Madera Unified students learn to make their own rugs at 'Magic Threads' winter camp

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- At the KLSD Education Building successful downtown Fresno, the satellite of possibilities stretches arsenic acold arsenic your imaginativeness - oregon astatine slightest arsenic acold arsenic your yarn.

"It's a bow with a achromatic outline. I was going to bash flowers but I didn't privation to," 5th people pupil Leilani Barrera said.

She was hard astatine enactment connected her creation.

She's taking portion successful 1 Madera Unified School District's caller wintertime camps called "Magic Threads."

Here, students larn however to tuft and make their ain rugs.

"It was hard astatine first, a small bit, but past it started getting easier," Leilani said.

Guevara Arts & Leadership partners with Madera Unified to thatch the camp.

Partnership and Engagement Manager Andrew Castro says the designs and colour prime are wholly up to the kids.

Students tin person a plan projected and traced oregon gully it themselves.

"We'll commencement them disconnected with thing simple, but erstwhile they commencement knowing what they tin do, their creativity goes brainsick and they commencement doing their anime, their sports, their demon hunters, their Labubus, their cartoons -- there's truthful overmuch popular civilization they tin take from, and we conscionable fto them person their future," Castro said.

A full of 20 MUSD students registered for the camp.

BMUSD Director of Expanded Learning Suzanne Dudney says astir 1,000 students are taking portion successful a assortment of camps this week successful Madera and Fresno.

She says she hopes students locomotion distant with caller activities that don't ever impact electronics.

"We truly anticipation that erstwhile we bring students these camps that we supply them with a fig of opportunities to acquisition thing new, possibly spark immoderate curiosity and immoderate caller involvement that they whitethorn not different been exposed to and possibly thing that they tin proceed connected their own," Dudney said.

Students adhd backing to their rugs and volition get to instrumentality them home.

For students similar Leilani, who has been to different wintertime camps successful the past, she says this 1 stood out.

"I deliberation this is the best," Leilani said.

The people wraps up this Friday, but Dudney said determination is simply a accidental it volition instrumentality this summer.

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