Summer Maker Camp

Join us at Design Hive for an in-person day camp focused on the creative exploration of all things STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics)! ⁣

WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE REGISTERING

We are a small, process art and STEM studio. We don't have an outdoor space, though we do some stretching, dance, and movement during the camp day. Our physical space impacts our scheduling, which is why our camp is not the length of a full school day, and why we do not  offer extended daycare. 

When you walk into our studio, what you see is what you get! Because we don't have separate rooms or other spaces for campers to work in, we have the expectation that kids of all ages work together on projects. 

We acknowledge that 5-11 is a wide age range. However, we design our projects and scaffold our instruction so that a 5-6 year old and a 10-11 year old can do the same project. We rarely separate students in our studio by age group.

Our older students can dive a bit deeper into a project or get a bit more complex, and our younger students benefit from seeing the skills and behavior of our older campers modeled for them.  As veteran classroom teachers, with 25+ years of experience between us, we see the indelible value of kids in this age range working and learning together.  

If this does not sound appealing to you or your child, or you are looking for something catered to a very specific age range, please consider all this before registering and look at our other more specialized camps.

Our workshops are designed to be developmentally appropriate for the age range listed, social-emotionally and skill-wise. We want each child to feel empowered and successful, not frustrated. This policy also protects the camp experience of the students who are within the camp age range. ALL participants must be 5 years old, no exceptions by the first day of camp.