Noctiluna camp teacher eagerly anticipates the Summer Creativity Camps, recalling the joy of past camps. This year’s curriculum includes book making, fiber arts, and surrealism. The camps promise a relaxed atmosphere, engaging activities, and outdoor play, fostering creativity while preparing students for the upcoming school year.
This year’s Noctiluna Summer Camp focused on fostering creative thinking, problem solving, and ideation through activities such as ancient illustration and storytelling as well as transit design and urban planning. The campers also had plenty of time for playing and having fun, contributing to their overall growth and development.
Now it is October, I can finally step back and take a look at my September – also known as Septembuary. Septembuary, because September is really January for many parents, especially parents who work from home. In Septembuary you get a fresh start. The kids go back to school and all of a sudden, your …
A riveting guide to the best Noctiluna Art Summer Camps from 2014 t0 2022
I often say that the Noctiluna Art Camp is the best kept secret in Vienna VA. I know so many families in this town through the camp. Often when grocery shopping, a kid will yell “Ms Chitra!” across the store, and almost every time I visit my daughter’s high school, a former camper will spot …
Blogging has always been a weird activity for me. I mean, first of all, I’m quite a private human (my daughter calls me a cat). Sharing my thoughts and feelings on a public forum normally feels terrifying. I’m that person who can’t even chime in on a Facebook post about Indian food, despite having so …
When I first started running summer camps in 2012, I would run them from my home. The camps were small, and all the kids (including my own) were tiny. They were wonderful, high octane fun, but my house got a bit of a battering. I still have the paint marks on my furniture! As time …
I have been feeling pretty despondent over the past couple of weeks, and it has been difficult for me to cobble together even the tiniest of positive posts lately. After a period of hibernation, and greatly reduced productivity, I finally got myself back to full steam at work yesterday. I did this by focusing on the glimmers …
Normally when I say a post is going to be short, it doesn’t turn out that way. This is because brevity has never been something I’m good at (just ask my husband). Today, however, after spending a whole morning trying to get my computer to play nice and failing miserably (apparently Macs need their Sundays off), and …
I am more thankful than usual that it is a Friday, this week has been nothing but an uphill struggle. First of all, there was/is the dark, dank weather, the howling wind, and the general feeling that Dementors are floating about in my neighborhood. Then, seeing as it is Springtime (can you sense my sarcasm?), my nine year old …
