We love Holiday camps!!!

The colours, shapes and variety of creatures in the insect kingdom make them an amazing inspiration for the growing artist. This week we will create some beautiful creations, all inspired by different species and creatures… From Bronzed metal beetles, to radiant collage butterflies and intricate wire grasshoppers, your child will enjoy a week of variety, art and beauty. We will explore

• Alcohol dye and mineral paper
• Embossing
• Wire sculpture and bead work
• Recycled plastic sculpting
• Magic clay and armature sculptures

Explore the worlds of fairy tales; through an amazing week of picture-book creation, modelling, paper construction, sculpture and clay or fabric and embroidery art. Your child will explore famous (and not so famous) stories through a fantastic range of art media and techniques.

• Design, write, and illustrate their own picture book
• Create a ‘puppet theatre’ of the story of their choice with characters, a stage, sets and props
• Dry felt and embroider a famous scene
• Let their imagination go wild in our maker space.

Create the vacation video that you didn’t have in 2020

This is an amazing camp to support students in using digital devices in new and balanced ways; integrating ‘mess-making’ with digital media. Students will...

• Design and create stop-motion animations of their dream vacation using lego, plasticine, and a range of natural materials
• Hand make props, themes and characters
• Use Pro-Create to create animated holiday photos
• Develop their photography skills on a guided walk of the surrounded neighbourhood

As we will be leaving the studio for segments of time, students will need to bring a hat, sunscreen and insect repellent in their bags.

Throughout this camp, your child will have opportunities to respond to classic Christmas stories by creating a miniature Christmas Village. They will explore model making, and work on both a very small and very large scale. By the conclusion of the week, they will have some beautiful art pieces to decorate your home and Christmas tree.

• Draw, design and create a miniature Christmas Village
• Explore the art of model making
• Photograph and print their models as illustrations in their own Christmas book
• Write and hand-letter cards and pages
• Use modelling techniques to complete their beautiful designs. 

During the week leading up to Christmas eve, we will focus on using a range of art forms to get your child ready for the Holiday. This will be a week of expression and beauty as we encourage your child to make and write cards and gifts that are meaningful and resonate with their voice.

They will…

• Create and write Christmas cards
• Design and print wrapping paper
• Hand make ribbons and decorations for gifts
• Create Christmas decorations, using natural materials
• Design Christmas wreaths

What better way to end 2020, than to turn it into art?!!! Students will collect artefacts from home, as well as clippings to create a 3D collage time capsule that not only reflects on the highs and lows of this historic year, but also allows them to paint, draw and dream for the year ahead. Due to News Years Eve, this camp will only run for 3 days, and will have options for older students as well.

• Create a collage/ mixed media diary  
• Create an artefact sculpture using steampunk and retro punk stylings
• Hand-make, paint and seal your ‘time capsule
• Develop photography skills, print and create a digital collage using filters and layers

Write, film and produce a 30 minute News channel of all that has been good and exciting in the chaos of 2020

Our version of John Krasinki’s popular YouTube series ‘Some Good News’ Our students will create and build sets, write news stories, create animations, present, film and edit together a 20 minute Episode. Students will…

• Write, script and perform/present a series of news clips
• Take turns in all aspects of production, including lights, cameras, sound, presentation, costuming and set design
• Edit the clips together using iMovie on iPad
• Create title animations using iStopmotion pro and Pro-Create

Please note that the age range for this camp is 6-13 years of age.

Space will be limited due to the availability of iPads, early booking is absolutely advised.

Explore the mystery of this ‘breakout camp’ as our students join forces with Santa and his elves on a mission to de-populate the naughty list and bring gifts to every child. The Camp will take place within the fabulously themed ‘Santa’s workshop’ at Inspired Arts TRIO, and will include all the fun and imagination that you can expect from an interactive drama camp. Students will…

• Participate in the breakout challenges, solving puzzles and games whilst working together and engaging with role-play drama
• Design a plan that will help Santa move a list of his ‘most wanted’ children onto the good list through games, art, drama and dance activities.
• Present a ‘mystery dinner theatre’ to parents and friends in our final performance.  (depending on Covid restrictions at the time) 

This camp is only available at TRIO, and is an interactive camp that infuses Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Art. It will conclude on Thursday with a 30 minute interactive performance. Please note that numbers are limited for this camp. All students will receive a framed picture of their time in ‘Santa’s Workshop’ as part of the experience.

Twas the Night before Christmas and all through the house… This ‘break-out camp’ would be best described as a break-in camp! The kids will arrive Students will arrive in the fabulously themed ‘Santa’s workshop’ at Inspired Arts TRIO and work with Santa and his elves to pack and prepare the sleigh, solve a series of breakout room challenges, games and puzzles to deliver presents and gifts in a range of themed rooms. Students will

• Participate in the breakout challenges, solving puzzles and games whilst working together and engaging with role-play drama
• Help fix the Sleigh, assign the right gifts to the right homes, and in ‘Arthur Christmas’ Style, navigate the tricks and traps of each uniquely themed room, to deliver the presents to each home
• Each day will include a breakout challenge, dance, drama and visual arts engagements… all themed around the popular Christmas story ‘The night before Christmas’

This camp is only available at TRIO, and is an interactive camp that infuses Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Art. It will conclude on Thursday with a 30 minute interactive performance. Please note that numbers are limited for this camp. All students will receive a framed picture of their time in ‘Santa’s Workshop’ as part of the experience.

Explore the mystery of this ‘breakout camp’ as our students join forces with Santa to pack and prepare the sleigh for Christmas. The Camp will take place within the fabulously themed ‘Toy workshop’ at Inspired Arts TRIO, and will include all the fun and imagination that you can expect from an interactive drama camp. Students will…

• Participate in the breakout challenges, solving puzzles and games whilst working together and engaging with role-play drama
• Design, create and build toys and gifts, . 
• Perform dances and songs (depending on Covid restrictions at the time) in our final performance. 

This camp is only available at TRIO, and is an interactive camp that infuses Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Art. It will conclude on Thursday with a 30 minute interactive performance. Please note that numbers are limited for this camp. All students will receive a framed picture of their time in ‘Santa’s Workshop’ as part of the experience.

Students will create models of the Hollow earth, with worlds of fantasy woven into caves and tunnels. Inspired by famous works of fiction, your child will take this theme into amazing and unique directions; from the sci-fi to the prehistoric.

• Create a model of the hollow earth 
• Invent and design steampunk drilling machines
• Make working volcanoes 
• Design ‘inner-space- suits’ 
• Make creatures and plants to inhabit their model
• Create fossilised artwork, bones, and more, using a range of mixed media techniques

We will split the camps according to age, allowing students that are 12+ to take a more sophisticated and dynamic direction.