Peep my newest coloring sheet.  The NY fitted caps.  Just in time for the playoffs.  Kids have been enjoying these up in my Cultural Art Center at work.  And so have the adults!  I recently went head to head (pun intended) with my dude June, who has a daughter in my program, to see who could color in the freshest fitteds.  Which two hats are you feeling more?  Leave your vote in the comments section.  Oh, and pardon the S on METS getting cut off, it’s the scanner’s fault!!!!

JUNE

IP

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Watch the video of this staff dance battle we had at the BGC towards the end of the summer.  Fun!!!

For lots more videos and pics, and the latest BGC news, stay tuned to the BGC’s Culture Blog that I started in the spring…

BGC CULTURE BLOG

I’m back baby!  Got some fresh new coloring sheets for the 2009 camp season.  Only the flyest pages for the youth.  Try to find these somewhere else in the world.  Yes, I take pride in my coloring sheets (I draw them myself).  Usually, for the sneaker sheets I draw one sneaker nice and big for the kids to color (see the bottom of this post), but I thought it would be cool for the Air Yeezy (Kanye West’s new Nike sneaker) to give them a chance to design their own collection, since that’s what Kanye did.  Here’s a couple examples of what the kids did with them.  These were done by a couple of pre-teen members that frequent my Cultural Arts Center at the BGC (Boys and Girls Club)…

Check out my other new one, the iPod Touch.  The kids love this one.  I’m excited to see what they can do with it.  Check out a couple examples below of what they’ve done so far.  Not bad huh?

And here is the first Sneaker of the Week winner from the 2009 summer season, off one of my original sneaker designs…

Stay tuned for more winning designs from this summer.  And for all previous Sneaker and iPod of the Week winners, and more sneaker coloring sheets and other fresh pages for kids, check the link below…

WESTCHEDDAR COLORING SHEETS

Here’s my latest sneaker coloring sheet, the BGC Force, based on the Nike Air Force 180 Charles Barkley’s…Check out some of the finished products done by our club members, kinda hot…

And here’s my attempt at a fresh color scheme…pardon me I’m color blind…it looks fly to me!!!!

More sneakers to come in 2009…not sure what I’m gonna do next, any suggestions?  leave a comment if you’d like and let me know…peace….

Wow, this contest has gotten very competitive. The summer campers at the BGC are pumping out new designs like HOT CAKES. Here are the week #3 and #4 winners…

WEEK #3 SNEAKER WINNER

WEEK #3 IPOD WINNER

 

WEEK #4 SNEAKER WINNER

WEEK #4 IPOD WINNER

So the same girl won both contests in WEEK #3, and then a new girl came along and won both contests in WEEK #4.  The counselors have been getting into it too, check out the COUNSELOR SNEAKER OF THE WEEK from last week, it’s pretty sick…

The competition continues…

 

I’m running an ongoing contest this summer in my Cultural Arts Center for campers to come up with the sickest Sneaker and Ipod designs using my coloring sheets. Here are the winners from Week #1 and #2….

 

Week #1 Winners

 

10 Year Old Theresa swept Week #1…

 

Week #2 Winners

 

The competition is getting crazy.  See you next week…

One thing I’ve learned in my decade of running youth programs is that kids (and staff!) love to color.  Sometime back in my first year working with Kidsco, Inc. down in Gaithersburg, Maryland, I started making my own coloring sheets in response to the repetitive Disney ones that we kept using.  I wanted them to reflect the culture of our program and what was going on in our world.  My style kind of developed on its own, and the elementary school kids became obsessed with them.  Eventually I had a bunch of original coloring sheets running through all the schools Kidsco had programs in.

When I began last September as the Cultural Arts Director at the Boys and Girls Club up in Mt. Kisco, I resurrected some of my old coloring sheets and gave them a new life.  In the process, I made a bunch of new ones too that focused on the interests of our club kids.  Everyone embraced them heavily.  Even the older kids in middle and high school love them.  It gives them a chance to design their own color schemes and patterns for sneakers, sports uniforms, Ipods, etc.  They are fun to color, especially when kids are looking for a relaxing activity to do while they sit, talk with their friends, and listen to music.  I do weekly contests for sneaker and Ipod of the week, the winners of which I will start posting soon (stay tuned!).  They really come alive when they are all colored in.  For now, check out my 2007-2008 school year collection raw and uncolored, which I recently compiled into a book: