Our newest camp innovation - an Art Cart!
Every year we try to find ways to make our Summer Camp Zoofari run smoother while making things easier on the teachers. This year, one of our innovations is the Art Cart – rather, the Art Carts, as we have three of them.
At a program at one of the local hospitals, Victoria (our camp principal) saw their art cart. With wheels on the bottom and a plethora of art supplies, this was a way to bring all of the art supplies to the participants. When the kids may not be able to come to the art, the art cart can come to them.
Doesn't it just make you want to create some art?
We’ve took this idea for camp and ran with it. Last year, every classroom had their own set of scissors and glue, and teachers had to collect their own paints, brushes, and construction paper every day. The art carts relieve the need for all of that. Now, the teachers just sign up for a time for the art cart and pick it up when it is their turn. They only have to collect the more specialized items for their crafts, which saves them time in the mornings. It also means we only have to stock enough scissors and glue for one classroom worth of kids per cart!
Each of our art carts has enough glue and scissors for our biggest group of kids, bottles of paint in 11 colors, paint trays and brushes, googly eyes, clear tape, a stapler, and a rainbow of construction paper. Our camp interns have taken on the task of keeping everything neat and refilled. And the teachers enjoy having a few extra minutes and a mobile supply closet that comes to them.
I would say our art carts are a success!!
