SUmmer Art Camps!

If you like to teach art, then summer time and winter break are great times to hold an art camp at your home, church, or community center. A well planned camp will usually focus on a subject theme (like animals, nature, or portraits) or a medium (like printmaking or pastels).

Below you will find ideas for art camps that might go 3-4 days for ages 10 and up. Younger students can still use these projects, but with more adult help. Using either the free projects here at Teach Art at Home or Masterpiece CDs will give you a great foundation since all of these projects have been classroom tested!

Pastel Power

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  • Choose 3 or 4 projects from the list below and have a great week of colorful
creation!





Supplies:
  • Soft or Hard Pastels (one set per two students)
  • Blending Stumps
  • Kneaded Erasers
  • Tinted Pastel or Charcoal paper or colored construction paper (do not use white paper)
  • Charcoal pencils

Free Projects
  • Western Tanager
  • Still Life of Pears
  • Bird of Paradise
  • Flower
  • Czech Landscape

Exploring the World with Pastel Projects
  • Pentland Hills, Scotland
  • Mont Tremblant, Canada
  • Portofino, Italy
  • Taj Mahal, India

Multimedia Projects
  • Peaches
  • Beach Sunset
  • Indian Valley
  • Penguins

Multimedia Junior Project
  • Columbine

Printmaking Camp

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The projects below require little drawing but focus more on design and technique with fun materials!



Choose 3 or 4 of the projects below, which are all found on the Printmaking Page:
  • Sponge Printing
  • Printmaking with Produce
  • Printmaking with Pasta
  • Sunset Print
  • Nature Sketchbook
  • Leaf Print Triptych
  • Watercolor Batik Cards