Posted in Crafts on Oct 3rd, 2008
Can I learn how to knit at camp?
You sure can! In fact, knitting has become one of the crafts at camp girls are really enjoying. You might think it’s old fashioned or something that only your grandmother would do, but knitting is really cool! And it’s not that hard to learn. With some basic pointers [...]
Posted in Crafts on Sep 8th, 2008
Here is one of the arts and crafts activities the girls enjoyed this summer at camp. Can you tell what it is? Pine cones tied to a branch with string— it’s a mobile. What’s fun is using different sized pine cones and then arranging them with different lengths of string. When the stick has [...]
Posted in Crafts on Mar 24th, 2008
One craft at summer camps that’s always popular is making a tie dye t-shirt. It’s certainly a classic thing to do, and while you might think of swirls and colors on shirts from the 1970s, tying and dyeing cloth is common all over the world. For example there is adire tie dyeing in Nigeria [...]
Posted in Crafts on Feb 25th, 2008
One of the many folk crafts of the Appalachian region, including the area around Rockbrook Camp, is pottery. Following a long tradition of people making household pots from clay, there are now, according to the Southern Highland Craft Guild, more than 125 ceramic artists and potters working in western North Carolina. Using traditional [...]
Posted in Crafts on Jan 16th, 2008
Another super popular summer camp activity for children at Rockbrook is something we call “Needlecraft.” It’s a craft activity where we make all kinds of things out of yarn, string, and thread, and as you might expect, use “needles” to weave, tie, twist and knit the strands into interesting patterns and shapes. Sometimes we [...]
Posted in Crafts on Dec 21st, 2007
What’s the pottery program like at Rockbrook Camp?
It’s fantastic! There are two different pottery studios at camp, each with work tables for hand building (using coils, slabs, and pinch techniques) and potter’s wheels for learning how to make wheel-thrown pots. No matter what their level of experience, campers can make all sorts of bowls, [...]
Posted in Crafts on Oct 22nd, 2007
There’re loads of different techniques for making string friendship bracelets. We describe one right here on the Rockbrook Camp website: How to make a Friendship Bracelet. But there’s another way that uses a knot you probably already know and use for a different purpose. Tying your shoes! Yep, the same basic knot, [...]
Posted in Crafts on Sep 18th, 2007
Giving kids a chance to explore crafts, to learn new ways of being creative, is a big part of summer camp. Rockbrook has almost 20 different craft activities for example. Each lets the girls express themselves creatively and make something cool. There’s plenty of time (It’s summer after all!), all the right [...]
Posted in Crafts on Mar 16th, 2007
Making a bracelet at Teen summer camp for girls Rockbrook.
Posted in Crafts on Feb 7th, 2007
Kids tie dying a t-shirt at craft camp
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