Crafts for a French Madeline Camp
It’s time for my French summer camp! Tomorrow I set up my room, and then the fun begins on Monday. This year, I’m offering something new–a Madeline camp for rising K-2. I’m going to use my tried and true French camp program “Passport to French Fun.” My campers always have a BLAST preparing for an imaginary trip to Paris on the last day of the session. Only this time, we’re heading to Paris for Madeline’s birthday party!
Every day of camp, we’ll do a little something to get ready for the trip. We’ll learn a lot of French expressions, play French games, and sing French songs during daily language circle time. Also, I’ll read a different Madeline book every day and make a Madeline craft. Here are the craft ideas I have so far:
One of my favorite web sites, DLTK’s Growing Together, has a cute toilet paper roll Madeline craft.
These coloring pages are from a great site I just found and bookmarked–educationalcoloringpages.com. I might print some images onto cardstock and create bookmarks for the kids to color.
I am LOVING these adorable Madeline hats made from paper plates and bowls at Familyfun.com! (I’ll have a boy or two . . . think they’ll mind terribly?)
And here’s my own original contribution: we’re going to make “An old house in Paris that was covered in vines.” I’ll have the kids cut out a house shape from brown paper grocery bags. We’ll glue on white paper windows and fabric scraps for curtains. Maybe we’ll add several small construction paper blue squares for a shingled roof, too. Since it IS camp, we’ll head outside to look for a little nature to glue on as vines. Should be cute!
EDITED TO ADD:
Madeline Camp was a great success! The toilet paper roll Madelines were very cute, but we actually cut the body even shorter, maybe 3 inches or so. I read somewhere that there is often bacteria on toilet paper rolls, so we cut up a paper towel roll.
The hats were ADORABLE! We had to attach ribbons on the sides so that they did not slide off. The boys had an alternate project: tiger masks!
From Day 1, the kids were asking and asking to make an Eiffel Tower. We blinged out some craft foam with glitter, sequins, and jewels!
The bookmark came out cute, too. We attached a string of bleu-blanc-rouge pony beads.
Here’s a photo of some of our projects. You’ll also see the kids’ passports and envelopes holding their airline tickets and souvenirs.
Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically to your feed reader.
You are very kind and generous to share your wonderful ideas!