New Classes for a New Year

Happy '15 to all you year-round Summer Camp folks!

For those of you who have already signed up for Summer Camp, or those of you looking to sign up soon during our Early Bird Registration (which extends from now until March 15th), you may notice a few brand-new options when choosing Camp classes.

Every so often we try to spice up our course areas with by adding some never-before-seen classes, and we've thrown in a slew of flavor for 2015 with new courses across the board in Environmental Education, Arts and Crafts, Waterfront, and even one out by itself in no-man's land. (Sorry, Shooting Sports. Nothing new for you this year. How about we just throw in some new and interesting archery target games. How's that?)

So for the first edition of "New Classes for a New Year", meet our expanded Arts and Crafts selections:

This is the Craft Shop. It is not new. It's actually kind of super old.

Repurposed Art: 

Why throw it out when you can turn it into art? Our new Repurposed Art class will ask this question of recyclables, pieces of supposed trash, and all sorts of other disposable ever day items. A a variety of projects will show off the potential all mundane or forgettable objects hold inside of them.

This is not Repurposed Art. This is clay. We haven't done Repurposed Art yet. Because it's new. Hence the whole reason for this post.

Junkyard Band
The maintenance shop, kitchen, and other forgotten corners of camp have been raided and what we have is a pile of…junk. This class will take that pile of junk and transform it into a variety of musical instruments, and then those instruments will be turned into a functioning band. The class will teach different kinds of basic, simple instruments, and each camper will get to select and construct one of their own. The campers will then all come together, and find how their new junkyard instruments complement each other as the class plans, composes and practices a couple junkyard songs. They’ll then perform these tunes for the camp as the house band at our closing campfire.

I want to be clear: I am not implying that these are Junkyard instruments. There are real instruments. Since Junkyard Band has yet to exist, we just don't have any pictures of it and this is as close as we could get. So Real Instruments, please don't take offense and feel like I've called you a junkyard instrument. Except that rubbermaid container in the right hand corner. That could be the beginning of a junkyard instrument.

Stop by again soon (y'know, as in stopping by here on the internet) to see what new classes some of the other course areas have to offer!