The 5 to 6 year old campers dip their paintbrush in a small pool of paint before beginning to design their wand. The wands are created using short sticks that the campers selected from the picnic table area outside after burning off their energy on the playground and swings.

They decorate their sticks with the numerous paint colors the counselors poured in the middle of each table that was first draped with plastic covers. At one of the tables, the campers become excited seeing the range of colors presented on the table and mix them together. They form countless different colors and no two spots of paint are identical shades.

Some utilize these new hues to create an abstract wand where an extensive variety of colors can be spotted while others prefer to decorate their wand with straight-forward designs using the standard colors that can be found among the hues, such as one wand that a camper painted magenta with white dots near the ends and yellow with light blue dots in the middle.

Meanwhile, the campers at the other table adorn their wands with stripes using the full color assortment provided: orange, red, white, light blue, darker green, magenta, and yellow. They stick to these seven colors until one realizes that they can put a small amount of red on the table near them before washing their brush and mixing in a little white to create pink. They immediately share their revelation with the rest of the table who reciprocate the excitement.

The campers have fun discovering how to make different colors and asking each other how they formed a shade. One of the campers decides to paint their entire wand their favorite color, purple, while two other campers repaint their stripes using some of the new colors they mixed.

Their new assortment of colors includes light yellow, baby blue, peach, mint green, lime green, pink, light burgundy, brown, and more.

Through the art projects the campers merge their creativity with the skills they learn to best express themselves.