camp descriptions

Both age groups will work separately, but in a connected way, on activities this week, and will come together on Market Day to share their work. Activities will be age-appropriate, fun and stimulating for each group in its own way.
How would you like to turn a classroom into a city? What will your job be? Will you run a bakery, a toy store, maybe a pet store? Create your goods and open your store to the public! Your city will have its own money, and as you sell your goods you can also shop around the other stores in the marketplace.
In this camp, children use art, crafts, and cooking skills to manufacture goods to sell. As buyers and sellers in the city they develop number skills and mathematical reasoning, using money in real life scenarios. They will calculate with money, budgeting and experiencing cash flow situations. These concepts will be approached at a level appropriate to the ages and skills of the children. Older campers learn how to create salaries, track daily sales, apply taxes, calculate discounts and make change. Campers create an inventive, imaginative math world.

Travel back in time with us as we revisit a gentler way of life. See the buffalo grazing on the ranch, stroll through the ages at Greenfield Village. Want to go places? Relive history on the Huckleberry Railroad. Horses, mechanical toys, old-fashioned ice-cream – experience life the way your great-great-grandparents knew it.

Water is joy. Making boats and sailing them, creating worlds of sand and sea, discovering how water changes to ice and steam and back again, making water wheels go round and finding out how locks work – water opens the floodgates of imagination and scientific play. Our campers will immerse themselves in an ocean of splashy happiness.

For one special week, Summers-Knoll becomes the mysterious castle of Camelot. Come to King Arthur’s Court and live each day in the legendary adventures of Camelot’s knights and ladies. Learn the noble arts of archery and horse riding. Take part in exciting quests, make music with the minstrels and magic with the mages, joust and juggle, explore the mysterious enchanted forest—and act out your adventures with a group of traveling players. We will hold a Medieval Feast, presided over by the King himself—will there be a Wonder to see before the Feast begins? If you ever dreamed of living in the time of dragons and unicorns, if you ever yearned for the days of chivalry, step into the world of legend with us.