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We've added camps! Check out an additional week for Ceramics/Vet Med and Photography/Robotics. The All Day STEAM Camps give students the opportunity to attend both the morning and afternoon camps. Mornings start at 8:00 a.m. and end at 12:00. We will have your child eat a packed lunch brought from home with us between 12:00 and 1:00, supervised free time. The afternoon sessions start at 1:00 p.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. For the All Day STEAM Camp, you will receive a reduction in the rate of signing up for two camps. Camps are generally for children 7 and older. If you need to drop your child off earlier than 8 or pick them up later than 5, please let us know your needs! Photography/Robotics: This camp is for everyone! We learn how to take pictures which describe mood, light, action, space and more. Then we learn to edit and create a photo album of all we've learned. In robotics, we have built this camp to insure our scouts can get their badge by building simple machines that we control. Ceramics/Vet Med: Kids learn how to create clay animals, bowls, mugs, trinket plates using tools and the wheel. In the afternoon, kids will do case studies to figure out what is wrong with an animal based on symptoms. We'll dissect a chicken leg, learn how to suture, find a heartbeat, and look at different kinds of cells under a microscope. Paint & Draw/Homeopathic Plants: We'll create amazing paintings and drawings in the morning and be outside collecting specimens, identifying their medicinal properties to create a Colorado field guide, create a homeopathic salve for itching, learn how to plant from seed and transplant. Soap & Candle/Astronomy: We'll make homemade soaps using cold pressing adding essential oils, flowers and other decorative things in both the soaps and candles. In astronomy, we are so excited about understanding our solar system by creating a model, astronomical distances, and building an age-appropriate rocket. Little Kids Discovery Camp: Our sweet young ones will use easels outside to create amazing art, learn how to measure by making pancakes, plant with seeds, discovering our moon and other planets, creating pottery, making a necklace, build a simple robot and learning more about the plants and animals on Earth. Jewelry/Engineering Design: This camp is incredible... we've changed it up a lot from last year so that students will design their own earrings, necklaces and bracelets using metal, beads, leather and epoxy. In engineering, we'll design, build and redesign different structures (airplanes, bridges, or anything the kids want to make. -
In astronomy camp, kids will learn details about our solar system and our galaxy. We’ll talk with Astrobiologists about their research to find life on other planets. We’ll figure out ways to get humans from Earth to Mars, and how we can sustain life there, which involves some chemistry. Students will learn how a telescope works. They will build one of two different types of simple telescopes—an astronomical and a terrestrial telescope—each with a magnification of 5X. They then experiment with the different telescope designs and determine how the lens combination in each telescope works to magnify an object’s image. At the end of the week, students can take their telescope home so that they can look at the stars. -
Pottery is a physical form of art. We will be working with self-drying clay to make things such as plates, bowls, mugs, jewelry holders, and anything else the students can imagine. We will be learning about different techniques such as throwing clay, pinching, slipping, coiling and glazing. At the end of the week, students will be able to take their pieces home along with the ability to use their knowledge to make more pieces on their own. -
This class will excite kids who want to figure out how stuff works, build it and redesign it to make it even better. The design challenges are generally related to engineering designs, but can also be chemical, biological or mechanical. Students will decide on their design challenge and then construct their “machine” by mid-week. Then, they will test and redesign their project before taking it home. -
Plants are the foundation of our survival, as a food source for us and for the animals we can eat, and as medicines to reduce pain, calm nerves, reduce inflammation, soothe a sunburn, and many more. Some plants can also cause severe health issues to humans and our pets. Students will build a medicinal plant book, include pictures or pressed specimens, identify their common and scientific names as well as their uses to heal or harm. At the end of the week, they get to keep their book, and hopefully add to it. -
Jewelry Making: We will choose two kinds of jewelry to make, based on student choice (metal/wire, bead, macrame, leather, natural fibers, stone, glass, clay). Students will design their own creation and learn techniques for making their design). By the end of the week, students will have either something to wear or something to gift of their own creation. -
Our little kids' discovery camps are designed specifically for ages 3 to 6 years old, though we do accept younger kiddoes. They are all STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) based with the morning sessions about the arts and the afternoon sessions about the science, math, technology and engineering. Each day, students will go home with something that they created, such as a drawing, a piece of pottery, jewelry, model of a rocket, the building they made, the plants they transplanted and so much more. Here, you can choose either a morning option (8-12), an afternoon option (1-5) or a full day option (8-5). If you need to drop off earlier or pick up later, please just let us know. -
In this class we will learn different techniques of painting and drawing. We will learn what types of paint to use to create different pieces as well as what levels of graphite to use to achieve various styles of drawings. We will work with recreating objects realistically and abstractly using color theory. Students will be able to work alone or with another student to expand their knowledge and skills. -
Photography is a way to capture a memory, a moment in time forever frozen. In this camp, students will learn how to enhance the beauty of a moment, draw the eye to a specific point, adjust the way the camera captures light, focus on an object, and how to edit photos to change the story the photo tells. We will work with a whole array of styles such as portrait, landscape, cityscape, architecture, and object focus. Along with that we will learn to see the world from a different view to find the beauty in the ordinary world. -
This year, we've added robotics to our camps. Robotics is the wave of the future. We'll learn about the engineering involved in building machines that move on their own. We'll build a solar space rover or design and build our own robot so the kids can take it home and play with it forever! -
We are so excited to offer this art class again in 2025 where students will learn the art of soap making, create different soaps to take home to use, sell or give as gifts. Half of our time will be spent on soaps and the other half will be candle making, which is much more complex than we might think. We'll start with hot candle making, then develop new soaps using cold press and then make melted wax candles. Students will decide on different designs, shapes, fragrances and colors. All of their creations will be sent home at the end of the week. SOAPS: This year, we'll be making some traditional goat milk, cocoa butter and shea butter soaps, as well as decorative bath bombs, herbal shampoo bars. and sugar scrubs. CANDLES: Super excited about the new molds, coloring and floral and/or herbal candles we'll make this year. New fragrances, geometric and floral molds and one glass jar candle using different types of wicks and beautiful packaging options. -
Veterinary medicine is an incredibly popular science for young people. It is also pretty challenging, as the patients veterinarians treat cannot tell them what hurts or how they feel. In this camp, students will learn about hematology (study of blood), parasitology (common skin, fecal and blood parasites) and microbiology (microscopic organisms which cause diseases). They will do case studies on small and large animal diagnosis of diseases based on symptoms and winners of the case-study contests will win prizes. They will also practice dissection, identifying muscle tissue, veins, arteries, bones and skin. Lastly, they will practice suturing techniques. Their drawings and case studies will be added to their notebook to use as a reference for their future studies.
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