Summer Camps by Week

Start clowning around with us! Clowning is a high art, and at the root of all comedy and tragedy! Playfully explore physical and verbal comedy using contemporary children’s stories or well-loved comedy sketches. Whether you want to be sad, happy, bumbling, or pompous, there is a role for you. This is more fun than should be legal!  Campers will show off in an antic showcase on June 3.

cost: $200

Calling all artists, superhero lovers, or graphic novel enthusiasts. During this workshop you will be putting your storytelling skills and artistic skills (either digital or drawing) to use as you create a story for the ages. Read graphic novels and create your own throughout this weeklong workshop that explores the boundary between art and writing.

instructor: Cydnie Trice (graphic design and communications teacher)
cost: $200

Create Fairy Magic by exploring literature, art, and the world of fairies. Read fairy stories, design and build tiny fairy gardens, tooth fairy keepsakes, and end the week with an outdoor fairy tea party. 

instructor: Heather Fontana (kindergarten teacher)
cost: $200

Explore a book through beginning ballet technique. 

instructor: Louisa Koeppel (director Hutchison creative ballet center)
cost: $200

Come learn and experience cheerleading stunt training with Coach Ashlee. Learn skills and drills to improve your stunting and prepare for Middle School Cheerleading Competitions in the fall. We will work on all things stunting from basic stunts to pyramid building. It will be a fun week of team building and perfecting skills.

instructor:    Ashlee Marshall (early childhood assistant teacher and EC/LS cheer instructor)
cost:              $200

instructor: Reem Rassoul (early childhood teacher)
cost: $200

Make cool science projects that mom won't let you do at home! Chemistry rockets, exploding Mentos, elephant toothpaste, egg in a bottle, and smoke bomb launchers. Experiment with magnets, electricity, air pressure, eggs, and sound. Get ready to get messy and have fun!

instructor: Lucy Wesson (lower school science specialist)
cost: $200, all supplies included

Learn basic techniques for taking great digital photographs. Then explore options for improving or enhancing your pictures with various effects, filters, and editing programs. A digital camera will be provided but you will need to bring a 16GB SD card to store your photos. 

instructor: Lacey Hudman (digital media, film, and photography)
cost: $200

The Quickstart method makes the game of tennis easily accessible to the little ones by using a smaller court, net, racquet, and larger foam tennis balls.
DROP OFF AND PICK UP AT TENNIS CENTER

instructor: Jay Horne (Hutchison middle school tennis coach)
cost: $140

Do you enjoy academic trivia? Do you have a love of learning across disciplines? If so, join us for Middle School Quiz Bowl this summer. Each day, campers will compete using an official Knowledge Bowl style buzzer system in subjects including: math, science, literature, history, geography, fine arts, popular culture, sports, and more. Additionally, campers will work together to research, explore, and build creative resources in areas of interest. Spots are limited to ten campers per session.

instructor: Robby Uhrman (middle school teacher and quiz bowl sponsor)
cost: $225

The SMILA mission is to help ensure that all children succeed in the basic language skills of reading, writing, and spelling.

instructors: SMILA certified teaching staff http://www.smilareading.com/
cost: $800; $75 non-refundable deposit is required to hold a space in this camp. Payment in full is due no later than May 20, 2022.

cost: $200

Keep your girl's love for dance blossoming throughout the summer. We will start each day with an all-levels ballet class and then explore choreography based on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. We will also create costumes and set pieces for a performance on the final day of camp.

instructor: Katie Stanfield (dancer, teacher, and choreographer)
cost: $200

Join Ms. Koeppel for ballet technique, contemporary movement, and creative choreography.

instructor: Louisa Koeppel (director Hutchison creative ballet center)
cost: $200

Learn about plants while taking care of them, harvest and prepare a snack fresh from the garden.

instructor: Alison Chesney (Director of the Hutchison farm)
cost: $200

instructor: Hutchison lacrosse coaches and staff
cost: $200

Choose from a one or two week course that includes hand building and throwing on the wheel. 

instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
cost: Grades 2-4 $225 per week or $400 for both weeks

Choose from a one or two week course that includes hand building and throwing on the wheel. 

instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
cost: $450 per week or $800 for both weeks

The Quickstart method makes the game of tennis easily accessible to the little ones by using a smaller court, net, racquet, and larger foam tennis balls. Masks are required.
DROP OFF AND PICK UP AT TENNIS CENTER

instructor: Jay Horne (Hutchison middle school tennis coach)
cost: $140 per session

instructor: Reem Rassoul (early childhood teacher)
cost: $200

The SMILA mission is to help ensure that all children succeed in the basic language skills of reading, writing, and spelling.

instructors: SMILA certified teaching staff http://www.smilareading.com/
cost: $800; $75 non-refundable deposit is required to hold a space in this camp. Payment in full is due no later than May 20, 2022.

