Carnival! Carnival! Carnival!

UNCA Spectrum — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:55:07 +0100

Hello Everyone! This past week at the Spectrum in Asheville was the last meeting of the Late Spring Session, but it was definitely a fun one! We had a Carnival! Complete with face painting, water balloons, a parachute, water guns, bean bag tosses, and four-square! It was so much fun and such a beautiful day to play outside!

Fun in the Sun!

UNCA Spectrum — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:54:11 +0100

This past Tuesday at the Spectrum in Ashevile was warm, sunny, and bright! We had two exciting rounds of activities! The first round consisted of Fun in the Sun, and Playdoh! In the fun in the sun group the kids started out by going on a scavenger hunt outside, then they all made hop scotch courses and took turns doing them all, then they made volcanoes using baking soda and vinegar, then they played a memory game! The Playdoh group began with playing tic-tac-toe mRead More...

Outdoor Cowboys with Bugs and Cars!!

UNCA Spectrum — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:46:45 +0100

This past Tuesday at the Spectrum in Asheville we had a great variety of amazing activities to choose from! In the first round we had Cowboys and A Day at the Beach! The cowboy group started out by making cowboy vests and badges! Then they went outside to round up some cattle using a hula hoop. Then they played some cowboy bowling! A day at the beach started out making leis! They were very colorful! Then they got their limbo on to find out how low they could go! ThRead More...

Dinosaurs and Jungle Games

Boone Spectrum — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:56:32 +0100

The first week at the Spectrum in Boone was a lot of fun! It was nice to see a few new faces this session. We started out by making baby chicks out of construction paper as we all got to know each other. Next, it was time to choose between two awesome lesson plans: Dinosaurs Galore or Jungle Fever!

Those who chose to hang with the dinosaurs got to make their own fossils and create some awesome dinosaur masks!

A lot of people seemed to really like Jungle Fever. We made snakes oRead More...

Outdoor Fun and Games!

UNCA Spectrum — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:52:46 +0100

This week at the Spectrum in Asheville the groups decided to take full advantage of the beautiful weather outside! We had two rounds of activities with two groups in each! The first round had to decide between Puppet Show Fun and A Stroll Outdoors! Puppet show fun started out by first making some amazing sock puppets, then they used them to act out The Three Little Pigs, then they went outside and played "puppet says", then they acted out Jack and the Beanstalk. A Read More...

Easter! Spring! Fun!

UNCA Spectrum — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:28:09 +0100

Hello all! This past Tuesday at the Spectrum in Asheville was full of bunnies, eggs, and springtime fun! We had two rounds of activities, the first round had a choice between Spring has Sprung and Eggcellent fun! Spring has Sprung started off by making bunny ears out of pipe cleaner and paper. Then they played pin the tail on the bunny! Lasatly they went outside to play Don't Break the Egg, they passed a hard boiled egg back and forth between while taking a step baRead More...

First Session of Late Spring!

UNCA Spectrum — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:48:17 +0100

This past Tuesday was the first meeting of the Late Spring Session at the Spectrum at UNC Asheville! We had three great activities! The first was called Just Plain Fun and in it the kids got to play a lot of little games! First they played Hot Potato which is always a favorite. Then they played Musical Chairs. Next they played monkey in the middle and lastly they played crab kickball in which they walked on the ground like crabs and played an interesting game of kiRead More...

The Last Early Spring Meeting!

UNCA Spectrum — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:58:17 +0100

This past Tuesday at the Spectrum in Asheville was sadly the last meeting of the Early Spring session, but it was definitely a blast! We had two rounds of activities with two choices in each round! The two in the first round were Outta This World and Transformers! Outta this world was aliens and outer spaced themed, the first game was called "to the moon and back" the kids had to craft their own spaces rocks on which they would travel to the moon and back by hoppinRead More...

Monsters, Dinos, Trucks and more!

UNCA Spectrum — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:40:36 +0100

Hello Everyone! This past Tuesday at the Spectrum in Asheville was our next to last meeting of the Early Spring Session! But is was tons of fun with five great activities! We had two rounds of activities like we did last week so there was a lot to choose from! The first round had two to choose from Dinomite, and Monsters!

In the Monsters group the kids played monster in the middle where they had someone stand in the middle and try to capture the mysterious Read More...

Shark Attack from Outer Space!

Boone Spectrum — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:25:10 +0100

Last Thursday was a beautiful day at the Spectrum, so we took advantage of it by going outside. We played a few silly games that mostly involved running around and playing with balloons. After it was discovered how easily the balloons would pop, all twenty were popped after about two minutes of being inside! Then we had to get creative and ended up racing and chasing each other around for a while.

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