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Beginning Cake Decorating	Learn techniques for baking & trimming cakes; make decorator icing & frost cakes smoothly; create borders & write on cakes; create decorations & flowers. Work on your own miniature cake. Take home tips to practice and use your new talent!
Advanced Drawing	You will use different skills and techniques to improve your drawing ability as you hear tricks of the trade.
Advanced Tie-Dye	Design two different tie-dye projects using swirls of color.
Applique Class	Learn how to make your own appliques and decorate visors, caps, pillowcases, etc. with glitter and paint. The sky's the limit; the only limit is your imagination.
Baby Sitter Sign Language	Add to your babysitting skills and be the delight of parents and children by learning signs appropriate for communicating with babies and small children as well as reviewing finger play fun!
Batik T-Shirts
Shoe Jazz	Personalize a shoe - inside and out - with designs, decorations, paint, rivets, beads, jewels and more!
Bling Your Bucket	Decorate a clear plastic bucket container to hold all your special keepsakes! Pick a theme and use stickers, cut-outs, baubles, ribbons and more to decorate a bucket in your unique style. Bucket and all decorations are supplied. Bucket size is 8'x5' and has a handle for carrying.
Boomwhackers	Learn to play different rhythms and songs using tuned musical plastic tubes.
Friendship Bracelets	Learn how to weave freindship bracelets. Campers can choose from a variety of designs and colors to create a bracelet to keep or give away.
Pop Art Painting	Learn to paint in the style of Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock
Russian Egg Art	Pysanky (Ukranian) Eggs is the art of decorating an egg with the use of dye and wax. Use the kistka tool dipped in wax to cover the color of the egg that the artist wants to have remain once the wax is removed.
Screenprinting - T-Shirt Designs	Make your own T-shirt by transferring with a design of your making to a T-shirt. 1-2 T-shirts are required.
Smoothies and More	Learn how to take fruit and make it into healthy and tasty drinks (smoothies) that you can enjoy anytime. We will also explore the world of coffee!
Wonder Masks	Do you know just how wonderful and you are to God? In this class, we will explore the wonder and the thought involved in making something that is unique and special to each of us, and how God could make all of us so different, unique and special as well. Then using the information gathered during our discussion, we will create our "Wonder Masks".
Wonder Wire	Does twisting, twirling, tweeking, and turning wire into a one-of-a-kind creation sound like fun? In this class campers will use aluminum conduction wire to make their project. Campers can add beads and paint to their creation for splashes of color. The possibilities are endless.
Woodworking - Footstool	Work with your hands and various tools to build a footstool.
Woodworking - Side Table	Work with your hands and various tools to build a side table.
Wool Punch Hook Rugs	Create a small wall hanging or chair pad from wool yarn and fabrics.

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Abstract Painting	Campers will be painting on canvases using a variety of tools to apply the paint. They will work on the same painting the whole week, adding a new layer each day.
Scrapbooking	Have fun learning how to use many new tools (clear stamps, brads, punches, stickers, buttons, chipboard, etc.) to make your pages and memories stand out in 2 dimensions.
Drama	Have fun all week learning the tools and tricks of drama in this fun class and present your drama at the Art Show.
Creative Writing	Got a story to tell? Learn to weave your thoughts on paper by developing themes, characters and plots.
Woodworking	Construct an Adirondack chair using plans, hand tools, power tools and paint or stain.
Sewing - Denim Pillow	Create a complete pillow with filler, cutting out strips to basket weave together.
Wonderful Reasoning	But Mom, The Return of the Spatulas isn't a bad movie! My friend said killer whales lay eggs, and I don't know whether to believe him. I'm a Christian because... well, my Dad is... Do you ever wish you had a toolbox that would help you win arguments, explain your beliefs, and sound infinitely smarter than your peers? Welcome to Wonderful Reasoning! Based off the book The Thinking Toolbox, this class will give you the tools to solve mysteries, win arguments, and even catch those pesky red herrings!

