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Week 1: June 7-11 (Click here)
Morning Camps 9:00AM-12:00PM
Let your imagination run wild with tens of thousands of LEGO® parts! Build engineer-designed projects such as: Tunnel Boring Machines, Stilt Houses, and Teacup Rides. Design and build as never before, and explore your craziest ideas in a supportive environment.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Play-Well TEKnologies
Bring Lego worlds to life! We provide the Legos. You provide your imagination. Work in groups to create a Lego set with Lego characters for a stop-motion movie that you storyboard and shoot, and add voice-overs, too. *Flix downloadable within a month after camp ends.
Cost: $230
Instructor: IncrediFlix
Kids learn to code by creating their own video games. Each camper works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed computer programming language for young people. Participants begin by creating classic games like Pong, Pac-Man, and Brick Breaker. Then they invent new games of their own. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The Scratch programming language is free and web-based, allowing campers to work on their projects from home, long after camp is over, and to publish their work to the Scratch website.The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
Get messy investigating the science of our world. We learn about colloids, polymers, solvents, solutions, and chemical reactions, by making ice cream, slime, crystals, lava, and the ultimate bubble recipe. Students have the opportunity to explore the science of color, pigments, and chromatography. Using kaleidoscopes and microscopes we explore the science of light and later delve into the physics of flight. There are also many opportunities to venture outdoors and enjoy nature.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Megan Zitron
Welcome to the Sticky Fingers STEAM Creation Lab! Cooking and science are a match made in...the kitchen! Come join our STEAM camp to explore the many connections between cooking and Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math — with delectable dishes to create an amazing experience for all young chefs in training! We’ll be adding spice, subtracting boredom, and multiplying the fun to create culinary masterpieces. Young chefs will not only create delectable dishes but also conduct experiments with edible ingredients in this fascinating and delicious camp.
Cost: $335
Instructor: Sticky Fingers Cooking
Budding artists will love a chance to paint a variety of subjects including animals, sports, Colorado pride, summer, beaches, and more at an off-campus art studio. During this creative camp, campers will explore a different medium, from small to large canvases, wood panels, and tote bags, and paint happy trees to their heart’s content. The best part? Your camper will go home with several creations that are uniquely theirs. Daily treats will be served as well!
Cost: $370
If you love Star Wars®, this is the camp for you! Come participate in Star Wars-themed activities, build scenes from the movie, build spaceships, lightsabers, you name it. May the Force be with you...
Cost: $285
Instructors: Snapology
Make Olaf's dream come true and help him discover all the fun you can have in the summer! Join us for crafts, activities, and games that are all inspired by the hit movie and the characters it introduced us to. We learn about snow to create our own snowmen, play games to celebrate Elsa's coronation, and explore the kingdom of Arendelle. (Note: Watching Frozen movies and short films will be part of our immersion into the wonderful world of Frozen.)
Cost: $230
Instructor: Sadie Christlieb
Are your kids ready to go outside and play? This camp helps your child learn basic tennis skills with group instruction, drills, and games, following USTA ROGY progression guidelines. In addition to tennis, your child’s active morning includes a variety of fun and age/skill-appropriate games, such as tag, dodgeball, spud, kickball, and more, to develop their eye-hand coordination, balance, agility, strength, and fitness.
Cost: $230
Instructors: Nancy Hallowell & Marcia Richards
Do you love baking? Do you love art? Do you appreciate a beautifully decorated cake or cupcake? Sign up for Cake Decorating and you’ll learn how to make delicious buttercream frosting and how to decorate pastries with it! From borders to flowers to writing—you will become a cake decorator by the end of the week. You will never have to buy a store-bought birthday cake again!
Cost: $275
Instructor: Jane Kelly
Pay It Forward is a unique opportunity for students to learn how to impact the world around them. Our leaders will learn about public speaking, civic involvement and community outreach opportunities with an engaging curriculum to channel their desire to have a positive impact on the world around them.
Cost: $220
Instructor: Little Scholars
Work to solve the mystery of the stolen funds and determine the guilty party. Lessons have students collect evidence from the crime scene and examine evidence using real forensic techniques such as forensic fiber analysis, lifting lip prints, and exploring genetic markers.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Shelley DeRock
Afternoon Camps 12:30PM-3:30PM
Refine your construction skills as you tinker with Play-Well TEKnologies and tens of thousands of LEGO® parts! Apply real-world concepts though projects such as: dizzying Teacup Rides, customized Cuckoo clocks, and the historic Wright Flyer. Design and build as never before and explore your craziest ideas.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Play-Well TEKnologies
Kids experience the fun of combining coding and engineering. Each participant works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed coding language for young people. Campers use Scratch to create their own video games, musical devices, and interactive art. Next, they use craft materials to build physical devices to control their digital creations. For example, they build their own joysticks out of egg cartons, tin foil, wire, and popsicle sticks, or they build their own keyboards out of mat board, tinfoil, and clothespins. Finally, they get friends and teachers to try out their games and devices. To connect Scratch with the physical world, campers work with the PicoBoard from SparkFun Electronics. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
Get messy investigating the science of our world. We learn about colloids, polymers, solvents, solutions, and chemical reactions, by making ice cream, slime, crystals, lava, and the ultimate bubble recipe. Students have the opportunity to explore the science of color, pigments, and chromatography. Using kaleidoscopes and microscopes we explore the science of light and later delve into the physics of flight. There are also many opportunities to venture outdoors and enjoy nature.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Megan Zitron
In Snapology’s Pokémania program, students explore the Pokémon world and practice their Pokémon training skills! They create their own training gyms, unique battles, and even their very own generation of Pokémon. Your student also explores some real-world science as they examine the habitats, characteristics, and needs of different Pokémon. They do more than catch ‘em all, they build and examine them all very closely and have a blast doing so!
Cost: $285
Instructor: Snapology
Make Olaf's dream come true and help him discover all the fun you can have in the summer! Join us for crafts, activities, and games that are all inspired by the hit movie and the characters it introduced us to. We learn about snow to create our own snowmen, play games to celebrate Elsa's coronation, and explore the kingdom of Arendelle. (Note: Watching Frozen movies and short films will be part of our immersion into the wonderful world of Frozen.)
Cost: $230
Instructor: Sadie Christlieb
In this advanced class, students are given more instruction on how to create compelling stories and more independence to try ideas that may be more difficult. Bring Lego worlds to life! We provide the Legos. You provide your imagination. Work in groups to create a Lego set with Lego characters for a stop-motion movie that you storyboard and shoot, and add voice-overs, too. *Flix downloadable within a month after camp ends.
Cost: $230
Instructor: IncrediFlix
Throw things...really, really, really far with catapults, trebuchets, and cannons in this half day camp. Build a working tabletop wooden trebuchet to start an exploration of Newton's Laws of Motion, create games with the mini Basketball Catapult, float Flying Frisbees through the Firmament on our Science Matters Golf Course. Take some terrific target practice with a marshmallow gun. We’ll have things whizzing around the classroom for the whole camp.
Cost: $285
Instructor: Science Matters
Daily superhero costumes are encouraged at this camp where caped crusaders will build a spider web and learn to climb through it, melt ice with laser vision, and strength train. That’s not all! Campers will shoot a rocket through a hoop, run at lightning speed, solve puzzles like Super Girl, karate chop a bad guy, and climb through a tunnel. By the end of camp you’ll be prepared to be a light in the universe.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Isabella Ubertone
Do you love baking? Do you love art? Do you appreciate a beautifully decorated cake or cupcake? Sign up for Cake Decorating and you’ll learn how to make delicious buttercream frosting and how to decorate pastries with it! From borders to flowers to writing—you will become a cake decorator by the end of the week. You will never have to buy a store-bought birthday cake again!
Cost: $275
Instructor: Jane Kelly
Pay It Forward is a unique opportunity for students to learn how to impact the world around them. Our leaders will learn about public speaking, civic involvement and community outreach opportunities with an engaging curriculum to channel their desire to have a positive impact on the world around them.
Cost: $220
Instructor: Little Scholars
Full Day Camps 9:00AM-3:30PM
Entering Pre-K (4-Years-Old)
Calling all four-year-old’s for summer camp! Our Sunshine program is designed for four-year-old’s. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, our youngest campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities are designed around our weekly themes. We maximize the ‘funshine’ with daily projects, arts and crafts, splash activities and much, much more! The Sunshine Program maintains a camper-to-staff ratio of 6:1. Campers may attend a 5-day week program, registering for one week, or multiple weeks. *Specialty camp scheduling is not available for Sunshine Campers. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $460 per week
Entering Kindergarten (5-Years-Old)
The Rainbow Program is designed for children who will turn five by June 7 and will be kindergartners in the fall of 2021. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Entering Grades 1-8
Day Camp for 6-year-olds to 12-year-olds is the anchor of CA’s summer programs and is offered for eight weeks of the summer. The Day Camp program is based on good old-fashioned summertime fun! Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, archery, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
This is a wonderful opportunity for aspiring singers. You will learn about stage presence, microphone techniques, vocal qualities, vocal placement, and much more! Gain confidence as a performer and have lots of fun onstage. This intense summer camp will help you achieve a higher level of performance qualities and we will share our awesome singing abilities at the end of the week for family and friends.
Cost: $400
Instructor: Anita Boland
Come learn the basics of the sport of fencing! This week-long summer camp introduces students to all three of the Olympic weapons. Students get the Olympic experience using our fully electric scoring equipment, as well as our regulation-sized fencing strips. Each day is dedicated to studying one of the three weapons, through drills, games, and challenges. Camp culminates with an in-house tournament.
Cost: $570
Instructor: Denver Fencing Center
Want to get your hands dirty and play with some clay? Claytime - Intro to ceramics is the perfect summer camp class for anyone with a creative bug who wants to learn how to hand build pottery but also learn how to throw on the wheel! In this class you can expect to learn how to make coil pots, pinch pots, slab building, glazing, and an introduction to throwing on the pottery wheel! All of these techniques are used to make a variety of fun and interesting projects over the course of our time together! Come join us and play with some clay!
Cost: $440
Instructor: Becci Marzonie
Bike where no car has been. Explore pristine paths. Push your personal limits. REI Guides teach basic mountain biking techniques, including shifting, braking, ascending, descending, and maneuvering around obstacles. Guides have current PMBIA training, Wilderness First Aid, and CPR certifications. All gear, including mountain bikes, is provided. Join us to ride some of the fantastic trails in the foothills, including Village Greens Park, Bear Creek Lake Park, and Flatirons Vista.
Cost: $890
Instructor: REI
Travel back in time with us as we explore a land where dinosaurs ruled the world. Our young paleontologists excavate dinosaur bones and construct their own dinosaurs with different materials. We learn about the different types of dinosaurs and how each of them survived. We also investigate what makes the three different time periods in which dinosaurs existed, special. The week wraps up with students building their own dinosaur terrarium. Join us for a week of roaring fun!
Cost: $400
Instructor: Joy Chi
S-T-R-E-T-C-H, WIGGLE and MOVE! Get your body moving through movement, fitness, music and yoga. Our games and creative play are designed to strengthen the core muscles, balance and coordination as well as improve gross and fine motor skills. Come on and get moving with us!
Cost: $520
Instructor: Little Scholars
Week 2: June 14-18 (Click here)
Morning Camps 9:00AM-12:00PM
What would you wish for if you had 3 magical wishes? Join Aladdin and all his friends as he meets the mystical Genie who offers to make all his dreams come true...or will he? Princesses, tigers, magic carpets, and a full cast of fun characters bring this classic tale to life and help Aladdin see the importance of friendship and being true to one’s self.
Cost: $315
Instructor: KidStage
Paper airplanes have ignited the imagination of young people the world over. Flying their planes farther, higher, and for longer are recurring goals for many children, and we hope this camp keeps that spark alight! Campers learn various folding techniques and plane designs, from which they conduct test flights and friendly competitions. Campers learn the value of details such as a "snub nose" or the "Nakamura lock" in their planes, with the ultimate goal of acquiring several plane-folding designs that are sure to entertain for days on end!
Cost: $230
Instructor: Austin Harvey
Yes, we still make slime and get messy. But there’s more! Let’s explore the connection between magnetism and electricity, learn about potential and kinetic energy using roller coaster tracks, and investigate forces and motion. We also go back in time and explore the Geologic Time Scale, create fossils, identify rocks in the rock cycle, and crack open a few geodes. There are also many opportunities to enjoy the outdoors and explore the campus.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Megan Zitron
Through games, activities and journaling, students will understand what mindfulness is, and how to incorporate this evidence based practice into their toolbox to help calm their bodies and brains, recover from setbacks and improve emotional regulation and focus. This secular program will be taught using the Mindful Schools Curriculum integrated with various breathing techniques and yoga postures.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Heather Goedel
Practicing mindfulness and yoga helps build fundamental skills that can help us manage the physical, mental, and emotional effects of stress. We play games that challenge our coordination, dexterity, memory, and focus. We engage in new experiences, teamwork, art, and laughter in a fun environment while learning how to make healthy and delicious snacks.
