Swim like a dolphin! Dance like a snowflake! This camp is a joyful approach to teaching children about themselves, each other, and the universe in which they live. This fun and engaging camp weaves together yoga, expressive movement, cooperation activities, songs, crafts, and stories helping to promote children’s self-confidence, expression, and mutual self-respect. Please bring plenty of snacks/lunch and a water bottle daily. Campers must be fully potty trained and be able to follow simple 3-part directions.
4–5 YEARS / HIAWATHA
MON–FRI, JUNE 24–28 OR JULY 8–12
8–11AM
$115
SYLVIA KABUSK, CERTIFIED YOGA INSTRUCTOR

This is the perfect opportunity for your child to learn a lifelong sport in a fun and recreational way. This active program will give your child the opportunity to learn the fundamental skills of tennis. Players will be taught the rules of the game and will work on their forehand, backhand, and much more!
ESSEX HIGH SCHOOL
MON–FRI
ENTERING GRADES 4–6:
SESSION 1: JUNE 24–28 / 9AM–12PM
SESSION 2: JULY 29–AUGUST 2 / 9AM–12PM
ENTERING GRADES 1–3:
SESSION 1: JULY 15–19 / 1–4PM
SESSION 2: AUGUST 5–9 / 9AM–12PM
$145
USTA

Participants will learn to aim, shoot, and score as they develop the self-discipline and confidence needed to become top-notch archers. Safety, basic skills and fundamentals will be taught through individual instruction, shooting and team building drills.
ENTERING GRADES 3–7 / MAPLE STREET PARK
MON–FRI, JULY 22–26 OR JULY 29–AUGUST 2
1–2PM OR 2:30–3:30PM
$95
PELKEY’S ARCHERY

Come one, come all for an unforgettable week of interactive circus fun. Wunderle’s Big Top Camp promotes world-class circus training, entertainment, and exploration for all. Throughout the camp, participants learn stunts, hone skills, and receive individualized encouragement by an enthusiastic team of professional circus coaches. Training equipment will include juggling scarves, balls, rings, clubs, spinning plates, devil sticks, stilts, and so much more! Games, human stunts, acrobatics, human pyramids, clowning and aerial acts will also be taught. Each Big Top Camper will become a circus star as the experience culminates with a fun and fast paced show for the community.

Wunderle’s Big Top Adventures promotes world class circus programming, entertainment, and exploration. Founder and camp director Troy Wunderle is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He is a former international performer with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. For the past twenty-six years, he has toured throughout the United States as a freelance performer and employee of Vermont’s own Circus Smirkus.
GRADES 4–9 / EHS ICE RINK
MON–FRI, AUGUST 5–9
9AM–3PM
$375
TROY WUNDERLE, WUNDERLE’S BIG TOP ADVENTURES

Our 5-day MTB camps offer riding fundamentals and skills progression for riders entering grades 4-9, whether they’re just starting off or looking to take riding to the next level. Camps will be based out of Maple Street Bike Park and the local trails at Saxon Hill, and led by our professional program staff. Bikes and helmets are available to use at no cost!
GRADES 4–9 / MAPLE STREET PARK & SAXON HOLLOW
MON–FRI, JULY 8-12 OR AUGUST 12–16
9AM–12PM
$175
AARON MASON AND KEVIN PERLINE

MINUTE TO WIN IT ROBOTIC CHALLENGES, STOP MOTION ANIMATION & MINECRAFT
Join us as we design, build, modify, and program robots that interact, perform complex tasks and respond to challenges. Students will partner up and use LEGO Robots to compete in challenges Swept Away, Warbots and wiffle ball challenges. In addition, students will use Minecraft to complete tasks such as building mazes filled with traps and defenses to protect them from arch enemies. They will learn to use Command Blocks and Redstone to create traps and other obstacles. In the afternoon, students will create their own mini movie set, learn the parts of a story and create an animated movie using LEGO mini figures and other objects. The students will also learn how to edit their films, attach music, and add titles/credits using professional stop motion animation software. Children may register for both weeks or individual weeks. Each week has different LEGO builds and lessons.
AGES 9–13 / HIAWATHA
WEEK 1: MON–FRI, JUNE 24–28 / $395
WEEK 2: MON–WED, JULY 1–3 / $275
9AM–3PM

BUILD, MODIFY, CODE LEGO AMUSEMENT THRILL RIDES & STOP MOTION ANIMATION: WEEK 1
Channel your inner Master Builder and create your very own LEGO® amusement park thrill rides where Everything is Awesome! Before each LEGO brick creation, staff will discuss key engineering and physics concepts with the children and how they relate to our LEGO rides. Students will build LEGO brick cars using axles, gears, pulleys, battery packs, and motors. In addition, children will code their LEGO builds using a drag-and-drop-based interface using Bluetooth technology. In the afternoon, students will create their own mini movie set, learn the parts of a story and create an animated movie using LEGO mini figures and other objects. The students will also learn how to edit their films, attach music, and add titles/credits using professional stop motion animation software.
AGES 6–8 / HIAWATHA
MON–FRI, JUNE 24–28
9AM–3PM
$395

AMUSEMENT PARK THRILL RIDES & STOP MOTION ANIMATION: WEEK 2
Become a master amusement park designer as we create LEGO Amusement Thrill Rides. Students will use STEM principles to create and modify Merry Go Rounds, Teacups Rides, Tilt A Whirl, bumper cars and more. Students will use gears and motors before each lesson to learn about mechanical devices such as levers, wheels, and axles. In the afternoon, students will create their own mini movie set, learn the parts of a story and create an animated movie using LEGO mini figures and other objects. The students will also learn how to edit their films, attach music, and add titles/credits using professional stop motion animation software.
AGES 6–8 / HIAWATHA
WED–FRI, JULY 1–3
9AM–3PM
$275

Spend a week making sock animals, stuffies, needle felted creatures, yarn paintings, weaving, string art and more! This camp will introduce the wonders of creating cool things out of fiber. Campers will be provided with a daily snack, a canvas tote to decorate and their own needle felting kit. No experience necessary, only imagination and enthusiasm! Note: Full day option for serious fiber enthusiasts! Please bring a water bottle and bag lunch if you are staying all day.
ENTERING GRADES 5–8 / MAPLE STREET ART SPACE / 11 MAPLE STREET
MON–FRI, JUNE 24–28
MORNING SESSION: 9AM–12PM / $200
AFTERNOON SESSION: 1PM–4PM / $200
ALL DAY OPTION: 9AM–4PM / $300