Little Artisans!

Art runs in this family! Here little Lily enhances her stepping stones with a little bit of purple sand, looking good!

Katherine choose blue! She looks quite satisffied with her work!

Aden ever-so-gently places her stones and shells into her stepping stone mold!

Say Cheese! Jeana showcases her artwork in style, as always!

Stepping Stones..

Today we made stepping stones for the garden! It was quite a process, you see. First we had to paint buds and flowers and all sorts of pretty things on the stones...

Then we had to mix up the cement.
This can get quite messy as you may imagine!

Ooops! I guess we added a teeny bit too much water to the mix because all of our beautiful stones started to sink like, well, rocks. YOu know what that means, pick 'em out and start over!

Here Adam demonstrates a successful stepping stone! Minimum sink-age, showing of his very cool bumble bee stone!

WE LOVE FROGS!

Frog Catching!!

More GREEN GROWTH!!!

GREEN GROWTH!

Local Wildlife- Last Day

Thanks to All of our Campers for a wonderful week!
Congrats to our Award winning campers: Anna, Dorian, Dylan and Carly!!
Carly has been a long time camper at Blithewold and this is her last Summer as she will be going into 6th grade next year:(
You have been a delight Carly, we will miss you and hope you come back as a CIT!
You are all bright and shining stars!

Local Wildlife- Dissecting Owl Pellets!

While some campers are completely engrossed in the project....

...... others are just

GROSSED

OUT!!!!!

Local Wildlife- The Parachute!!!

Local Wildlife Week- cont.

Campers show their appreciation to the animals by giving a sign-language round of applause!
Campers knew that by clapping, they would scare the animals and we wanted to earn their trust!

Next we were introduced to another friend... the Opossum. Did you know that the Opossum has over 50 razor sharp teeth and can't see very well?

Jen held the Opossum while he introduced himself to everyone!

While they can't see very well, Opossums sure can smell!
Here you can see that he found his lunch...CHERRIES!

Local Wildlife Week

Everyone loves a visit from the Zoomobile!!!
Jen from the Roger Williams Park Zoo gives the campers animal clues, such as paw prints and fir.
These young detectives are carefully examining all the evidence...

Some of the clues got pretty tricky...but she couldn't trick THESE campers!!!

Now it was time to see some of the animals we revealed. Meet Pieces the box turtle!
He has a brother named Bits.

Who doesn't love a screech owl?
Did you know that they don't have the muscles neccessary for peripheral vision?
Thats why they can turn their heads almost completely around!