2008 Woodie Awards
SIUE will teach children to make their own jewelry
Soni Kumar
Issue date: 7/2/08 Section: A&E
Instead of spending money at a jewelry store this summer, children can create their own beaded necklaces and bracelets for themselves and family at SIUE's jewelry camp.
Children will be able to learn jewelry making design skills from senior art education major Beth Speer of Hampshire during the camp beginning Monday.
SIUE's Art and Design department will sponsor the camp which is open to children from kindergarten to 12th grade. Participants can keep any jewelry they make.
Speer will provide the children with one-on-one instruction on how to create different types of jewelry, from earrings and necklaces to bracelets, belts and rings.
"Kids all around love art, and it's fun for them," Speer said. "The kids love making stuff they can wear home to show their parents."
Campers will learn how to weave, make their own jewelry boxes and create origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, to make sculptures such as flowers or birds.
Summer arts coordinator Michael Kathriner from Glen Carbon explained how the camp is beneficial to the children.
"This camp is to introduce the kids to a wide variety of jewelry making using materials they haven't used before," Kathriner said.
Kathriner said the campers will use an assortment of beads to create jewelry, and also learn how to create their own beads out of clay and paper.
According to Speer, the children will participate in learning about art in a group setting and in other activities and games,such as making wire sculptures.
Senior biological sciences major Adaora Onyemeluke from Springfield participated in a similar camp when she was a child.
"When I was little, we made necklaces out of macaroni," Onyemeluke said. "The jewelry camp (keeps) the kids busy in the summertime and it also gives them something to wear."
Speer said the personal attention children receive offers them more than a traditional classroom setting.
"The kids learn more in this camp than in a class of thirty," Speer said.
The jewelry camp takes place 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday in rooms 3200 and 3201 of Alumni Hall. The price for camp is $65 a person. Registration is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome.
For more information, contact Darlene Darby at 650-3138.
Children will be able to learn jewelry making design skills from senior art education major Beth Speer of Hampshire during the camp beginning Monday.
SIUE's Art and Design department will sponsor the camp which is open to children from kindergarten to 12th grade. Participants can keep any jewelry they make.
Speer will provide the children with one-on-one instruction on how to create different types of jewelry, from earrings and necklaces to bracelets, belts and rings.
"Kids all around love art, and it's fun for them," Speer said. "The kids love making stuff they can wear home to show their parents."
Campers will learn how to weave, make their own jewelry boxes and create origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, to make sculptures such as flowers or birds.
Summer arts coordinator Michael Kathriner from Glen Carbon explained how the camp is beneficial to the children.
"This camp is to introduce the kids to a wide variety of jewelry making using materials they haven't used before," Kathriner said.
Kathriner said the campers will use an assortment of beads to create jewelry, and also learn how to create their own beads out of clay and paper.
According to Speer, the children will participate in learning about art in a group setting and in other activities and games,such as making wire sculptures.
Senior biological sciences major Adaora Onyemeluke from Springfield participated in a similar camp when she was a child.
"When I was little, we made necklaces out of macaroni," Onyemeluke said. "The jewelry camp (keeps) the kids busy in the summertime and it also gives them something to wear."
Speer said the personal attention children receive offers them more than a traditional classroom setting.
"The kids learn more in this camp than in a class of thirty," Speer said.
The jewelry camp takes place 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday in rooms 3200 and 3201 of Alumni Hall. The price for camp is $65 a person. Registration is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome.
For more information, contact Darlene Darby at 650-3138.
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