Summer Camp Activities

Activity-1 Home made Chalks

Materials:

 petroleum jelly
 an ice cube tray
 Disposable plastic container
 Plaster of Paris 
 Duct tape
 Liquid water colours
 Water 
 Spoon

  Directions:

1. coat the inside of the ice cube tray with petroleum jelly.
2. In a disposable plastic container, help your child mix 1 cup plaster of Paris with 1/2 cup
water. Stir slowly and thoroughly until plaster is dissolved, about 1 minute.
3. Immediately add 2 tablespoons paint (or more for brighter chalk color, but be careful it
can stain). Mix thoroughly.
4. Spoon into the ice cube tray. Tap gently so mixture settles to the bottom.
5. Let dry overnight before using.

Activity 2: Pom Pom Ice creams.

Materials:

 sheet of brown construction paper

 Pink or white pom-pom
 Small colorful beads (optional)
 White craft glue
 Scissors

Directions:

1. Roll construction paper into a cone.

2. Glue the cone together and hold for a couple of minutes until the glue grabs.
3. Cut the wider end of the cone into a flat edge.
4. Pipe a generous amount of glue around the wide end of the cone and press it down onto
the pom-pom.. Let dry completely.
5. To add "sprinkles" to your cones, dip small beads into white glue and place all over top
of pom-pom ice cream cone.
Activity3: CD camp fire.

Materials:

 Old CD
 Rocks (medium sized)
 Sticks (twigs)
 A handful of soil, dirt or sand
 White craft glue
 Small scraps of red, orange and yellow tissue paper
 Toothpick

Directions:

1. Cover CD with glue and use a paintbrush or your finger to spread the glue out for an
even coat.
2. Cover glue area with dirt or sand and tap off excess.
3. Use your finger to push back a little of the dirt from the edges, all the way around the
CD, to make room for the rocks.
4. Squeeze out a generous amount of white glue onto the cleared edge of the CD. Press a
rock into the glue. Repeat until entire rim of the CD is covered in rocks. If necessary,
break sticks into approximately 4 inch pieces. Using white craft clue, build a "fire" with
the sticks by laying them down in a teepee formation, gluing as you go. Let everything
dry for 2 hours (will not be completely dry, but won't slide around). Tear tissue paper
into small pieces, approximately 1" or 2" squares.
5. Place tip of toothpick into the center (don't poke through) of a piece of red tissue paper.
Wrap the tissue paper around the toothpick.
6. Dab some glue on the tip and dip it into the sticks, removing the toothpick once inserted.
Repeat around the top of the sticks with several red pieces, and then add a few orange
toward the middle, and lastly one or two yellow pieces at the top of the stick mound.

Activity 4: Pencil Pinwheel

Materials:

 Colored chart paper

 Thumbtack or stick pin
 Pencil with new eraser
 White craft glue
 Scissors
 Sequins
 Pattern (Already given to you in this sheet)
How to make it:

1. Print the pattern onto plain copy or printer paper.

2. Cut the square pattern out, cutting on the solid lines.
3. Lay pattern on top of colored paper and trace the square. Cut out the square from the
colored paper.
4. Keep the pattern square on top of the colored square. Either hold it in place with your
fingers or tape it down lightly on two of the sides.
5. Cut through the pattern and the colored paper along the dotted lines but do not cut in to
the center circle.
6. Use a thumbtack or stick pin to poke out the holes in every other corner as indicated on
the pattern. Set the pattern piece aside.
7. Take one corner (one with a hole) and fold it toward the center of the square. Fold the
next corner that has a hole and fold it toward the center on top of the first holed corner.
Repeat with the other two corners with holes until all four are folded into the center.
Glue the folds to each other and to the center. Hold together until dry.
8. Push the thumbtack through the center of the pinwheel and into the eraser of the pencil.
Make sure the pinwheel isn’t touching the eraser or it won’t spin.
9. Glue some sequins to the flaps of the pinwheel and let dry.

Activity5:

Materials:

 2 paper plates
 Silver craft paint
 8 pieces of ring shaped cereal
 Fish-shaped crackers
 Plastic plant leaves
 Sea shells
 Sand
 craft glue
 Blue cellophane
 Scissors

Directions:
1. Take both paper plates and set them on the table. One should be right side up and the
other should be upside down.
2. On the plate that is right side up, draw your sea floor about 1/3 up the center of the
plate.
3. Line the floor area with white glue, use an old paintbrush or your finger to spread the
glue out evenly.
4. Cover the wet glue with sand and set aside to dry.
5. On the upside down plate, draw a circle where you will cut out your porthole in the
center of the plate.
6. Glue ring shaped cereal pieces around the circle; these are the bolts on the porthole. Let
dry.
7. Paint the cereal pieces and the paper plate from the outer edge to your penciled lines.
Don’t worry about painting over the lines a little, as you will be cutting it out. Set aside
to dry.
8. Take the paper plate with the sand on it and hold it over a sheet of wax paper. Glue sea
life onto the plate with the sand floor. Glue on shells, silk leaves, and fish shaped
crackers. Let dry.
9. Take the silver painted plate and cut out the center circle to create your porthole
window. Place it gently over the top of the other plate to see if you are happy with its size
and viewing area. Increase size of the hole if you like.
10. Turn silver plate upside down.
11. Cut a piece of blue cellophane large enough to cover the hole on the plate and glue in
place. Let dry.
12. Place porthole plate over the top of the sea life plate and glue together. Let dry.