For Camp Rainbow's art week, we wanted to get the kids looking closer at and appreciating the world around them. I love Jane Brocket's series of children's nonfiction picture books that help kids explore art and design concepts through photographs, so we read aloud Brocket's book on patterns -- Spotty, Stripy, Swirly.
Thus on a trip to Atlanta to explore the Asian markets and go to Stone Mountain, we brought a point-and-shoot camera along that the kids could use to capture the patterns they saw. Here's what we found...
Explanation of Camp Rainbow
Week One: Careers and Jobs -- Restaurant and Bank
Week One: Careers and Jobs -- Pizza Parlor
Week Two: Native Americans
Week Three: Wet and Wild (water creatures and wetland habitats)
Week Three: Wet and Wild -- Home Aquarium
Week Four: Natural History (mud pies and fake rain count, right?)
Week Five: Art All Around Us -- Georgia Museum of Art
Week Five: Art All Around Us -- Patterns
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