Creative Chaos – Krazee Arts Camp
This post is part of Carlo’s Creative Chaos series.
We ran a camp last summer for 8- to 11-year old kids called Krazee Arts Camp. The focus was on just letting kids experience new forms of artistic expression without feeling any kind of pressure to produce good art. Every day kids rotated through six art workshops with krazee names – Art Attack (arts & crafts, sort of), I’ve Got Rhythm (dance), Joyful Noises (music), Running Wild (sports & games), Act One (drama), and Expressions By Hand (puppets).
Overall the camp was a homerun but the real highlight was our Variety Show on Friday night. We brought all the kids back and they brought parents, neighbours, grandparents, friends, etc etc to show them the great art stuff they had been doing during the week. It was a great night!
To give you a bit of a feel for what we did, here’s a little recap video -
this looks amazing. great work and what a great (and needed) message for kids to hear and experience!
have you ever heard of GEN 1? (it’s an art/creative camp in holland, mi)
Hey Jim – thanks for the comment. I haven’t heard of GEN 1 but I will definitely check it out. We based this camp on one run by a church just north of Detroit. They started running their camp 5 or 6 years ago – started with 80 kids and last summer had about 900. Crazy!
wow 900 kids – looks like tons of fun.
No – we didn’t have 900 kids. The church who we modelled ours after did. We had 80 kids last year and will be increasing our space to 125 this year.
Leeza Price said she would like to run a dance camp, and I would like to sign my daughter up for this.
Please contact me
938-8005
Thankyou kindly
Jenna DeLeon