Looking for something your kids can do this Summer? Make time at home more creative with these new, week-long online camps. Perfect for kids to do with a parent or on their own. Register online at waterstreetstudios.com.
• 3D Art Camp, begins Monday, July 13
Create amazing 3D projects using simple materials, ingenuity, and a lot of creativity. Imagine and create an Alebrije Face Mask (a fantastical creature from Mexican Folklore). Construct a selfie tin foil gesture study, a family of foxes, and a fun kite rocket.
• Paper Palooza, begins Monday, July 20
Get ready for fun mornings of color, texture, pattern, layering, and more. Use painted papers to create beautiful flowers. Tear, cut, glue, and print paper to make a fish print. There are so many unique paper projects in this engaging online camp!
• Let’s Draw, begins Monday, July 27
Learn different ways to draw as you create a mountain landscape, study the Maasai culture, use the “resist” technique to draw a tropical fish, and make a perspective drawing of Canadian trees. Experiment with charcoal drawing as you create a surrealist animal inspired by Salvador Dali, and so much more!
• Wild for Wildlife, begins Monday, Aug. 3
If you are wild for wildlife, this is the camp for you! Work on color, texture, and emotion and learn how to imaginatively illustrate animals insects, and sea creatures. The materials used are pencils, ink, watercolor markers, and your choice of items for mosaics.
Water Street Studios is a 501(c)3 for-purpose art center located in downtown Batavia, Illinois. Our mission is to help make the arts more accessible to the Fox Valley region and beyond. Our vision is to be a cultural hub in the Midwest. We provide our community with classes, artist studios, gallery exhibitions, free programs for under-resourced families and schools, events in our historic venue, and more.
—Water Street Studios