programs
2009
ART PARTY CAMP May 18-22 (sign up for the week or for one or more days) • ages 2-7 with their parents • cost $175; 2nd child $150; per day cost $40/child/day
Camp Hours: 9am - 2pm
Early Bird discount when your payment and forms are received before
May 1:
$25/child/week; $5/child/day.
Annual Registration Fee waived for all Art Party campers
This fabulous Spring day camp for the youngest campers and their parents
(or other special adult) will involve partying with art all week long! Louise
will be setting out a spectacular array of visual art explorations each day
and will be joined by creative movement, nature explorers, and music artists
for an all around fun time. In Louise's art class come ready to finger paint;
mix together colorful slime; play in shaving cream; draw with pastels, colored
chalk, and other medium; learn to embroider on burlap or sew your own stuffed
animal; make your own toys, and so much more! When you meet our guest artists
bring your voices and bodies to the tumbling, dancing, singing chorus of
activity! Much of the day will be for adults and children to share in creating
together. Each afternoon we will offer an hour long workshop with our guest
artists that will be specifically for the creative exploration and rejuvenation
of the adults while other artists and camp counselors work with the children.
Singing Games provide a lively morning circle and our day ends with a closing
circle and story told by Louise. Schedule of Guest Artists will be finalized
soon!
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WINTER OUTDOOR EXPLORERS: A NATURE AND OUTDOOR SKILLS PROGRAM
for ages 3-13 •
Tuesdays,
January 27- March 3
Ages 3-5, Tuesdays 10 am to Noon, WITH PARENTS
NOTE: we will accept 6 year old siblings to the morning only program if you prefer.
Ages 6-13, Tuesdays, 10 am to 3 pm (parents welcome to stay or go)
Lead Teachers: Louise Omoto Kessel, Gumby Montgomery and one more SUPER teacher yet to be confirmed!
Program Director: Louise Omoto Kessel
Dates: Tuesdays, January 27- March 3; With an additional “make up day” reserved on the calendar for March 10.
Cost: $160 for full day program for ages 6-13; $70 for morning only program
for ages 3-5
$10 discount for our returning Outdoor Explorers!
Outdoor Explorers Program for ages 6-13
We will explore the outdoors for the better part of a WHOLE DAY in nature! Our explorations will include walks through the woods, canoeing on the pond, games to open our senses to observation and the wonders of nature, basic outdoor safety information, an introduction to animal and plant life at our farm, skills in using field guides and other identification tools, map making and trail making, tracking, “still hunting” or sit spots, nature art and nature stories! We’ll also be open to spontaneous events like jumping in leaves, fashioning boats to float on puddles, and running about for the fun of it.
Winter is a great time to be outside! NO TICKS to worry about! And in our part of the world, it’s seldom that the weather is so inclement as to be truly uncomfortable. (But to be on the safe side we’ve scheduled in a make up day in case we need to cancel a program because of weather.)
Our day will start with cooperative games and a morning circle, then settle quickly into a morning class with one of our Lead Teachers. Louise will be working with children ages 3-5, Gumby and an additional world class teacher still to be confirmed! will be working with ages 6-8 and 9-12 for morning classes. Lunch will be followed by a nature oriented “Anything Goes” (our Clapping Hands Farm style “elective” classes). During Anything Goes directors, lead teachers, counselors and children can all lead classes and activities. YOU get to choose which activity you do and which teachers you work with. Some time with your “Buddy Group” will follow Anything Goes and will include “check in” and a farm chore, and then we’ll wrap up the day with a closing circle and a story!
Outdoor Explorer Program for ages 3-5
This program for our youngest nature lovers AND THEIR PARENTS will run from 10 a.m. till NOON. Louise Omoto Kessel will be leading this special program for parents and children together. Parents will engage in activities with their children, creating a wonderful shared experience in nature! We'll explore everything from trees to poop, feathers to dirt! Activities will include hikes, finding a "secret special place", canoeing, and bear hunts! After the morning class preschool explorers and their parents are welcome to join the group for lunch.
Staff
Gumby Montgomery is a stellar naturalist, a great storyteller, and seasoned super teacher with plenty of “kid appeal!” He has worked with The Haw River Festival which travels the length of the Haw River each Spring, with School House of Wonder- an environmental education program based in Durham and with an educational program sponsored by Piedmont Wildlife Refuge. Gumby has graduated from many nature and wilderness survival courses including: Earth School, Wilderness Awareness School, Earthheart and Tom Brown’s Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival School.
Louise Omoto Kessel is the program director at Clapping Hands Farm, the founder of the Haw River Festival, and has worked as a naturalist for the NC State Parks System at Merchants Mill Pond State Park, with the Nature Conservancy on Damariscove Island in Maine, and lived for three years on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater working with their environmental education program on the Hudson River. She is also a professional storyteller and printmaker, an art teacher, and home schooling Mom to Jabu age 7 and Makayla age 4.