Art Activities?

Question

I asked a question earlier on today on what activities I could carry out for children in my afterschool for their summer camp but I forgot to mention their age group they are aged between 4-12 year olds. I appreciate the answers I received earlier on, thank you

Answer 1

I think the second answer should be cornstarch instead of cornflower.  Equal parts of cornstarch and water.  I call it soupy goop and saw it on a sat. am science show.  It's a great Sunday School object lesson on being shaped in God's hands.

Answer 2

`finger painting

Answer 3

Cook spaghetti, let it cool, let the kids make designs with it on construction paper.  Cover it with waxed paper and a heavy book until it dries.  

Mix equal parts liquid starch(Sta flo is the only kind i've found, it comes in a blue plastic bottle in the laundry detergent isle) and white glue.  You can add tempera paint or food coloring to color it.  Give each kid a little ziploc to take some home.  *This sticks to carpets and clothes permanently if not removed quickly

Tye dye

Bake apples wrapped in aluminum foil over a camp fire.  let them cool before you let the little ones touch them.  

Ask for parents to share a favorite hobby.  Out of 8 kids in my daycamp group last summer, I had one parent who teaches creative movement and dance, a police dog trainer, and a cricket player who all wanted to come in.  

for the little ones, train them like pavlov to clean up at the sound of a fast paced song.  Last summer I used a punk sounding song called day camp by  Justin Roberts , two summers ago, I used Who Let The Dogs Out.  It really worked.  By the second week of camp, I never had to say the words clean up.  

Have fun :)

Answer 4

I think some fun activies are finger painting, and coloring book pages are fun for preschoolers.

Answer 5

Painting, finger painting, sculpting (with clay), drawing, bag puppetts. (with color markers, cotton balls, noddles, and yarn).

Answer 6

i work with kids aged 11-17 and so do lots of simple arty stuff wich they love-my fave is just giving them a white paper plate anmd telling them to express thereself with paints/crayons etc they look good too

Answer 7

www.hitentertainment.com/artattack/

I use it for my class - a great UK tv programme with a website that has step by step instructions and photos to show you each step of the way. A - Z of art and craft activities. Have fun!

Answer 8

by the summer the leaves will be back on the trees so you could make a big tree tree without the leaves, then get each child to do there own hand print in different greens write their names on them and let them stick them on the tree

Answer 9

painting , hide-and-go-seek, nap time,board games

Answer 10

when i worked at this school, they used to get cornflour and combined it with coloured water. it stays as liquid then when you pick it up and roll it in your hands it becomes solid, then if you leave it it melts on your hand again. have a play about with it yourself first, it sounds odd but the kids loved it.

Answer 11

With such a wide age range, I would work on finding fun and interesting materials for the children to explore with, rather than focusing on specific activities.  There is a wonderful book called, "Mudworks" by MaryAnn F. Kohl  that has hundreds of recipes like the ones mentioned in the previous answers- to make clay, paints and other substances.  I think that if you had a variety of materials and let the children create what they would like- you would be amazed at their creativity.  You could create mini-lessons on some different ways to use the materials or adding new tools or techniques.

Answer 12

Cornflour can be used for the second answer, i just think its and english thing that we use cornflour - works brilliantly!

Make playdoh with the kids - use the cooked variety or just get them to mix up flour and water into dough. They can choose their own colours and maybe smells to add.

Cooking - simply things such as toast pizzas, biscuits, salads, sandwiches etc -cooking doesnt have to involve a cooker.

Junk modelling - loads of boxes, tubes, paper, paint, crayons etc and let the kids go wild!

Cutting and sticking collage - get them to cut (safety comes first obviously) piccies out of magazines and stick them to pre-drawn pictures of objects/animals etc and make a large display from them.  

Dried pasta jewellry. String painting, balloon painting, feet prints, Glue spreader painting, bubble prints, roller prints,

Jeez......i could go on, but i think im boring everyone - soz.

Flower xx