Stars & stripes or Patriotic fun mini-camp @ WB Annex

Finally a week where the 4th doesn't fall in the middle of the week so we grabbed it and did a camp. We started the week with a drawing session of a flagged street scene in the Picturing America series by Childe Hassam, an impressionist. The main feature of the week was construction of the 3 small floats from start to finish - one of Uncle Sam and one of Lady Liberty. Along the way we made flags, confetti eggs, tp poppers and long wands with stars. We capped the week off marching in the parade in Wells Branch.

Film Canister Uncle Sam Poppers for July 4th @WBCL

Finding uses for some of the donations takes time but every one of them finally becomes a project or two or more. This box of 35mm film canisters has been sitting a LONG time in the cabinet. It didn't take too much to convert the ugly container into a cute Uncle Sam necklace full of confetti to throw around on the 4th. 


I drilled 2 small holes in the bottom to insert plastic cord for the necklace. Another donation of wood hearts supplied the Sam heads. I sanded the canister tops and glued the hearts on before class using GlueAll but it did not hold. We re-glued all the tops before class. Thanks to the mom and kids who helped out on this. A bit of white paper was wrapped around the canister and the participants cut red strips for the stripes and glued or taped them on. They added part of a cotton ball for a beard and eyes to complete the face. Bet I see a few of them at the Wells Branch 4th Fest celebration. I'll be there helping people make fans to keep cool.