Cost: $220
Instructor: Jessica Krueger
Let’s move & groove with sounds & syllables! This bopping, non-stopping, multisensory class includes games, sidewalk chalk, two-color sand, goofy plays, and silly songs. Students learn lowercase cursive, beginning with their name. No matter the level of your little reader or writer, this class enhances their understanding and helps them fall in love with sounds, syllables, and words.
Cost: $240
Instructors: Danielle Corriveau
Budding artists will love a chance to paint a variety of subjects including animals, sports, Colorado pride, summer, beaches, and more at an off-campus art studio. During this creative camp, campers will explore a different medium, from small to large canvases, wood panels, and tote bags, and paint happy trees to their heart’s content. The best part? Your camper will go home with several creations that are uniquely theirs. Daily treats will be served as well!
Cost: $370
As a junior food scientist, we explore the basic science behind packaged foods. We learn about what makes our food yummy and how to keep it safe to eat. We also have fun cooking and do exciting experiments with different ingredients. The intention of this camp is to pique their interest in science and cooking, as well as having the junior scientists think about how their packaged food is made. A guest food scientist explains why science is important when creating unique products. Come join us for a week of learning, cooking, experimenting, and eating!
Cost: $240
Instructor: Joy Chi
Are your kids ready to go outside and play? This camp helps your child learn basic tennis skills with group instruction, drills, and games, following USTA ROGY progression guidelines. In addition to tennis, your child’s active morning includes a variety of fun and age/skill-appropriate games, such as tag, dodgeball, spud, kickball, and more, to develop their eye-hand coordination, balance, agility, strength, and fitness.
Cost: $230
Instructors: Nancy Hallowell & Marcia Richards
The use of Virtual Reality is changing the face of computing and user applications before our very eyes! This camp teaches one of the most advanced VR design applications in the industry, Blocksmith, which allows students to easily make VR/AR experiences, games, and more, for both desktop and mobile. Students design their own 3D environments and then immerse themselves directly into it with Google Cardboard headsets. This is a one-of-a-kind course offered exclusively by Silicon STEM.
Cost: $355
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
Calling all wizard fans! This is like no other camp you have experienced. We will take a magical journey into the world of wizards. We will design wands, make magic potions, go on a magical creature hunt, play Quidditch, and participate in activities that will astound all Muggles.
Cost: $220
Instructor: Little Scholars
This introductory level program teaches all of the fundamental skills necessary to play the exciting game of field hockey-with plenty of time for fun and games! Experienced coaches develop basic skills such as dribbling, passing, pulls/dodges and defensive and offensive tactics.
Cost: $260
Instructor: Aleda Deuble
Afternoon Camps 12:30PM-3:30PM
What would you wish for if you had 3 magical wishes? Join Aladdin and all his friends as he meets the mystical Genie who offers to make all his dreams come true...or will he? Princesses, tigers, magic carpets, and a full cast of fun characters bring this classic tale to life and help Aladdin see the importance of friendship and being true to one’s self.
Cost: $315
Instructor: KidStage
Have you wondered how people make balloon animals? How do they twist them together and when to stop? How does it end up looking like a dog!? This is the camp for you! We will learn some very basic techniques for balloon twisting along with a handful of animals or objects that can be modified in simple ways. Students will leave with their own balloon pump and a small pack of balloons to practice with at home. Come have fun making, creating and building cool 3-dimensional animals and objects with balloons!
Cost: $216
Instructor: Austin Harvey
Yes, we still make slime and get messy. But there’s more! Let’s explore the connection between magnetism and electricity, learn about potential and kinetic energy using roller coaster tracks, and investigate forces and motion. We also go back in time and explore the Geologic Time Scale, create fossils, identify rocks in the rock cycle, and crack open a few geodes. There are also many opportunities to enjoy the outdoors and explore the campus.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Megan Zitron
Come explore the bounty of summer-fresh, local, colorful ingredients and explore how those foods got from the ground to our plates. You might already know that carrots can improve your eyesight, but did you know that cherries can help improve your memory? Young chefs will also learn what makes certain ingredients so super for the body and how delicious they can taste, while practicing basic cooking skills and techniques on their way to becoming super chefs!
Cost: $335
Instructor: Sticky Fingers Cooking
Through games, activities and journaling, students will understand what mindfulness is, and how to incorporate this evidence based practice into their toolbox to help calm their bodies and brains, recover from setbacks and improve emotional regulation and focus. This secular program will be taught using the Mindful Schools Curriculum integrated with various breathing techniques and yoga postures.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Heather Goedel
Do your kids enjoy performances like Cirque Du Soleil and The Greatest Showman? Then our Hula Hooping and Carnival Arts Camp will be perfect for them. Each day, the kids will learn cool hoop tricks, play fun hula hoop inspired games and engage in partner moves. Afterwards, the kids will work on juggling and stilt walking with cups! Children will also learn how to make silly balloon animals with their instructor. On the last day, the kids will put on a class performance and get their face painted.
Cost: $270
Instructor: Mad About Hoops
Budding artists will love a chance to paint a variety of subjects including animals, sports, Colorado pride, summer, beaches, and more at an off-campus art studio. During this creative camp, campers will explore a different medium, from small to large canvases, wood panels, and tote bags, and paint happy trees to their heart’s content. The best part? Your camper will go home with several creations that are uniquely theirs. Daily treats will be served as well!
Cost: $370
Be transported to a time in the not-so-distant past in which everything runs on steam and ingenuity! Learn to make an authentic steampunk top hat with rivets and goggles. Be inspired to use your own creativity to repurpose everyday items into Steampunk accessories.
Cost: $236
Instructor: Jen Gelvin
What is the science behind common foods we get at the supermarket such as hot chocolate, ice cream, Nutella, and ketchup? We learn about how our favorite packaged foods are made and preserved through a scientist’s lens. Scientists go through multiple experiments to create a product that not only tastes and looks good, but is also safe to eat. We dive into the chemistry of shelf-stability, baking, fermentation, and much more! The young scientists have a week packed with experiments and create healthier and tastier versions of packaged food from scratch. The intention of this camp is to pique their interest in science and cooking, as well as having the young scientists think about how their packaged food is made. A guest food scientist explains the nature of their work and teaches a lesson.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Joy Chi
Calling all Minecrafters! If your camper loves Minecraft, then this camp is the one! Students learn how to create their own “mods” (short for modifying) to use in their Minecraft worlds. Using Java programming, campers create and design their own ores, tools, game weapons, and armor with Adobe Photoshop. This camp provides a stepping-stone to the World Creations Modding Camp.
Cost: $355
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
Dear old dad needs some love this summer. Spend this week making crafts, gifts, and penning a special letter for your pops. These one-of-a-kind keepsake items are sure to lift your dad’s spirits this Father’s Day.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Isabella Ubertone
Work to solve the mystery of the stolen funds and determine the guilty party. Lessons have students collect evidence from the crime scene and examine evidence using real forensic techniques such as forensic fiber analysis, lifting lip prints, and exploring genetic markers.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Shelley DeRock
Full Day Camps 9:00AM-3:30PM
Entering Pre-K (4-Years-Old)
Calling all four-year-old’s for summer camp! Our Sunshine program is designed for four-year-old’s. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, our youngest campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities are designed around our weekly themes. We maximize the ‘funshine’ with daily projects, arts and crafts, splash activities and much, much more! The Sunshine Program maintains a camper-to-staff ratio of 6:1. Campers may attend a 5-day week program, registering for one week, or multiple weeks. *Specialty camp scheduling is not available for Sunshine Campers. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $460 per week
Entering Kindergarten (5-Years-Old)
The Rainbow Program is designed for children who will turn five by June 7 and will be kindergartners in the fall of 2021. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Entering Grades 1-8
Day Camp for 6-year-olds to 12-year-olds is the anchor of CA’s summer programs and is offered for eight weeks of the summer. The Day Camp program is based on good old-fashioned summertime fun! Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, archery, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
In this awesome camp, budding stars will invent, write, and perform an entire musical! We decide what the show will be about. Think superheroes, rock stars, or spies. Perhaps we will do a little time traveling? The sky's the limit in this camp! We'll also write our own songs and of course, perform our masterpiece on Friday.
Cost: $400
Instructor: Anita Boland
Prepare your child for his/her upcoming year in kindergarten. We engage the students through shared reading, rhyming, alphabet, and word games, along with math activities that build number sense and pattern knowledge. The children learn the rituals and routines of kindergarten, while developing friendships and practicing their social skills. Campers will also enjoy outdoor activities and daily snacks. Help build your child’s confidence and prepare him/her for the wonderful world of kindergarten!
Cost: $380
Instructor: Eliza Spear
The Force Awakens in this introductory engineering course for young Jedi! Explore engineering principles as we construct the Ewok Village on Endor, fly through space on our X-Wings, and defend the Echo Base on Hoth. Create motorized and architectural projects with imagination and engineering to defeat the Empire!
Cost: $460
Instructor: Play-Well TEKnologies
Discover wildlife and nature through outdoor exploration, drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts. Participate in wildlife watching, catch and observe critters on land and in the water, practice scientific journaling, and get inspired in this creative and artistic camp. We'll visit places like the Museum of Outdoor Arts, Botanic Gardens, and Audubon Center at Chatfield to explore arts, using nature as the inspiration and medium. Required equipment: daypack, snacks (lunch provided), walking shoes, filled water bottles, sunscreen, insect repellant, a hat, and sunglasses.
Cost: $445
Instructor: Suzy Hiskey with Denver Audubon
Want to get your hands dirty and play with some clay? Claytime - Intro to ceramics is the perfect summer camp class for anyone with a creative bug who wants to learn how to hand build pottery but also learn how to throw on the wheel! In this class you can expect to learn how to make coil pots, pinch pots, slab building, glazing, and an introduction to throwing on the pottery wheel! All of these techniques are used to make a variety of fun and interesting projects over the course of our time together! Come join us and play with some clay!
Cost: $440
Instructor: Becci Marzonie
To the bus! Just like in Ms. Frizzle's class, we spend each day immersing ourselves in our topics. We learn about everything from the ocean to space, dinosaurs to humans, and so much more! Join us as we craft, learn, and explore our way through subjects we all find fascinating. (Note: Watching episodes of the Magic School Bus will be part of our daily routine.)
Cost: $400
Instructors: Sadie Christlieb
9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Entering Grades 4-9
Spend the week searching for adventure in some of the more rustic parts of Colorado. Participate in a variety of outdoor activities, such as caving/spelunking, white water rafting, SUP/kayaking, and zip lining. Participants are challenged individually, but also learn how to trust and depend on other members of their group. Under the guidance and experience of trained leaders, the Adventure Seekers will have stories to tell about their exhilarating journeys into the wild. Activities are subject to change.
Cost: $605
Instructor: Mark Garcia
Week 3: June 21-25 (Click here)
Morning Camps 9:00AM-12:00PM
This camp is open to beginner and intermediate players. Students learn chess strategy and tactics, as well as etiquette. Sign your budding chess player up for multiple sessions, because a new topic is taught during each session, and each week, throughout the summer. Depending on your child's ability and knowledge of the game, the instructor individualizes lessons so that all chess players are learning, being challenged, and playing at their level. The class is taught by National Master and five-time Denver Chess Champion Todd Bardwick.
Cost: $310
Instructor: Todd Bardwick
Kids learn to code by creating their own video games. Each camper works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed computer programming language for young people. Participants begin by creating classic games like Pong, Pac-Man, and Brick Breaker. Then they invent new games of their own. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The Scratch programming language is free and web-based, allowing campers to work on their projects from home, long after camp is over, and to publish their work to the Scratch website.The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
Nutrition. Exercise. Mindfulness. These are the three pillars of One Bite at a Time. This week-long, half-day camp is for students who want to explore how eating good food, staying active, and being positive can be your superpowers. Expect to play daily food and nutrition games, eat nutritious snacks, watch jaw dropping videos, and win fun prizes along the way. You will also interact with a special guest speaker who lost over 100 lbs. after he developed his "mindfulness superpowers." Additionally, you will be burning off energy around the beautiful CA campus. Finally, you will create your own personalized wellness plan to take with you when camp is over.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Jason DiGioia
We nurture your child's sense of curiosity and exploration with activities that help them connect to nature! We observe trees, flowers, plants, insects, birds, clouds, and animals through walking, exploring, open-ended art, nature games, and crafts.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Jessica Krueger
Is your child struggling to learn how to ride a bike? Through step-by-step engaging activities instructors will help them with their cycling. Our kid-friendly instructors provide a combination of personalized and group instruction to help overcome fears, teach important skills such as starting and stopping, and help them understand how to maneuver their bikes around obstacles. This may be the only lesson they will need! The fun, unique and proven instruction methods have helped hundreds of kids experience the joy of riding a bike.
