Moms Summer Camp

My cute friend Becki organized a group of moms to teach different classes for a summer camp.  You can see what we did last year HERE.  This year we did this

The first day all the kids Tie Dyed T-shirts and had a little get together picnic.  Brooke made little gourmet lunches for all the moms, doesn't that sound like the Tongue in Cheek blogger!  Brooke then took on all the babies for the week so that their moms could teach.

My class was Animal Adventures.  We talked about animals, did animal crafts and projects, puppets, shrinky dinks, had animal tatoos and played some animal games.  I even had my animal loving friend, Kim, bring in some of her pets to talk about with the little kids groups.  With the older boys we painted wood snakes that move, played a glow in the dark snake game and then studied and checked out a real water snake.




Tara taught a class in the kitchen called "Fun with Fondant".  All of the kids were so proud of their masterpieces.  She had little cakes for all the older kids and then cupcakes for the little girls group.  They had so much fun choosing colors, rolling the fondant out and then decorating them.  Nathan made a soccer ball, but of course the girls cakes were frilly and girly.



Becki taught a "Crafty Construction" class.  She had fun wood projects, wind chimes, marshmallow building and even had little tape measures and carpenter pencils for the kids.

Melinda's class was "Games".  I loved seeing the sweaty kids come in from her group each day with a Gatorade in one hand and a huge smile on their faces.  Games were according to age as with the other classes.  There was football, duck duck goose, jump roping, marbles, rolling a hoop with a stick and who knows what else I'm missing.

Laura did a glass etching class.  She let them do their names on cute little jars and then filled them with bubble gum.  My kids now think that I need to keep their jars stocked with bubble gum.

Jamica did a "Rock and Roll Music" class.  The kids painted rocks while listening to music. 

I wish that I would have taken more pictures but it was too hard to teach and run around getting pictures.
We LOVED every minute of our little Moms Summer Camp.  It was great for each of my kids to be with other kids their own ages doing such fun projects together.  I'm grateful for all my sweet friends work in making it a success AND I'm grateful for little relationships that my kids are developing with my friends' kids!