Sailor's Life! A week at camp!!

We are loving camp and A Sailor's Life is one of my favorites! Here's what a week of camp at Scribble is like! Ages 4-7

Under the Sea Mural! The more color the better!!

Pirate Self Portraits!

Let's Make Giant Jellyfish!

Giant Jellyfish!

Materials:
Bristol
Pencil
Blue Acrylic Paint
Orange Acrylic Paint
White Acrylic Paint
Toilet Paper Tube
Brushes
Orange Construction Paper
White and Black Oil Pastels
Scrap paper
Scissors
Glue

Instructions:
Draw waterline towards the top of Bristol paper. Paint with blue paint, stamp circles for bubbles using toilet paper tube and white paint. Cut a piece of orange construction paper into fourths. Draw a rainbow shape on one of the fourths for the jellyfish body and cut out. Draw jellyfish face using white and black oil pastel. Glue down and add jellyfish tentacles with orange paint. Finish by cutting out tiny boat shape  and glue on top of water. The tiny boat uses scale to show the huge jellyfish!

Ahoy! Cardboard Boats with hand drawn sails!

Ever meet a Strongman Merman?!

Materials:
Bristol
Pencil
Sharpie
Oil Pastels
Green, Tan, Brown and Blue watered down acrylic paint

Instructions:
Draw Merman using simple shapes. Always start at the head and work your way down! Outline drawing in sharpie or black crayon. Color in shirt, pebbles, and seaweed with oil pastels. Paint merman with tan paint and his tail with green paint. Use the brown paint for sand and blue for the water background. Super easy and so cute!!

Bears on Parade!

I love the 4th of July! Fireworks, Cook-Outs, Parades, all of it! Here's a fun "Bears on Stilts" project that draws inspiration from the holiday. I did this project with my pre-k class but would work for older kids too!

Materials:

Bear Printout
Heavy Drawing Paper or Cardstock (cardstock can be found at any office supply store, it's a heavier weight than computer paper but reasonably inexpensive)
Bristol
Pencils
Black Sharpie (optional, helps hold onto drawing details)
Oil Pastels
Grey Acrylic Paint, watered down to watercolor consistency
Purple Acrylic Paint, watered down to watercolor consistency
Paintbrushes
Glitter (optional, for fireworks)
Scrap paper or craft paper
Scissors
Glue

Step One:
Draw bear in pencil on cardstock and outline in Sharpie. Color hat and collar with oil pastel. I like bright colored stripes best! Paint bear with grey acrylic (watered down). Set aside to dry or for faster drying time, dry with hairdryer.
Step Two:
Draw grass with green oil pastel along bottom of Bristol. Paint background with purple acrylic (watered down).
Step Three:
Cut two long strips out of brightly colored or printed scrap paper and glue long ways to background for tall legs. Cut out bear and glue atop of the legs. Draw fireworks in glue and add glitter!