Learn business basics by creating baking cupcakes, designing a stand and promoting your business through an original marketing plan. 

instructor: Amanda Killen (professional baker and Center for Excellence Co-Director)
cost: $225, all supplies included

cost: $350, activity costs included in price

instructors: Daija Lowe (Hutchison volleyball coach)
cost: $200

instructors: GymStars Staff
cost: $250

Choose from a one or two week course that includes hand building and throwing on the wheel. 

instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
cost: Grades 2-4 $225 per week or $400 for both weeks

Choose from a one or two week course that includes hand building and throwing on the wheel. 

instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
cost: $450 per week or $800 for both weeks

The SMILA mission is to help ensure that all children succeed in the basic language skills of reading, writing, and spelling.

instructors: SMILA certified teaching staff http://www.smilareading.com/
cost: $800; $75 non-refundable deposit is required to hold a space in this camp. Payment in full is due no later than May 20, 2022.

Build, Experiment, Create! Spend the week exploring different STEM based subjects through fun daily activities that expand your knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math while building your creative mind.

instructor: Lucy Wesson (lower school science specialist)
cost: $200

Students will learn proper technique, rudiments and reading as well as beats.

instructor: Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
cost: $130

Students will learn proper technique, Rudiments, reading and playing beats.

instructor: Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
cost: $150

Students will learn fundamentals of drumming, reading and playing.

instructor: Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
cost: $130

Instructor: Coach Thomas Jones (Varsity basketball coach, AAU coach, and basketball trainer)
Cost: $75

instructor: Ashlee Marshall (JK assistant teacher and former cheerleader)
cost: $200

Humans are storytellers. In this week-long creative writing class focused on short fiction, participants will draft, edit, revise, and prepare to publish an original short story. Writers will workshop their narratives and wrap up the week with a read aloud.
instructor: Becca Sloan (middle school teacher)
cost: $200

Will you create a space fit for fairies and unicorns to call home?  A hideout for your favorite action figures? – the choice is up to you! Each camper will be designing, building and decorating their very own wooden dollhouse to take home at the end of the week.   Campers will learn about blueprints, architectural planning and spend each day customizing both the exterior and the interior of their dollhouse. We will weave carpets, create custom furniture, decorate the houses with fabric accents and more. DIY Dollhouse Camp is a ton of fun for everyone!

instructor: Tanya Crump (early childhood teacher)
cost: $200, plus $40 dollhouse and supply fee

Use the flowers at the Hutchison farm to make beautiful preserved and living art! Girls will make flower crowns while also practicing patterning and counting. Explore the beauty of the farm with petal suncatchers, sun prints, and floral printmaking.

cost: $200

instructor: Josh Sloan (middle school teacher)
cost: $200

Campers will participate in an escape room, then spend the rest of the week planning one for other kids and/or their families to complete. Space is limited.

instructor: Becca Sloan (middle school teacher)
cost: $240, escape room admission and supplies included

Calling all Fancy Nancy fans! Celebrate Fancy Nancy with a unique (that’s fancy for one-of-a-kind) camp. Imagine the adventurous fun you will have at this summer camp filled with fancy stories, creative crafts, pirouettes (that’s a fancy ballet name for spins), tea parties, fancy indoor campout, spa day, and other activities that are tres magnifique based on books from the Fancy Nancy series by Jane O’Conner.

instructor: Heather Fontana and Renee Grinder (kindergarten teachers) Ashlee Marshall and Reem Rassoul (junior kindergarten assistant teachers)
cost: $200

Care of magical creatures, potions class, quidditch matches, while reading and analyzing the original literature.

instructors: Lucy Wesson (lower school science teacher) and Robert Lofton (upper school science teacher)
cost: $200

The Quickstart method makes the game of tennis easily accessible to the little ones by using a smaller court, net, racquet, and larger foam tennis balls. DROP OFF AND PICK UP AT TENNIS CENTER

instructor: Jay Horne (Hutchison middle school tennis coach)
cost: $140

Learn about math principles through engineering challenges and designing amazing works of art!

instructor: Jennifer Stanford (middle school teacher)
cost: $200

Explore creating, sculpting, and building art with three dimensional shapes. Your artist portfolio and creativity will be bursting at the seams! Space is limited.

