Art Committee Helps Make Mothers' Day Special for Faculty Moms

By Danielle Chaput, Art Department Chair
The incoming 2018-2019 Art Committee hosted a special activity for the faculty and staff children on Sunday, May 6th. This event is an early initiation into the Art Committee and is a wonderful opportunity for the students to get the feel for some of the responsibilities they will be taking on in the next school year. Our goal as a committee is to spread the love of art and to get people excited about the endless opportunities in the arts here at Eaglebrook. Mother's Day gift making was the theme for Sunday and the Evans building was abuzz with the laughter and delighted squeals of young children. Preparation for the event began during the Saturday Morning Activity period when thirteen boys helped to pull all of the varied project details together. Cutting vase holder parts, sanding material for drink coasters, grinding stained glass scraps for mobiles, making signs for the many activity stations, gluing up pen blanks, fashioning natural edged walnut for cutting boards and drilling holes for a dip bowl, cutting poster board to make placemats, sorting seashells and beads for jewelry making and finally cutting chosen shapes of pine on the scroll saw and drilling holes to turn them into clocks, kept all of the student workers pretty busy. The young ones went home with one or two finished gifts and everyone had a great afternoon. Frosting cookies and adding decorations accompanied by a cold glass of lemonade topped the event off. I think we are still sweeping up candy butterflies in the Stained Glass room. See photos from the day here
 
A big thank you goes out to all of the boys who helped to make this special day possible. They were all stars and we even had a Third and a Fourth Former stop by on Sunday to lend a hand by sharing their woodburning and other woodshop experience. It looks as if next year’s Art Committee will be just as active as this year’s and it was one eventful year.
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