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School Holidays at Ignite The Mind is a great way to keep your kids learning! We do educational enrichment all day in a structured, age-appropriate and fun way to help kids feel confident and excited about what they are learning. We offer creative projects in the arts, such as painting, drawing, ceramics and other crafts and games to improve thinking, timing and athletic skills. The day will be full of fun ways to get caught up in these skills and accelerate skills beyond current grade levels, as well as have some fun with the arts. There will also be time allotted to get all homework completed with the support of licensed teachers so that all students can have a worry-free weekend! Bring a water bottle, snack and lunch. -
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. -
We'll provide the fun, you take the time to get some shopping done or see a movie... what ever you want! We'll take care of your little ones. Drop off as early as 4:30 p.m. and pick up as late as 9:30 p.m. Sign up for your time slot here. We will do a fun art project, watch a movie and we'll buy the pizza and Capri Suns or hot chocolate! Please bring your own water bottle if you'd prefer your kiddo to have water instead and your own meal if he or she cannot eat pizza. -
School Holidays at Ignite The Mind is a great way to keep your kids learning! We do educational enrichment all day in a structured, age-appropriate and fun way to help kids feel confident and excited about what they are learning. We offer creative projects in the arts, such as painting, drawing, ceramics and other crafts and games to improve thinking, timing and athletic skills. The day will be full of fun ways to get caught up in these skills and accelerate skills beyond current grade levels, as well as have some fun with the arts. There will also be time allotted to get all homework completed with the support of licensed teachers so that all students can have a worry-free weekend! Bring a water bottle, snack and lunch.
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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. -
Most students are either behind or struggling in Math throughout the country due to pandemic. If this is the case for your child, this is what you need. We have designed these classes to both develop confidence and build standards-based skills using unique strategies, particularly for our kinetic and visual learners. If you are interested in advancing your child beyond grade-level math, we can help with that too. Michelle will provide tutoring for these sessions. We can offer both in person and virtual classes, depending upon your needs. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
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