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Find an old book that you have permission to transform into a new piece of art. Tear out the pages or keep them inside the book and transform the whole book into a piece of art you can flip through.

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Be inspired by this bubble painting technique!

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Bubble Painting Technique | Basic Easy Fun Art

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Use some clay, aluminum foil, and paint to make an intaglio print. Don't forget to practice if you don't get it quite right the first time!

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Here you can find tutorials for a variety of origami patterns. If you don't have a square paper don't forget you can fold a rectangle into a square.

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Easy Origami for Beginners Easy Origami for Kids #origamieasy

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Collect some sticks and natural materials from your yard to create a nature weaving.

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Welcome campers and parents! My girls and I are thrilled to have you visit us during "Let's Go Camping" week of Summer Fun Camp 2013. I was a Girl Scout through my entire childhood and Miss Juju became a Daisy scout this past year, which makes traditional camping crafts a favorite around our house. Today we are going to share a fun nature weaving craft and a classic camping activity with a twist. Let's get started on the nature loom!

To begin, collect sticks for your loom. 1/4 to 3/4 inch diameter sticks will work well for this craft. The length will depend on the size and shape of the loom you plan to make.

Lash the sticks together with yarn to create the base of your loom. Pull tight as you wrap the yarn in a criss-cross fashion around the two sticks, then tie it off at the back. Make the loom any size or shape you want.... you can make a rectangle or maybe a triangle.... you can get really crazy and make a trapezoid or even a hexagon! Tie a piece of yarn around one of the corners and begin wrapping it around the loom. Wrapping it around the stick twice will help keep the yarn taught and prevent it from sliding on the sticks. Tie the yarn off on one of the corners when you reach the other side of the loom. Get creative with your loom. Use colorful yarn or ribbon, string beads along the yarn as you wrap it, or paint the sticks with a fun design! Time to decorate your loom! Go on a nature walk in your backyard, neighborhood, or the park. Collect interesting grasses, flowers, leaves, seed pods, nuts, and pieces of bark that you find on the ground. If you are lucky, you may even find a feather. Just make sure you have permission before taking anything from another person's yard or the park. Weave your treasures through the strings of the loom. You can make a pattern or go will-nilly, it's up to you. All done! These nature looms look especially pretty when displayed in a window. And you can redecorate them anytime you please.... imagine how beautiful they will look weaved with colorful autumn leaves. On to today's activity.....

No campout is complete until you roast marshmallows over the fire and enjoy some of those ooey-gooey yummy s'mores. But most likely your parents are not going to let you build a campfire in the backyard. So what's the next best thing? Make those s'mores using the power of the sun!

Find a cardboard box that opens from one of its smaller sides. A large cereal box is a great size and shape. You also need aluminum foil, saran wrap, black duct tape, a piece of black construction paper, and scissors. And of course, marshmallows, graham crackers and chocolate. Create a reflector by laying the box on one of it's largest sides and cutting a flap. Make three cuts, approximately 1 inch from the edge of the box, as shown in the photos below. Wrap the inside of the reflector flap with aluminum foil and use a few pieces of tape to secure it on the back.

What's the reflector for? It aims the sunlight into the cooker when the sun is not directly overhead. By angling the flap just right, sunlight reflects off the aluminium foil and onto the food.

Cover the opening you just cut with saran wrap and secure it with tape. It helps to tape down one of the sides first, stretch the saran wrap tightly across the opening and then tape it on the other side.

What does the saran wrap do? The clear film allows sunlight to pass through the opening, but traps the heat inside, similar to a greenhouse.

Now cover the entire box with black duct tape.

Why do we use black duct tape? First of all, the duct tape gives an additional layer of insulation that prevents heat from escaping the box. Secondly, a black surface is very effective at turning light into heat because it absorbs more light than other colors. If you ever sat on a black swing on a sunny day, then you've definitely experienced this. Oh boy do those things get hot!

Line the bottom of the cooker with a piece of black construction paper (remember black = more heat). Slide in your s'more and place the cooker on a flat surface in a sunny location. Adjust the reflector to get the most sunlight hitting your s'more. If the reflector won't stay in place, try propping it up with a stick from your yard. Cooking time will depend on outdoor temperature, cloud cover, and the sun's position in the sky. We made our s'mores on a clear, 80 °F day with the sun directly overhead. It only took 10 minutes to melt the chocolate and soften the marshmallow. The temperature inside the cooker was about 100 °F when we pulled the s'mores out! {I goofed a little when we made our s'mores... bonus points to the camper who can tell me what I should have done differently!} Time to eat! Careful, your s'more may be very hot and we don't want any campers to burn their mouths. Mmmmmm, delicious!