Cost: $585
Instructors: REI Outdoor School
In this jam-packed camp, each artist creates his/her own mural on muslin. We learn the process and steps to making a big painting, using techniques of scenic painting, faux finishing, and trompe l’oeil. Our murals can be applied to a wall at home, framed, or hung like a tapestry.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Lori Worthman
Are your kids ready to go outside and play? This camp helps your child learn basic tennis skills with group instruction, drills, and games, following USTA ROGY progression guidelines. In addition to tennis, your child’s active morning includes a variety of fun and age/skill-appropriate games, such as tag, dodgeball, spud, kickball, and more, to develop their eye-hand coordination, balance, agility, strength, and fitness.
Cost: $230
Instructors: Nancy Hallowell & Marcia Richards
Develop your core guitar skills or take your playing to the next level. Our approach makes sounding great on the guitar fun and easy. Learn chords, melodies, grooves, and riffs so you can make music with your friends. Guitars are provided.
Cost: $290
Instructor: Sound Formation
Each class will have a theme that weaves in a creative activity, along with poses, breathing, and games. We will make mandalas, express ourselves in a handmade sketchbook, and use our imaginations to inspire our art and yoga practice.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Jen Werner
This introductory level program teaches all of the fundamental skills necessary to play the exciting game of field hockey-with plenty of time for fun and games! Experienced coaches develop basic skills such as dribbling, passing, pulls/dodges and defensive and offensive tactics.
Cost: $260
Instructor: Aleda Deuble
Afternoon Camps 12:30PM-3:30PM
This camp is open to beginner and intermediate players. Students learn chess strategy and tactics, as well as etiquette. Sign your budding chess player up for multiple sessions, because a new topic is taught during each session, and each week, throughout the summer. Depending on your child's ability and knowledge of the game, the instructor individualizes lessons so that all chess players are learning, being challenged, and playing at their level. The class is taught by National Master and five-time Denver Chess Champion Todd Bardwick.
Cost: $310
Instructor: Todd Bardwick
Kids learn to code by creating their own animated stories, music, and interactive art. Each participant works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed computer programming language for young people. Participants enjoy becoming creators rather than just consumers of digital content. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The Scratch programming language is free and web-based, allowing campers to work on their projects from home, long after camp is over, and to publish their work to the Scratch website. The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
Blast off and reach beyond the sky to explore the Final Frontier on an AMAZING ADVENTURE through SPACE! Build and launch a solid fuel rocket that goes over 100 feet into the stratosphere. (Local restrictions may apply) We will be visiting Planets in our Solar System as well. Visit the 4th Rock from the Sun, Mars, and design a spaceship capable of landing on the Martian surface. See the Rings of Saturn. To join us in our travels, design your own alien as a traveling companion. Make a comet and play Comet Golf. We’ll build a telescope that helped us bring the stars closer to us. Join us and blast off on a fun journey among the stars!
Cost: $285
Instructor: Science Matters
Do your kids enjoy performances like Cirque Du Soleil and The Greatest Showman? Then our Hula Hooping and Carnival Arts Camp will be perfect for them. Each day, the kids will learn cool hoop tricks, play fun hula hoop inspired games and engage in partner moves. Afterwards, the kids will work on juggling and stilt walking with cups! Children will also learn how to make silly balloon animals with their instructor. On the last day, the kids will put on a class performance and get their face painted.
Cost: $270
Instructor: Mad About Hoops
Is your child struggling to learn how to ride a bike? Through step-by-step engaging activities instructors will help them with their cycling. Our kid-friendly instructors provide a combination of personalized and group instruction to help overcome fears, teach important skills such as starting and stopping, and help them understand how to maneuver their bikes around obstacles. This may be the only lesson they will need! The fun, unique and proven instruction methods have helped hundreds of kids experience the joy of riding a bike.
Cost: $585
Instructors: REI Outdoor School
Groovy Glass Class allows students to learn the basics of the glass arts, including the tools and techniques in making stained glass, fused glass, and glass mosaics. They are presented each day with a new glass art and project to complete. During the last two days of camp, artists work on individual projects in their favorite groovy glass medium. Safety in this class is an important focus throughout the week.
Cost: $270
Instructors: Jen Werner
Come and explore this simple little wind instrument that is played all over the world. Learn fun folk songs, plus how to read and write music. This is an excellent introduction to all instruments. Students in the class receive their own personal Pennywhistle. Parents and friends are invited to a mini-recital on the last day of class.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Isabella Ubertone
Are you a natural born leader? Do you want to experience the thrills of creating a ‘company’? Don’t miss out on this camp where you will create and sell handmade products at the Sale- A-Thon. This camp will dabble in the world of stocks and current events as they relate to businesses.
Cost: $220
Instructor: Little Scholars
Work to solve the mystery of the stolen funds and determine the guilty party. Lessons have students collect evidence from the crime scene and examine evidence using real forensic techniques such as forensic fiber analysis, lifting lip prints, and exploring genetic markers.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Shelley DeRock
Full Day Camps 9:00AM-3:30PM
Entering Pre-K (4-Years-Old)
Calling all four-year-old’s for summer camp! Our Sunshine program is designed for four-year-old’s. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, our youngest campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities are designed around our weekly themes. We maximize the ‘funshine’ with daily projects, arts and crafts, splash activities and much, much more! The Sunshine Program maintains a camper-to-staff ratio of 6:1. Campers may attend a 5-day week program, registering for one week, or multiple weeks. *Specialty camp scheduling is not available for Sunshine Campers. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $460 per week
Entering Kindergarten (5-Years-Old)
The Rainbow Program is designed for children who will turn five by June 7 and will be kindergartners in the fall of 2021. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Entering Grades 1-8
Day Camp for 6-year-olds to 12-year-olds is the anchor of CA’s summer programs and is offered for eight weeks of the summer. The Day Camp program is based on good old-fashioned summertime fun! Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, archery, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Crack! Welcome to the wonder-filled world of Harry Potter, where you can become the wizard you have always known you are. Discover which house you belong to, find the wand that chooses you, and become a master potion maker—all while competing for the house cup. (Note: Watching the Harry Potter movies will be part of our immersion into the magical world of Harry Potter.)
Cost: $400
Instructor: Sadie Christlieb
This is a wonderful opportunity for aspiring singers. You will learn about stage presence, microphone techniques, vocal qualities, vocal placement, and much more! Gain confidence as a performer and have lots of fun onstage. This intense summer camp will help you achieve a higher level of performance qualities and we will share our awesome singing abilities at the end of the week for family and friends.
Cost: $400
Instructor: Anita Boland
Get your child excited and ready for the big leap into first grade. Through activities, games, and crafts, we will brush up on skills learned in kindergarten and introduce new skills that children will learn their first few weeks in 1st grade. We will cover reading, writing, and math workshops to prepare your child for the rituals and routines he/she will encounter in their new school year. It is a wonderful week for children to build confidence, reconnect with old friends, and meet new classmates. This fun-filled week helps build the confidence of your first graders and prepares them for their year to come.
Cost: $380
Instructors: Eliza Spear
During Reading Adventures, campers spend the week working on the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, based on the Orton Gillingham approach. Campers have large group lessons, as well as breaking into small groups to practice various skills. The reading instruction is tied together through the use of book adventures, activities, crafts, games, and fun projects.
Cost: $440
Instructor: Lesa Deland
During Reading Adventures, campers spend the week working on the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, based on the Orton Gillingham approach. Campers have large group lessons, as well as breaking into small groups to practice various skills. The reading instruction is tied together through the use of book adventures, activities, crafts, games, and fun projects.
Cost: $440
Instructor: Penny Best
Curious how to make your own baked goods, crackers, and pastries from scratch? Aspiring bakers and chefs who love to get their hands dirty in the kitchen will love our Culinary Team Challenge Camp! Campers will learn the basics of baking breads, fresh pastas, muffins, cookies and more from scratch each day. Young chefs-in-training will also take on cooking challenges inspired from favorite cooking TV shows such as Master Chef Jr, Cupcake Wars, Chopped Jr, and Cutthroat Kitchen. We will learn how to use different cooking equipment and techniques, explore flavor pairing, and create tasty mouthwatering recipes throughout the week.
Cost: $550
Instructor: Sticky Fingers
Want to get your hands dirty and play with some clay? Claytime - Intro to ceramics is the perfect summer camp class for anyone with a creative bug who wants to learn how to hand build pottery but also learn how to throw on the wheel! In this class you can expect to learn how to make coil pots, pinch pots, slab building, glazing, and an introduction to throwing on the pottery wheel! All of these techniques are used to make a variety of fun and interesting projects over the course of our time together! Come join us and play with some clay!
Cost: $440
Instructor: Becci Marzonie
Are you ready for Kindergarten? This camp is taught by a current Kindergarten teacher to prepare in-coming students for the school year. Using Dr. Seuss books and rhymes, the new kindies begin to learn their alphabet, sight words, and have the endurance to be in school for the whole day. Reading is a skill that takes time to be built; reading fun Dr. Seuss books encourages students to enjoy reading and begin to recognize patterns and sounds, skills necessary to be ahead in Kindergarten. The camp is filled with reading and fun crafts to reinforce their learning. As Dr. Seuss says, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Cost: $400
Instructor: Joy Chi
Escape rooms are growing in popularity across the country. We’ll visit some of Denver’s best escape rooms during this exciting week. We’ll use teamwork and clues embedded in the room to solve various puzzles and riddles to escape a series of rooms before our time runs out. Using inspiration from some of the great escapes in popular films, campers will create their very own escape rooms and cause-and-effect contraptions for others to try, if they dare. This camp is suitable for individuals who have completed one or two escape rooms. If you have completed more than two escape rooms, we recommend signing up for the Professional Escape camp!
Cost: $570
Instructor: Kathy Zolla
9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Entering Grades 4-9
Spend the week searching for adventure in some of the more rustic parts of Colorado. Participate in a variety of outdoor activities, such as caving/spelunking, white water rafting, SUP/kayaking, and zip lining. Participants are challenged individually, but also learn how to trust and depend on other members of their group. Under the guidance and experience of trained leaders, the Adventure Seekers will have stories to tell about their exhilarating journeys into the wild. Activities are subject to change.
Cost: $605
Instructor: Mark Garcia
Is there a doctor in camp? Join us this summer as we bring Mini Med School to camp! Our little doctors will use stuffed animal patients to take blood pressure readings, give “stitches,” put on a cast and make their own first aid kit, all while learning lots about what doctors, dentists, EMTs and other medical professionals do on a daily basis. Join us in this fun filled camp.
Cost: $520
Instructor: Little Scholars
Week 4: June 28 - July 2 (Click here)
Morning Camps 9:00AM-12:00PM
This camp is open to beginner and intermediate players. Students learn chess strategy and tactics, as well as etiquette. Sign your budding chess player up for multiple sessions, because a new topic is taught during each session, and each week, throughout the summer. Depending on your child's ability and knowledge of the game, the instructor individualizes lessons so that all chess players are learning, being challenged, and playing at their level. The class is taught by National Master and five-time Denver Chess Champion Todd Bardwick.
Cost: $310
Instructor: Todd Bardwick
Let your imagination run wild as we design and build leaping dolphins, buzzing beehives, and towering giraffes. Play, create, and learn in a world inspired by the animal kingdom. Design and build as never before and explore your craziest ideas.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Play-Well TEKnologies
Amusement Park Adventures: Every child loves to go to the amusement park and ride their favorite rides, but have they ever thought about how to build one and the people who design them? In Snapology’s Amusement Park Adventure, students become designers of their own amusement park rides. While designing, they learn physics and engineering concepts as well as problem solving skills, all while having a blast!
Cost: $285
Instructors: Snapology
We invite you to join us for a week of princess fun. Celebrate your favorite Prince & Princesses with-themed crafts, games, and more.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Jessica Krueger
The ukulele has seen a surge in popularity recently due to its ease of play, portable size, and signature sound. Come learn a new instrument that has been featured recently in many popular songs. You’ll learn the notes and chords you need to play many of your favorite songs, old and new. Campers may use their own instrument, or borrow a ukulele from the instructor.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Phil Jones
Is your child struggling to learn how to ride a bike? Through step-by-step engaging activities instructors will help them with their cycling. Our kid-friendly instructors provide a combination of personalized and group instruction to help overcome fears, teach important skills such as starting and stopping, and help them understand how to maneuver their bikes around obstacles. This may be the only lesson they will need! The fun, unique and proven instruction methods have helped hundreds of kids experience the joy of riding a bike.
Cost: $585
Instructor: REI Outdoor School
Get your craft on! Join the fun in this magical mix of making things from a random bunch of found stuff! We make magic tricks, puzzles, games, illusions, creatures, treasures, and art. Using everything from tin foil to dough, socks to cereal boxes, we conjure up things that spin, things that fly, things that rhyme, or trick the eye!