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Applique	Learn how to make your own appliques and decorate visors, caps, pillowcases, etc. with glitter and paint. The sky's the limit; the only limit is your imagination.
Art of Science	The scientific method abounds with creative opportunity. In this class we will wonder how sound and light work and design experiments to test our curiosity,
Batik T-Shirts
Beaded Pin Bracelet	Safety pins and colorful beads can create an unique bracelet. Choose this class to discover how to make them!
Cake Decorating - Fun With Candy!	Create a masterpiece using candy. Turn cupcakes into butterflies, flowers, turtles, ladybugs and more! Learn a secret recipe and make smooth frosting. Take your cupcake creations home with you after class!
Capturing God's Creation	God created our faces to each be unique and beautiful. In this class campers will learn how to use a graphing method to draw all the facial parts.
Clay Animals	Animals are some of God's WONDERful creations. Campers will use clay to form one or more of God's creatures.
Colorful Catchy Collages	Splashes of color from pictures and phrases laid out on poster board will reflect each camper's unique personality when they create their collages druing this class. Choose pictures and phrases from magazines and arrange them however they are inspired.
Cricket Dream	Create an album by cutting letters from cardstock and embellishing your project with a Cricket machine.
Digital Scrapbooking
Faux Stained Glass	Create a picture that looks like a stained glass window. Each project will WONDERfully reflect light and the individual creativity of its artist.
Flip Books (Sizzix)	Create a album that is in the shape of a flip flop using the Sizzis method. Add pictures, journal, flowers, beads, buttons, etc.
Friendship Bracelets	Learn how to weave friendship bracelets. Campers can choose different dessigns and a variety of colors to make personalized friendship bracelets to keep or give away.
God's Wonderful Colors	Bring life to your drawing and coloring by learning various shading techniques. We will explore different mediums and have a lot of fun.
Jewelry Design	Learn the art of jewelry design then make your own bracelet and necklace.
Needlepoint (4th and 5th grade only)	Expand your creativity by making 2 different needle point projects. Create a needlepoint square of your first letter. You will choose your own project using paterns available.
Paper Bead Jewelry
Pastels	Using the unique tool of pastels, campers can drawl, blend, highlight, and shadow their pictures. Learn how to use this unusual drawing tool and create WONDERful projects.
Pinewood Derby Cars/Trucks/Airplanes	Using wood, campers will choose to make a derby car, truck or airplane. This four-day elective will begin with cutting the wood and finish will racing their painted project.
Scrath Art	Use etching tools and prepared scratch art boards to create colorful and dramatic pictures.
Shoe Jazz
Shrinky Dinks	Use various drawing mediums such as markers, colored pencils and stamps to create designs on shrinkable plastic sheets. Designs are drawn, cut out, baked and shrunk down then used to create jewelry, key chains, bookmarks, magnets, backpack tags, pet tags, zipper pulls or anything else that can be imagined!
Stomp	Use everyday, ordinary articles as drumming instruments in this rhythm class. Learn the musical techniques of call and response, rote learning, note reading, and improvisation.
The Joys of Jabber	We will challenge the campers to have fun being dramatic. We're looking for big motions, loud voices, expressive faces - and lots of fun getting there. Not only will this help in drama and public speaking, it will help in self-confidence.
Tie Dye	Design two different tie-dye projects using swirls of color.
Woodworking - Side Table	Use a variety of tools to make a side table.
Woodworking - Bird House	Use a variety of tools to make a wood birdhouse.

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Drama	Lights, camera, action! Participate in all the aspects of putting on a play.
Scrapbooking	Have fun learning how to use many new tools (clear stamps, brads, punches, stickers, buttons, chipboard, etc.) to make your pages and memories stand out in 2 dimension.
Dance	Learn how to use your movements to communicate your feelings, thoughts and ideas through dance.
Dough Art	Learn the techniques of making homemade pizza, cinnamon rolls, dinner rolls, and your own little pizza to take home!
Sign Language	Communicating with your hands instead of your voice could be useful not only when talking with someone who can't hear, but is also a beautiful form of communication. This class will give you the chance to learn the basics about sign language, as well as learning how to "sing" our theme song with your hands.
Watercolor	Emphasis on the traditional techniques of watercolor layers. Will discuss color mixing, perspective, lighting, shading and practice with various techniques and tools. Each camper will complete several projects during the week.
Sewing - Critter Pillow (4th & 5th grade only)	Learn to create a pillow by using applique, filler and cutting out an animal face.

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