Creative campers returned to the Arts & Crafts Shack anxious to get started on new intricate friendship bracelets, to craft decor for their cabins, paint wood and canvas, bead up a storm, and create gifts and memorabilia to bring home. In the ceramics studio, campers jumped right into sculpting clay creatures, hand-building ceramic mugs, and making clay plaques.

We started Junior and Senior Camp intensives in Jewelry Making where campers are learning new techniques for working with embroidery as well as designing beaded earrings and necklaces. In the Ceramics intensive, senior campers are working on more complex clay projects and improving their skills on the potter’s wheel! Our first batch of ceramics pieces has come out of the kiln and campers are glazing their works.

Squires have been challenging themselves to make bracelets out of paracord. TPJs are making “bead pet” key chains. Tumblers are decoupaging tennis ball tubes to create colorful boxes. Jesters have been designing group pennants to hang in the cabins. Archers are crafting game pieces out of clay. Quills and Boys have been tying knots to string together elaborate friendship bracelets. Senior campers have been painting with watercolors and are involved in painting signs to take on the big basketball game this evening against our rivals West End. They are also working on projects for the 4th of July carnival.

We have a great staff this year including Erin in her 5th year at the Realm, India from Chicago, Isla from England, Maddie from Cleveland, and me. I’m thrilled to return for my fourth year as the Head of Arts & Crafts. I am looking forward to tie-dying projects next week and a new round of intensives including Drawing.

Sweet dreams from The Realm,

Dara