All of our children’s programming features projects designed and taught by professional artists, ensuring your child has an immersive experience in the creative process with quality, fine art materials within a supportive learning environment.
A perfect capture! Students will learn about the principles and elements of design, through capturing images of people, nature, and landscapes.
A swashbuckling adventure on the high seas!! Captain Suzy Short finger regales the crew with true Pirate tales as students transform themselves with costumes after making eyepatches and swords.
Kids won’t have to travel over the rainbow to join us this week as we create our own magical, tiny town of Munchkin Land. Glitter rooftops, spaceship townhomes, rainbow shutters, and secret exits; the possibilities are limitless when we imagine and create our cardboard-box dream homes! This camp brings attention to the process of designing and building, as we draw inspiration from different examples of architecture that exists in real-life, as well as in our favourite storybooks. kids will have a blast as they pull the wildly and outrageous dream spaces of their imaginations into reality.
Not to worry; at the end of the week, kids will be allowed to fold up their house creations and take a magical piece of Munchkin Land home with them.
Students will explore Fairy Lake and the beach to gather materials found in nature to create incredible art projects!
Young artists start the week with a hike around Fairy Lake and create a "journey stick" while gathering fallen leaves, bark, pine cones and other found treasures to use for relief printing in clay.
This course will allow children to wear their own ART! Students will experience the enjoyment of designing and creating their own altered clothing, while learning basics of hand and machine sewing, ironing, pinning, attaching buttons, tie dyeing, and painting fabric.
So much fun, the kids won’t even know it’s good for them! Jennifer energizes, motivates, and educates students in a supportive, non-judgemental setting.
With Jennifer Hayden! Children will investigate a variety of mediums, which will allow them to create two and three-dimensional artwork using materials such as paint and clay.
Welcome to ‘The Art Factory’ – a creative space where kids will explore the three pillars of fine art: drawing, painting, and sculpting. This week, kids are encouraged to let their artistic intuitions take over as they pull inspiration from some of the great artists of the past. Come and join the fun!
Monsters, super heroes, villains, magical beings and more! Jan Dolby guides students through the process of creating a cast of characters. Students will learn about the design process for creating your own original characters, while learning about anatomy and structure so characters will look consistent in every angle and range of motion and exploring different aspects that make up a character, both through personality and physicality.
With Jennifer Hayden! Children will investigate a variety of mediums, which will allow them to create two and three-dimensional artwork using materials such as paint and clay. Throughout the week, children will explore a variety of children’s books, famous artists, and the outdoors to provide inspiration for their artwork.
Welcome to ‘The Art Factory’ – a creative space where kids will explore the three pillars of fine art: drawing, painting, and sculpting. This week, kids are encouraged to let their artistic intuitions take over as they pull inspiration from some of the great artists of the past. Come and join the fun!
Artist and Scientist Jenna McGuire leads an adventure in observation! Students will be examining the geology, botany and biology of Fairy lake and Lake Huron while sketching and nature journalling. Discover fairy stones...and learn about crinoids!
Underwater adventures! Well, in our imaginations! Students learn about incredible reef ecosystems and explore color, shape and texture in the creation of coral, sea anemones, sea urchins, sponges, barnacles and more!
With Jennifer Hayden! Children will investigate a variety of mediums and create two and three dimensional pieces with materials like paint and clay.
An Outdoor Art Experience
An outdoor art experience where kids engage with nature to create. Tread lightly with us this week as we forge and build, collecting what we need to make our forest inspired art projects. Wooden wind chimes, dreamcatchers, pressed leaf prints, and more – kids won’t want to miss this outdoor art adventure!
Explore the wild and wonderful world of monsters. Through a variety of different multi-media projects, students will tap into their imagination using a variety of brainstorming techniques. Next, they'll take their ideas and bring their creatures to life.
We will create monsters using India Ink and watercolours, We will bring their world to life and then design a home for our monster. Perhaps our monsters are a part of a family or have lots of friendships. We'll explore other techniques and build a whole community in which our monsters will live and thrive.
Gallery Artist Akke Stretch brings her swirly, juicy, colour saturated style out to play with the littles! A former teacher, Akke's projects emphasize creative play and material exploration.
Jennifer Hayden is a very special part of our School community and this is a very special camp!
Jennifer exemplifies warmth, generosity and a strong belief in the capacity of the arts to empower kids. As an educator, she is a role model and leader...and this camp is her very own version of passing arts leadership learning on to her maturing students! Students will look at how they can use art to help other people and their communities while also learning leadership skills that will be great training for one day being an art camp volunteer!
Get bent! Students explore the wondrous nature of willow construction. They will learn several willow weaving techniques and create a trivet, fish and star while learning how to weave two traditional forms of baskets (frame and stake & strand).
Character development, storyboards, cartoon and drawing techniques and more! Students will create their very own graphic novel over the course of the week.
Children will investigate a variety of mediums and create two and three dimensional pieces with materials like paint and clay.
An Outdoor Art Experience!
A beach-fun art experience where kids engage with sand and surf to create. Come beach-comb with us as we make our beach-stone mandalas, papier-mache seagulls, and decorate driftwood ornaments. Kids won't want to miss out on this tidal wave of an art adventure!
Calling all young Chefs! Does your child love to cook? Then this class is perfect for them! This course will offer an interactive, hands-on approach to healthy cooking.
Welcome to the fantastical world of Eric Carle. Join us this week in this draw, paint, and sculpt class as we catch the moon, spin webs with spiders and munch our way through a very hungry caterpillar’s feast. With a strong focus on process kids will create multi-layered artworks inspired by some of our classic literary favourites. A colourful and messy week that kids wont want to miss!