Thank you for stopping by today! We hope you had fun and would love to see photos of your nature looms and messy s'more faces on the Summer Fun Camp facebook page.

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Nature Weaving Craft and Solar Oven S'mores - Craftiments.com

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Welcome campers and parents! My girls and I are thrilled to have you visit us during "Let's Go Camping" week of Summer Fun Camp 2013. I was a Girl Scout through my entire childhood and Miss Juju became a Daisy scout this past year, which makes traditional camping crafts a favorite around our house.

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Done with your Lucky Charms box? What can you make out of it!

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Check out this video from AB art educator Heidi Kupferman.

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Ask a family member for help because this does require using a stove.

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3 ingredient Modeling clay adapted by That Art Teacher.

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Found Object Sculpture Artist Bernard Williams

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Found Object Sculpture Artist Bernard Williams

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If you don't have the same materials they use at the end of the video try some play dough or modeling clay as the base of your found object sculpture.

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Found Object Sculpture Artist Bernard Williams

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Ask a family member for permission and help using a hand blender. A regular blender would work as well!

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How to make Paper Clay - Newspaper or Shredded Paper - Craft Basics

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Painting For Kids: Fun Yarn Art Painting!

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The idea

Want to make some marbled paper?

We'll show you how to use shaving foam and ink or paint to create swirly patterns and prints!

You can use paper to print onto, or even your hands!

Inspiration

German artist Gerhard Richter is well-known for his abstract works. In these paintings, he scraped paint across the canvas. Underneath this top layer of paint, Richter sometimes paints a detailed composition, which sometimes peeks through.

In this activity we will scrape the foam off the paper to reveal our artwork!

Let's get started

You will need:

Shaving foam

A baking tray or dish

Cocktail sticks or wooden skewers

Washable inks, paint, or food dye

White paper

A spatula

A plastic ruler

Your marbled paper!

Use your hands!

Things to do with your marbled paper

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Make Marbled Paper with Foam - Paint and Draw | Tate Kids

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Want to make some marbled paper? We'll show you how to use shaving foam and ink or paint to create swirly patterns and prints! You can use paper to print onto, or even your hands! German artist Gerhard Richter is well-known for his abstract works. In these paintings, he scraped paint across the canvas.

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Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar - children's book - Waterstone's

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Go on a scavenger hunt to explore TEXTURE, one of our elements of art!

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This week, we invite the At Home Art Studio community to join us on texture and shape scavenger hunts within our homes! We had lots of fun looking for shapes and textures, and encountered surprises along the way. By recording what we found with paper and available drawing tools such as pens, pencils, or crayons, we started noticing interesting patterns. These textures can also lead to lots of other projects, from doodle games to a collage paper collection. Below are the results of our team's shape and texture scavenger hunts.
Texture Scavenger Hunt:
When facilitating programs at The Carle, we often talk about texture and how everything has a different feel to it like soft yarn, bumpy corrugated cardboard, and scratchy twine. There are so many things around your home that have unique textures! With adult supervision, take a trip around your home and see how many different types you can find. You might find that once you start to look, everyday objects provide all sorts of textured options!

Once you find these textures, try transferring them to paper using a technique called texture rubbings.

Using the side of a crayon and notebook paper, Sara placed the paper over an object, then ran the crayon across the paper to reveal a texture underneath. (Supervising adults can help by holding down the objects and/or paper while the artist rubs the crayon across the paper.)

Ryan didn't have to go far to find some interesting textures in his home. This first image came from the living room wall! The second came from a cooling tray he found in the kitchen.

Siobhán has a lot of plants in her house so she used the pots for several of the patterns. She also used the bricks on her fireplace and a candle lid. She didn't have crayons so she used colored pencils which meant that she had to be more careful to get an even texture and not poke through the paper.

Megan look around for interesting textures, and decided to experiment with layering multiple colors with the same texture. She made textures (seen left to right above) from a wooden table top pattern, a textured coaster rotated in different directions, and the same wall using different colors.

Janet used a variety of wicker baskets to create textures.

Sara decided to make densely textured papers by layering colors within the same color family (warm, cool, and neutral) together. She plans on using these papers for future collage projects and perhaps to wrap a book cover.
Shape Scavenger Hunt:
Another At Home Art Studio scavenger hunt you can try is to look for shapes around your home. In the Art Studio, we like to explore how different shapes can be combined to create patterns or become a collage creature. Just like in the texture scavenger hunt, you can take a trip around your home and find shapes to trace or freehand draw onto your paper.