instructor: Martha Berge (lower school art teacher)
cost: $200

instructor: Thomas Jones (varsity basketball coach, AAU coach, and basketball trainer)
cost: $150

Great cooks know how to make dough–from pastry to pastas, dough is a building block of cooking. It is a fun and delicious thing to cook, and it is a simple skill that leads to immeasurable creativity in the kitchen. Campers will spend each day learning the basics of baking, from precise measurement to how to know when something’s done, and we will focus each day on a different type of dough: play dough, pie dough, pizza dough, cookie dough, and pasta dough.

instructor: Becca Sloan (middle school teacher)
cost: $225, all supplies and ingredients included

Read books about zoo animals, learn about natural habitats with hands-on projects, go on a walking safari to the Hutchison Farm to hunt for insects.

instructor: Amanda Valentine (early childhood teacher)
cost: $200

Explore creating, sculpting, and building art with three dimensional shapes. Your artist portfolio and creativity will be bursting at the seams! Space is limited.


instructor: Martha Berge (lower school art teacher)
cost:  $200, includes all supplies

Discover the science of mixing, melting, dissolving, and decorating your very own spa creations. Students will learn to follow a recipe, design a label, and package their own bath bombs, play dough soap, and explore the Hutchison farm for ingredients and inspiration.

Instructor: Amanda Valentine (early childhood teacher)
Cost: $200

Campers will learn the ABC’s of movement. Locomotor, stability, and manipulative to build more complex and specialized movements in sports, play and daily life. FUNdamentals of movement will introduce and encourage participants to explore different fine motor skills through fun and engaging activities and games.

instructor: Sharda Collier (Hutchison fitness coach)
cost: $200

Campers will build life and academic skills to help them as students: organization, prioritization, goal setting, note taking, reading for retention, memorization, time management, and growth mindset. All skills will be taught using concepts they will learn in the coming year.

cost: $200

instructors: Gymstars 
cost: $250

Do you enjoy academic trivia? Do you have a love of learning across disciplines? If so, join us for Middle School Quiz Bowl this summer. Each day, campers will compete using an official Knowledge Bowl style buzzer system in subjects including: math, science, literature, history, geography, fine arts, popular culture, sports, and more. Additionally, campers will work together to research, explore, and build creative resources in areas of interest. Spots are limited to ten campers per session.

instructor: Robby Uhrman (middle school teacher and quiz bowl sponsor)
cost: $225

instructor: Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
cost: $275

Students will play, discover and get creative.
Develop theatre skills in a supportive, collaborative, and imaginative environment. Students will work together as an ensemble to explore and expand their “Actor Toolbox” – their body, voice, and imagination.  

instructor: Jennifer Stanford
cost: $200

Sharpen your spatial reasoning and apply math concepts to real world problems-like how to build a circle out of LEGOS! Math facts will be a focus.

instructor: Renee Grinder (lower school teacher)
cost: $150

Sharpen your spatial reasoning and apply math concepts to real world problems like how to build a circle out of LEGO bricks. Math facts will be a focus. 

instructor: Heather Fontana (kindergarten teacher)
cost: $150

instructor: Melissa Berthelson (second grade teacher)
cost: $200

instructor: Marianna Heimbach (first grade teacher)
cost: $200

instructor: Nancy Fields (fourth grade teacher)
cost: $200

instructor: Amanda Valentine (junior kindergarten teacher)
cost: $200

Change your ADDitude about math with this fun, fast-paced skill building experience. Improve math skills and gain confidence for the new school year. Speed and accuracy of math facts will be a focus. 

instructor: Nancy Fields (fourth grade teacher)
cost: $150

Change your ADDitude about math with this fun, fast-paced skill building experience. Improve math skills and gain confidence. Speed and accuracy of math facts will be a focus. 

instructor: Molly Prewitt (upper school math)
cost: $200

Change your ADDitude about math with this fun, fast-paced skill building experience. Improve math skills and gain confidence. Speed and accuracy of math facts will be a focus. 

instructor: Molly Prewitt (upper school math)
cost: $200

instructor: Kindergarten Teachers
cost: $200

instructor: Maggie Haire (third grade teacher)
cost: $200

Work with local mosaic artist, Kristi Duckworth, and design your own mosaic tile art pieces. Space is limited. 

instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
cost: $250

Work with local mosaic artist, Kristi Duckworth, to create your own unique mosaic tile art. Space is limited. 

instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
cost: $250