Creating memories: Peters Township Rec Center hosts jewelry camp
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Brinlee Whitmer, 7, left, and Chloe Kosir, 7, concentrate on creating colorful necklaces during jewelry camp at Peters Township Rec Center. As she worked, Kosir sported gum band bracelets handmade at camp.
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Supplies and works of art decorate a table inside Peters Township Recreation Center on the last day of jewelry camp for young creatives. Maggie Sortwell crafted the butterfly earrings, rose and keychain from clay, and other artists made the paper rings and fox figurine dotting the landscape.
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Maggie Sortwell, 12, left, and Penny Mizia, 11, enjoy a morning of friendship bracelet-making at Peters Township Rec Center, where the two attended jewelry camp. The two enjoyed access to supplies not available at home and liked learning new techniques.
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Malin O’Connor, 9, of Peters, braids a friendship bracelet during jewelry making camp. O’Connor and her younger sister, Quinn O’Connor, 6, enjoyed making art and friends during the three-day camp.
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Youth were creative at Peters Township Recreation Center, where Andrew Ringel, of White Oak, led a jewelry-making class July 5 through 7 for kids ages 6 through 12.
About a dozen girls spent their days crafting paper beads from origami paper, learning chevron and other stitches to create friendship bracelets and hand-making clay earrings and figurines.
“I really like making things with clay,” said Maggie Sortwell, 12, of Peters. “I feel like it’s easier to shape than paper.” While sporting an arm’s worth of bracelets made during camp, Sortwell explained that she enjoys creating at home, but the three-day event exposed her to new art forms. “I have lots of supplies here that I don’t have at home,” she said. “Sometimes it’s hard to find time. I get four hours just to make art.”
Penny Mizia, 11, of Nottingham Township, said she loved making bracelets and enjoyed learning new techniques, while Malin O’Connor, 9, of Peters echoed Sortwell’s passion for clay. But, she said, all the jewelry-making was enjoyable.
“I just like art,” O’Connor said, braiding a bracelet. “It’s always fun. It’s never done. You always have new ideas.”
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