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Crafts Most Camps Have Never Done 

By Silvana Clark

As summer approaches, camps across the country start to gather supplies for the inevitable craft classes, such as Popsicle stick picture frames, painted rocks and apple prints. Now there's nothing wrong with traditional crafts, but how about trying something a bit out of the ordinary? Ever decorated Styrofoam mannequin heads or gotten campers involved in making artistic trading cards? How about some super-gross papier-mache creatures? The following are some ideas designed to add an element of fun and creativity to your camp craft programs.

Artistic Trading Cards
This craft trend is spreading around the world with multiple Web sites and many Yahoo groups. The concept couldn't be easier--decorate ordinary playing cards with a variety of items and trade them. That's right. Artistic trading cards are designed to be created and shared with others. The decorated cards become individual pieces of miniature art.

Best of all, this craft trend is ideal for camps because the supplies are available in every camp craft closet. Need directions? Here goes: Give campers playing cards and tell them to decorate the cards. End of directions! That's it!


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