Meg made a paper where she traced and colored in as many different shapes as she could find in one room. Some of the objects were easier to trace than others, the rubber band was most difficult!

Meg then decided to look for square and rectangular objects. She traced them over and over again with ball point pens and colored pencils onto part of a paper bag and a piece of notebook paper. She found the patterns and additional shapes created by this process really interesting.

Megan also experimented with tracing different shapes of objects, and decided to use one color for each shape. Blue for circles, purple for triangles, and magenta for rectangles.

Meg repeated the process with circles, this time trying it on a page from a magazine. The circles she found and traced included jar lids, coins, and rolls of tape.
More Ideas to Explore:
The shapes and textures we found, and the colorful papers we created, continue to inspire us. Here are some ideas we were interested to try:

Use a shape or texture you find as the start of a drawing. What can you turn that shape into? What could that texture become? If you have others in your household with you, turn this a collaborative doodle game! Draw or trace a shape/texture onto a paper, then challenge someone to transform it into something else using drawing tools.

Turn the papers into a card to send to someone. After Siobhán collected a few textures, she took the ones she liked and folded them into notes for friends.

Add these textured, patterned papers to your At Home Art Studio collage collection to use in future projects! We have been very inspired to add our papers to our growing collection of collage papers, just as we do in the museum Art Studio.

We look forward to seeing the results of your texture and shape scavenger hunts! Share your images and videos by tagging @carlemuseum on social media, and stay tuned for next week's art exploration!

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This week, we invite the At Home Art Studio community to join us on texture and shape scavenger hunts within our homes! We had lots of fun looking for shapes and textures, and encountered surprises along the way. By recording what we found with paper and available drawing tools such as pens, pencils, or crayons, we started noticing interesting patterns.

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Watch a live cam of your favorite animal at the San Diego Zoo. Take the time to observe the animal in their habitat. Be inspired by what you see and create a drawing, painting for collage!

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Check out Chrome Music Lab's Kandinsky lab. It's inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, an artist who compared painting to making music.

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Music is for everyone. Play with simple experiments that let anyone, of any age, explore how music works.

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3 ingredient Modeling clay adapted by That Art Teacher.

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This was so much fun! See if the robot can guess your drawing! Check out the 50 million drawings.

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This is a game built with machine learning. You draw, and a neural network tries to guess what you're drawing. Of course, it doesn't always work. But the more you play with it, the more it will learn. So far we have trained it on a few hundred concepts, and we hope to add more over time. We made this as an example of how you can use machine learning in fun ways. Watch the video below to learn about how it works, and

Built by Jonas Jongejan, Henry Rowley, Takashi Kawashima, Jongmin Kim, Nick Fox-Gieg, with friends at Google Creative Lab and Data Arts Team.

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This is a game built with machine learning. You draw, and a neural network tries to guess what you're drawing. Of course, it doesn't always work. But the more you play with it, the more it will learn. So far we have trained it on a few hundred concepts, and we hope to add more over time.

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Homes with maker kids are guaranteed to have a bin filled with cardboard tubes from paper towels and toilet paper rolls. You never know when you need them! Like today, for example. Our Maker Monday project is all about creating Cardboard Tube Houses.

Give kids the basic idea and tools and they will surprise you with the many ideas they come up with. Our session's final products included a castle, a birdhouse, a whimsical fairy home and even SpongeBob SquarePants' pineapple house under the sea.

We'd love to see photos of the houses your kids create, too.
Supplies:
Cardboard tubes

Construction paper, card stock and/or standard white paper

Glue, tape and/or glue stick

Scissors

Markers or crayons

Ruler

Cupcake papers (optional for a "roof")

Measure the height of the tube against the paper, mark the paper with a ruler and cut the paper. Roll the paper around the tube, mark off the size needed and trim to fit.

Lay the paper flat and begin to decorate according to your design idea. It is much easier to draw and paste details on a flat paper than to try to do it on the rounded tube surface. Once completed, wrap the paper around the tube and tape into place. Top with a cupcake paper roof or build your own. We made spikey pineapple leaves for SpongeBob's house and trimmed the birdhouse cupcake paper to resemble leafy palms.

Here's how we made the castle with a longer paper towel roll. It would be cool to add a pennant and maybe a princess waving from the top.
For more Maker Monday projects and other fun stuff for kids, visit the Kidsburgh Activities page.

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Check out this list of ideas when you are stuck and not sure where to start.

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Share your in progress or completed pieces on Google Classroom each week!

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