Eileen Chadis Wood and Family
Eileen, Steve,
Ronin and Micah
December 2009
 Steve and I do not get older but here are
a few pictures of the boys.
 
Chanukah
2008 pictures by Micah E. Wood
Micah is a senior at MICA, Maryland
Institute College of art Sept. 2009 as
a photography major. To see more of his pictures go to Micahewood.com
Micah
loves taking pictures of bands and his photographs are
used on a few cd covers. 
Picture by Micah E.
Wood
Ronin graduated as agraphic design major also at MICA, Maryland Istitute College of
Art in Baltimore..
To see some of his work Roninwood.com.
He currently lives in New
York City and is a graphic designer
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!
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Updates? Specials?
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Who am I?
My name is Eileen Chadis Wood.
(Mrs. Stephen A. Wood) We have two
sons ages 24 and 21. 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 "Clay and
More" craft class at The
UJCVP Early Childhood Center for the past 14 years. Teaching in Newport News
and for 2 years at their satelight site in Williamsburg VA (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 20+ 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.)
 In 2007-09, I chaired a volunter commitee for the
Ferguson Center for
the Arts which is a incredible set of concert halls in Newport News VA at
Christopher Newport University. . It
is for Community Outreach to bring "Arts for All". I
orgainize community and neighborhood groups to attend events at the Ferguson
Center. It is very rewarding, as many of the groups are schools and senior
citizens. The committee helps them get discounted and sometimes free tickets to many
cultural events. Many of them would not have been able to attend with out our
help. Operas,
concerts, plays etc. Kept me very busy.
In addition to all of these web and volunteer 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.
Web and Newspaper Articles featuring Chadis Crafts' Fun Pages and
Eileen's Camp Crafts and Other Fun Things!
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.
Plus my beadie
projects have been used on various large craft sites and inspired manufacturing companies
including: Making Friends.com and
Jewish Educational Toys
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!
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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