Camps for Rising 3rd Graders

Campers will learn how to make some summer staples for your family to enjoy for dinner each day. Prep meals and learn the cooking techniques to finish preparing dinner for your family at home. A fresh meal every night and essential skills to last a lifetime!

Instructor: Amanda Killen (Center for Excellence Co-Director and family chef) 
Cost: $225

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 castle to take home at the end of the week. Campers will learn about blueprints, and architectural planning and spend each day customizing both the exterior and the interior of their castle. We will weave carpets, create custom furniture, decorate houses with fabric accents, and more. DIY Castle Camp is a ton of fun for everyone!

date/time:    Monday-Friday, June 26-30; 9:00 am-12:00 pm
instructor:    Tanya Crump (early childhood teacher)
cost:              $200, plus $40 dollhouse and supply fee

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

Learn how to create a ballet from the ground up. Dancers will learn how to tell a story by creating their own Fairy characters and choreography, costumes, and scenery in this week-long ballet experience. 

date/time:    Monday–Friday, June 12-16; 1:00-4:00 pm
instructor:    Katy Stanfield (dancer, teacher, and choreographer)
cost:              $200

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.

instructors: Heather Fontana and Renee Grinder (kindergarten teachers) 
cost: $200

Join Miss Emily of Bloom Studios for a fashion design experience like no other. Girls will learn about masters of French design including Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Dior. Fashion illustration, elements of design, and producing their own “pièce de resistance” to model at the end of camp is certain to thrill little fashionistas!
date/time:          Monday-Friday, June 26-30; 9:00 am-noon
instructor:          Emily Cantrell (Bloom Studios)
cost:                    $300

Students learn the importance of our food system in their daily lives. Learn about agriculture, sensory evaluation, the science of cooking, and much more through interactive experiments and hands-on activities.
date/time:          Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-noon
Session I: June 19-23
Session II: July 17-21
instructor:          Ali Manning (Founder of FS4K)
cost:                    $250, per session

Join us for a fun and exciting magical experience this summer! Campers will enjoy various hands-on activities, such as Care of Magical Creatures, Potions, Charms, and more. Campers will also participate in special events such as Quidditch matches, scavenger hunts, and the art of the wand while reading and analyzing the original literature.

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

X-STEAM Girl Pop-Ups is a summer intensive where campers engage in hands-on learning to build a brand, products, and pop-up designs through the curriculum using the design-thinking model. Additionally, girls will receive advice from leaders in the field to assist in completing their storefronts. Girls will walk away with their very own crafted lemonade recipe and pop-up shop as a functional and fun keepsake to use in their business. At the end of the experience, campers will host a fun and interactive showcase of their decked-out Lemonade Stand Pop-ups featuring artistically-designed artwork handcrafted by them. Parents and families of campers are invited to experience the Showcase.

cost:              $275

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: Maggie Haire (lower school teacher)
cost: $150

Start clowning around with us! Clowning is 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. Campers will show off in an antic showcase on July 21.

cost: $200

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

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

Need help getting all of your summer work done? Tired of haggling with your daughter to get it done? Send her to Packet Pacer! Summer work assistance for math packets, IXL, summer reading, and journaling. Each Wednesday afternoon from 1-3 all summer. 

date/time: Wednesdays, June 14 - July 26 (No class July 5th); 1:00-3:00 PM
instructor: Hutchison lower school teachers
cost: $200

This two-week course includes hand-building and throwing on the wheel.
instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
cost: $450, two-week camp

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

instructors: Clint Browne (Hutchison soccer coach)
Cost: $200

From well-known strong girls like Nancy Drew to new ones like Princess Magnolia from The Princess in Black book series, students will share stories of smart, creative, and brave girls. Each day, we will have book talks, play games, make crafts, and try recipes that go along with the stories of two amazing characters.  In the end, students will take home Strong Girl Silhouettes that show the qualities of the characters they admire.
date/time:  Monday–Friday, July 10-14; 9:00 am-12:00 pm 
instructor:  Tara Thomas (lower school librarian)
cost:            $200

X-STEAM Girl Pop-Ups is a summer intensive where campers engage in hands-on learning to build a brand, products, and pop-up designs through the curriculum using the design-thinking model. Additionally, girls will receive advice from leaders in the field to assist in completing their costumes. Girls will walk away with their very own branded and crafted hand-made costume that reflects their inner heroic personality. At the end of the experience, campers will host a fun and interactive fashion show of their Super Hero Costume designs artistically handcrafted by them. Parents and families of campers are invited to experience the fashion show.
date/time:          Monday-Friday, June 19-23; 9:00 am-noon                       
instructor:          Erika Cain (Founder girl24)
cost:                    $225

instructor: Katie Davis (third grade teacher)
cost: $200

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

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

This weeklong camp will introduce campers to the basics of cooking and baking through fun, hands-on activities. This camp will allow young chefs to express their creativity through tasty and healthy recipes including snacks, desserts, meals, and international cuisine. Participants will be given their very own chef's hat and aprons that they will be able to customize! During this fun-filled week, participants will create their own recipes and their very own cookbook. Participants will decorate cakes and make cake pops. There is no better time for homemade ice cream than in the summertime and participants will whip up their own batch of ice cream and popsicles. Participants will make their own sushi rolls, healthy snacks, breakfast, and more! Participants will be introduced to new food items daily in daily taste-testing sessions. At the end of the week, there will be a mystery ingredient challenge where participants can showcase their newly learned skills! 

date/time:    Monday–Friday, June 12-16; 9:00 am-noon
instructor:    Martella Thomas (chef and upper school teacher)
cost:             $225, all supplies included