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We are very excited to roll out some fun workshops, camp days and programs —ALL IN-PERSON— for adults and young people this winter and spring!
Below are detailed descriptions of each program, including fees and how to register.
HOMESCHOOL ART CAMP meets on Thursdays Fall-Winter-Spring and has a separate page and registration!
2024 covid protocols
Our in-person programs and workshops in 2024 will be mask and distance optional for most people. We will continue to actively support people who choose to mask and distance. We will run a survey for symptoms and exposures the weekend before each camp, and people who have tested positive or who have had known exposures will have guidelines they need to follow. Please read our COVID response page for all the details.
scholarships
We have a “no one turned away” scholarship policy at Clapping Hands Farm. We do not want money to be an obstacle to attending camp.
If you would like to contribute to our scholarship program, please see our donate page. There are also places on your camp registration form to let us know if you need a scholarship or if you want to make a donation.
ART PARTY series September 14, 28, October 12, 26. 10am-2pm. A special day of art, music, movement, connection, community and play! For children ages 2-8* with their parents or caregivers!
*Children under 2 are also welcome; children over 8 can sometimes come as a camper or a junior counselor– inquire!
NOTE: Space is limited for this program. Enrollment priority will be given to people who sign up for the whole 4 week series. Families NEW TO CLAPPING HANDS FARM must sign up for at least 2 days. We want to be able to get to know you!
Instructors: Louise Omoto Kessel, Zella Magoo plus our amazing array of fabulous counselors and junior counselors!
Dates: September 14, 28, October 12, 26
Time: 10am-2pm
Ages: 2-8* with a parent or caregiver.
Cost:
-SINGLE DAY $60 for one child and parents. Each additional child is $30/day. Babies and toddlers under 2 suggested donation $10/day. Families new to CHF must sign up for at least 2 days. (we want to be able to get to know you!)
-TWO DAYS $55/day for one child and parents for TWO days. Each additional child is $25/day. Babies and toddlers under 2, suggested donation $10/day.
–THREE DAYS $50/day for one child and parents for THREE days. Each additional child is $25/day. Babies and Toddlers under 2 suggested donation $10/day.
-FOUR DAYS (Whole Series!) $45/day for one child and parents for FOUR days. Each additional child is $20/day. Babies and Toddler under 2, suggested donation $10/day.
Full and Partial Scholarships available.
Art Party is a joyous family camp for parents and young children to enjoy together! Our Art Party staff loves to create big fun for families and considers children AND parents CAMPERS; our goal is to create a very special day for BOTH of you. Each day the Clapping Hands team sets out a spectacular array of visual art explorations, shares music and dance experiences, and brings their enthusiastic, big hearted, playful selves to the camp day.
At our ART PARTY, come ready to: finger paint; make colorful slime; play in shaving cream; draw with pastels, colored chalk, and other mediums; learn to embroider on burlap or sew your own stuffed animal; make toys that fly and spin; and so much more! After our Art Party morning, we’ll enjoy lunch together (bring a picnic lunch for your family.) After lunch our staff will lead a sing-a-long or movement exploration. During “anything goes” in the afternoon we might build with a collection of 100 boxes, play games, or do more art. Singing games provide a lively morning circle and our day ends with a closing circle and a story told by Louise. It’s a good time for everyone! Picture doing a dozen fun things with your child/ren with out having to set it up or clean it up!
(NOTE: During our summer art party camp we offer parent workshop each afternoon while counselors have fun with kids. We’re not promising a parent workshop for the Fall Art Party, I’m not sure we will have enough staff to pull that off!)
If you have a child/ren who are OLDER than 8, and want them to come to Art Party camp too, please contact us. They may be able to come as a camper, or they can apply to be a Junior Counselor.