Cost: $230
Instructor: Lori Worthman
Are your kids ready to go outside and play? This camp helps your child learn basic tennis skills with group instruction, drills, and games, following USTA ROGY progression guidelines. In addition to tennis, your child’s active morning includes a variety of fun and age/skill-appropriate games, such as tag, dodgeball, spud, kickball, and more, to develop their eye-hand coordination, balance, agility, strength, and fitness.
Cost: $230
Instructors: Nancy Hallowell & Marcia Richards
The use of Virtual Reality is changing the face of computing and user applications before our very eyes! This camp teaches one of the most advanced VR design applications in the industry, Blocksmith, which allows students to easily make VR/AR experiences, games, and more, for both desktop and mobile. Students design their own 3D environments and then immerse themselves directly into it with Google Cardboard headsets. This is a one-of-a-kind course offered exclusively by Silicon STEM.
Cost: $355
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
What are you waiting for?! Join the craze of journaling, calligraphy and hand lettering. Perfect your own style of writing while creating a one of a kind journal and writing utensils. Our camp will spark your creative writing juice and ignite your inner artist!
Cost: $220
Instructor: Little Scholars
This introductory level program teaches all of the fundamental skills necessary to play the exciting game of field hockey-with plenty of time for fun and games! Experienced coaches develop basic skills such as dribbling, passing, pulls/dodges and defensive and offensive tactics.
Cost: $260
Instructor: Aleda Deuble
Afternoon Camps 12:30PM-3:30PM
This camp is open to beginner and intermediate players. Students learn chess strategy and tactics, as well as etiquette. Sign your budding chess player up for multiple sessions, because a new topic is taught during each session, and each week, throughout the summer. Depending on your child's ability and knowledge of the game, the instructor individualizes lessons so that all chess players are learning, being challenged, and playing at their level. The class is taught by National Master and five-time Denver Chess Champion Todd Bardwick.
Cost: $310
Instructor: Todd Bardwick
Be inspired by the natural innovation and engineering of the animal world. Design and build fluttering butterflies, stomping elephants, and fierce Tasmanian devils. Apply real-world mechanical engineering concepts as you design, build, and explore your craziest ideas.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Play-Well TEKnologies
Children begin to explore the world of robotics as they build simple animal models that teach the fundamentals of robotic design. Whether learning about sensors while building a fish or alligator, or discovering ways that gears and wheels and axles create movement while building robotic dogs or frogs, your child is sure to have a great time!
Cost: $285
Instructor: Snapology
Cook your way around the world in our globally-inspired cooking camp! What better way to explore another culture than through its food? In this delicious camp, young chefs will cook recipes from countries all around the world and explore food history, explore customs, songs, geography, and languages associated with each recipe. Young chefs will cook and gobble up tasty, healthy cuisine from South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia!
Cost: $335
Instructor: Sticky Fingers Cooking
Is your child struggling to learn how to ride a bike? Through step-by-step engaging activities instructors will help them with their cycling. Our kid-friendly instructors provide a combination of personalized and group instruction to help overcome fears, teach important skills such as starting and stopping, and help them understand how to maneuver their bikes around obstacles. This may be the only lesson they will need! The fun, unique and proven instruction methods have helped hundreds of kids experience the joy of riding a bike.
Cost: $585
Instructor: REI Outdoor School
In this jam-packed camp, each artist creates his/her own mural on muslin. We learn the process and steps to making a big painting, using techniques of scenic painting, faux finishing, and trompe l’oeil. Our murals can be applied to a wall at home, framed, or hung like a tapestry.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Lori Worthman
Nutrition. Exercise. Mindfulness. These are the three pillars of One Bite at a Time. This week-long, half-day camp is for students who want to explore how eating good food, staying active, and being positive can be your superpowers. Expect to play daily food and nutrition games, eat nutritious snacks, watch jaw dropping videos, and win fun prizes along the way. You will also interact with a special guest speaker who lost over 100 lbs. after he developed his "mindfulness superpowers." Additionally, you will be burning off energy around the beautiful CA campus. Finally, you will create your own personalized wellness plan to take with you when camp is over.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Jason DiGioia
Do you enjoy writing and drawing? Writers this week use their creative minds to write comics like Calvin and Hobbes, The DC comics, Captain Underpants, and much more! We learn about the authors who wrote these infamous comics and how they were inspired. This is a stress-free, creative space for young writers to express themselves through their art!
Cost: $216
Instructor: Joy Chi
Social media platforms are mere pastimes for a new generation of information consumers, but for the YouTube Star, communication platforms are powerful tools that can turn surfers into entrepreneurs and celebrities! In this exclusive one -week summer camp, students will create their own YouTube channel and use the latest in video edition tools (Adobe Premier) to learn the critical video editing skills necessary for uploading videos that get noticed. Don’t just be a social media user, become an online star, and show your ideas to the world.
Cost: $355
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
A star is born! Join us for a special beginner’s introduction to music notation and song writing. Budding Mozarts will learn to read and write basic musical notation by hand. Plus explore melodious musical instruments such as the piano, recorder, ukulele, and pennywhistles, as well as voice and percussion instruments. No musical background needed.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Isabella Ubertone
Skiing and riding in the summer? No problem! Shredder’s professionally developed ski and board curriculum focuses on the technical aspects of skiing and riding. Campers will travel to Shredder’s indoor facility, located in Littleton, to strengthen their skills and sharpen their knowledge. This camp is open to beginning and intermediate levels and all equipment is provided.
Cost: $490
Instructor: Shredders
Full Day Camps 9:00AM-3:30PM
Entering Pre-K (4-Years-Old)
Calling all four-year-old’s for summer camp! Our Sunshine program is designed for four-year-old’s. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, our youngest campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities are designed around our weekly themes. We maximize the ‘funshine’ with daily projects, arts and crafts, splash activities and much, much more! The Sunshine Program maintains a camper-to-staff ratio of 6:1. Campers may attend a 5-day week program, registering for one week, or multiple weeks. *Specialty camp scheduling is not available for Sunshine Campers. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $460 per week
Entering Kindergarten (5-Years-Old)
The Rainbow Program is designed for children who will turn five by June 7 and will be kindergartners in the fall of 2021. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Entering Grades 1-9
Day Camp for 6-year-olds to 13-year-olds is the anchor of CA’s summer programs and is offered for eight weeks of the summer. The Day Camp program is based on good old-fashioned summertime fun! Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, archery, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
In this awesome camp, budding stars will invent, write, and perform an entire musical! We decide what the show will be about. Think superheroes, rock stars, or spies. Perhaps we will do a little time traveling? The sky's the limit in this camp! We'll also write our own songs and of course, perform our masterpiece on Friday.
Cost: $400
Instructor: Anita Boland
Take your summer to new heights with Outdoor Rock Climbing! This program is tailored for participants with little to no rock-climbing experience. The week is packed with five full days of outdoor rock climbing, and activities focused on building both essential climbing skills and personal confidence in this new, exciting, and (sometimes) challenging sport. In this camp you learn about outdoor safety, climbing equipment, knot tying, belaying and rappelling, and experience this all in a small, supportive environment facilitated by highly skilled AMGA certified instructors. We start the week out on real rock, learning essential climbing skills, such as safety checks, belaying, and knot tying. After mastering these basics, the next four days are spent honing skills at various climbing sites around the Front Range. There, you learn about outdoor climbing safety and etiquette, Leave No Trace wilderness ethics, practice rappelling, and learn techniques for various types of rock climbing. Spend a week challenging yourself with a new skill, making new friends, and exploring some of the beautiful parts of Colorado’s Front Range!
Cost: $670
Instructor: Colorado Mountain Club
Square State Skate provides skateboard instruction and guidance for children of all ages and skill abilities allowing your youngsters’ skills, passion and personality to grow in a safe, fun environment. Our skilled instructors work in small group settings to help teach everything from basic fundamentals to more advanced skills, we also can provide all the equipment needed for any program. We focus on participants' growth both on and off a skateboard by fostering self-confidence, persistence, and determination and building community through skateboarding.
Cost: $690
Instructor: Square State Skate
During Reading Adventures, campers spend the week working on the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, based on the Orton Gillingham approach. Campers have large group lessons, as well as breaking into small groups to practice various skills. The reading instruction is tied together through the use of book adventures, activities, crafts, games, and fun projects.
Cost: $440
Instructor: Lesa Deland
During Reading Adventures, campers spend the week working on the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, based on the Orton Gillingham approach. Campers have large group lessons, as well as breaking into small groups to practice various skills. The reading instruction is tied together through the use of book adventures, activities, crafts, games, and fun projects.
Cost: $440
Instructor: Penny Best
Crack! Welcome to the wonder-filled world of Harry Potter, where you can become the wizard you have always known you are. Discover which house you belong to, find the wand that chooses you, and become a master potion maker—all while competing for the house cup. (Note: Watching the Harry Potter movies will be part of our immersion into the magical world of Harry Potter.)
Cost: $400
Instructor: Sadie Christlieb
Want to get your hands dirty and play with some clay? Claytime - Intro to Ceramics is the perfect summer camp class for anyone with a creative bug who wants to learn how to hand build pottery but also learn how to throw on the wheel! In this class you can expect to learn how to make coil pots, pinch pots, slab building, glazing, and an introduction to throwing on the pottery wheel! All of these techniques are used to make a variety of fun and interesting projects over the course of our time together! Come join us and play with some clay!
Cost: $440
Instructor: Becci Marzonie
Escape rooms are growing in popularity across the country. We’ll visit some of Denver’s best escape rooms during this exciting week. We’ll use teamwork and clues embedded in the room to solve various puzzles and riddles to escape a series of rooms before our time runs out. Using inspiration from some of the great escapes in popular films, campers will create their very own escape rooms and cause-and-effect contraptions for others to try, if they dare. This camp is suitable for individuals who have completed one or two escape rooms. If you have completed more than two escape rooms, we recommend signing up for the Professional Escape camp!
Cost: $570
Instructor: Kathy Zolla
Math Munch is for all budding mathematicians! We immerse the children in rich and multi-sensory activities using manipulatives and hands on activities to build your child’s math skill set. Through our activities students will learn about basic addition and subtraction, graphing, telling time, fractions, word problems and money.
Cost: $520
Instructor: Little Scholars
Week 5: July 5-9 (Click here)
Morning Camps 9:00AM-12:00PM
In this class students learn basic wheel skills: centering, opening, pulling, shaping, trimming, finishing, and glazing. As a beginner, students make variations on the basic cylinder, such as mugs, vases, and bowls. Experienced artists will be challenged to hone their skills with more challenging projects. This is a great chance to learn the basics of the potter’s wheel in a relaxed, creative atmosphere. Artists also have a chance to explore the fundamentals of hand building with clay.
Cost: $195
Instructor: Sarah Vaeth
Is your child struggling to learn how to ride a bike? Through step-by-step engaging activities instructors will help them with their cycling. Our kid-friendly instructors provide a combination of personalized and group instruction to help overcome fears, teach important skills such as starting and stopping, and help them understand how to maneuver their bikes around obstacles. This may be the only lesson they will need! The fun, unique and proven instruction methods have helped hundreds of kids experience the joy of riding a bike.
Cost: $480
Instructors: REI Outdoor School
Step into the magical lands of the fairies, unicorns, and mermaids! Embark on a magical adventure…drawing, painting, sculpting, and crafting your way into imaginary worlds. Design fairy houses and mystical landscapes, create fairy crowns and magic wands.
Cost: $190
Instructor: Jessica Krueger
Get your craft on! Join the fun in this magical mix of making things from a random bunch of found stuff! We make magic tricks, puzzles, games, illusions, creatures, treasures, and art. Using everything from tin foil to dough, socks to cereal boxes, we conjure up things that spin, things that fly, things that rhyme, or trick the eye!
Cost: $184
Instructor: Lori Worthman
There are different types of dumplings all over the world. In this camp, we make dumplings from different cultures, from scratch! The little dumpling chefs learn about the culture behind the dumpling, as they cook and eat their dumplings. At the end of the camp, they make and name their own dumpling creation!
Cost: $195
Instructor: Joy Chi
Develop your core guitar skills or take your playing to the next level. Our approach makes sounding great on the guitar fun and easy. Learn chords, melodies, grooves, and riffs so you can make music with your friends. Guitars are provided.
Cost: $235
Instructor: Sound Formation
Minecrafters Unite! If your camper loves Minecraft, then this camp will take their skills to the next level by teaching them how to create and design their own “mods” (short for modifying) to use in their Minecraft worlds. Using Java programming, campers learn how to customize their Minecraft games by designing their new foods, blocks, and biomes with Adobe Photoshop. This camp meshes perfectly with the Character Customizations Modding Camp.
