LEAP! (Learn + Play) SUMMER CAMPS 2010

From action painting to stilt walking, hearth cooking to solar printing, summer camps at Shelburne Museum offer children ages 5-10 a fantastically fun and hands-on camp experience. Campers explore the museum’s diverse collections and beautiful grounds through engaging and creative activities, guaranteed to provide new insights into America’s creative traditions.

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ARTISAN APPRENTICE

Dates: July 6-9 (4-day session)
Size: 15
Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Ages: 5-7 (Child must have completed kindergarten)
Tuition: $200

What is it like to create art for a living? Campers spend a week exploring the work of 19th-century artisans and artists. Interactive visits with the blacksmith, printer, and weaver, as well as explorations of other museum exhibitions, provide background and inspiration for campers’ own art and craft projects.

Please note: this session is only 4 days due to Independence Day.

ART TRAVELERS

Dates: July 12-16
Size: 15
Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Ages: 8-10
Tuition: $250

Set your time machines for “way back when” and come explore more than 200 years of art with us! We will spend the week examining objects in the museum’s collections to inspire our own artwork: shoot photos, paint outdoors like the Impressionists, discover letterpress printing, go wild with action painting and more! On our time travels we will also play games, learn music, and check out advertising from the early 19th century to today.

MYSTICAL CREATURE FEATURE

Dates: July 19-23
Size: 15
Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Ages: 5-7 (Child must have completed kindergarten)
Tuition: $250

Pack your magic wand, special potions, and dragon armor for a journey to find mystical creatures. Meet the museum’s resident mermaids, dragons, centaurs, and more as we troll the galleries. We’ll use a diverse mix of art supplies, creativity, ingenuity, and imagination to build our own enchanted world full of artistic representations of creatures from myth and legend.

Please note: this session includes a short open house for family and friends at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, July 23.

A WEEK IN 1795

Dates: July 26-30
Size: 10
Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Ages: 8-10
Tuition: $275

Can you imagine what a child’s life was like in early Vermont? Come and “live” it! Campers travel back in history to the turn of the 19th century to learn about everyday life in early Vermont. Our group will “live” at the Settlers’ House for the week, cooking our midday meals on the hearth, keeping a proper house, and tending our gardens. We will visit galleries and historic buildings throughout the museum to investigate the art and artifacts of the United States’ early years.

Please note: Campers will eat food that they prepare and cook at the museum. We cook with various grains, eggs, and dairy. Please notify us if your child has allergies or sensitivities and help us arrange a safe way for your child to participate.

BREAKING CREATIVE GROUND

Dates: August 2-6
Size: 15
Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Ages: 5-7 (Child must have completed kindergarten)
Tuition: $250

Intrepid explorers needed! Join us for an expedition through museum galleries to seek out mountainous terrain, deep seas, rocky coasts, and foreign lands! We will explore the works of Ansel Adams, Edward Burtynsky, Jay Hall Connaway, Ogden Pleissner, and others to inspire our own representations of the world around us. Our artistic adventures will include solar printing, watercolor painting, drawing, and more.

CIRCUS MANIA!

Dates: August 9-13
Size: 15
Time: 9-3 p.m.
Ages: 8-10
Tuition: $250

Come one, come all to the Shelburne Museum Circus! Enter a world of whimsy and fun as we learn how to walk on stilts and create our own circus posters. We will visit Shelburne Museum's circus collection and special Circus Day in America exhibition to learn about circuses of the past and present. Campers will enjoy a week filled with circus-oriented crafts and activites. At the end of the week we will perform our own circus for family and friends.

Please note: this session includes a circus performance for family and friends at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, August 13.