SEARSPORT —Camp and Create! Artist in Residence Angelika Paul will bed serving up Recipes for Disaster July 6 through July 12 at the Searsport Shores Ocean Campground. Steve Spencer, Captain of the LAUGHING GULL will be on hand to charter cruises of the Penobscot Bay.

By training Angelika Paul is a scientist with a Ph.D. in Biology, she’s also a mom with two young artists running around the house, so keeping them busy is an art in itself. With each unsatisfactory attempt at making finger paints that cracked, or colored sand that stayed brown, she got frustrated that the proportions of the ingredients were not great, and didn’t know what the variables were that would make each recipe a success.

Angelika and her children started testing and experimenting. They compiled the recipes they have tested and optimized into a handy, boxed collection: Recipes for Disaster.

During her week as Artist-in-Residence at Searsport Shores Ocean Campground  July 6 to July 12, Angelika will have a different theme each day. She will show you how to make colored sand, pasta, rice, and sugar, several different kinds of paint, dough, clay, slime, and bubbles. She will measure and cook and mix all these recipes from scratch and have several suggestions on what to create from the concoctions: marbled paper, bouncy balls, a colorful salt mandala.

Angelika’s sessions is perfect for all ages. She has been trying these recipes since her children were toddlers. At the same time, using some of these basic materials is only restricted by your creativity. Angelika will take pictures to add to her blog Playground Hunt.

As if that wasn’t enough fun for one week, Captain Steve Spencer of the Laughing Gull will be offering charter trips on Penobscot Bay. Captain Spencer has devoted his life to the water and loves to share his world of fishing and boating.

http://www.lgboatcharters.com/