Eccentric Art

Welcome, Artists!

It has been an artsy week at DaVinci.

Monday: 3-Dimensional Art

In the morning, the campers chose what object or animal they would represent in a number of 3-Diminesiol art projects. Throughout the day, they created tinfoil, clay, and toilet paper roll sculptures.

Tinfoil Sculptures

Clay Sculptures

Tuesday: Ornamental Art

The students got to make lots of different types of jewelry (friendship bracelets, pins, necklaces...). Local artist Zoo Cain visited and taught the campers about abstract art. He also led them in a project.

Friendship Bracelets

Posing by Zoo's car

Creating masterpieces

Zoo Cain

Jewelry Making

Jewelry!!

Wednesday: Home Decor

Today, campers made an assortment of decorative crafts, including dreamcatchers, wind chimes, candles, and napkin rings.

Thursday: Craft Fair Preparation

The students finished up a few crafts from yesterday in the morning and then wrapped up the day prepping for Friday's craft fair.

Friday: Craft Fair

It was craft fair day!!!

The Junior tables (top) and Senior (bottom)

Even the counselors made crafts!

Shopping

Craft Booths

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Zoo Vet—Falmouth 2024

Monday On Monday, the campers got a chance to design their own zoos and use costumes and tools for Zoo Vet dramatic play. Tuesday Messes bring on the magic in our world. Campers made shaving cream zoo animal art and even got to view a National Geographic educational video on the Jungle. Wednesday Safari day!!! Campers got to meet Crocodile Kristen who took them on a jaunt around campus like never before, learning about Zoo animals as they went. Thursday Field trip day!!! We got to go to the Maine Wildlife Park and stop for ice cream on the way back. Stay tuned for pictures of some of the junior campers' very first bus ride! Friday The kids finished off a great week with a presentation by Sparks Ark with all his exotic and local animals. Juniors on the Bus Here are the sweet, sleepy zoologists on their (for some first ever) bus ride!

eARTh - Falmouth

Monday Today was all about learning how to be a resourceful artist. We learned that we can use household items around us to make different art mediums. Today we used eye shadow, Caribic powder, and a textile medium base to create shimmery eye shadow paint. Late on we learned that we can use our own body as art utensils in our group foot and finger painting project. We ended with the concept of using our body as the canvas, with some awesome face painting! Tuesday What a special treat today. The founder of DaVinci Experience, Judy Crosby, came in to do painting demos for the children and talk about earth pigments and homemade paints. Judy holds an art degree from the University of Southern Maine and loves to share her vast knowledge in painting with the children. Later on, the kids got to try their own hand in earth paint, collecting soils and items from the woods to make paints and paint brushes. We learned about why different soils are different colors and got creative with our ...

Dr. DaVinci Falmouth

Monday To start the week, the junior campers had a drawing brainstorming session of what they knew about doctors. Seniors campers spoke to their knowledge and made doctor bags/briefcases out of recycled materials. Both groups created body models with which they could incorporate various systems and organs including the brain and nervous system—which the "big kids" dove into further. = Tuesday For our doctors, the heart and circulatory system was the focus of Tuesday. They built their own stethoscopes and played heart rate game. This involved doing low intensity versus high intensity activities and then comparing their heart rates/pulses. Wednesday On Wednesday, campers learned about the lungs and the respiratory system. Both seniors and juniors created lung models (of different complexities). Then after talking about how the lungs fill up in a way similar to balloons, we held a balloon party—many campers were able to blow them up with their impressive lung capacities! Thurs...

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