Picture taken at
Rodef Sholom Temple, Hampton VA at Cabaret formal 2005 by © Tess Goldblatt
Welcome to Chadis Crafts' Fun Pages.
The new home of Eileen's
Favorite Craft Crafts and Other Fun Things. An everchanging
site for
crafts, fun and education for children of all ages. A guide for teachers, parents and kids
for general and Jewish crafts. Including: beadie animals, polymer clay, braiding,
and camp crafts. You will find links to hundreds of fun and educational
sites for: stories, games,
cool and yucky science and more. Included are suggestions and
guides to help teachers of: preschool, sunday schools, elementary schools,
camps, scouts and more. Every site is linked in different ways to make it easy
and safe for children and adults to find their way around large sites.
This site was created at the request of my former computer/web addicted campers at The
United Jewish Community Center of the Virginia Peninsula. All of whom
wanted to continue making their
camp projects throughout the year. For 6 summers I taught 4-5 classes a
day for 40 days. We produced about 3000 projects averaging about $.50
to $1.00 per day. Projects included: jewelry, plaster, friendly plastic,
sculpey clay, beadie animals, gymp, copper rubbing, etc. plus Jewish/Israeli
projects. I tried to avoid paper art work. Most parents can not possibly
save all of their children's school art work and camp work.
This site will be constantly changing, as I find more links
of interest to my former students ages 3 to 12. (So remember to CLICK ON RELOAD each time
you check my site!) I am also adding additional links,
for the parents, counselors and assistant counselors. Many are just
over - grown kids themselves, who are eager to "help" the kids,
as an excuse
to play too! (I have heard on numerous occasions that parents have even
hired baby sitters to watch their kids while the parent "works" at crafting.
Others play with clay after
the kids are in bed!!!) I hope this site will help me continue
to teach my former students and counselors, many of them have already started
to teach crafts themselves. May they continue to grow as teachers, while
having fun with crafts. ENJOY!
Who am I?
My name is Eileen Chadis Wood.
(Mrs. Stephen A. Wood) We have two
sons ages 18 and 15. I have been working/teaching in the field of crafts
on and off for 35 years. I worked/volunteered
at the UJCVP summer camp
for 6 summers. I am have been teaching a spring after school craft class at The
UJC Early Childhood Center for the past 12 years. (For more info and their mission
statement see:
Info)
Having lived most of my life in Chelsea, MA. I spent 2 1/2 years
in Champaign IL. and the last 16 years in Newport News, VA. I am a
former teacher/administrator in the field of Adult Basic Education and
Literacy. With the move to VA, I had tried to "retire".
Which in reality meant: I am working for little or nothing,
but enjoying it. My main love is to do community service work
at the UJCVP and
Rodef
Sholom Temple. Where I have been chairing some of their
education committees, helping with fund-raising (including the annual JCC
5K Race) plus a past member of the Temple Board. (For all of this, I was
presented the UJCVP 1997-98 Community Service Award.) But I am slowing down as I
grow older and the web keeps me busier.
Eileen's Camp Crafts and Other Fun Things was featured in an
article by Nancy Feigenbaum of the Daily
Press Newspaper on The Best Holiday Craft Sites for
Kids on the Web.
"Crafting an online holiday".. The on-line article even had a cute picture
of my sons that was featured in the Newspaper edition.
I has also
been featured in many issues of Shalom
Boston.com's web site. They have had me write articles on crafts and
celebrating Jewish holidays. Check out this interesting site.
Hopefully this page will finally explain to all of my friends and relatives across the country, what I am
doing with my "spare time" as a stay at home mom! |
In addition to the Eileen's Favorite Camp
Crafts and Other Fun Things I am also assisting my husband,
Stephen A. Wood, webmaster and designer for:
Genhomepage.com The first Comprehensive
Genealogy Web Site on the World Wide Web with over 2,700 links. To see
a partial list of the Genealogy
Home Page Awards and Distinctions.
The United Jewish Community Center of the
Virginia Peninsula.
For Information about the Virginia Peninsula, the
Jewish Community Center and links to Jewish and Other sites of interest
on the WWW. (Thank goodness after many years, we have a new webmaster taking over of the duties from us. Check out its new look and her great work!)
I also helped our children with a their
web site for Pokemon fans.
They have moved on but the site is still working
Ronin's and Micah's Pokemon Links and Crafts Page.Ronin has his own
webpage he designed himself. It is being redesigned soon. roninwood.com.
 Chadis Crafts now hosts :
York River Symphony Website'
http://www.yrso.org
York River Symphony plays in Virginia in
the
Hampton Roads/Peninsula area.
Eileen's husband Steve is currently
their webmaster,
on their board of directors and is the concert master in the Symphony.
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In addition to all of these web projects I am also the
owner/artist for: CHADIS CRAFTS AND KIPPOT.
http://www.chadiscrafts.com/
Chadis Crafts and Kippot is also the proud sponsor of
Eileen's Camp Crafts and Other Fun Things! now called Chadis Crafts' Fun Pages See pictures and ad below.
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