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Summer Art Camps

Camp program hours: 9 am - 5 pm Courtesy drop-off 8:30 - 9:00 am and pick-up from 5:00 - 5:30 pm

Full day tuition: $175 per week

Rainbow Parfait Explosion
It's all about art! But not only visual art-you'll be exploring art of all kinds: handmade paper, candles and stamps, macramé and papier-mâché. Try writing a poem in a different way, fold origami, or carve a sculpture out of soap. Get in touch with a different decade with Tie-dye. Make a collage and draw a picture! Get your heart racing with movement. Explore your dramatic side with theatre. And keep a journal of all the days' activities. On the last day artwork will be displayed in the gallery and participants are encouraged to invite family and friends. Bring a lunch. Snacks are provided. Ages 6 - 12. With Emma Johnson. June 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
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Magic Trunk Theater Learn all it takes to put on a play! Here you'll be a part of a theatrical production from start to finish. You'll be involved in every part of the process, from writing the script to making stage sets to acting in a sharing for family and friends! Create a unique costume. Decide what kind of setting you want your characters to live in. What will they do? Now's your chance to be creative! Bring a lunch. Snacks provided. Ages 7 - 14. with Emma Johnson. June 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
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Arts & Crafts It! Explore all kinds of arts and crafts! Create something new from an old piece of furniture, a shirt, or anything else you might have lying around the house. Make drawings with sand and chalk! Explore mosaics and then make some colorful Shrinky Dinks! Take a disposable camera and take some pictures when we go on a "picture hunt." Each day is filled with tons of arts and crafts! Bring a lunch. Snacks provided. Ages 8-14. With Emma Johnson. June 29, 30, July 1, 2, 3
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Wonders of the World
Its time to explore! Stonehenge in England, the ancient Minotaur's Labyrinth, the Great Wall of China, the Grand Canyon in the American West, the Great Barrier Reef from the coast of Australia...You choose your materials as we recreate these places from across the globe. Each participant will sketch and then make a model of each place. Together, as a group, we will decide how to combine everyone's ideas to make the full-scale model come to life. We will also sing traditional songs specific to the area and time, and read stories to get a little history of the places and people behind the icons. Each day we recreate another amazing place! Ages 8 - 14. Bring a lunch. Snacks provided. With Emma Johnson. July 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
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I Love to Sing!
Sing your heart out in this ½ day camp. Includes skill-building, fun, and a little of the unexpected. If music is your favorite class all year long, this camp is for you. Students wishing to improve their choral singing skills will find this mid-summer refresher invaluable. You will practice sight-singing, rhythm, and listening skills, and learn tips for healthy voice production. Make and keep a rhythm instrument of your choice. Sing a story in a sharing with friends and family on Friday. Snacks provided. July 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Ages 5 - 8, 9:00 am - Noon. Click here to register
Ages 9 - 14, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Click here to register
Tuition: $75

Lights! Camera! Animation!
Don't get enough of Disney movies? Find yourself a fan of Sponge Bob? Want to make a movie with characters and places that can't exist in real life? If you're always up for using your imagination, then this class is for you! You'll write a story, collaborating with your fellow campers. You'll animate your own flipbook as a part of a larger story. You'll go home on Friday with a DVD that includes all animations created in the class, which will add up to the whole story you came up with as a group. The final project will also be uploaded to the web so you can share with all your friends and family-and the world! In short - Learn how to animate, be part of a bigger project, and bring home a DVD you can play to remember your time at camp. Bring a lunch. Snacks provided. With Emma Johnson. Ages 8-14

