Spotlight on Omanut

Here are some highlights from session 2 in the omanut (arts and crafts) department:

Sculpture:  This session, campers used their imagination to build with pipe cleaners, paper rolls, craft sticks, wood shapes, balloons, yarn, beads, and Sculpy clay.

Impressionists: Campers learned about some famous artists and created their own designs using similar styles with different materials. For example, campers made a Paul Cezanne still life collage with paper fruits, they used watercolors to paint their own Auguste Renoir celebration scenes, they used Bingo markers or Q-tips and acrylics to paint a “George Seurat” dot painting, and finally, they enjoyed making Claude Monet water scenes with chalk pastels.

Yarn Arts: Weaving galore!  All campers learned and practiced weaving over and under, in and out, in order to make colorful yarn bowls.  Shorashim also made turtles, dream catchers, and straw looms. Garanim used real looms to create a hanging (also can be used as a book mark), and Nitzanim campers made some amazing needlepoint designs.

Yetzir: Even for campers who did not select omanut for their chuggim, all campers experience our omanut department through our flex period each morning, called “yetzirah.” In the past two weeks, all campers made ID bracelets using letter beads to spell their name or initials, and pony beads to make them colorful.