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The girls of Camp Bloom created mini clay sculptures of cute critters to place inside their terrariums.
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local artist Lindsey Finch and challenged campers to explore their creativity through various forms of art and paint on different surfaces including wood and canvas while learning how to use watercolors, acrylics and paint pouring. Their artwork was both carried home and featured in the center’s gallery. Last week’s Camp Bloom was led by local Ashland business owner Andrea Ferment, owner of Honeygirl Flowers, and followed Ferment’s expertise in a variety of floral design and arrangement. Campers in rising third through eighth grade learned how to create beautiful flower arrangements while exploring various art forms inspired by botanicals and nature. With each session held from 9 a.m. to noon, campers spent their first day hand-painting their own T-shirts, creating branch and bird arrangements, crafting terrarium or “mini world” clay sculptures, baking bluebird cupcakes and learning from birding expert Nick Garnhart. The campers spent their second day exploring nature
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The girls of Camp Bloom concluded their third camp day by making their own mini worlds using succulents, soil, beads, clay sculptures and more. Left, the Camp Bloom girls picked out their own succulents to place inside their custom terrariums and learned how to care for them le from guest speaker Kate fr Leffler from Colesville Nursery. L
Andrea Ferment, camp creator and director and owner of Honeygirl Flowers, teaches the campers how to create their own terrarium “mini worlds” with succulents alongside guest st speaker Kate Leffler from Colesville Nursery.
photography under the direction of local photographer Kristie Bradley, hand-painted hanging birdbaths, baked mini flower cakes and created floral arrangements to benefit the Hanover Humane Society. The campers raised $400 in proceeds from selling their impressive floral arrangements. On their third day of camp, the girls spent the morning learning how to window paint with muralist Michelle Hollender at The Depot in Ashland. Returning to the center later in the morning,
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the campers pers enjoyed handandmade fruity uity hand pies with p a s t r y - d ou g h roses, chocolateolatedipped pizzelle ops and learned about the intricacies of caring for a succulent from Kate Leffler of Colesville Nursery while creating their own terrarium “mini worlds” to take home. “Camp Bloom is always a fun week filled with nature’s beauty, but it is so much more than that,” said Sara Wright-
Holloway, executive director at HAAC. “There are two things gs that I think make the camp mp extra special – giving to a nonnprofit organization and meeting ng women who own small businesses. These elements offer a great learning experience that the Bloomers will surely take with them into adulthood.” The center has more in store
comfor the young artists of the com munity, with “Center Players Theater Camp” scheduled for July 25 through July 29. This year’s camp will explore the “Golden Age of Theater” and musical theater accompanied
bby games, acting, singing, dancing and producing a movie. The in ccamp will be held from 9 a.m. tto 2 p.m. on Monday through Thursday and on Friday from 9 T aa.m. to 12 p.m. with the showccase featured at 5:30 p.m. The second session of the Paint the Universe Summer Art P Camp will be held from August C 1 through 5 for fourth through ssixth graders. For more information on the center’s upcoming summer camps and how to register, visit the website: https:// www.hanoverarts.net/camps. Registration is limited for each camp.
