I would love to know how to teach these classes…but in a little bit of a different way. I’m going to be volunteering my time at the local boys and girls club…obviously in the art room. These are all children living at or below the poverty level and will love anything that I teach…I know the rocks would be a huge hit for sure and any other suggestions you can give me would be so appreciated.
thanks so much….hugs, beth

By beth on 08.27.08 6:45 pm

oops….
I’m at http://www.moredoors.blogspot.com

thanks again….beth

By beth on 08.27.08 6:46 pm

Hi! I am a big fan all the way from Australia! I have been reading your blog for a while now and I just love what you do with your camps.

I am a language teacher in a high school, but have been thinking about doing some arts-and-crafts camps during the school holidays. They look like so much fun, and I have always been a highly creative bean, and have been longing for a way to incorporate this side of myself into my life in a more direct way. My questions to you are:

- legally speaking, did you have to do anything? Get working with children checks, get extra insurance in case someone had an accident etc? I have worked in the States and know that it can be similar to Aus in terms of the care taken when it comes to working with children. How did you deal with this aspect of your camps?

- Did you also provide food for the kids, or did they bring their own lunch?

- Did you advertise and if so, how?

- Did you have a limit to how big your groups could be?

Ok, I think that is it for now!
Many thanks for answering my questions, I thinking you are amazing and reading your blog certainly inspires me over here! You have no idea how far your influence spreads… keep up the great work!

With love and sunshine,
Steph

By Steph on 08.28.08 1:14 am

I’ve held on to a secret dream of doing this next summer- I’ve been so inspired by you and your camp. How does it work if you don’t have a cottage by the sea? Any suggestions on securing a place?

By Eileen on 08.28.08 5:47 am

It must be in the air, because I’ve had several requests to teach art classes to kids in the past couple of weeks. I will be teaching drawing and painting starting in Oct and private lessons to adults as well. I can’t wait. Karin

By karin grow on 08.28.08 8:18 am

Wow! I would love to learn more about the Art Journaling Camps. I work with children for a living, but I work privately and can make my own hours. It would be amazing to hold some art camps for older girls next summer. I read your posts during the summer thinking that I would love to do that.

By Helena on 08.28.08 3:06 pm

Me too. I would also love to know about the advertising and if you did provide classes for different age levels and if so what ages did you put in one class? Did you charge the materials extra or included? And how many hours did you do a day? Five days? I really, really love to do this as a group all over the world (I am in Berlin, Germany) where we could support each other, cause I am a bit shy about it…

By Katrin on 09.02.08 11:38 am