Start a Creativity Camp and Artist's Retreat

I’ve got this up for sale on www.nancytoday.etsy.com

Description
Six days and five nights of fun, arts, crafts and relaxation in the hills of Eastern Ontario, Canada.

Depending on the interests and stamina of the guests, we will do two to three crafts a day and spend time with nature.

Crafts can include sketching, painting, making a willow basket, a birchbark towel holder, soap, paper, a birchbark covered journal and a hammock. Guests may feel free to suggest other crafts they see at our retreat.

We can learn to make a labyrinth, how to build a tipi, and how to identify and harvest some common wildfoods.

We will spend time sitting alongside the babbling, winding stream, lying in our hammocks in the shade, playing drums and other rustic instruments around the campfire.

Guests may sleep in our tipis, may camp in their own tent in the spacious yard or the woods, by the stream or one of the ponds.

If they prefer, they can find accomdation in local B&B’s. We will eat homestyle meals together around a campfire where we can also learn firebuilding and how to cook with a dutch oven.

Other options may include, learning about growing willow for baskets; visiting osprey nesting sites, a porcupine’s home, beaver ponds. If they are in bloom on time, we can visit the largest collection of pink lady slipper orchids in North America. We can hike to and enjoy a spring as well as a spring-fed stream.

We can take nature walks through Ontario wildlands. We may opt for some kayaking or swimming.

Nov. 28, 2006
859 pm

I have all of that. We can do all sorts of things with them. I have millions of ideas up my sleeve and can quickly complile a lot of thigns to do with each of them! Maybe I’ll compile that list now.

Nov. 28, 2006 845 pm

I forgot about those things, the many antlers that I have and all the jewelry making stuff.

I’ve also got four carded fleeces. We could do stuff with that. I wonder if I could make little dolls for decorations for the christmas tree with the fleece! What an interesting idea!

Nov. 28, 2006
820 pm

I need to make a list.

first, these will be two separate things.

the creativity camp will be for children. It can be a daycamp, or an overnight camp.

we will have creative activities.

First, we will have art with paint.

second, we will have art with natural materiaals.

those natural materials will be cedar branches, alder branches, leaves and sticks, willow and grapevine.

this is just to begin with. Now we can make racks or stands with the cedar branches. We can make little baskets with the alders.

We can use the willow to make baskets We can make wreaths with the grapevines and also baskets with the grapevines and the willow together.

We will go gather the materials and then prepare them.

they will be able to decide what they want to do with the materials, too.

Where I live it can happen. I have tipis people could sleep in. I have lots of land and water to inspire people.

I want to have a childrens summer camp next summer I think, right away!