1. Beaver 2014
Potential Ideas
Electives
1. Koi fish wind socks- block print fish scales, embellished with paint, fabric/ ribbon,
embroidery
2. Paper mâché faberge eggs embellished with paint, collage, and bling
3. Paper mâché dragonflies with faux stained glass wings
4. Butterfly sculptures with wire, tissue paper, etc
5. Silk scarf painting (odd weeks)
6. Make your own "Stained Glass" Kites
7. Poetry book or diary or gratitude journal - hand painted fabric covered - embossed
exterior w/ h20 color illustrations - Special pens ...sculpey decorated
8. Mosaic on plate chargers
9. Hardware Jewelry
10. Giant Hamsa Paintings
11. 3D paintings with air dry clay, gel medium, and collage materials.
12. Plaster masks
13. Collaged cigar box treasure or jewelry boxes
14. Candle making

2. 15. Painting w/ Weird Stuff and Weird Techniques – pure process!!!
16. Translucent Mosaic Stained Glass on Picture Frame
17. Faux Batique Fabric Banners
Senior
1: Embroidered and appliqued felt toss pillows
2. Paper cut lanterns/night lights
Ceramics
1. Tree tiles
2. Votives
3. Wall pocket
4. Flower bowls/plates
Group ideas
1. Passports
2. & 3. China cloisonné 2 day?
4. Japan ink paintings
5. India- Bhindi gloves "henna" on vinyl gloves with Sharpie - brown
6. Russia - eggs Faberge
7. Russia – matroyshka dolls
8. France water color resist or thumb print monets
9. Greece. - blue “evil eye” jewelry
10. Africa kente paper weaving
11. Africa – cardboard masks
12. South America – Equador/Guatemala – Molas
13. South America – Brazil – carnivale masks
14. North America/USA tin type

3. 15. North America/USA Scrimshaw cream acrylic over black paper scratch art
16. North America/USA USA: Quilt making... W/ fabrics patterned paper
17. North America/USA Hawaii leis w/ flowers, straws, ? Beads?
18. North America/USA picture of clay pots
19. Mexico - Dia Del Muertos ( Day of the Dead) fimo or 2 dimensional skulls/ skeletons
elaborately decorated.
20. Mexico – bark paintings
SUPPLIES
Electives
1. Koi fish wind sock - block print fish scales, embellished with paint, fabric/ ribbon,
embroidery
1. 62500-1024 smart fab fabric roll white 48"x40 ft. $16.99
2. 40424-1006 Eco Karve Printing Plate 12" × 18" $12.30
3. 02916-1005 Sparkle Finish Half Pint $6.05 (might want additional one for
Faberge eggs, dragonflies, and/or butterflies.)
4. 66909-9005 Macramé Ring 5" $0.85 (need 1/fish - perhaps 20 allows
15 campers, counselors, demo and turnover?)
5.33405-1020 Galvanized Wire, 20 Gauge 100 ft $2.60
acryllic paint, printers ink, metallic acryllic paint
2. Faberge Eggs - Paper mâché faberge eggs embellished with paint, collage, and bling
12" balloons (20 – 1 per camper)
bling (I know we have pearls and beads. We should have lots of rhinestones and sequins of
different sizes, shapes and colors.
23841-1001 Glue Lines, Box of 200 $3.79 (4 boxes)
23841-1020 Original Glue Dots, Mini, Box of 300 3/16" $3.79 (4 boxes)
mod podge sparkle finish
3. Large Paper Mache Dragonflies
1. 27228-1840 Static Cling Vinyl 27" $3.57
sparkle finish mod podge
glitter glue
Paper mache bodies, then paint. Create wings with armature wire. Draw wing design with black
sharpies on static cling vinyl. If time, paint with school glue mixed with liquid water color to create
stained glass effect. Use armature wire to create legs and antennae and air dry clay and paint to

