If you have children or grandchildren and are looking for summer activities for them, Tryon Fine Arts Center offers theme-based summer art and music camps for young children during two weeks in June and July.

Kindermusik educator Bryant Belin will lead the Kindermusik classes, and the art classes will be taught by Spartanburg County District One art teacher Julia Snyder.
From June 25-29, the subject of the music and art camp will be Zoo Train, designed to inspire the little ones through art, music and imaginary play activities about elephants, giraffes, parrots, kangaroos and more.

From July 23-27, children will explore, play, dance and sing about all things above us, such as sunshine, kites, birds, stars and clouds in the program called Up in the Sky.
Kindermusik Adventures Camps foster the total development of young children through a combination of music and movement.

During the five days of classes parents with newborns, toddlers and children 4-7 years old can participate in Kindermusik activities – jingling bells, pounding drums, floating scarves, “hooting” owl sounds and moving little feet in time to music – for a learning experience for both the child and the parent or caregiver.

Young children ages 5-8, and 4-year-olds with their parents, will explore more about animals and things up in the sky creating art projects during the art class.

Over the course of the week, students will make their own colorful art projects that they can take home with them.

While each class is offered as an individual experience, TFAC Education Director Marianne Carruth said, “I strongly believe that combining the art class with the Kindermusik class offers a deeper world of discovery and adventure.

Children can experience the thematic ideas introduced in Kindermusik through another means of self-expression. In every class, you’ll witness your child’s developmental evolution in the arts, and it happens within a nurturing environment – full of energy and play.”

Classes will be held in studio A and studio B at Tryon Fine Arts Center from 10-10:40 a.m. and 10:45-11:30 a.m.

Registration and more information are available at www.tryonarts.org or by calling Tryon Fine Arts Center at 828-859-8322.

– article submitted by Marianne Carruth