Next week, we are excited to host an Enchanted Forest Summer Camp for elementary age students. If you can’t participate, try making these crafts at home, and keep your eyes peeled for our art camps in 2025 (with half and full day options). I hope you enjoy this free resource for kids and adults!
MONDAY: Setting the Scene with Leather, Yarn, and Leaves
- Leather Forest Collage (25 min) Materials: leather scraps, mattboard, scissors, glue
- Yarn Wrapped Pinecones (25 min) Materials: pinecones and yarn
- Maple Leaf Wall Art (45 min) Materials: leaves, dowel, twine, needle and thread
TUESDAY: Forest Creatures with Clothespins, Straws, and Fabric
- Clothespin Creatures (25 min), Materials: clothespins, paint, brushes, googly eyes, feathers, pom poms, yarn, scissors
- Colorful Straw Dancers (25 min), Materials:Straws, Pipe cleaners, scissors, small ball of air dry clay
- Fabric Scrap Forest Bag–to store creatures (45 min), Materials: canvas bag, fabric scraps, 1 fabric fusion glue per kid; optional: needle, thread, yarn (option to do 2 bags)
WEDNESDAY: Forest Dwellings with Wood, Paper, and Glass
- Mini Wood Homes (25 min) Materials: popsicle sticks, wood stick stirrers, glue
- Mushroom Corner Bookmarks (25 min), Materials: origami paper, scissors, white paint (for dots)-kids can do multiple with different colors
- pressed flower mini lantern and flower sun-catchers (50 min) Materials: baby food jar, pressed flowers (7 pieces per kid), mod podge, paint, paint brush, tea light, self laminating paper (kids paint lid any color they want)
THURSDAY: Fairy Land
- Twig and Yarn Decorations (25 min), Materials: 3 twigs per kid, string or twine, yarn
- Straw Weaving (25 min), Materials: Straw, yarn, tape, scissors, beads
- fairy garden (45 min) Materials: cardboard base, assorted fairy garden pieces (8 per kid), glass beads, wood door, paint, brushes, plastic flower pot (glue door to one side), fake grass square, mini fencing (14 inches/kid)
FRIDAY: Trees and Birds
- Paper Quilled Tree (30 min) Materials: painting paper, pens, pencils, paint, brushes, paper, wood dowels
- Tree Sculpture (45 min) Materials: Wire, Pipe Cleaners, Beads, Fabric, Clay Base, etc.
- Paper Bowl BirdFeeder (45 min) Materials: paper bowl, paint, brushes, birdseed, string, hole punch, fruit loops