Conference moira::parenting

    I can correct slightly the first line of that song, and I remembered a
    verse:
    
    Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda
    Here I am at Camp Granada
    All my friends <>
    <> have some fun if it stops raining
    
    (chorus) Take me home!  Oh Mudda, Fadda
    	     Take me home!  I hate Granada
    	     Don't leave me out in the forest where
    	     I might get eaten by a bear
    
    
    (Now you have it running through my head!  Thanks a LOT!! :-)
    Leslie

See BACK40::SOAPBOX note 105.358.

    
    Last year at Cub Scout Day Camp, my son came home with a
    beautiful dream catcher.  The boys ranged in age from 6 to
    11 and they all did a good job.
    
    I have since made several dream catchers and they average
    about $2 a piece when I buy materials in bulk.  
    
    Equipment
    Brass ring
    Leather strands (buy on a roll)
    sinew (comes in a roll)
    feathers (a friend gave me a whole wing from a turkey)
    beads
    
    The first one I made from a kit to learn the basics and went from
    there.
    
    Pam

    A good craft store and/or book store will have lots of books, geared to
    various ages, for your friend to use as resources.
    

    check out the crafts conference
    
    KISMIF::CRAFTS

    When I was in college years ago, I was the nature camps counselor at a
    day camp.  Aside from the usual nature walks, we did a few things that
    the kids really seemed to enjoy.
    
    1.  Get a huge box of sand, and let the kids "sculp" the
    design for a candle, e.g., 4 legs, a round hole, etc.  Kids then have
    to tie a wick around a small branch, and dangle it into the hole.
    
    Counselor then melts the wax (of course, we did this over a campfire),
    and pours it into the kids holes.  It hardens, and the kids pull them
    out of the holes and have candles with sand around the outside. Kids
    loved it, parents hated us because they'd get sand in their car on the
    ride home.
    
    2.  Paper machee around balloons?  Cheap, messy, kids love it, can
    paint it when they're finished.
    
    3.  what would camp be without macramee?  Even better, gymp!
    
    

    a way around the sand-in-the-car problem is to line the forms with
    aluminum foil.
    
    If a "sand-on" candle is really desired [I like them better] have a
    separate vat of wax there to dip the finished products. This seals the
    sand in [mostly]
    
    
    Another idea is Sun Prints. There is a solution available that turns
    blue when exposed to sunlight. It works well on fabric as well as
    paper. Buy a large white handkerchiefs and dip them in the solution.
    Have the kids arrange stuff on them [twigs, feathers, keys, ferns,
    leaves, whaever] and expose to sunlight to devlop. And you have custom
    "bandanas." It's easy enough for the youngest children and the designs
    that kids make can be very complex as well.
    
      Annie

    My kids do lots of tie-dying at camp as well. Just have the kids bring
    in a washed T-shirt/sweat shirt,etc., then let them do the tieing of the 
    fabric [twist-ties, rubber bands, string]. I think the counselors do the 
    actual dipping [not sure if the 11+ kids do their own or not].  There
    are lots of books in libraries that tell how to do this.
    
    One of these daze I'll even think far enuf ahead to get t-shirts in my
    size -- the kids have so many tie-died shirts already.
    
    sandy

Clay and simple potterty are another thing that kids love.  For the youngest,
they can make bowls, etc.  For the older ones, let them use their imagination.
After it dries you can even get various color glazes to put on them.

Irene