Creation, GSP-style is the theme for this year's Arts for Summer Camp, August 1-5, in McBride Hall. Camp is for children entering kindergarten through grade 3 and grade 4 through grade 8, from 9 a.m.-1p.m. Lunch is included.
Participants will be invited to create a mosaic prayer table, designing it first using paper collage and then developing a final product using tile, broken dish ware and other mosaic materials. We are extremely blessed to have Linda Rosenfield, a thirty-year children's art teacher at the Tucson Museum of Art and a talented artist in her own right, to help lead us through the process of making our prayer tables. The tables will be blessed and will go home with each child.
We will further explore the creation theme using music and dramatic arts. The children will develop a simple musical production around the theme of creation and present it to family and friends on the last day of camp. Joan Brundage, our Children's Choir Director, will lead us.Their mosaic and collage work will also be displayed at this time for family and friends to admire.
We will also be looking at the biblical creation story and discussing how it might fit into our scientific understanding of many millions of years of evolution. We will use a gigantic evolutionary time-line (it literally stretches across the parking lot) that the children will help piece together, which helps visually demonstrate the huge amounts of time that have been required for the world to evolve as we know it today. The experience is quite impactful, especially when the children see how small a space on the time-line is taken by the development of human beings.
This promises to be a week of busy fun and lots of laughter! It is open to all, including families who do not attend GSP. The cost for camp is $65 for the week. Scholarships are available.
For more information, contact Rosalind Garcia at 327-6857 or Rosalind.Garcia@grace-stpauls.org.
GSP welcomes Rosalind Garcia (top, right), as Director of Children and Youth Ministries, and The Rev. Kate Baird (bottom, right) as Priest Associate for Children and Youth Ministries. Both will officially begin on March 1.
