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

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.

Join us for the Weird Science session hosted by the Chesterfield YMCA Summer Day Camp.

Join us for the Traditonal Camp "The Food Lab" session.

Saint Louis University’s Gardens to Tables Culinary Camp is a week-long program engaging campers in gardening, cooking and nutrition activities. Campers prepare a variety of meals and work with professional chefs, registered dietitians, and master gardeners to learn principles of good nutrition, gardening and a healthy lifestyle. Six of the camps are designed for children entering 2nd-6th grades with a special Teen’s Only Week (June 24-28) and an exciting Junior-Chef Week for children entering Kindergarten-3rd grade (July 8-12).

Come and spend some time outdoors with New City teachers, Tommi and Marti Jo. We will spend most of our day outside exploring the grounds at New City School. We will play games, go on scavenger hunts, and learn about birds, plants, insects, and trees. There will be time for art exploration, music and movement, stories, as well as learning to be good friends and stewards of the earth. Let the wonder, curiosity, and creativity surrounding Nature begin! Campers can attend one or both weeks of this exciting Specialty Camp.

Become a drone pilot in this awesome camp! Learn how to fly a DWI Quad Rotor Drone, design creative courses to race each other. Learn about the many uses of drones, practice working together to accomplish flight-based tasks and more! This camp is half drone racing and half active, movement based games.

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

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.

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.

Bake and decorate mini cakes while learning flavors, frostings, and techniques.  We will use various decorating styles including fondant, and icing techniques to decorate your own creations.  Each day we will decorate a different mini cake.