Unique and fun-filled summer arts camp taught by COCA's professional artists and teachers.

Unique and fun-filled summer arts camp taught by COCA's professional artists and teachers.

Join us for the Adventure Camp session at the 2024 Swift Nature Camp.

Join us for the Canada Canoe session at the 2024 Swift Nature Camp.

Let’s go on an adventure across the North American continent to explore multi-cultural cuisine. What better way to spend a week this summer in a fun, exciting class learning how to cook delicious meals? In our state-of-the-art kitchen, young chefs will enjoy lots of culinary action and tasty delights of Indigenous and Spanish cuisine. This camp will help you learn about measuring ingredients, how to follow a recipe, gardening and harvesting, and how to make healthy choices in food preparation. Every recipe is a creation and every creation an adventure! Chef Margaret Grant will guide you through this culinary experience. Any allergies or dietary restrictions will be taken into account for every recipe used, ensuring that the experience is healthy and fun for all!

We are going to craft things up this summer. Let’s spend the week creating cool art with clay and a variety of materials. Each day we will also bake or decorate a different type of cookie themed around our art for the day. Here’s your chance to be creative in the kitchen and with crafts.

Do you love to bake cupcakes and watch cupcake wars on the Food Network? In this amazing camp, you can let your imagination and creativity run wild as you discover how to use icing, flavorings, candy clay, gumpaste, decorations and candies and turn them into creations of art! Each day you will be given a theme. On the final day, we will have our very own cupcake wars. Teams will create a business name and a logo. Are you up for the challenge? Aprons will be provided. 

Join us in making a variety of pizzas!  Explore pizza dough types, recipes and techniques.  Also explore topping options from basic cheese to wild and wacky toppings.  We will top off the week with a dessert pizza.

Learn how to re-create some of your favorite fast food favorites at home! While we might not have the exact recipes, we would put our recipes against theirs in a taste test any day! Instructor: CE staff

Have you always been interested in creating delicious desserts but have struggled getting started. Let us help by teaching you the basics! This class will get you baking in no time! Instructor: CE staff

Have you always been interested in creating delicious desserts but have struggled getting started. Let us help by teaching you the basics! This class will get you baking in no time! Instructor: CE staff

Have you always been interested in creating delicious desserts but have struggled getting started. Let us help by teaching you the basics! This class will get you baking in no time! Instructor: CE staff

Through a summer camp experience, NextED Challenge provides young adults an opportunity to challenge their expectations of living on their own. Attendees participate in hands-on learning, interactive group activities, and community exploration.

Join us for the 2024 Ladue Schools Camp Legacy summer camp.

Join Rossman’s Mr. Crossland and Ms. Hutchinson for a culinary adventure! After touring the Rossman kitchen, campers will learn how to be safe and organized as they set out to prepare tasty foods. Campers will enjoy making healthy snacks, decorating cookies, and even making homemade pizzas.