Monday, July 5, 2010

ENC Nature Camp: Habitat Helpers


Katie & Nick at Naturama.

Re-used insect!

David distributing popcorn.

Leslie showing campers how to make furoshiki during Naturama.


Tie die!


making paper beads out of recycled magazines.

Show & tell in the Green & Blue group.

Meghan brought chocolate from Belgium for the pot luck!




















Campers from every group worked together to make this neat recycled art project! Thank you to those of you who brought in your "trash"!

The Peace Sign artist, Julie from My Recycled Art helps the campers place their objects. Mini versions of Julie's projects are available in our gift shop!

Alanna earned her Gold Award from Girl Scouts by developing and presenting "Green on a Shoestring" to all of our campers this session. Campers learned inexpensive ways to be more friendly to the Earth.

Alanna encouraging everyone to use re-usable shopping bags.

Sama tells a story, incorporating music.

Tie dye hands!

Turgundy tie died old clothes - a good example of "re-use"!



Alanna encouraging everyone to use re-usable water bottles.

Alanna encouraging everyone to use re-usable lunch boxes.










Looks like a game of Cougarland is about to begin!

Turgundy are SO photogenic!

Yellow & Orange learn how seeds travel.

Toad races!



Learning about toads.





Learning about snakes.

Meghan shows campers our California King Snake.


Sama shows campers one of our gopher snakes.



Turgundy cleans up an oil spill!
















Practicing with our sense of smell.



Learning butterfly anatomy.























Meghan helps a camper design a bag to collect the things he makes throughout the session.


Sama helps a camper design a pot to grow a native plant.





Don't startle the creatures!


Nick reads to the Yellow & Orange group.



Leslie and David with the Turgundy Group.


Hmmm...


Going for a hike with the Yellow/Orange Group.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a great start, our kids are small but really good campers, aleready have them singing songs. N & K , orange/yellow group...

MyRecycledArt said...

Wow, The kids look like they had a lot of fun!!!