Summer of Wonder: Art Camp
Join Paint Love for a Summer of Wonder at our Art Camp for kids ages 7-11.
Paint Love’s summer camp is as unique as each child. Led by Paint Love educators and artists, each week of camp includes daily movement and intentional community building to welcome kids into exploring their own creative process and practice social-emotional skill building. We’ll get messy, have fun, and make new friends all while creating together. Children will leave Paint Love’s Week of Wonder camps thinking a little more intentionally about how their selves and stories shape and are shaped by art and how to put their creative brains to use as good stewards of the relationships and spaces we share.
Summer 2024 dates
Camp is from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Additional “Film Studies” After-Care is available until 5:30 pm
June 3-7: Storytellers Camp
June 10-14: Nature Explorers Camp
June 17-21: Movers and Makers Camp
July 8-12: Storytellers Camp (repeat)
July 15-19: Nature Explorers Camp (repeat)
July 22-26: Movers and Makers Camp (repeat)
Paint Love Summer Art Camp is $420 per week per child. We offer financial aid to ensure our super special, small group camp is accessible for everyone. Please don’t let affordability deter you from reaching out! We also offer a 10% discount for siblings at any pricing level. Our camp is capped at 13 campers per week, and we ensure a low child-teacher ratio (4-1 at maximum!) so everyone gets the attention they need. Read more below about what makes our camp so special.
More about Paint Love summer camp
Storytellers Camp
Campers will explore different artistic mediums to tell their stories and practice using their creative voice to be an advocate to lift up the experiences and stories of others. Campers will delve into all kinds of materials to expand their storytelling skills -including printmaking, fabric arts, photography, puppetry, theater arts, and movement to process, share, and build community.
Nature Explorers Art Camp
A week-long creative adventure! We’ll be outside as much as possible, exploring and using natural materials from Legacy Park’s 77 acre campus. We’ll create with sustainable and up-cycled materials, and create art inspired by the great outdoors. Kids will learn about folk art, eco-justice arts initiatives, and even create their own sensory-inspired, interactive outdoor art installations!
Movers + Makers Camp
Our newest camp addition offers a week of movement-based creating. This camp is created for the energetic kids who are interested in building, designing, and moving through spaces playfully. Kids will create collaborative games and art pieces through big gestures and whole-body expression.
What makes Paint Love’s Summer Camps different?
Social Emotional Skills
We've got it down to a science! Paint Love's professional teaching artists follow our unique model, engaging youth through movement and creativity to use art to process emotions and experiences and empower them to share their story.
Independence
Each session will incorporate directed "creation time" for youth to create freely - no cookie cutter step-by-step directions here. Teaching artists are there to help, but youth will have time to get into their creative zone and focus on something tactile - off a screen. Being able to make choices and take creative control and ownership is an important part of our empowering model.
Safe + Fun
We’re pros at keeping kids and groups safe with temperature checks, sanitized supplies, small groups, and getting outside as much as possible. We’re also pros at creating a fun environment that gives kids - and adults- time and freedom to play - something we could all use more of!
Staff are background checked, trained teaching artists, and fully Covid-19 vaccinated (+boosters)!
All supplies included
We will provide everything you need - yoga mats, snacks, and art supplies. Just bring a lunch and a water bottle for all programs.
Intentional Themes
Age- appropriate themes will drive each session. Paint Love Summer Camp will challenge everyone to think about big issues in a safe space, and not only teach campers new art techniques and skills, but expand their ability to think creatively and take positive action in their lives.
Building Community
Small groups offer opportunity for meaningful connection after more than a year of virtual learning and working for many. We also build community through diversity-celebrating themes and ensuring accessibility for all through scholarships.
Adult resources
Access to resources for parents and caregivers with guidance on using art to start conversations about hard topics with kids and teens, and self-care and creative stress relief for adults will be available for all participants.
Summer Camp FAQ
registration process
Paint Love camp works a little bit differently than other camps. Here are the steps for applying:
Apply by filling out the application. You’ll pay a $50 application fee that will go toward your camp payment if your child is accepted and will be refunded in full if for any reason we are not able to accommodate your child in camp this year.
Family Programs Manager, Chloe Young, will reach out to all applicants and set up a phone call to learn more about your child.
Once your child is accepted, Chloe will send you a link to pay to finalize and reserve your child’s spot.
camp pAyments
Full payment is required to secure your child’s spot in camp.
Cancellation Policy
No refunds are possible unless we fill the vacant slot. If the empty slot can be filled, the cost of the camp will be refunded.
Sample Schedule
8:50 – 9:30 Process Studio: Hit the ground running in your personal art space – each day, there will be surprising new materials and supplies for you to explore as you get your creative juices flowing.
9:30 – 9:40 Check-in: Join the circle to say hello to everyone and hear more about the plans for the day. This time will include a brief emotional regulation and mindfulness activity.
9:40 – 10:10 Art School: Learn and practice a new skill, technique, strategy, or pro-tip. This is the guided art instruction segment of our program.
10:10 – 11:00 Snack and choice time : Enjoy a healthy snack and then… you decide! Return to your morning projects, play a game, or just hang out – you make the choice. We will provide nutritional snacks and beverages based on parent and camper preferences
11:00 – 12:00 Creative Movement : Use your whole body for dance, drama, yoga, and play – hooray! This multimodal activity time will also include artmaking experiences like drawing, painting, puppet construction, and work with clay.
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch and play time: Eat lunch with your friends and relax – ahhh! We will provide nutritional lunch choices based on parent and camper preferences.
12:45 – 2:30 Inspired Art Projects: Think about big ideas with an artist’s mind, and use your own good ideas to create art that is all your own. This is a time for guided art projects based on themes presented through stories and picture books or on the work of other artists.
2:30 – 2:45 Looking back and planning ahead: Share your ideas about what was great about the day and what could be even better for tomorrow, and we’ll all brainstorm together about how to make that happen. We will close each day’s session with this opportunity for self-reflection, envisioning and community building.
3:00-5:30 (Optional) Film Studies After-Care: Spend the afternoon watching a movie that expands on the theme of the day. Afterwards, campers will create art based on the film.
More questions? Email chloe (at)paintlove.org to learn more.