Second Travel

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Today I had summer camp in the morning, a parent and me class around 11:30 and the travel to Partners in the afternoon. It was a pretty crazy day but it was still good. Summer camp was pretty easy this morning. I really just spent the morning labeling and helping the kids get clay and paint. We had quite a few kids this morning which meant that I really got to work with them. 
I have never done a parent and me class before but it was very interesting. We thought we were only going to have 4 kids but we ended up having six. There were two parents that had two kids. After Shea did a demo the parents got the work with the kids and make a pinch pot with an animal on it. I spent the time getting clay for them and getting paint out for them. The ages for this class is 2-6 since the parent gets to do the project with them and help them as they go. It was fun to get to work with the really little kids. I haven’t gotten to work with that age group yet so it was a fun experience. All of the pieces turned out really good.
        This was my second day at the travel in Mount Holly. We had five boys. Can you believe that. They all like to rile each other up which can be fun but distracting. One of the boys, Bobby, would get very distracted by the other boys. It was hard for him to pay attention to the project and it took him longer to complete his project. We decided to have the kids do name plaques that they could hang if they wanted to. A lot of them decided to instead make slabs and then put their hand on it instead of their names. I think one of the boys wanted to do that and then the rest kind of just went with it. Either way they all turned out good and the kids all had fun. Some of the kids even have the opportunity to make something small with the leftover clay. We had two boys that wanted to make baseballs which was pretty cool. Once we were finished at the travel we packed everything up and then headed back to the studio. Sadly we hit pretty bad traffic, but it still all worked out okay.

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