4. create feet.
4. Butterfly Sculptures with wire, tissue paper, etc
Same technique as fish, flower pots, etc. Create outline of butterflies with armature wire.
Cover with tissue paper and glue sticks. Encourage campers to create unique symmetrical
designs for their butterflies…potentially more than one butterfly. Can embellish sculptures
with beaded creations as well. Mount on 2x4s painted as desired. (would potentially wrap
armature wire around dowels, drill holes in wood, then glue gun in place.)
dowels (1/4”)
12” 2x4s from wood shop – 1 per camper.
can we borrow a hand drill from wood shop? I think we have a hand saw.
Armature wire, tissue paper, glue sticks, glitter glue, paint pens, sharpies, beads,
5. Silk scarf painting (odd weeks)
I assume we need more scarves. The inventory list would note what else we need. My guess is
we need a little bit of resist.
6. Stained Glass Kites
Students create an outline/design in sharpie on the outside of a piece of contact paper. They
remove the protective backing, add “t” shaped kite support made out of straws, and carefully
place tissue paper to fill in their design. When done, they cover with an additional piece of
contact paper and attach the string. They can use scraps of contact paper decorated with
sharpie (or sandwiched together filled with tissue paper) to act as the tail.
Weather, time and space permitting we will take out our kites and try to fly them.
1. Discount School Supply
#LROL Repositionable Con-Tact® Cover - 18" x 75 ft.$28.99
2. ****** I would like to test this with regular straws before paying for the Amazon straws. (I know
the Amazon are pricey). Amazon: 2 boxes...100 FAT or Giant BLACK Smoothie Drinking
Straw 10" BLACK Wide Width for Milkshake Frozen Drink $5.45
3. Educational Innovations:Super Twine Kite String Class Set (Pkg. of 36 rolls) $36.95
7. Poetry book or diary or gratitude journal - hand painted fabric covered -
embossed exterior
Fillers: poetry or gratitude lists w/ h20 color or colored pencil illustrations –

5. Special pens ...sculpey decorated
1.Tooling foil roll copper/ aluminum
2. Plain black bic pens (students will remove plastic casing wrapping decoratively sculpey and
put ink back in once casing has been baked.
3. White thin fabric - preferably koi fabric, but if not enough leftover, then muslin might do
as well.
4. Empty journals (1 per camper). We can get a 5 x 7 journals for a dollar apiece at
www.dollartree.com.
8. Mosaic on Plate Chargers
Christmas Tree Shops typically have large metallic plate holders for a $1.25/1.50 apiece. I
don't know if they carry them at this time of the year, but they are very cool. I actually have
20 gold ones left over from my mom’s bday party if we can’t find them…we could potentially
use them and I could get reimbursed somehow…
9. Hardware jewelry Note: I have not made any of this, so it might make sense to
order small amounts of the supplies – or for me to pick them up at a local hardware store to
see if these work…
A. Wrap bracelet…(there should be active below links for these “A” supplies….)
You’ll need (for one double wrapped bracelet) :
• 44-55 inches* of 1.5mm leather cord
• 12-15 inches* of brass ball chain or crystal chain
• 58-72 inches* of waxed linen cord (scroll down in link)
• 1/4″ hex nut
B. Washer and ribbon necklace
3/8” or 5/16” washers – 20 per necklace.
5/16” (1/4” fine) ribbon – 60” per necklace.
Would need less washers and ribbon for bracelets.
C. Braided hex nut bracelet
20 small hex nuts per bracelet
3 yards of twine per bracelet
Amazon: Cotton Butcher's Twine - 185 feet
by Harold Import Company, Inc.

6. Price: $5.59
D. Washer necklace
3/8” or 5/16” washers – 20 per necklace.
Large jump rings that campers can use to attach washers in interesting patterns.
Jewelry chain to attach to pendant
Jewelry clasps
Nail polish – several colors that can be used for embellishing washers if desired. We have
some nailpolish in the department, but I don’t know how usable it is. We might want to get
2 bottles of each color to make sharing easier. NY brand sold at CVS is $1 per bottle.
10. Giant Hamsa Paintings
20” x 30” canvas panel. (could adjust size…this is not set in stone.
Campers draw giant hamsa on panel. (Might provide stencil). Draw intricate details first with
pencil, next with sharpie paint pens. Fill in with acrylic paints. Add more details with sharpie
paint pens, rhinestones, sequins, glitter glue, etc.
11. 3D paintings with air dry clay, gel medium, and collage materials.
Campers create 3D design with a few focal points created with air dry clay which will be
epoxied onto their canvas. They will paint the clay, and will continue to experiment with
texture and interest with a combination of gel medium, paint and collage materials.
Polyform Model Air dry clay
Blick: 33659-1022 White 2.2 lb $5.99
12 x 16 canvas panels…this size could fluctuate if it makes financial or logistical sense to do so.
Gel medium (I believe we have some in the department…)
Assorted fabrics, trims, interesting papers, magazines, etc.
12. Plaster masks
Campers will create a base shape for their mask out of card stock. They will then use plaster
strips to cover the card stock and create their mask. When the mask is dry, they will paint
and embellish with feathers, ribbons, rhinestones, sequins, glitter glue, etc.
13. Collaged cigar box treasure or jewelry boxes

