The Ashe County Arts Council sponsored Spring Fest last weekend. The theme for this year's Spring Fest was "Dive Into the Arts". When the quilt guild asked for volunteers to help out I volunteered to man the hand print table.
My sister and I arrived at 10 AM and the fest was in full swing. The entire gym at the West Jefferson School was filled with over two dozen art activities. There was a roving magician who balanced boxes and a metal chair on his chin and sometimes wore a box over his head with a white board in the front so children could draw a face on it. There were crafts of all kinds. Next to us was a table full of seashells and do-dads to glue on them. Kids were making things from fibers, clay, paper, plastic, egg cartons, feathers, paints and beads.
Our group made hand prints. A child would lay their hand on a piece of fabric of their choice, and we would trace around it. Then we cut it out and ironed it onto a piece of muslin for them to sign and take home. The older kids did the work themselves, except for the ironing.
We were entertained all morning long by dancers, cloggers, singers and magicians. By 1 PM I could not wait to hightail it out of there because the pounding music gave me a pounding headache. Our group made over 100 handprints that day and sent home over 100 memories.
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