Cost: $290
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
The Physics and Chemistry of the amusement park come alive in this half day camp. Start by building roller coasters and then design and build other mini rides like a Merry Go Round or Ferris Wheel. Help EggMo survive the Tower of Doom. Then enter our Glow Lab and explore all things glowy and creepy, explore alchemy and make a Golden Penny. You’ll smile from end to end when you join us for this Carnival of Fun.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Science Matters
These camps offer a solid foundation in skill development, and focus on the fundamentals of shooting and dribbling. Primarily stationary ball handling, dribbling off the move, form shooting, shooting off the catch and the dribble, live ball moves. Steve Hyatt, Colorado Academy's Boys Basketball head Coach, and current CA Varsity Players will teach fundamental basketball skills.
Each Camper will be assigned to practice at their own basket with a disinfected basketball. Campers will only be allowed to use their disinfected basketball and they are required to stay on their court.
We will strictly enforce stringent guidelines:
- Each Camper must wear a face mask (regular mask breaks will be provided outdoors )
- Each Camper will use hand sanitizer when entering and exiting the gym.
- Each Camper will be required to stay a minimum of 6 feet apart at all times.
Cost: $210
Instructor: Steve Hyatt
Design your very own fashion line with us! Budding designers will keep a fashion portfolio, create a one of a kind piece with recyclable goods and end the week with a Runway Show to rival Fashion Week! We will participate in several design challenges too. Come design the runway with us!
Cost: $205
Instructor: Little Scholars
Afternoon Camps 12:30PM-3:30PM
In this class students learn basic wheel skills: centering, opening, pulling, shaping, trimming, finishing, and glazing. As a beginner, students make variations on the basic cylinder, such as mugs, vases, and bowls. Experienced artists will be challenged to hone their skills with more challenging projects. This is a great chance to learn the basics of the potter’s wheel in a relaxed, creative atmosphere. Artists also have a chance to explore the fundamentals of hand building with clay.
Cost: $195
Instructor: Sarah Vaeth
Is your child struggling to learn how to ride a bike? Through step-by-step engaging activities instructors will help them with their cycling. Our kid-friendly instructors provide a combination of personalized and group instruction to help overcome fears, teach important skills such as starting and stopping, and help them understand how to maneuver their bikes around obstacles. This may be the only lesson they will need! The fun, unique and proven instruction methods have helped hundreds of kids experience the joy of riding a bike.
Cost: $480
Instructors: REI Outdoor School
Everyone loves those soft and cuddly friends that make us feel oh so warm and loved. Let’s make our own lovable plushies to snuggle with! We will design, create, craft, and sew plushies with simple accessories of all kinds.
Cost: $180
Instructor: Jennifer Gelvin
Let your favorite books come to life in our delicious and delectable recipes! Each day we will create two+ full recipes that are related to some of our favorite children’s books such as: Last Stop on Market Street, Green Eggs and Ham, and Dragons Love Tacos! This camp will bring your child’s imagination to life through a hands-on, magical, literary and culinary experience! What amazing creations can we make from some of the awesome books created for kids?
Cost: $270
Instructor: Sticky Fingers Cooking
Do your kids enjoy performances like Cirque Du Soleil and The Greatest Showman? Then our Hula Hooping and Carnival Arts Camp will be perfect for them. Each day, the kids will learn cool hoop tricks, play fun hula hoop inspired games and engage in partner moves. Afterwards, the kids will work on juggling and stilt walking with cups! Children will also learn how to make silly balloon animals with their instructor. On the last day, the kids will put on a class performance and get their face painted.
Cost: $218
Instructor: Mad About Hoops
There are different types of dumplings all over the world. In this camp, we make dumplings from different cultures, from scratch! The little dumpling chefs learn about the culture behind the dumpling, as they cook and eat their dumplings. At the end of the camp, they make and name their own dumpling creation!
Cost: $195
Instructor: Joy Chi
Social media platforms are mere pastimes for a new generation of information consumers, but for the YouTube Star, communication platforms are powerful tools that can turn surfers into entrepreneurs and celebrities! In this exclusive one -week summer camp, students will create their own YouTube channel and use the latest in video edition tools (Adobe Premier) to learn the critical video editing skills necessary for uploading videos that get noticed. Don’t just be a social media user, become an online star, and show your ideas to the world.
Cost: $290
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
The Physics and Chemistry of the amusement park come alive in this half day camp. Start by building roller coasters and then design and build other mini rides like a Merry Go Round or Ferris Wheel. Help EggMo survive the Tower of Doom. Then enter our Glow Lab and explore all things glowy and creepy, explore alchemy and make a Golden Penny. You’ll smile from end to end when you join us for this Carnival of Fun.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Science Matters
Daily superhero costumes are encouraged at this camp where caped crusaders will build a spider web and learn to climb through it, melt ice with laser vision, and strength train. That’s not all! Campers will shoot a rocket through a hoop, run at lightning speed, solve puzzles like Super Girl, karate chop a bad guy, and climb through a tunnel. By the end of camp you’ll be prepared to be a light in the universe.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Isabella Ubertone
Build a bottle rocket that can soar 200-300 feet high! Applying the principles of aerodynamics and Newton’s Laws of Motion, participants will learn how objects, such as a rocket, move through the air can be stabilized and enhanced. They will personalize their own bottle rocket with a theme of their choice, such as Superman or Apollo, and take it home! We will also discuss how space travel works and the possibility of being the first humans on Mars!
Cost: $234
Instructor: Thanh Luong
Full Day Camps 9:00AM-3:30PM
Entering Pre-K (4-Years-Old)
Calling all four-year-old’s for summer camp! Our Sunshine program is designed for four-year-old’s. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, our youngest campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities are designed around our weekly themes. We maximize the ‘funshine’ with daily projects, arts and crafts, splash activities and much, much more! The Sunshine Program maintains a camper-to-staff ratio of 6:1. Campers may attend a 5-day week program, registering for one week, or multiple weeks. *Specialty camp scheduling is not available for Sunshine Campers. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $460 per week
Entering Kindergarten (5-Years-Old)
The Rainbow Program is designed for children who will turn five by June 7 and will be kindergartners in the fall of 2021. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Entering Grades 1-9
Day Camp for 6-year-olds to 13-year-olds is the anchor of CA’s summer programs and is offered for eight weeks of the summer. The Day Camp program is based on good old-fashioned summertime fun! Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, archery, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Bring Minecraft to life using LEGO®! Resourcefulness, creativity, and cooperation come together in this unique building adventure game.Campers can roll the dice to mine for resources, craft tools, and watch out for Creepers! This ultimate LEGO® Minecraft experience uses gameplay elements and characters inspired by the popular Minecraft video game. Students will have a blast, even without any prior experience with Minecraft or LEGO®.
Cost: $340
Instructor: Play-Well TEKnologies
Experience a week that offers the chance to immerse yourself in nature! Observe live animals, explore hands-on displays and a Touch Table, enjoy animal and bird exhibits, and hike trails searching for hundreds of species of wildlife with outdoor scavenger hunts, games, and activities. Get wild and fill out your Passport to Nature while you explore area parks and nature centers. Required equipment: daypack, walking shoes, filled water bottles, sunscreen, insect repellant, a hat, and sunglasses.
Cost: $370
Instructor: Kate Hogan with Denver Audubon
Make the most of your summer by exploring the diverse ecosystems that Colorado has to offer! Each day, you explore a new area in Colorado’s Front Range, where you get the chance to experience indoor and outdoor rock climbing, go “sledding” on a glacier, and get your feet wet paddling at a local reservoir. As a part of our Mountain Explorers Camp, you get the chance to explore the varied activities and types of terrain that make Colorado so unique and special. You make a field journal, learn about the '10 Essentials' and Leave No Trace wilderness ethics, build “survival” shelters, and gain some of the necessary skills to safely play in the mountains for years to come!
Cost: $510
Instructor: Colorado Mountain Club
Love animals? Channel your inner zoologist as we discover different critters every day, learn all about them and where they live, and create our own! We use different materials, such as clay, felt, foam, wood, and more, as we build our own habitats and animals. (Note: we watch a variety of short, supplemental videos to help us see animals and their environments first hand.)
Cost: $324
Instructor: Sadie Christlieb
If your kids are "ACTING OUT," send them to us! We promise to put that energy to good use. Theatre teaches positive, lifelong skills. Campers learn professionalism, how to "play" well with others, stage presence, confidence, projection, enunciation, stage rules, improvisation, all while having fun. Each performer will enhance creativity, stretch imagination, gain confidence, and prepare for a culminating performance at the end of the workshop.
Cost: $720
Instructor: Annie Dwyer
Prepare your child for his/her upcoming year in kindergarten. We engage the students through shared reading, rhyming, alphabet, and word games, along with math activities that build number sense and pattern knowledge. The children learn the rituals and routines of kindergarten, while developing friendships and practicing their social skills. Campers will also enjoy outdoor activities and daily snacks. Help build your child’s confidence and prepare him/her for the wonderful world of kindergarten!
Cost: $305
Instructors: Eliza Spear
9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Entering Grades 4-9
Spend the week searching for adventure in some of the more rustic parts of Colorado. Participate in a variety of outdoor activities, such as caving/spelunking, white water rafting, SUP/kayaking, and zip lining. Participants are challenged individually, but also learn how to trust and depend on other members of their group. Under the guidance and experience of trained leaders, the Adventure Seekers will have stories to tell about their exhilarating journeys into the wild. Activities are subject to change.
Cost: $485
Instructor: Mark Garcia
Week 6: July 12-16 (Click here)
Morning Camps 9:00AM-12:00PM
This camp is open to beginner and intermediate players. Students learn chess strategy and tactics, as well as etiquette. Sign your budding chess player up for multiple sessions, because a new topic is taught during each session, and each week, throughout the summer. Depending on your child's ability and knowledge of the game, the instructor individualizes lessons so that all chess players are learning, being challenged, and playing at their level. The class is taught by National Master and five-time Denver Chess Champion Todd Bardwick.
Cost: $310
Instructor: Todd Bardwick
Learn a really cool (and simple) system that teaches rhythm through geometry (shapes for the younger ones)! Write and record an original song with our incredible teachers. Instruments include: djembe and udu from Africa, congas and bongos from Cuba, darbuka originating from Egypt, cajons from Peru, and more! Each day the students will learn how to create incredible grooves with the other participants and staff. By the last class they’ll come away with an original composition and recording!
Cost: $290
Instructor: Sound Formation
When the King of the pride lands goes missing, his son must find himself and learn how to protect his land and his people. Follow Simba, Nala, Timon, Pumba, and a colorful cast of animals as they confront the evil Scar and his mangy pack of hyenas in a battle to get their kingdom back. The participants have a blast in this coming-of-age tale about what it means to believe in yourself, work together, and trust in your friends.
Cost: $315
Instructor: KidStage
Denver Fencing Center is excited to offer a half-day camp for our littlest fencers! Little Fencers Camp introduces students to the sport of fencing in a safe and fun environment. This camp focuses on basic fencing knowledge and encourages students to try a new sport without the pressure of competition. Fencers use lightweight, plastic equipment that is specifically designed for kids.
Cost: $310
Instructor: Denver Fencing Center
Kids learn to code by creating their own video games. Each camper works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed computer programming language for young people. Participants begin by creating classic games like Pong, Pac-Man, and Brick Breaker. Then they invent new games of their own. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The Scratch programming language is free and web-based, allowing campers to work on their projects from home, long after camp is over, and to publish their work to the Scratch website.The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
In this class students learn basic wheel skills: centering, opening, pulling, shaping, trimming, finishing, and glazing. As a beginner, students make variations on the basic cylinder, such as mugs, vases, and bowls. Experienced artists will be challenged to hone their skills with more challenging projects. This is a great chance to learn the basics of the potter’s wheel in a relaxed, creative atmosphere. Artists also have a chance to explore the fundamentals of hand building with clay.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Sarah Vaeth
This camp focuses on all aspects of comic book creation including character descriptions, environment, setting, and basic plot. Students work on storyboarding, scripting, and how to take written character designs and create them visually.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Patrick Wright
Does the line where the sky meets the sea call you? If so, join us and find out how far you'll go on our journey across the sea with Moana, Maui, and Hei Hei. We make jewelry, ocean crafts, and discover more about the ocean and volcanos. (Note: We will celebrate the end of our adventure with a Luau while we watch Moana.)
Cost: $230
Instructor: Sadie Christlieb
These camps offer a solid foundation in skill development, and focus on the fundamentals of shooting and dribbling. Primarily stationary ball handling, dribbling off the move, form shooting, shooting off the catch and the dribble, live ball moves. Steve Hyatt, Colorado Academy's Boys Basketball head Coach, and current CA Varsity Players will teach fundamental basketball skills.
Each Camper will be assigned to practice at their own basket with a disinfected basketball. Campers will only be allowed to use their disinfected basketball and they are required to stay on their court.
