Summer at St. Mary's

If you can think it, you can build it. Prepare your imagination for five days of planning and constructing. Use your imagination to construct a town, a state fair midway, sailing ships, castles, forts, cars, trucks, and more! Your imagination has no limits!

Calling all artists! If drawing, painting, cutting, gluing, and creating is your thing, this is the camp for you! We will use all types of mediums,  materials, and techniques to make the most amazing art!

From basking in the glow of the stage-lights to creating and directing a scene, learn about the theatre from the front of the house where tickets are sold to the back of the house where actors wait to make their grand entrances!

From creating your very own comic book characters to storyboarding, sketching, coloring and publishing, you will create your own comic book and then share your finished masterpiece with your friends. 

There is a superhero in all of us, and this camp will allow you to figure out what superhero you want to be. What is your superpower, and how would you use it to make our world a better place? After creating their own superheroes, crafts, and costumes, each camper will make a video. We will also invite some real-life superheroes to St. Mary's to talk about how they use their superpowers to help our community. 

This specialty camp is for the beginning sports student who wants to learn the fundamental movement skills of many sports without the pressure of being the only one who doesn't know these basics. Fundamental movement skills are basic movements such as throwing, kicking running, jumping, hopping and catching. Fundamental sport skills are these movement skills applied to an athletic situation: for example, kicking a soccer ball, running a sprint, and catching a baseball. Each day will be spent learning these skills and applying them to basketball, volleyball, track & field, tennis and baseball/softball. 

From somersaults and tripods to handstands, headstands, and cartwheels - this is the camp for you! You will learn the basics of gymnastics while teaching safe and basic tumbling, spatial awareness, large motor skills, balance, and flexibility. This camp is perfect for the child who is always on the move! Learn the basics of gymnastics while having fun with your friends! Activities will focus on basic tumbling, body awareness, balance, coordination, and flexibility.

If you were born with happy feet and your toes start a tappin' whenever you hear a lovely tune, then Dance Club is for you! Come join us as we learn some basic dance moves, line dances, breakdance spins, the waltz, and more!

Let’s make a musical cacophony of happy noise! Each student will learn about the four families of instruments: strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion, make some joyful noises, and make a musical instrument to take home at the end of the week. 

If mixing, stirring, baking, broiling, sauteing, and steaming is your thing, then cooking camp is the specialty camp for you. Learn some simple, delightful, and delectable recipes for hors-d'oeuvres, entrees, and desserts each day and then sample your culinary creations! Go home with recipes to cook for family and friends. 

What better way to spend the summer than to visit countries across the globe? Five days in five different countries sounds marvelous, especially since our time travel machine keeps us from getting jet-lag! Five art projects, five foreign foods, and five foreign languages in which to say hello and goodbye - sign me up, friend! (Or freund, or ven, or amigo...you get the picture!)

Traverse our campus, take notes on how to best create the ultimate treasure hunt. Create the cryptic clues, make the maps and invent decodable codes. Have your friends solve your mystery and then you solve theirs. Unlock the secrets to our KaleidEscape Treasures!

Learn, discover, and explore more than you ever thought possible about our 51-acre campus. Discover how important biodiversity is to our everyday life. Learn about food chains and food webs and play games like Hoppit to learn what happens when the balance of an ecosystem is upset by outside forces.

Calling all scientists! If you are the child who loves asking (and learning) why, have we got a week full of fascinating, disgusting, amazing, icky, sticky, and tricky science experiments that will teach you many of the things you have always wanted to know. 

Let's journey to the planets, the stars, the Milky Way, and beyond! Learn the history of space exploration and create your own rocket that you will be able to shoot to the moon! 

Get ready to collaborate with your teammates to design and create your very own Lego City. Campers will use their imaginations and previously - or newly - acquired Lego construction skills and team-building skills to develop their dream city!