The girls, and Kurt, all smiled excitedly as Miss Emma announced their arts and crafts project, but the boys in the room rolled their eyes and groaned, except for Blaine, who simply sunk down in his seat.

"Now just make sure not to make a mess, but if you do, remember that cleaning up can be really fun-" Kurt ignored her to make sure he was the first over to where everything was kept, wanting to get first choice of everything.

When Blaine walked up next to him, he smiled. "Hi, Blaine, want to sit next to me?"

Blaine smiled. "Sure! What are you going to make for your mom and dad?"

Kurt looked down a moment. "Um... just my dad, my mom passed away."

Blaine frowned. "Oh, I'm sorry, Kurt."

"It's okay, what are you going to make?"

Blaine shifted uncomfortably. "I'm not sure yet."

"Well, if you need any help, just ask. My mom and I use to make stuff all the time, so I'm really good at it."

Blaine smiled again. "Thanks."

"This is so lame! Why do we have to do the girly stuff?" Puck asked.

"Well, Noah, maybe you could build something out of these popsicle sticks, building, that's... that's manly, right?" Miss Emma said, Puck simply rolled his eyes.

"Whatever." He mumbled, grabbing the popsicle sticks and stomping over to his seat next to Finn, who was trying to tie a bunch of different colored strings together... no one was really sure of what he was doing.

Tina and Mercedes both got to work with the crayons, Santana and Quinn heading over a little later, Rachel had started painting, and Blaine was messing with pipe cleaners. Things were pretty quiet, except for Puck "accidentally" gluing one of his popsicle sticks to Finn's forehead, until one of the little boys got up and walked across the room to get something.

"Why are there two men in the picture with you? I thought you were suppose to be making a present for your family."

"I am!" Rachel said proudly. "This is my family, I have two dads."

"That's weird."

"It is not!"

"Yeah it is, your whole family is weird, you're not suppose to have two dads, that's wrong."

"It's not wrong!"

Everyone had turned to look, it was kind of difficult not to notice Rachel's loud voice. Before anyone could really react, the boy had managed to spill paint all down the front of Rachel's clothes. Her eyes instantly filled with tears, and Miss Emma had rushed over, though she looked afraid to touch Rachel.

"Dave Karofsky! That was not nice! Now you apologize to this little girl right now!"

"No way."

"David."

He said nothing.

"You are coming with me, Rachel, I'll be back in a minute to help clean you off." She said, shooing Dave out of the room. Kids instantly started whispering, wondering where she was taking him.

"I didn't know they had a principals office at camp." Finn mumbled.

Blaine looked down at what he'd been making, before getting up and walking over to Rachel, who was still sobbing, although upon closer inspection Blaine couldn't help but wonder if she was really crying, or if she was just crying for the attention... if she was, she sure was a good actress.

"Here, Rachel... I was making it for somebody else, but I thought it might make you feel better." he said, handing her the flower he'd made out of pipe cleaners. Her smile got huge.

"That's very sweet of you, um..."

"Blaine."

"Blaine, thank you very much." She said before kissing him on the cheek. He walked back to his seat, but before he could get there, he felt Finn grab his arm.

"Dude, how'd you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Get Rachel to like you so much!"

"I was just nice."

"Well, is that how I'd get Rachel to like me?"

"No man, you gotta ignore her." Puck said.

"But, Blaine didn't ignore her and he got a kiss on the cheek."

"What do you want a kiss on the cheek from her for anyway?"

Finn got quiet.

"If you really wanna pay attention to that Berry kid, just be rude to her."

"You mean like gluing popsicle sticks to her face." Finn mumbled bitterly.

"Yeah!"

"I don't think she'd like that after getting all that paint spilled on her." Blaine said softly.

"Well, what'd you do that made her so happy?"

"I gave her the flower I made out of pipe cleaners."

"I could do that!" Finn looked at all the different colored string that he'd basically just tied in way too many knots, walking over to Rachel.

"Hi, Rachel... I'm sorry you got paint on your clothes, that's gotta suck."

She raised her eyebrows at him.

"But I made you something to cheer you up."

She looked over the big knotted mess, biting her lip.

"Thanks, Finn... what is it?"

"I don't really know, but you're like, super creative and stuff, I thought maybe you could come up with an idea." She instantly lit up at that comment.

"Thanks!"

Blaine smiled at Rachel and Finn and Puck looked like he was about to barf, Blaine walking back over to his table and quickly starting on a new project.

"Blaine, what's the rush, everyone else stopped working."

"I know, but I gave away my present, so I have to start on a new one."

Kurt opened his mouth to continue, but was cut off by a voice.

"Hey, can I borrow that crayon?"

Kurt looked up at the girl, a bit surprised.

"Hey! White boy, can I have the crayon, or what?"

"Oh, sure, sorry." He wasn't use to girls just coming up and talking to him, the kids at his school tended to avoid him.

"Thanks. I'm Mercedes, by the way."

"Kurt. Nice to meet you. So what are you using the crayon for?"

"I was going to melt them over the picture."

"What?"

"Well, coloring seems a little first grade, except to that Brittany girl, but Tina, Quinn, Santana, and I had this great idea. We get a hair dryer, and put all the crayons at the top of the paper, then when we blast them with the dryer, they melt down the papers and we have creative gifts for our parents."

Kurt's smile grew. "That's amazing! Can I come see?"

"Sure!" She said smiling. "Does your friend want to come too?"

Kurt turned back to Blaine. "Hey, Blaine, want to come check out Mercedes art project?"

"Um, I'll catch up, I just want to finish this."

"Okay." Kurt said before following after Mercedes.

"You're sure we're not going to get into trouble for melting the camps crayons?"

"No, I asked, Miss Emma said it was fine since we had more than enough crayons as long as we didn't make a mess, and that we cleaned it up if we did."

After Miss Emma returned and helped Rachel clean up, and ended up cleaning Mike as well since he apparently thought a great gift to his parents would be to step in paint and dance across the paper, things got quiet again, except for the noise of the hair dryer Quinn had run to get from her cabin.

Puck was in trouble for making his popsicle fort... inappropriately shaped, Rachel was teaching Finn the proper way to hold a paint brush, and Blaine was still working extremely hard on his pipe cleaner project.

Finally, Blaine headed over to where Kurt was.

"Boy, you were really working hard on your project for your parents, can I see the finished result?" Kurt asked hopefully.

"Actually, I wasn't making a present for my parents, I made something for you."

Kurt looked surprised. "For me?"

"Yeah." Blaine said, handing Kurt a pipe cleaner flower that was far more detailed than the one he'd given Rachel, obviously he'd spent a lot of time on it.

"Sorry, I gave your first present away to Rachel, but she was crying, so-"

"No, that's okay, this flowers amazing... thank you, but... why'd you make me a present? What about your mom and dad?"

"Oh, that's okay... they'll both be away on business trips when I get home, so I can always work on a present for them while they're gone when I'm stuck home by myself. But I might not see you again after camp, so I wanted to make you that."

Kurt had no idea what to say, nobody had ever made him something like that before. "Thank you, but... I feel bad, I didn't make you anything, I was so busy working on things for my dad."

Blaine shrugged. "That's okay, you didn't have to make me anything."

But Kurt was determined. There wasn't enough time left to make something for Blaine now, but he made a silent promise to himself to make something to give Blaine in return before camp was over.