We will strictly enforce stringent guidelines:
- Each Camper must wear a face mask (regular mask breaks will be provided outdoors )
- Each Camper will use hand sanitizer when entering and exiting the gym.
- Each Camper will be required to stay a minimum of 6 feet apart at all times.
Cost: $260
Instructor: Steve Hyatt
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Entering grades K-5
This camp provides campers the opportunity to learn soccer skills in an instructional environment that is challenging, fun, and safe! Skills and concepts that athletes will practice include passing, controlling, shooting, defending, attacking, and goalkeeping. Mask wearing and distancing will be required.
Cost: $260
Instructor: Justin Schrader
Join us on a science discovery mission! We will explore the world of science through everyday objects, experiments and encounters. This camp will enhance the STEM education philosophies with a big punch of fun. Physics, biology, chemistry, geology, astronomy and zoology will all be covered in the camp.
Cost: $220
Instructor: Little Scholars
Afternoon Camps 12:30PM-3:30PM
This camp is open to beginner and intermediate players. Students learn chess strategy and tactics, as well as etiquette. Sign your budding chess player up for multiple sessions, because a new topic is taught during each session, and each week, throughout the summer. Depending on your child's ability and knowledge of the game, the instructor individualizes lessons so that all chess players are learning, being challenged, and playing at their level. The class is taught by National Master and five-time Denver Chess Champion Todd Bardwick.
Cost: $310
Instructor: Todd Bardwick
In this exciting camp, young chefs will work together in cooking challenges inspired by favorite cooking TV shows such as Master Chef Jr, Kids Baking Championship, Chopped Jr, and Cutthroat Kitchen! We will learn how to use different cooking equipment and techniques, explore flavor pairings, and create tasty mouthwatering recipes from scratch each day!
Cost: $335
Instructor: Sticky Fingers Cooking
When the King of the pride lands goes missing, his son must find himself and learn how to protect his land and his people. Follow Simba, Nala, Timon, Pumba, and a colorful cast of animals as they confront the evil Scar and his mangy pack of hyenas in a battle to get their kingdom back. The participants have a blast in this coming-of-age tale about what it means to believe in yourself, work together, and trust in your friends.
Cost: $315
Instructor: KidStage
Kids experience the fun of combining coding and engineering. Each participant works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed coding language for young people. Campers use Scratch to create their own video games, musical devices, and interactive art. Next, they use craft materials to build physical devices to control their digital creations. For example, they build their own joysticks out of egg cartons, tin foil, wire, and popsicle sticks, or they build their own keyboards out of mat board, tinfoil, and clothespins. Finally, they get friends and teachers to try out their games and devices. To connect Scratch with the physical world, campers work with the PicoBoard from SparkFun Electronics. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
In this class students learn basic wheel skills: centering, opening, pulling, shaping, trimming, finishing, and glazing. As a beginner, students make variations on the basic cylinder, such as mugs, vases, and bowls. Experienced artists will be challenged to hone their skills with more challenging projects. This is a great chance to learn the basics of the potter’s wheel in a relaxed, creative atmosphere. Artists also have a chance to explore the fundamentals of hand building with clay.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Sarah Vaeth
Join the Science Matters SuperHero dedicated to Fun and Saving the Earth. Design your own cuddly Side Kick, Make Art from the Sun and create a Yummy Treat at the same time. We’ll create a Germinator that makes measuring plants a snap, and design your own Hide-a-Rock. Earth is our Home and we need SuperHeroes to protect it.
Cost: $285
Instructor: Science Matters
Shh—don’t tell your children this is a manners camp! Camp Polite uses fun, hands-on, age appropriate activities to teach campers important skills like making and keeping friends, getting along at home, meeting and greeting adults and friends. Other basic etiquette such as conversation skills and mealtime manners are part of this interactive camp. You might not recognize your children at the end of the week.
Cost: $315
Instructor: Christy Porter
Does the line where the sky meets the sea call you? If so, join us and find out how far you'll go on our journey across the sea with Moana, Maui, and Hei Hei. We make jewelry, ocean crafts, and discover more about the ocean and volcanos. (Note: We will celebrate the end of our adventure with a Luau while we watch Moana.)
Cost: $230
Instructor: Sadie Christlieb
Do you like playing tabletop games? Do you want to create your own game to play with friends and family? Board Game Design will dive into all the elements that make up a good (maybe great) game. We’ll look at creating themes such as zombies and superheroes, game styles (race to the end, deck building) mechanics (the rules) and most importantly, the elements that make games fun! We’ll create a board game from the bottom up, including boards, rules, cards, and pieces. Students will leave with their own design kit for a future of designing more games!
Cost: $216
Instructor: Patrick Wright
Attention all young golfers! Join us on Foothills Golf Course, and receive instruction from certified teaching pros! You’ll get an opportunity to play some holes each day. Lessons cover etiquette, safety, putting, short game (chipping, pitching), full swing and strategies for getting around a golf course efficiently. Participants must provide a bag of junior golf clubs. Participants must wear collared shirts and tailored shorts.
Cost: $246
Instructor: Beth Folsum
This camp is a great way for students to enjoy learning about martial arts while getting some fun exercise. Martial Arts campers will enjoy a padded sword competition, learn techniques such as kicks and punches, learn the history of martial arts, and play fun games. Plus, campers will learn the basics of self-defense, break real boards, and watch excerpts from famous movies such as Kung Fu Panda, all in a safe, controlled environment.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Isabella Ubertone & United Martial Arts Center
Design your very own fashion line with us! Budding designers will keep a fashion portfolio, create a one of a kind piece with recyclable goods and end the week with a Runway Show to rival Fashion Week! We will participate in several design challenges too. Come design the runway with us!
Cost: $255
Instructor: Little Scholars
Full Day Camps 9:00AM-3:30PM
Entering Pre-K (4-Years-Old)
Calling all four-year-old’s for summer camp! Our Sunshine program is designed for four-year-old’s. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, our youngest campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities are designed around our weekly themes. We maximize the ‘funshine’ with daily projects, arts and crafts, splash activities and much, much more! The Sunshine Program maintains a camper-to-staff ratio of 6:1. Campers may attend a 5-day week program, registering for one week, or multiple weeks. *Specialty camp scheduling is not available for Sunshine Campers. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $460 per week
Entering Kindergarten (5-Years-Old)
The Rainbow Program is designed for children who will turn five by June 7 and will be kindergartners in the fall of 2021. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Entering Grades 1-9
Day Camp for 6-year-olds to 13-year-olds is the anchor of CA’s summer programs and is offered for eight weeks of the summer. The Day Camp program is based on good old-fashioned summertime fun! Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, archery, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
During Reading Adventures, campers spend the week working on the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, based on the Orton Gillingham approach. Campers have large group lessons, as well as breaking into small groups to practice various skills. The reading instruction is tied together through the use of book adventures, activities, crafts, games, and fun projects.
Cost: $440
Instructor: Lesa Deland
During Reading Adventures, campers spend the week working on the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, based on the Orton Gillingham approach. Campers have large group lessons, as well as breaking into small groups to practice various skills. The reading instruction is tied together through the use of book adventures, activities, crafts, games, and fun projects.
Cost: $440
Instructor: Penny Best
Are you ready for Kindergarten? This camp is taught by a current Kindergarten teacher to prepare in-coming students for the school year. Using Dr. Seuss books and rhymes, the new kindies begin to learn their alphabet, sight words, and have the endurance to be in school for the whole day. Reading is a skill that takes time to be built; reading fun Dr. Seuss books encourages students to enjoy reading and begin to recognize patterns and sounds, skills necessary to be ahead in Kindergarten. The camp is filled with reading and fun crafts to reinforce their learning. As Dr. Seuss says, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Cost: $400
Instructor: Joy Chi
Denver Chamber Music Camp is open to strings playing students of all ages who are at the following playing levels:
Violin: Suzuki Book 4 or Equivalent
Viola: Suzuki Book 2 or Equivalent
Cello: Suzuki Book 3 or Equivalent
Students also need to have basic music-reading skills. A day at chamber camp includes a coaching session with your assigned chamber ensemble; an enrichment class, including theory, ear training, music history, and more; and orchestra. The orchestra plays everything from Bach to Rock and will perform all these different genres at the final concert on Friday, July 12 at noon. All parents and friends are invited. All classes are taught by Denver professional musicians.
Cost: $445
If your kids are "ACTING OUT," send them to us! We promise to put that energy to good use. Theatre teaches positive, lifelong skills. Campers learn professionalism, how to "play" well with others, stage presence, confidence, projection, enunciation, stage rules, improvisation, all while having fun. Each performer will enhance creativity, stretch imagination, gain confidence, and prepare for a culminating performance at the end of the workshop.
Cost: $720
Instructor: Annie Dwyer
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 blast off to a galaxy far, far away to learn about Earth and the amazing solar system. Discover all things galactic such as comets, planets, shooting stars, rockets and more. Learn about flight, the adventures of space travel, and participate in a rocket launch!
Cost: $520
Instructor: Little Scholars
Learn to Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) with the ACA certified instructors from SurfSUP Colorado. This course has been developed by the American Canoe Association. Students will learn the basic paddling skills necessary to safely participate in this water sport, including paddle strokes, turning, bracing, and a thorough introduction to the safety issues involved, including self and group rescue. Free time is built into the schedule for self- directed SUP activities. All SUP equipment is provided. Swimming ability is required.
Cost: $500
Instructor: SurfSUP Colorado
Craving a true outdoor thrill? In Mountain Madness, each day is packed with breathtaking Colorado scenery and a variety of activity challenges. Get your heart pumping with activities that may include: zip lining, whitewater rafting, glacier hiking, horseback riding, and either paddle boarding/kayaking or mountain biking. Experienced leaders will guide participants as they enjoy the best of Colorado’s wild outdoors in this robust camp.
Cost: $620
Instructor: Jason Koza
Week 7: July 19-23 (Click here)
Morning Camps 9:00AM-12:00PM
This camp is open to beginner and intermediate players. Students learn chess strategy and tactics, as well as etiquette. Sign your budding chess player up for multiple sessions, because a new topic is taught during each session, and each week, throughout the summer. Depending on your child's ability and knowledge of the game, the instructor individualizes lessons so that all chess players are learning, being challenged, and playing at their level. The class is taught by National Master and five-time Denver Chess Champion Todd Bardwick.
Cost: $310
Instructor: Todd Bardwick
Math: Achievement oriented, this program provides an opportunity for younger students to improve their academic skills in math. Instruction is tailored to the needs of each student and offers pre-testing and development of an individualized academic plan, with a final report of goals achieved and areas needing further attention.
Reading: Achievement oriented, this program provides an opportunity for younger students to improve their academic skills in reading. Instruction is tailored to the needs of each student and offers pre-testing and the development of an individualized academic plan with a final report of goals achieved and areas needing further attention.
Cost: $495 (Two weeks)
Instructor: Eliza Spear
Break the sound barrier on a supersonic jet, deliver cargo by train, and explore a swamp in your airboat. Build and create different modes of transportation out of more than 20,000 pieces of LEGO®, all while learning about the engineering concepts that make vehicles and vessels work.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Play-Well TEKnologies
Use stop motion tricks to create fires, explosions, and even floods, as your characters can battle it out or work together to save the day in this action packed stop motion class.. You'll work in small groups to storyboard, create the action, film, and voice-over these exciting movies. In this advanced class, students are given more instruction on how to create compelling stories and more independence to try ideas that may be more difficult. *All flix downloadable within a month after camp ends.
Cost: $230
Instructor: IncrediFlix
Kids experience the fun of combining coding and engineering. Each participant works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed coding language for young people. Campers use Scratch to create their own video games, musical devices, and interactive art. Next, they use craft materials to build physical devices to control their digital creations. For example, they build their own joysticks out of egg cartons, tin foil, wire, and popsicle sticks, or they build their own keyboards out of mat board, tinfoil, and clothespins. Finally, they get friends and teachers to try out their games and devices. To connect Scratch with the physical world, campers work with the PicoBoard from SparkFun Electronics. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
Get messy investigating the science of our world. We learn about colloids, polymers, solvents, solutions, and chemical reactions, by making ice cream, slime, crystals, lava, and the ultimate bubble recipe. Students have the opportunity to explore the science of color, pigments, and chromatography. Using kaleidoscopes and microscopes we explore the science of light and later delve into the physics of flight. There are also many opportunities to venture outdoors and enjoy nature.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Megan Zitron
As a junior food scientist, we will explore the basic science behind packaged foods and learn about what makes our food yummy and safe to eat. We’ll also have fun cooking and do exciting experiments with different ingredients. The intention of this camp is to pique their interest in science and cooking, as well as having the junior scientists think about how their packaged food is made. A guest food scientist explains why science is important when creating unique products. Come join us for a week of learning, cooking, experimenting, and eating!
