Children’s & Youth Activities

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Drawing is a skill that every child was born to do; it just takes a little know-how. Foster your student’s artistic promise with special courses from Creating a Masterpiece. This assortment of projects is available in a live demonstration exclusively at the Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference this year.

PROJECT 1: The instructors will lead children through the process of making a colored pencil drawing with a live demonstration and offer encouraging tips that will transform your child’s ideas of what fine art is all about. Children learn:

• Foundational drawing techniques.
• Beginning shading and value.
• That art is a skill anyone can master. Children will walk away with a finished drawing project and a newfound enthusiasm for drawing the objects that they didn’t think they could create.

PROJECT 2: Introduction to oil pastel techniques. Children learn: How to use oil pastels on specialty paper, the applied stages of progressing through a beginning landscape project, and that fine art is a skill they really can master!

What is a Leader?

Being a leader is more than being the loudest person in the room or having the smartest ideas. It’s more than being the most admired or the most famous. Paul shares a mixture of humorous personal experiences, impactful testimonies, and Scripture that shed light on the meaning of leadership.

Tools for Leadership

Everyone is a leader. What kind are you? Paul shares 7 practical steps to developing leadership. Teens will be entertained, and inspired hearing Paul share lessons from his own leadership journey and will walk away with real-life applications drawn from Scripture.

 An introductory and exploratory music class for our young music makers. The instruments and songs used are perfect for young musicians to cultivate their musical skills and interest, as well as build aural skills and promote gross and fine motor movements. We will be using singing, rhythm instruments, and movement in the class. 

During this program, students will learn how mammals are different from reptiles are different from birds. They will understand that animals all play roles in their ecosystems and are similar in some ways and different in others. Participants will get to see and be close to live small mammals, reptiles, and birds.

It’s challenging to grasp the big picture of the Bible. Yet this is one of the most important steps to opening up the Word of God to the hearts and minds of children (and adults too)! The Old Testament live event has been helping children and adults for more than 30 years unravel the mystery of Scripture and understand the big picture of the Bible.  Throughout the OTLive event, children become actively involved with stories, lessons, games, puzzles, and other interesting activities aimed at teaching Old Testament themes. Each activity stimulates imagination, fosters creativity, and enhances group participation. If this all sounds like too much fun, it’s because that’s how kids learn and retain most effectively.

Is God calling you as a writer? A speaker? A pastor? A communicator in different forms of media?

Because God is the ultimate storyteller, and history is His-story, God has hardwired his image-bearers to produce, consume, and communicate through story. Join Kenny Sargent, of Sargent Family Productions, for a two-hour introductory, deep dive into the heart and craft of story. This seminar will focus first on the role of story as coming from God’s heart. Next, the largest portion of time will be focused on various elements of story and how to significantly improve your communications through the effective use of story elements. Finally, the seminar ends with Q & A and next steps.  Bring a notebook or device. For those called to communicate, the material is a must-have.

In the beginning, God created all the animals, all the creepy, crawly things…and all the ladybugs! Join Lucy the Ladybug on a journey through her simple yet amazing life. Along the way, you’ll learn interesting facts about ladybugs, as well as some fascinating lessons she quietly illustrates about our Creator and the Christian life.

This book contains two sections: the story, which communicates facts about ladybugs and weaves in truths from the Gospel, and a section for parents, which is made up of questions, answers, and Scripture verses to help parents interact with their children about more Gospel truths and practical applications of Biblical principles. This is a fun, yet educational story, that is sure to be interesting and engaging for children of various ages.

Drawing is a skill that every child was born to do; it just takes a little know-how. Foster your student’s artistic promise with special courses from Creating a Masterpiece. This assortment of projects is available in a live demonstration exclusively at the Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference this year.

PROJECT 1: Students will create a landscape sketch in black and white colored pencil. They will love this project and will learn:

•  How to progress through the basic stages of a landscape project.
•  That value and shading dramatically impact the quality of a fine art drawing. 
•  That fine art is a skill anyone can master. It is not simply a talent only a select few have. Children will walk away with a finished fine art project and a newfound enthusiasm for drawing the objects that they love and see in the world around them every day.

PROJECT 2: Students will focus on creating three dimensional subjects in soft pastel and learn the following:

•  How to create a three-dimensional effect in their project.
•  To move back to front in a project.
•  The importance of proportion in perspective.
•  How to use shading to communicate the sources of light. 

Students will love designing their own projects in colored pencil and soft pastel. When they finish they will have been introduced to the core concepts they need to know to begin creating beautiful art of their own. 

What code did real knights follow? Chivalry has not only declined in recent years, but it’s also come to mean something very different than it originally did. Come learn about the original form of Medieval chivalry and discover how it can change your life today! During this presentation you will encounter tales of real knights to help learn the codes they followed. We will focus on the Ten Commandments of Chivalry, a description of knighthood written by a scholar named Leon Gautier. To add to the adventure, we will show off some armor and weapons of a medieval knight. And to top it all off, we’ll teach you some basic guards with a medieval long sword, get a padded blade into your hands, and give you a chance to prove your own martial skills!  Aaron is a master storyteller that presents in character and in costume.  The code can be found here.

In the beginning, God created all the animals, all the creepy, crawly things…and all the butterflies! Join Melody the Monarch as she grows from an egg to an adult through a series of glorious, miraculous transformations, all while teaching us lessons about the Christian life. Be prepared to be awed and inspired by our Creator’s incredible designs!  This book includes the story of Melody the Monarch butterfly Illustrated with nearly 60 color photographs.

The Lord has given us such a gift in being able to see the world around us. Even Darwin himself denounced “natural selection’s” ability to form the intricacies of the human eye and we will be reminded the only the Lord himself could knit together such a complicated anatomical structure. Participants will learn amazing facts about the human eye, how to draw the human eye, build it out of clay, AND then they can take it home. We complete our workshop by dissecting a preserved cow eye.