7. Campers will take pieces of maps, magazines, Eric Carle type paper, wall paper books, etc. to
cover their cigar boxes with collage. They might cover the entire box as a base, then add
details with more paper collage and findings such as rhinestones, sequins, glitter glue,
ribbons. They might enjoy using sharpies – regular, metallic, and paint – to add additional
detail.
Some might want to line their boxes with felt.
14. Candle making
This would be a repeat of past years – always “camp” and successful…
Day 1 – sand candles and ice candles
Day 2 – striped candles
Day 3 – hand decorated candles
Day 4 – hand dipped candles
Note: I would LOVE 2 more candle –dedicated crock pots. It is easier and safer to heat up
the wax in crock pots than on top of the portable electric burners where the wax sometimes
drips, smokes, and in one scary instance…caught fire!
We should have 2 votives available for each camper for the striped candles.
I don’t know where we are in our inventory of fundamental candle supplies. We need short
pre-made wicks with metal base for sand candles, striped candles (3 per camper). We need
longer wicking which we cut for ice candles, hand decorated candles, and hand dipped
candles.
We should have enough wax sheets, rhinestones, wikki sticks etc to decorate the candles.
15. Painting w/ Weird Stuff and Weird Techniques
This is simply a process elective. Let’s have fun with materials! We don’t have to do all of
these things, but here’s the list I’ve been creating…
Corn syrup and liquid water color on card stock

8. Kool aid painting (add a little water to dried kool aid to make scented “paints”
Marbleing paper/cardstock with Shaving cream and liquid water color
Paint with Bubbles tinted with liquid water color
Paint with Ice cubes made with liquid water color
Liquid h 20, baking soda and vinegar – watch the reaction…
Glue paint prints – Add liquid water color to school glue. Put on vinyl/duralar/sheet
protector and let kids “smush/finger paint” to create stained glass effect when it dries.
Watercolor by squirt gun or spray bottle.
Paint with kush balls, sponges, plastic scrubbers, etc. (Take kids outside and give each an
easel with a large canvas panel. Campers brush a light coat of acrylic paint on their object,
then throw it at the easel…lather, rinse, repeat.) Campers could potentially paint with string
or branches or long brushes to experiment with other materials.
16. Mosaic Stained Glass
1. 61132-2020 Tile Grout Black 2 lb Tub $4.78…may need 2...
My thought is to go to a dollar store or Ocean State and get some cheap ($1-$2) wood 8x10
or 11x14 frames.
? Cheap plate stand for each camper? We might also be able to get these for $1-2 at Ocean
State or a dollar store.
The kids would use translucent glass to create a stained glass effect mosaic on the picture
glass. (We would epoxy the glass to the frame.). We would then use black grout to create
the “lead lines” on the camper’s “stained glass”. If we gave each camper a plate stand, they
could display their creation in a way that it could catch the light.
I emailed a friend who has her own mosaic studio to see if she has any good sources for
translucent mosaic tiles.
17. Faux Batique Fabric Banners
11 or 10 x 18 piece of white fabric (see koi) per camper.
1 12” (1/4”) dowel per camper
nylon beading thread, white school glue in bottles, watered down acrylic paint.

9. Each camper will create a design and transfer the outlines to the fabric in white school glue.
When the school glue is dry, campers can go over it with watered down acrylic paint.
Campers may choose to layer some parts of their banner with additional steps of glue and
paint. When glue is dry, campers re-wet their banners and scrape off the glue. (The flat
metal clay tools work magnificently for this step.)
We will glue gun the banners to the dowels, adding either ribbon or beaded nylon string as
hangers.
Senior
1: Embroidered and appliqued felt toss pillows
Campers will learn several different embroidery stitches and employ them in the creation of
embroidered and appliquéd toss pillows.
We will need 2 rectangular pieces of felt for each camper, plus felt scraps for appliqué. We
will need lots of embroidery floss, embroidery needles (I believe we have), plus lots of fun
beads with holes big enough to go over embroidery floss. We also need batting.
2. Paper cut lanterns/night lights
Christmas tree hill sells electric window candles for $2.99 apiece.
Foam core board 4x1 ft per lantern
Velum 8 1/2 x 11 sheets (4 per camper)
Spray adhesive
White card stock 8 ½ x 11 sheets (4 per camper)
Exacto knives and blades
Optional: water color paints
Campers will paper cut 4 sides to their lamps. These paper cuts can be the same, or
different. Finished paper cuts will be glued onto the velum with spray adhesive.
We will create a lamp box out of foam core board (imagine 4 square donuts glued into a
box…)