Cost: $240
Instructor: Joy Chi
Have you ever wanted to develop your own video game? Then 2D Arcade Game Design using FlowLab Game Creator is the camp for you ! This is where 2D game creation gets real. Learn how to make arcade-style games of your own creation similar to Mario Bros, Space Invaders, Frogger and much more. Learn logical skills used in the tech industry including variables, controls, and functions. Students will be able to share their games to iOS, Android, and Windows platforms for friends to play.
Cost: $305
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
Each class will have a theme that weaves in a creative activity, along with poses, breathing, and games. We will make mandalas, express ourselves in a handmade sketchbook, and use our imaginations to inspire our art and yoga practice.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Jen Werner
These camps offer a solid foundation in skill development, and focus on the fundamentals of shooting and dribbling. Primarily stationary ball handling, dribbling off the move, form shooting, shooting off the catch and the dribble, live ball moves. Steve Hyatt, Colorado Academy's Boys Basketball head Coach, and current CA Varsity Players will teach fundamental basketball skills.
Each Camper will be assigned to practice at their own basket with a disinfected basketball. Campers will only be allowed to use their disinfected basketball and they are required to stay on their court.
We will strictly enforce stringent guidelines:
- Each Camper must wear a face mask (regular mask breaks will be provided outdoors )
- Each Camper will use hand sanitizer when entering and exiting the gym.
- Each Camper will be required to stay a minimum of 6 feet apart at all times.
Cost: $260
Instructor: Steve Hyatt
Pay It Forward is a unique opportunity for students to learn how to impact the world around them. Our leaders will learn about public speaking, civic involvement and community outreach opportunities with an engaging curriculum to channel their desire to have a positive impact on the world around them.
Cost: $220
Instructor: Little Scholars
Come join us for a weeklong mystery extravaganza during which student detectives conduct hands-on forensic science tests on evidence found at the “crime scene.” Students perform tests on clues in the forensic laboratory, including thread comparison tests, chromatography, pH tests, and powder tests. Through observation, experimentation, and discussion, we attempt to solve the mystery of the Case of Felix.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Shelley DeRock
Afternoon Camps 12:30PM-3:30PM
This camp is open to beginner and intermediate players. Students learn chess strategy and tactics, as well as etiquette. Sign your budding chess player up for multiple sessions, because a new topic is taught during each session, and each week, throughout the summer. Depending on your child's ability and knowledge of the game, the instructor individualizes lessons so that all chess players are learning, being challenged, and playing at their level. The class is taught by National Master and five-time Denver Chess Champion Todd Bardwick.
Cost: $310
Instructor: Todd Bardwick
Math: Developing computation skills and understanding basic math processes are the major components of the math program. At the first class meeting, students are tested and a personalized plan is developed for each student. Upon completion, a final report is prepared that includes goals achieved and areas needing further attention.
Reading: Students learn to be active participants in the reading process while focusing on comprehension and decoding skills. The program includes: vocabulary development; book analysis and discussion; summary writing and main idea identification; conclusion, and inference skills.
Cost: $495 (Two weeks)
Instructor: Eliza Spear
Take a double decker bus ride through London, pilot a hovercraft over land and sea, and make important deliveries in a cargo plane. Learn about STEM concepts as we explore the various ways that we transport goods and people from place to place.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Play-Well TEKnologies
Use stop motion tricks to create fires, explosions, and even floods, as your characters can battle it out or work together to save the day in this action packed stop motion class.. You'll work in small groups to storyboard, create the action, film, and voice-over these exciting movies. *All flix downloadable within a month after camp ends.
Cost: $230
Instructor: IncrediFlix
Kids learn to code by creating their own video games. Each camper works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed computer programming language for young people. Participants begin by creating classic games like Pong, Pac-Man, and Brick Breaker. Then they invent new games of their own. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The Scratch programming language is free and web-based, allowing campers to work on their projects from home, long after camp is over, and to publish their work to the Scratch website.The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
Get messy investigating the science of our world. We learn about colloids, polymers, solvents, solutions, and chemical reactions, by making ice cream, slime, crystals, lava, and the ultimate bubble recipe. Students have the opportunity to explore the science of color, pigments, and chromatography. Using kaleidoscopes and microscopes we explore the science of light and later delve into the physics of flight. There are also many opportunities to venture outdoors and enjoy nature.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Megan Zitron
We know that social skills are a strong determinant of success and it's never too soon to start developing young leaders through these skills. Leadership Camp helps your child become more confident by helping them be more comfortable in social situations. Topics include first impressions like shaking hands, introductions, eye contact and conversation success. Plus, instructors will explore table manners, party manners, gifts, thank you notes, minding your technology manners, making and keeping friends, and even a few ballroom dance steps. A final instructional meal puts new skills into action.
Cost: $315
Instructor: Christy Porter
Let’s move & groove with sounds & syllables! This bopping, non-stopping, multisensory class includes games, sidewalk chalk, two-color sand, goofy plays, and silly songs. Students learn lowercase cursive, beginning with their name. No matter the level of your little reader or writer, this class enhances their understanding and helps them fall in love with sounds, syllables, and words.
Cost: $240
Instructors: Danielle Corriveau
What is the science behind common foods we get at the supermarket such as hot chocolate, ice cream, Nutella, and ketchup? We will learn how our favorite packaged foods are made and preserved through a scientist’s lens. Scientists go through multiple experiments to create a product that not only tastes and looks good, but is also safe to eat. We will dive into the chemistry of shelf-stability, baking, fermentation, and much more! The young scientists have a week packed with experiments to create healthier and tastier versions of packaged food from scratch. The intention of this camp is to pique their interest in science and cooking.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Joy Chi
Minecrafters Unite! If your camper loves Minecraft, then this camp will take their skills to the next level by teaching them how to create and design their own “mods” (short for modifying) to use in their Minecraft worlds. Using Java programming, campers learn how to customize their Minecraft games by designing their new foods, blocks, and biomes with Adobe Photoshop. This camp meshes perfectly with the Character Customizations Modding Camp.
Cost: $355
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
Attention all young golfers! Join us on Foothills Golf Course, and receive instruction from certified teaching pros! You’ll get an opportunity to play some holes each day. Lessons cover etiquette, safety, putting, short game (chipping, pitching), full swing and strategies for getting around a golf course efficiently. Participants must provide a bag of junior golf clubs. Participants must wear collared shirts and tailored shorts.
Cost: $246
Instructor: Beth Folsum
Come and explore this simple little wind instrument that is played all over the world. Learn fun folk songs, plus how to read and write music. This is an excellent introduction to all instruments. Students in the class receive their own personal Pennywhistle. Parents and friends are invited to a mini-recital on the last day of class.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Isabella Ubertone
Skiing and riding in the summer? No problem! Shredder’s professionally developed ski and board curriculum focuses on the technical aspects of skiing and riding. Campers will travel to Shredder’s indoor facility, located in Littleton, to strengthen their skills and sharpen their knowledge. This camp is open to beginning and intermediate levels and all equipment is provided.
Cost: $490
Instructor: Shredders
Pay It Forward is a unique opportunity for students to learn how to impact the world around them. Our leaders will learn about public speaking, civic involvement and community outreach opportunities with an engaging curriculum to channel their desire to have a positive impact on the world around them.
Cost: $220
Instructor: Little Scholars
Full Day Camps 9:00AM-3:30PM
Entering Pre-K (4-Years-Old)
Calling all four-year-old’s for summer camp! Our Sunshine program is designed for four-year-old’s. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, our youngest campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities are designed around our weekly themes. We maximize the ‘funshine’ with daily projects, arts and crafts, splash activities and much, much more! The Sunshine Program maintains a camper-to-staff ratio of 6:1. Campers may attend a 5-day week program, registering for one week, or multiple weeks. *Specialty camp scheduling is not available for Sunshine Campers. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $460 per week
Entering Kindergarten (5-Years-Old)
The Rainbow Program is designed for children who will turn five by June 7 and will be kindergartners in the fall of 2021. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Entering Grades 1-9
Day Camp for 6-year-olds to 13-year-olds is the anchor of CA’s summer programs and is offered for eight weeks of the summer. The Day Camp program is based on good old-fashioned summertime fun! Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, archery, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Adventure through rivers, ponds, and wetlands—catching frogs and fish, exploring and building beaver dams, hiking trails, and visiting live wetland animals with Nature’s Educators. Get your feet wet (literally) every day with games, science experiments, investigations, and an appreciation of Colorado wetlands at the Audubon Nature Center at Chatfield State Park. Required equipment: daypack, water clothes and water shoes with a heel or heel strap (no flip-flops), filled water bottles, sunscreen, insect spray, a hat, and sunglasses.
Cost: $445
Instructor: Kate Hogan with Denver Audubon
During Reading Adventures, campers spend the week working on the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, based on the Orton Gillingham approach. Campers have large group lessons, as well as breaking into small groups to practice various skills. The reading instruction is tied together through the use of book adventures, activities, crafts, games, and fun projects.
Cost: $440
Instructor: Lesa Deland
During Reading Adventures, campers spend the week working on the five essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, based on the Orton Gillingham approach. Campers have large group lessons, as well as breaking into small groups to practice various skills. The reading instruction is tied together through the use of book adventures, activities, crafts, games, and fun projects.
Cost: $440
Instructor: Penny Best
To the bus! Just like in Ms. Frizzle's class, we spend each day immersing ourselves in our topics. We learn about everything from the ocean to space, dinosaurs to humans, and so much more! Join us as we craft, learn, and explore our way through subjects we all find fascinating. (Note: Watching episodes of the Magic School Bus will be part of our daily routine.)
Cost: $400
Instructors: Sadie Christlieb
Curious how to make your own baked goods, crackers, and pastries from scratch? Aspiring bakers and chefs who love to get their hands dirty in the kitchen will love our Culinary Team Challenge Camp! Campers will learn the basics of baking breads, fresh pastas, muffins, cookies and more from scratch each day. Young chefs-in-training will also take on cooking challenges inspired from favorite cooking TV shows such as Master Chef Jr, Cupcake Wars, Chopped Jr, and Cutthroat Kitchen. We will learn how to use different cooking equipment and techniques, explore flavor pairing, and create tasty mouthwatering recipes throughout the week.
Cost: $550
Instructor: Sticky Fingers
Grab your clubs and let’s hit the links! This camp provides five hours of professional instruction by Foothills Golf Course PGA teachers, on a par-3 course. All participants must wear collared shirts and tailored shorts. Participants must provide golf clubs, balls and tees. Balls are provided for the driving ranges. Players may not bring their own pull carts. Pull carts may be rented at Foothills for $3-4 per day.
Cost: $450
Instructor: Bob Ulrich
Math Munch is for all budding mathematicians! We immerse the children in rich and multi-sensory activities using manipulatives and hands on activities to build your child’s math skill set. Through our activities students will learn about basic addition and subtraction, graphing, telling time, fractions, word problems and money.
Cost: $520
Instructor: Little Scholars
Craving a true outdoor thrill? In Mountain Madness, each day is packed with breathtaking Colorado scenery and a variety of activity challenges. Get your heart pumping with activities that may include: zip lining, whitewater rafting, glacier hiking, horseback riding, and either paddle boarding/kayaking or mountain biking. Experienced leaders will guide participants as they enjoy the best of Colorado’s wild outdoors in this robust camp.
Cost: $620
Instructor: Jason Koza
Week 8: July 26-30 (Click here)
Morning Camps 9:00AM-12:00PM
Math: Achievement oriented, this program provides an opportunity for younger students to improve their academic skills in math. Instruction is tailored to the needs of each student and offers pre-testing and development of an individualized academic plan, with a final report of goals achieved and areas needing further attention.
Reading: Achievement oriented, this program provides an opportunity for younger students to improve their academic skills in reading. Instruction is tailored to the needs of each student and offers pre-testing and the development of an individualized academic plan with a final report of goals achieved and areas needing further attention.
Cost: $495 (Two weeks)
Instructor: Eliza Spear
Kids learn to code by creating their own animated stories, music, and interactive art. Each participant works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed computer programming language for young people. Participants enjoy becoming creators rather than just consumers of digital content. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The Scratch programming language is free and web-based, allowing campers to work on their projects from home, long after camp is over, and to publish their work to the Scratch website. The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
Yes, we still make slime and get messy. But there’s more! Let’s explore the connection between magnetism and electricity, learn about potential and kinetic energy using roller coaster tracks, and investigate forces and motion. We also go back in time and explore the Geologic Time Scale, create fossils, identify rocks in the rock cycle, and crack open a few geodes. There are also many opportunities to enjoy the outdoors and explore the campus.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Megan Zitron
Through games, activities and journaling, students will understand what mindfulness is, and how to incorporate this evidence based practice into their toolbox to help calm their bodies and brains, recover from setbacks and improve emotional regulation and focus. This secular program will be taught using the Mindful Schools Curriculum integrated with various breathing techniques and yoga postures.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Heather Goedel
Practice letter identification, name writing, number recognition, and basic math skills. Develop social skills through play, practice gross motor development and refine fine motor skills using various tools such as pencils, markers, paintbrushes, scissors and MORE! They’ll have so much they won’t even realize they’re learning!
