Sunday, July 17, 2011

Messy Art Camp!

The morning after I got back from Cabo, Art Camp started! I had been looking forward to this for weeks! My creative and super talented friend, Leslie, put this thing together and i knew it would be great and that Bennett would have so much fun!  As expected, Leslie did an amazing job and it was so so so much fun but I'm not really sure if Bennett had any fun! ha ha!

So each morning we would start with a story about some sort of art ... they were all adorable stories! But where was my son? Usually playing in the bushes next to fence, he thought it was awesome that they were taller than him, I thought it was awful because it was super hard to find him!

This shaving cream and paint project was on the first day, I helped him get it started, and he seemed to be having a good time ...

 Sweet Cade who sat across from us was loving it!
But then Bennett looked at his hands!
I think this moment may have been what set the precedent  for the rest of the week! Opps!

He seemed to enjoy the projects that allowed him some sort of "Utensil" type barrier between him and the "art"
 But then the fun and messy projects ... he wouldn't even go near them!
He would usually retreat to the water bucket during these "messy" times!

He even started to bring friends with him to the water buckets by the end of the week ... he's so inclusive! 

Clay was a big hit ... but again no actual touching occurred!



Ball day was fabulous! He loved rolling the balls around when he didn't have to touch them!

Again, isn't Leslie so creative! Her projects were fabulous and so cute! 
Loved the cars until he got a spot of paint on his hands! 

Almost every day of camp, the kids got to play with the squirt bottles that had water colors in them! Bennett enjoyed shooting other people but didn't so much enjoy the return favor!



 "Official" bucket play ... he was a happy man!

He LOVED this project! Mommy put three globs of paint on a picture and then he got to shoot the paint with a squirt bottle! Happy man!

This was one of the vary last projects the kids did and look at this kid go! He was the first one in there to play with a .... broom! ha ha! Oh well! I was just glad he was interested in participating!


Then on Friday night, Leslie sat up an art gallery! It was the cutest thing!


 Here's the little artist, very eager and ready to show off his art to both his Grandma's that he had invited to  his first ever art show!
 This was such a fun week and even though Bennett didn't do all the projects the way they were intended, I know if nothing else, he enjoyed being outside and playing with mom and dad!
Thanks Leslie for a great time!

2 comments:

Katie A. Ward said...

Amazing!!! I love it! Totally ok that he doesn't want to get messy; Some have said that painting is the highest art form because you don't get messy!

Unknown said...

Clara would LOVE that. I'm pretty sure she would just skip the paint brush all together on that day. She loves being messy. She does like cleaning up too. Bennett is so adorable! I wish Clara and I could both come by and give him a big huge hug :)