Have to say, we are most impressed with our 4-H Arts and Crafts Day Camp participants. We have had a great time over the last four days doing a variety of crafts.
On Monday Christy Strickland taught our youth to cross stitch. To do this there were a lot of things we needed to learn. We had to learn to thread a needle, read a pattern, follow directions, just to learn to cross stitch. Once we had that down and figured out how to use the squares on the gingham it was easy to make our christmas trees. Then we had to learn to sew on a button to put our star on the top of the tree. What happened next was pretty cool. We turned it into an ornament. By using a lid ring from a jar, rope, a felt backing, and some tacky glue we finished it off and made a really neat gift. The one thing we didn't get to start or finish on Monday was our plastic canvas needlepoint project. However Ms. Shea Ann posted a video to walk us through that. Because we can read the pattern from cross stitch it will make this project even easier.
Tuesday we were ready and willing to jump into the deep end after Monday went so swimmingly well. Today 4-H Member Maggie Underwood introduced everyone into the world of Perler beads. They used the pattern reading skills they learned on Monday and translated them into making incredible designs with colored plastic beads that were then ironed to allow the beads to fuse and make a design. They campers did an incredible job and were really focused on this. At the end we had a little time to play with Shrinky Dinks. Shrinky Dinks are plastic pages that you color a design on and cut out. Then you place them in the oven for a few minutes and they shrink to one third the original size and are nine times as thick. The colors you use also become more concentrated. This is great for decorations, key chains, bobles, to make jewelry with, etc. The sky is the limit.
Wednesday was very cool. Mrs. Patty Speights joined us and walked us through making a painting. We made a really cute crab and everyone's was a little different and all of them were perfect in their own way. It was really neat. We also had little ceramic pieces that we could paint and give as gifts or use for ornaments or decorations. We had lots of fun with our paints.
The last day of camp was on Thursday. This was probably the hardest project of them all. Mrs. Shae (Shae 2) taught us how to finger knit using an emoji loop yarn. Trying to figure out how to pull the loops through was tough but once we figured it out it was pretty neat. Mrs. Shea has added a video to our google drive of Mrs. Shae ending the project so we can see how to do it on our own. Not that any of this is confusing at all.
We are so excited about how our youth finished up 4-H Arts and Crafts Day Camp and we hope they will enter their crafts in our 4-H Artastic Contest. Details of that will come out soon. Happy crafting to all our youth and thank you moms for all your help with our projects.
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