Cost: $216
Instructor: Jessica Krueger
The ukulele has seen a surge in popularity recently due to its ease of play, portable size, and signature sound. Come learn a new instrument that has been featured recently in many popular songs. You’ll learn the notes and chords you need to play many of your favorite songs, old and new. Campers may use their own instrument, or borrow a ukulele from the instructor.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Phil Jones
Kid-friendly instructors will focus on honing the skills learned in Learn to Ride 1 and introduce new skills depending on how the students progress. For example, campers may work on mastering hills, obstacles, off-road riding, and managing distractions (e.g. other riders, cars). This program may take off-campus trips during the week to practice riding in new locations.
Cost: $630
Instructors: REI Outdoor School
Get your craft on! Join the fun in this magical mix of making things from a random bunch of found stuff! We make magic tricks, puzzles, games, illusions, creatures, treasures, and art. Using everything from tin foil to dough, socks to cereal boxes, we conjure up things that spin, things that fly, things that rhyme, or trick the eye!
Cost: $230
Instructor: Lori Worthman
Our incredibly fun and simple system for learning piano will have you rapidly playing chords, melodies, and bass lines to all of your favorite modern songs whether from movies, pop artists, or other musical heroes. This curriculum develops your core musical skills which will accelerate your musical feel, rhythm, and ability to understand and read music. Electronic keyboards and excerpts from our method workbooks are provided. You are welcome to bring your own keyboards and/or headphones if you’d like.
Cost: $290
Instructor: Sound Formation
In this engaging, hands-on robotics camp, students learn to program the powerful Edison robot to perform a variety of autonomous tasks. Chock-full of sensors, this small, but mighty robot can be trained to respond to lights and sounds, follow lines, avoid obstacles, and even work interactively with other Edison robots. The week culminates in exciting BattleBots elimination rounds!
Cost: $305
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
These camps offer a solid foundation in skill development, and focus on the fundamentals of shooting and dribbling. Primarily stationary ball handling, dribbling off the move, form shooting, shooting off the catch and the dribble, live ball moves. Steve Hyatt, Colorado Academy's Boys Basketball head Coach, and current CA Varsity Players will teach fundamental basketball skills.
Each Camper will be assigned to practice at their own basket with a disinfected basketball. Campers will only be allowed to use their disinfected basketball and they are required to stay on their court.
We will strictly enforce stringent guidelines:
- Each Camper must wear a face mask (regular mask breaks will be provided outdoors )
- Each Camper will use hand sanitizer when entering and exiting the gym.
- Each Camper will be required to stay a minimum of 6 feet apart at all times.
Cost: $260
Instructor: Steve Hyatt
Calling all wizard fans! This is like no other camp you have experienced. We will take a magical journey into the world of wizards. We will design wands, make magic potions, go on a magical creature hunt, play Quidditch, and participate in activities that will astound all Muggles.
Cost: $220
Instructor: Little Scholars
Come join us for a weeklong mystery extravaganza during which student detectives conduct hands-on forensic science tests on evidence found at the “crime scene.” Students perform tests on clues in the forensic laboratory, including thread comparison tests, chromatography, pH tests, and powder tests. Through observation, experimentation, and discussion, we attempt to solve the mystery of the Case of Felix.
Cost: $230
Instructor: Shelley DeRock
Afternoon Camps 12:30PM-3:30PM
Math: Developing computation skills and understanding basic math processes are the major components of the math program. At the first class meeting, students are tested and a personalized plan is developed for each student. Upon completion, a final report is prepared that includes goals achieved and areas needing further attention.
Reading: Students learn to be active participants in the reading process while focusing on comprehension and decoding skills. The program includes: vocabulary development; book analysis and discussion; summary writing and main idea identification; conclusion, and inference skills.
Cost: $495 (Two weeks)
Instructor: Eliza Spear
Kids learn to code by creating their own video games. Each camper works with a school laptop and with Scratch, an MIT-developed computer programming language for young people. Participants begin by creating classic games like Pong, Pac-Man, and Brick Breaker. Then they invent new games of their own. Three MindDance teachers provide inspiration and support as kids create and share their work. Participants experience a warm and social learning community that is hands-on, challenging, and fun. The Scratch programming language is free and web-based, allowing campers to work on their projects from home, long after camp is over, and to publish their work to the Scratch website.The camp is great for beginning and experienced coders.
Cost: $210
Instructors: MindDance Team
Yes, we still make slime and get messy. But there’s more! Let’s explore the connection between magnetism and electricity, learn about potential and kinetic energy using roller coaster tracks, and investigate forces and motion. We also go back in time and explore the Geologic Time Scale, create fossils, identify rocks in the rock cycle, and crack open a few geodes. There are also many opportunities to enjoy the outdoors and explore the campus.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Megan Zitron
Join us as we tap our inner designers and dress up with our dolls! Bring your favorite doll so that you can make her a new outfit. It can be an American Girl doll, Barbie Doll, or any other doll. We will draw dress designs, sew new outfits by hand, and finish the week with a tea party. The esteemed guests? Our dolls in their new outfits!
Cost: $236
Instructor: Jennifer Gelvin
Aspiring bakers who love to get their hands sticky in the kitchen will love this camp! Young chefs will learn the basics of scratch-baking and how to make everything from bread to fresh pastas, muffins to cookies, and more! In class, we use all portable baking equipment and tools, and each recipe can be recreated at home in your oven for more baking fun! Young chefs will love creating sweet AND savory baked goods in this tasty, engaging, and imaginative camp! Come and cook up some awesomely tasty morning recipes with us this summer!
Cost: $335
Instructor: Sticky Fingers Cooking
Kid-friendly instructors will focus on honing the skills learned in Learn to Ride 1 and introduce new skills depending on how the students progress. For example, campers may work on mastering hills, obstacles, off-road riding, and managing distractions (e.g. other riders, cars). This program may take off-campus trips during the week to practice riding in new locations.
Cost: $630
Instructors: REI Outdoor School
Do you enjoy writing and drawing? Writers this week use their creative minds to write comics like Calvin and Hobbes, The DC comics, Captain Underpants, and much more! We learn about the authors who wrote these infamous comics and how they were inspired. This is a stress-free, creative space for young writers to express themselves through their art!
Cost: $216
Instructor: Joy Chi
The use of Virtual Reality is changing the face of computing and user applications before our very eyes! This camp teaches one of the most advanced VR design applications in the industry, Blocksmith, which allows students to easily make VR/AR experiences, games, and more, for both desktop and mobile. Students design their own 3D environments and then immerse themselves directly into it with Google Cardboard headsets. This is a one-of-a-kind course offered exclusively by Silicon STEM.
Cost: $355
Instructor: Silicon STEM Academy
Come build numeracy and reasoning in a fun and supportive environment. Students participate in hands-on activities and games that allow them to solidify number sense and practice early mathematical reasoning. Concepts developed include basic number sense (counting and representing numbers), mathematical patterns, put together-take apart, and problem solving and reasoning.
Cost: $216
Instructor: Heather Goeddel
A star is born! Join us for a special beginner’s introduction to music notation and song writing. Budding Mozarts will learn to read and write basic musical notation by hand. Plus explore melodious musical instruments such as the piano, recorder, ukulele, and pennywhistles, as well as voice and percussion instruments. No musical background needed.
Cost: $240
Instructor: Isabella Ubertone
Design your very own fashion line with us! Budding designers will keep a fashion portfolio, create a one of a kind piece with recyclable goods and end the week with a Runway Show to rival Fashion Week! We will participate in several design challenges too. Come design the runway with us!
Cost: $255
Instructor: Little Scholars
Full Day Camps 9:00AM-3:30PM
Entering Pre-K (4-Years-Old)
Calling all four-year-old’s for summer camp! Our Sunshine program is designed for four-year-old’s. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, our youngest campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities are designed around our weekly themes. We maximize the ‘funshine’ with daily projects, arts and crafts, splash activities and much, much more! The Sunshine Program maintains a camper-to-staff ratio of 6:1. Campers may attend a 5-day week program, registering for one week, or multiple weeks. *Specialty camp scheduling is not available for Sunshine Campers. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $460 per week
Entering Kindergarten (5-Years-Old)
The Rainbow Program is designed for children who will turn five by June 7 and will be kindergartners in the fall of 2021. Located in a campus facility specifically designed for this age group, campers participate in activities tailored to their needs. Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Entering Grades 1-9
Day Camp for 6-year-olds to 13-year-olds is the anchor of CA’s summer programs and is offered for eight weeks of the summer. The Day Camp program is based on good old-fashioned summertime fun! Daily activities for 2021 include: adventure, archery, arts and crafts, swimming, campfire program (songs, stories, community building), group games, tennis fun, music, and more. *Due to CDC guidelines, our capacity in the pool will need to be limited, swim time will be limited to 2 or 3 days per week this summer. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $384 per week.
Come lads and ladies to Medieval Camp! Over the course of the week, the Knights of DFC guide you on your quest to learn the art of the sword. Knights-in-training learn to battle both in the medieval style and the modern Olympic style. Knights make their own foam swords and design their personal crests, which they paint on their shields. On our last day, our knights battle for the castle built upon the great Ruby Hill!
Cost: $570
Instructor: Denver Fencing Center
Make the most of your summer by exploring the diverse ecosystems that Colorado has to offer! Each day, you explore a new area in Colorado’s Front Range, where you get the chance to experience indoor and outdoor rock climbing, go “sledding” on a glacier, and get your feet wet paddling at a local reservoir. As a part of our Mountain Explorers Camp, you get the chance to explore the varied activities and types of terrain that make Colorado so unique and special. You make a field journal, learn about the '10 Essentials' and Leave No Trace wilderness ethics, build “survival” shelters, and gain some of the necessary skills to safely play in the mountains for years to come!
Cost: $630
Instructor: Colorado Mountain Club
Square State Skate provides skateboard instruction and guidance for children of all ages and skill abilities allowing your youngsters’ skills, passion and personality to grow in a safe, fun environment. Our skilled instructors work in small group settings to help teach everything from basic fundamentals to more advanced skills, we also can provide all the equipment needed for any program. We focus on participants' growth both on and off a skateboard by fostering self-confidence, persistence, and determination and building community through skateboarding.
Cost: $690
Instructor: Square State Skate
Grab your clubs and let’s hit the links! This camp provides five hours of professional instruction by Foothills Golf Course PGA teachers, three days on a par-3 course, and two days on a nine-hole course. All participants must wear collared shirts and tailored shorts. Participants must provide golf clubs, balls and tees. Balls are provided for the driving ranges. Players may not bring their own pull carts. Pull carts may be rented at Foothills for $3-4 per day.
Cost: $450
Instructor: Bob Ulrich
Learn to Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) with the ACA certified instructors from SurfSUP Colorado. This course has been developed by the American Canoe Association. Students will learn the basic paddling skills necessary to safely participate in this water sport, including paddle strokes, turning, bracing, and a thorough introduction to the safety issues involved, including self and group rescue. Free time is built into the schedule for self- directed SUP activities. All SUP equipment is provided. Swimming ability is required.
Cost: $500
Instructor: SurfSUP Colorado
**COVID-19 Health and Safety Fee. $20/Week/Camper will be charged in 2021 to cover health and safety costs related to pandemic response. Fee is included in the cost of tuition.
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About Us
Colorado Academy Summer Programs encourage Self Discovery, so that campers can identify passions, nurture talents, and increase skills. In our Traditional Camp, campers sample athletic, creative, and waterfront activities that are engaging and fun. And our Specialty Camps allow individuals to customize their own schedules with intriguing and challenging options.
CA’s 94-acre campus in southwest Denver is the perfect stage for kids from as far as Castle Rock, Evergreen and Parker to come together to learn, laugh, and increase self-confidence. With experienced educators and caring counselors, campers receive the individual attention they need to succeed.
Optional daily transportation is available, and off-site field trips punctuate the curriculum.
Our Purpose: Building Self Confidence is our focus. We want every camper to leave our Summer Programs more aware of who they are and what they can become. We encourage individuals to step out of their comfort zones, challenge themselves, take healthy risks, revel in the experiences, and then acknowledge their accomplishments.
Our Services
We offer eight weeks of Day Camp programming, ages 4 and up, from June 7 through July 30, 2021.
We move confidently into 2021 because of the lessons we learned in 2020, and our plan for small groups. We are proud of our version of camp, which is an exceptional combination of unique programs, a commitment to the health of our community, and good old-fashioned summertime FUN!
Here’s to the summer of 2021! We hope your family will be with us.