· July 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

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Hip-Hop Dance Explosion
I said a hip-hop the hippie the hippie/ to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop/ the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie/ to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat/ Now what you hear is not a test-but this class truly is the best! The Sugar Hill Gang may be Old School, but this class is everything hip-hop: old, new and everything in between! Interested in rhythm and rhyme? Enjoy dance but want to move to something current? In this class you'll learn all different kinds of dance moves. By the end of the week you'll be able to dance to anything on the radio-or on your iPod! Ages 7 - 14. With Alejandra Gallegos and Emma Johnson. August 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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The Nutcracker in August? (Are You Nuts?)
You set the scene... Learn how to make scenery for a stage production! You can make anything from dolls to soldiers-or mice, trees, chests, carriages and-of course-nutcrackers! Choose your own materials. Get creative and use something unconventional! Scenery will be used in an actual production of The Nutcracker by the Standing Ovation Dance Studio, to be performed in late 2009. Bring a lunch. Snacks provided. Ages 8 - 14. With Emma Johnson and Olga Mulvaney. August 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
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Discovering Midland's Treasure Do you wonder about the places in Midland that you don't know exist? Have you driven past cool places in Midland that you always mean to visit but don't? Well, now's your chance to make it all happen! During this week we'll be tourists in our own beloved city, visiting everything from artists' studios to the Dow Home and Studio to Loons Stadium! You'll enjoy discovering all these interesting and exciting places. And to think--it's in your own backyard! Bring a lunch. Snacks provided. Ages 7 - 11. With Jan List and Emma Johnson. August 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. A $15 activity fee is charged for this camp in addition to $175 tuition.
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Rainbow Parfait Explosion- ½ day
It's all about art - of all kinds. You'll make everything from sand candles to origami. Carve a sculpture out of soap and Tie-dye a t-shirt. Get your heart racing with movement. Explore your dramatic side with theatre. On the last day artwork will be displayed in the gallery and participants will share with family and friends. With Emma Johnson. Tuition: $75. August 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.
Ages 5 - 8, 9:00 am - Noon. Click here to register
Ages 9 - 14, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Click here to register

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Hi ! This is a continuation of my blog about Midland, Michigan, Spring & eventually Summer will be here ! Tonights weather calls for SNOW ! I say lets protest and get it out of here ! Just kidding !

With spring in the air the Great Lake Loons have started there season with a winning run. Hopefully that will continue.

Spring is bringing up flowers and lots of potholes !

The flowers along Eastman will be planted on May 30th, it is done by volunteers so any group can sign up ! Just check with the Chamber for more information.

Dahlia Hill is to be planted soon and there annual tuber sale is May 23 & 30. from 8-4. Tubers are usually $2.00. So bring a bag and take lots home to start your own Dahlia Hill.

Cohoon's elevator will be busy with seeds and bulbs. Birds still need to be fed so get your birdseed there too, also get all your lawn growing supplies.

Midland Master Gardeners are doing lots of volunteer work around town as well as answering your questions on the MSU hotline. Also check the Midland Daily News for there article each week.

Check out your grill ! Put out the patio furniture ! and enjoy the weather.

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This is a continuation of my blog about Midland, Michigan, I'm a realtor at Ayre/Rhinehart and love my job and love Midland. Today I have information for walking for your family.

Chippewa Nature Center

400 S. Badour Road

Midland, Mi 48640

989-631-0830

City FOrest

2840 Monroe Road

Midland, Michigan 48642

989-837-6930

Dow Gardens / Whiting Forest

1809 Eastman Avenue

Midland, Michigan 48640

989-631-2677

Pere Marquette Rail Trail

Midland, Michigan

989-832-6870

Pine Haven Recreation Area

Sanford, Michigan 48657

989-832-6874

The Tridge

Chippewassee Park

Midland, Michigan 48640

989-837-6930

Hi ! Its time for another report about great things in Midland, Michigan and the surrounding areas !

Baseball season is fast approaching ! Midland is the home of the Great Lake Loons AAA Dodger Farm team. Tickets are reasonable you can even take a blanket and sit on the outfield lawn. The stadium is top rate.

Dow Corning Tennis just finished - a $75,000 first rate professional womens tournament held in Midland for the 21st year. Fine dining comes with box seats. Tickets are free Tuesday to Thursday for day matches.

Midland Explorers Fast pitch season will start before to long. Emerson Park is the home of the team and they play great teams.

Soccer - Midland has a terrific soccer complex the hosts lots of tournaments. Every Mothers Day weekend they have about 100 teams play a huge tournament. Lots of local interest plus travel teams for the more advanced players.

This is all positive thinking on my part I'm looking out the window at a fresh 6-8" of snow we received yesterday and last night ! Spring will arrive !

Just some food for thought ! The government wants you to go out and spend your new stimulus check on what ? Fruits and Vegtables from Mexico? Computers from India, Cars from China, Clothes from China, Taiwan, etc.and the list goes on, apparently they don't get it? Buy Organic or spend the money at garage sales to help the local economy ! I don't think we are thinking correctly yet !