7/25: Artist Week

 For this week of the internship, the kids learned about various forms of art. To do this, the kids performed various arts and crafts alongside a field trip to the Crayola Experience at the Florida Mall.

Origami Jumping Frog
    When the kids performed art activities, the focus was to highlight          how art is more than just coloring with crayons or painting with           brushes. For instance, we taught the kids about how to make origami    frogs that are capable of jumping. We also showed the kids designs       are put onto fabric. The kids got to practice screen printing onto              canvas bags they got to keep. Lastly, the activity I think the kids were    challenged by the most is painting in unconventional ways. Whether       it was dragging strings across the paper, rolling wet marbles around,      or slamming cotton balls down, the kids got to see how to create art       outside of the traditional methods the kids are aware of. This carried       over to the field trip for the week as well.


The World's Largest Crayola Crayon

At the Crayola Experience, the kids mainly did their own thing with us supervising them. The kids performed various art activities like coloring an animal buddy, making a dancing paper pal, drawing with hot wax, or melting wax into molds to make various shapes. The main takeaway I had from this trip is the challenges in managing a field trip. This time around, we needed to get two buses to fit all of the kids. Once we got to the location, we needed to spread out the supervisors so all of the kids were properly watched. Besides that setup, the field trip went without much issue. 


The last little tidbit I wanted to touch on was working with one of the kids this week. One of the kids did not speak English very well. Thankfully, I have had experience working with non-English speakers at the Universal Orlando Resort. I made sure he understood what was going on and had fun at the camp. I did need to use a translation app as I did not speak any Chinese. I also made sure to keep my sentences simple since I know translations of East Asian languages struggle with translation apps given how different they are from English. I also informed a couple of the kids about this, and they also made an effort to make sure he had fun and helped him out. One of the kids walked around the Crayola Experience with him showing him what they could do. I was surprised how quickly the kids decided to help out with this situation. 


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