10. We will glue the paper cuts on each side of the box.
Insert the light and voila! A lamp!
If campers have extra time they can make additional paper cuts or water color their lanterns.
Ceramics
1. Tree tiles
Campers will make a 5x8 slab, then create a tree trunk and branches using coils. They will
scratch/attach grass, leaves, flowers, fruit, birds, animals as they wish. They can also use
texture tools on the background to create a landscape or to create a more abstract contrast.
2. Votives
1 or 2 battery operated tea lights per camper
Campers will create a small slab rectangular slab which they will scratch and attach to either a
square or round slab base. They will stuff the shape with crumbled paper, then they will
gently cut a design of holes into the walls of their container. Once the container has been
fired and glazed, we put the tea lights in to create a votive. Families can opt to use real
candles at home.
3. Wall pockets
Campers will roll a 12” x 6” slab, then fold it over (scratching and attaching) to create a
pocket. They will stuff this pocket with crumbled paper to give it shape, then decorate with
texture and scratch and attach. They will poke a hole at the top of each side so we can
attach a wire hanger…beaded if desired.
4. Flower bowls/plates
Campers will roll out slabs and cut out flower petals, scratching and attaching them in a
flower shape to create either plates or bowls. They can add texture/details as desired.

11. 5. Windchimes…haven’t done this…would need to tweak directions to make sure they
worked….
Campers will roll out a slab and create a 4-5” top piece for their wind chime, poking holes for
the holder and also for several hanging pieces (?5 per kid?). Each camper will then create 5
3-4” pieces to hang down from their wind chime. For instance – 5 fish, or 5 fancy hearts, or
sports balls…
Group ideas
1. Passports
We can either create “books” out of cardstock and paper stapled together, or we can
purchase small cheap spiral notebooks from Rhode Island Novelty or the like. Campers
would decorate the front and would create a self portrait. We can place a stamp or sticker in
their book representing the places they “visit” through art. It might be nice at the end of the
summer to have a write up on the art that we created and how it relates to different locales.
We should have extra books on hand for those campers who make a different choice on day
1…or have not yet arrived at camp. We can keep a box of passports for each group on their
shelves with their work so counselors don’t need to worry about bringing or losing passports.
Counselors would need to help us distribute passports at the end of campers’ experiences.
We can also scrap this idea…
2. & 3. China cloisonné 2 day?
Day 1…Campers create a drawing on white cardstock with pencil and simple lines. Then they
cover the outlines with school glue mixed with metallic gold paint. (Dispense from small
bottles.) Campers who only choose this step will have cool raised metallic gold drawings.
Day 2…Campers paint their cloisonné with liquid water color or tube water color (something
with intense color). Campers who missed day 1 can create a drawing with gold metallic
sharpie to get a similar, albeit flat, effect.

12. 4. Japan Sumi-E Ink Paintings
Campers are given a piece of water color paper and they write their names in small letters in
red sharpie. They can embellish a little if they want.
Then they paint with either black liquid water color or ink that has been watered down to
various shades of gray and black. If the campers are more advanced or have more time, we
could potentially have them create a pen or sharpie drawing as an initial step, or as a final
embellishment.
5. India- Bhindi gloves "henna" on vinyl gloves with Sharpie – brown
Each camper puts a latex free glove on their non-dominant hand. They decorate intricate
designs all over their glove. Details are encouraged!
6. Russia – Faberge Eggs
Campers are given stencils to trace and cut out an egg on a piece of construction paper.
They could be given a second stencil to create a “cut out” on the egg showing the inside.
They use oil pastels to create elaborate designs on their eggs. We might also provide
metallic sharpie markers, plus glitter glue and rhinestones and sequins.
7. Russia – Matroyshka Dolls
Each camper starts with a small stencil of a doll which they trace and cut out of a piece of
paper. They decorate that doll, then trace a slightly larger version of the original doll on
another piece of paper. They decorate that doll, then trace and cut a larger one. Campers
can create as many dolls as they wish. We can glue them to a large piece of construction
paper in order.
8. France water color resist or thumb print Monets
We can have campers draw water lilies or haystacks or foot bridges with crayon, then go over
with a water color wash.
We could also give campers plates of acrylic paint colors from a Monet, and have them