Have a YOUNGER sibling that’s not two yet? They are welcome to come too! See details on our registration page.
natural healing retreat with Angela Davis. monday november 11, 2024
Dates: Monday November 11, 2024
Time: 9am- 4:30pm
Ages: 18+ (teens with a special interest in this subject will be considered on a case by case basis)
New & Returning Campers: If you have taken workshops with Angela before, we are planning new topics and activities, Come Again! If you are new, Welcome!
Fee: $70 ($10 discount if you register before Oct. 1) Hands on learning; materials included.
Full and partial scholarships available.
Our Natural Healing retreat day with Angela Davis is a gathering at Clapping Hands Farm to focus on self care! We will learn about all the things Angela herself gets excited about: herbs, home remedies, foraging, food for healing, and useful mental health supports. We will be boots on and hands on with our learning! We will make/learn about: tinctures and lotions; the benefits of fermented foods for health and probiotic beverages such as water kefir and kombucha (with scoby’s or water kefir grains for you to take home); begin a wellness journal; learn how to make and use castor oil compresses; plant id and foraging; a plant walk will be part of our day, weather permitting. If you’ve come to Angela’s workshops previously, we’re planning new activities and topics! Come again!
Angela’s approach is that of a self taught and dedicated life long learner. Her goal is to inspire your curiosity, and to invite you to pay attention to your body, do your own research, trust your common sense, develop your common knowledge, and feel empowered as a learner and a healer. Angela is passionate, warm, caring, and enthusiastic about these topics!
We hope joining a community of people who share these interests will provide a supportive and joyful context for deepening your relationship to your body and enhancing your personal wellness journey.
Angela Davis is a homeschooling mother to 5 children ages 10-24. She is a self taught enthusiast and life long learner in the realms of herbalism, home remedies, wild plants, gardening, and foods that support healing. She lives with her family on a homestead in Person County, NC. You can find more information about Angela and her interests on her Instagram: brown_country_girl
handmade holidays; a studio workshop for people who want to make their own gifts, toys, cards and wrapping paper!
Dates: November 3, 10, 24, December 1, 8, 15 with Dec 22 reserved as a weather make up day
Time: 1-5 pm
Ages: 15+ (younger campers with a special zeal for making or parent-child pairs will be considered on a case by case basis)
More details soon! There is a place on the FALL PROGRAMS REGISTRATION FORM for you to indicate interest and we will send you an email when this workshop is open for registration! Register for Fall Programs 2024
DESCRIPTION:
If you dream of creating handmade things for gifting and celebrating and want to craft for hours with the inspiration of other makers in a studio full of ideas and supplies . . . this workshop is for you!
If you always want to make lots of handmade gifts, cards, ornaments etc. and never start early enough! . . . this workshop is for you!
If you want to create for birthdays, kwanzaa, valentines day, galentines day, solstice, christmas, hanukkah, thanksgiving, friendsgiving, an anniversary, or really ANY cultural holiday or personal expression of appreciation for someone or something. . . This workshop is for you!
If you’ve always wanted to help your children make handmade gifts, and want more support around that. . . this workshop is for you!
Louise Omoto Kessel, the leader for this workshop, LOVES making stuff. She has spent decades making handmade gifts, cards, wrapping paper, and leading a toy making camp every summer. She is someone who loves learning a new thing, and has been following those whims for so long that she has now dabbled somewhat luxuriantly in . . . book making, crochet, sock toys, puppet making, printmaking, felting, game building, toy making, bead sewing, collage, sashiko embroidery, origami, and lots more!
Whether you want to make a very special gift for one special person or come up with a project that you can make lots of to spread the joy far and wide–- Louise has ideas for you! She will select projects and skills to teach and share from a big menu of options guided by your input. Each week Louise set up the studio to share some projects you have requested or she thinks you will enjoy. Our all afternoon studio sessions will allow time for both learning and production work.
If you have a project you want help with, Louise is happy to help you refine your ideas and manifest your ideas. Parents who want to encourage handmade gift making with their children will go home with lots of ideas.
