5 Senses Summer Camp with the ZACC!

Hey everyone...one more post!

This week Clark Fork Pre-School teacher, Kyla Pellouchoud is teaching a summer camp for the kids, covering projects that highlight the 5 senses! I only have pictures from the first two days, which were touch and taste, but the kids were having a BLAST!

Here are some pictures of the kiddo's experiencing TOUCH with clay. They were given a ball of clay, blindfolded. They were told to imagine a face in their heads and try to create it with their hands through the sense of touch without seeing it.

The kids had SUCH a blast with this project. After they took their blindfolds off to look at their faces, they remolded their clay into coil pots that they turned into texture pots later. It was a super fun day, and was definitely an awesome way to highlight the sense of touch. Here are some pictures of the kiddo's having fun!

The kids were so diligent with this part of the project. We played the "silent game" while they were blindfolded so all of their energy was focused on their TOUCH!

 

 

The second day of the 5 Senses camp was focused on TASTE! Which the kids were thrilled with! All day they kept asking, "when do we get to TASTE stuff??" Haha... 

 

 

Kyla came in with an absolutely awesome project for taste...SOLAR OVENS!! The kids went to work and built their very own solar ovens out of boxed which they used to cook S'MORES!   Here are some shots of these super neat ovens--the kids were really proud of their work on these, and even more excited about tasting the fruits of their labor!

 

Here are the solar ovens, which worked really well to melt our marshmallows on the graham crackers. ZACC director, Kia had to come out to see the action...sooo cool!

Here is Kyla helping Hannah and Axel with their S'mores.

Angelina's finished product! Mmmm...

McKenna, digging in!

 

 

While we were waiting for our solar ovens to bake our marshmallows, the kids made their own candy necklaces with pendants! They took hammers to 5 different colors of jolly rancher candies, and then swirled the colors around to create the taste and shape they wanted. Then Kyla baked the shapes in a toaster oven. As soon as they came out of the oven the kids put bent sucker sticks into the melted candy and waited for it to dry before threading their "pendants" onto their necklaces.  It was also a really fun project and I think the kids like the hammering part the best on this project! They really went after it!

 

Here are some of the finished products of their 'Taste' necklaces:

 



Brothers Liam (5) and Nathaniel (8) model their necklaces for us. They are kind of hard to see amongst the bright tie dye shirts.

 

And here is Angelina, ever my model in the camps, showing us her heart pendant and necklace.  AWESOME!!

 

 

 

 

Today I'm headed back down to Cara's Park to help the Missoula Cultural Council celebrate SUMMER SOLSTICE!  And after the huge success at our previous SpectrUM event, we will once again be BUGGIN OUT WITH THE ZACC!!  So if you're in the Missoula area this afternoon between 4:00 and 7:00pm, come on down and make a bug for our ZACC mural! There will also be some kid and adult instructional projects going on with our booth as well, aside from the bugs. :) 

 

I'll be sure to post more pictures after the event! 

 

Until next time... Have fun!!