Learn the basics, create something special, and leave with skills to keep continuing this amazing hobby whenever you want!

Add some sparkles, glue some googly eyes and get crafting! Start with one of our projects and see where it goes.This camp is designed to encourage our kid creators to lead the way in the creation of new art projects. Follow the project directions from start to finish or carve your own creation out of the materials.

With a different topic each day, campers will have a chance to create stories, design projects, and get silly with our imaginations! With all of these different ideas, who knows what each day will bring

This camp is for those who love to create but don’t want to spend all day sitting at a table! Let’s get moving AND creating with a week on non-stop fun!

Join us at the 2023 Souther Illinois University Summer Camps.

Funny how much fun you can have when you're learning to be funny! Learn comedy by doing it at Kids Comedy Camp! You'll master the secrets of stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy. Take home a new gag each day! rubber chickens, squirt rings, gag glasses, etc.! At week's end, you'll display your newly enhanced confidence, creativity, performance skills and sense of humor in a show for family and friends.

The summer art seminar will focus on a different medium each day. Past media have included ceramics, print-making, painting, drawing and sculpture. The week will conclude with an exhibition of the students' work, open to all family and friends!

This new camp is 8 days of learning about and creating ceramic artwork with other girls in the fun environment of a high school art studio. Create your own cups and bowls using the potter’s wheel and a variety of hand-building techniques. We will go through all the processes of creating ceramic art: planning, construction, drying time, firing in the kiln, and finally glazing to complete your masterpieces.

Make it a summer to never forget! Children will participate in a week's worth of fun where they will explore with mixed media (clay throwing, hand-building, ceramic glazing, and glass fusion) to create a fun and functional piece! Age limit: 6-13 years old

Make it a summer to never forget! Children will participate in a week's worth of fun where they will explore with mixed media (clay throwing, hand-building, ceramic glazing, and glass fusion) to create a fun and functional piece! Age limit: 6-13 years old

Push your creative limits creating projects each day. Learn about upcycling and repurposing old items into new.

Add some sparkles, glue some googly eyes and get crafting! Start with one of our projects and see where it goes.This camp is designed to encourage our kid creators to lead the way in the creation of new art projects. Follow the project directions from start to finish or carve your own creation out of the materials.

Beyond our realm lies the eternally unknown… and the eternally discoverable! Does your creature live in the forest behind Chesterfield Montessori, or maybe in the stream? Explore the forests of your mind, and build the creature of your wildest dreams through collage, plaster manipulation, roundtable discussion, and so much more in this four day camp! This camp highlights: Our relationship to the natural world, identification of survival traits as defined by physical characteristics, long-form character building, and utilization of multimedia to define a big-picture idea.

Your American Girl doll will be the envy of all after you spend the week crafting food, jewelry, and school supplies for her! We will use polymer clay, beadmaking, and paper craft to create an assortment of fun items that are perfect for your 18” doll.