pickle super heros, turtled ice cream cones, and bananas that play the guitar

i've had a week of camp .... my church is hosting 80 children from the downtown area .... through the emmaus house .....

i am the story teller that starts the day out ... and then i'm leading a class ..... and the groups pass through my room all day .... 45 minute sessions .... 

 

i gave each kid a notebook ("do i get to keep it?") .... and have piles of crayons ....and black sharpies on the table .... i have one huge table so we are sitting around it family style .....about 15 at a time 

if you count all the kids and shepherds and helpers .... and me .....
 ... each day i've read the kids a story ... as a starter for what to draw ... 

and we let it go from there .... somehow we stalled out on pickles for quite a while ..... 

the prompt was : draw a pickle ....and then once everyone had a suitable pickle (it is amazing how many think they can't draw a pickle ... and 

nothing is easier than a pickle) .... once everyone has a pickle, you are meant to make it extraordinary ... and there was lots of extraordinary ......

some of the prompts were as simple as draw a square .... or a cloud .... or a circle .... 

it was fun to see how many different things a single prompt could produce ....

 in three days now, i have about 70 drawings  .... all as peculiar as these .... and two more days of disco pickles and banana bowling ..... 

 

which is your favorite?