13. thumb print an entire painting. (Obviously the paper would need to be manageably small…)
9. Greece. - blue “evil eye” jewelry
Panda Hall.com Transparent Acrylic Beads, Round, Blue, Frosted, about 10mm in diameter,
hole: 2mm, about 880pcs/500g (PL705-2) $5.85
(There is also a 12mm bead if you feel that would be more user friendly for our campers…)
Sharpie white paint pen
Sharpie fine point black marker
Each camper gets several blue beads which they convert into “evil eyes” by coloring a white dot
with a small black dot in the center. They bead a necklace with pony beads and their “evil eyes”
beads. Campers can add one, or several “evil eyes” beads to their jewelry.
10. Africa kente paper weaving
Each camper chooses a piece of construction paper in typical kente cloth colors (orange, red,
brown, green, yellow…).
We give them a stencil to mark where they will be making slits for weaving.
They color a pattern of stripes with oil pastels or some other medium that shows up brightly
on construction paper.
They cut slits in this paper as shown by the stencil.
They have strips of paper in several kente cloth colors to use for weaving. They can color
patterns of stripes on these too…or we can have a variety of thick and thin strips of paper
pre-cut.
Once the weaving is complete, we secure with glue sticks.
11. Africa – cardboard masks
Campers are given pieces of cardboard boxes and shown how the outside is smooth, but the
inside has a different texture. They use these different texture to create face masks,
embellishing facial features, hair, etc.
12. South America – Equador/Guatemala – Molas
Campers cut out shapes out of construction paper, then trace a slightly larger version of

14. those shapes on a different color. When they have several layers they glue their shapes to a
base piece of paper. We can provide black markers and white pencils to add smaller details.
13. South America – Brazil – carnivale masks
We give campers a base stencil of a carnivale mask. We give them markers, then finally,
feathers, sequins, rhinestones and ribbons to make them crazy fancy!
14. North America/USA tin type
We give each camper a small piece of embossing metal, a small piece of paper to create their
design, a piece of cardboard to protect the table, and a nail. Campers use a pencil to create
a simple design, then tape that design on top of the metal, which is in turn taped onto the
cardboard. Carefully using the nail, campers poke a dot to dot pattern according to their
design. When finished, we could:
Tape the metal into a cylinder and give campers a battery operated tea light to make their tin
type lamp glow
Or:
Mount their tin type on a piece of construction paper for a different card cover…
15. North America/USA Scrimshaw white/cream over black scratch art
16. North America/USA USA: Quilt making... W/ patterned paper
Campers use origami paper or old wall paper books to create repeating patterns similar to a
quilt, gluing the paper to a base with glue sticks.
17. North America/USA Hawaii leis w/ flowers, straws, ? Beads?
Campers can cut out construction paper flowers either free-hand or using a paper punch
such as the one below.
Amazon: EK Tools Paper Punch $11.99
by EK Tools
• Perfect for card making, scrapbooking and any paper craft
• Features a blooming petunia
• Punch locks for compact stacking and storage
Punched shape approximately 2.25-Inch diameter
They string the flowers onto gimp along with 1” straws and pony beads.

15. 18. North America/USA picture of Southwest clay pots
Campers use a black crayon to draw a picture of one or many clay vessels, focusing on
adding lots of design elements. When they are done, they color in the clay pots with the
various ethnic brown markers. If time permits, they could color the background in other
colors or designs to contrast with the “clay vessels”.
19. Mexico - Dia Del Muertos ( Day of the Dead) fimo or 2 dimensional skulls elaborately
decorated.
Campers will be given skull shaped stencils to trace and cut out 2 skull shapes from flexible
white paper (such as butcher block). They will elaborately decorate at least one skull. We will
staple around the edge and they will fill their skull with crumpled paper. Then we will finish
stapling the skull closed.
20. Mexico – bark paintings
Campers will create a picture with black sharpie on brown table covering paper. They will
then crumple and uncrumple the paper many times. Finally, they will use neon paints (some
with white added to make them more opaque) to fill in color.
It is assumed that the following supplies will be department staples:
acryllic paint
glossy modpodge (regular)
paint brushes
brayers
printing ink
linoleum cutters and blades
bench hooks
quick dry tacky glue
glue dots – all sizes and shapes
staplers and staples
assorted papers
embroidery floss
blunt tapestry needles
Batting
Beads (assorted sizes and shapes)
Small and large feathers
Glitter glue
armature wire
non bleed tissue paper
1/4 wide dowels 6-12" or so
white school glue
liquid water color
black sharpies

16. model magic
E6000 epoxy
White card stock
Exacto knives and blades
Plaster strips
?Does wood shop have a small hand drill we can borrow?
I believe we have a small hand saw in the department
Would love a large assortment if Ruban ribbons - 1/8" - 1/4" in multiple colors and metallics.
Can't have enough as staple supply!
I believe all of our pony beads disappeared last year. It would be nice to replenish with assorted
opaque mix and assorted translucent mix. They're a great department staple.