I have spent the past four years working as an art teacher for children at Darien High School. I attended high school here and am now fortunate enough to be an employee here where I have spent summers teaching kids all types of new arts and crafts activities. The summer school has about 150 different programs for children to come and enjoy. The program that I have been apart of for years is the Sports and Arts camp designed for first to fifth graders. This program lets the children participate in physical activities for the first half of the day and then participate in elaborate arts activities which involve varied materials: clay sculpture, painting, printing. As an active employee, I can say I have never seen a child bored in the arts program. It’s highly impossible! It allows the children to not only become more artistic but more empathic and more sympathetic, so to speak. For instance, you see third graders focused intensely on creating a clay bowl for their parents or a card for their siblings. It is rare that the objects they create are for themselves. In this way, we see art as a motivating tool, or vehicle to resilience. The children also have fun in the craft-making process. This is evident in their laughter and smiles. On th last day, the children are always excited for the huge water balloon fight in the field in which they can play with all the friends they made at camp that summer. We thought it would be a great way for the children to finalize up a summer of sports and arts by throwing water balloons and laughing with friends.