates, and vases/candelabra 
• access to press molds, a slab roller, texture tools
• Use of glazes and underglazes for surface decoration 
  

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Theme: Finding our Food

This week looks at the cultural importance of food

Highlights of this week include:

• Gathering berries and other wild food.
• Lab- Seed Structure and Importance
• Food- Guest speaker(s) and Jam making
• Daily Games

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