MONROE — "Ooh! It’s turning gooey!" exclaimed 7-year old Colin Tate Saturday, his hands full of the blue slime he made in Super Slimy Science class at "Kids Create" Saturday at Monroe High School.
"Kids Create" is an annual creativity conference offered by the Monroe School District. About 400 children, ranging from kindergarten to seventh grade, stretched their creative minds to make masks, tissue paper art, movies and puppetry. Kids came from throughout Snohomish County for the event.
"This is the 17th year we’ve held ‘Kids Create,’" said director Katheryn Garrison. "It’s a one-day event that gives kids the chance to experience new, creative classes they may not get the chance to try."
In the printmaking class, 11-year-old Cody Dean drew a happy face with a tongue sticking out on a rubber pad, then used a tool to carve it out.
"There’s two ways to do it," he explained. "You can carve out the lines for negative (space), or you can knock off everything except the lines for positive (space)."
Then press it onto an inkpad and paper. The class first practiced several times by carving a potato, and then a plastic foam plate.
Angela DeMinter, 10, has been coming to "Kids Create" since she was in first grade. This was the first time she took the printmaking class.
"It’s a lot of fun. I’ve never made a stamp pad before," she said.
Joshua Quayle, 9, spent the morning making a scary mask from rubber foam, glitter and glue in the Marvelous Masks class.
"It’s supposed to be a deadly spider," Joshua said. "The orange fangs are poison, the yellow fangs I’m supposed to eat with, the red dot is supposed to scare the prey, and gold (glitter) is to warn the prey that I’m deadly."
In the middle of the day, the children stopped for lunch and a live performance of "The Hobbit" by the Traveling Lantern Theater Company.
"It’s fun — I want to come back next year," Joshua said.
Reporter Pam Brice: 425-339-3439 or brice@heraldnet.com.
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