TOYS & GAMES CAMP • APRIL 2-6 •  9 a.m to 5 p.m. • AGES 7-13 • cost $250 full week, $60 single day

Lead Teachers: Jan Burger & Louise Omoto Kessel

A joyous week of pure summer fun! Come join Jan Burger the KING of PLAY! for a week of romping and running and creative cooperative games, along with some traditional favorites (yes! Capture the Flag!) Louise will lead the Toy Making workshop! Your children will spend the week entertaining themselves and one another using simple materials and raw imagination! No electronic or store bought games allowed! Parachutes, trouble dolls, stomp rockets, origami toys, kites and hula hoops are all on the list of possibilities for the toy making workshop. AND Louise is also collecting an array of counselors and a guest artist or two who will bring us toys and games from various points on the globe and some "science talk" explaining how the toys work! 

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CELEBRATE SPRING CAMP!•  APRIL 9-13 • 9 a.m to 3 p.m. with extended care if needed • AGES 5-13• cost $200 • $15/day for extended care from 3-5 • full week participation only. 

Lead Teachers: Jimmy Magoo & Louise Omoto Kessel

Celebrate SPRING! We will explore the farm and forest of Clapping Hands Farm with a sense of exuberant discovery!  Eye to eye with each caterpillar, tadpole, and emerging wild flower. As we take inspiration from all that is busting forth in spring, we will create together a spring pageant with complete with costumes, masks, face paint, song and movement. A pageant with the magical Spring themes of renewal, metamorphosis and emergence! Sprouting plants, emerging amphibians, shedding snakes, cocoons and wings! We will perform our pageant for friends and family on the last day!

ART PARTY CAMP May 21-25 (sign up for the week or for one or more days) • ages 2-8 (and up) with their parents • cost $175; 2nd child $150; per day cost $40/child/day

Camp Hours: 9am - 2pm
Annual Registration Fee waived for all Art Party campers
Early Bird discounts: $25/camper/week or $5/camper/day for camp fees and payment received before April 1

Age 2-8 and UP – I mean this to be a family camp and older siblings are welcome. I will set up "older kid" projects if I have 8+ year olds signed up as campers, and can accommodate some older participants as volunteers, particularly those with Clapping Hands Farm experience.

"I really wanted to let you know how much we love coming to art party. It is my kids' most favorite thing to do. When we come out to your place, I feel like we are walking into a hug."

This fabulous Spring day camp for the youngest campers and their parents (or other special adult) will involve partying with art all week long! Louise will be setting out a spectacular array of visual art explorations each day and will be joined by creative movement, nature explorers, and music artists for an all around fun time. In Louise's art class come ready to finger paint; mix together colorful slime; play in shaving cream; draw with pastels, colored chalk, and other medium; learn to embroider on burlap or sew your own stuffed animal; make your own toys, and so much more! When you meet our guest artists bring your voices and bodies to the tumbling, dancing, singing chorus of activity! Much of the day will be for adults and children to share in creating together. Each afternoon we will offer an hour long workshop with our guest artists that will be specifically for the creative exploration and rejuvenation of the adults while other artists and camp counselors work with the children. Singing Games provide a lively morning circle and our day ends with a closing circle and story told by Louise. Through out the day our warm, creative, energetic team of camp counselors stand ready to help you and your children.

GUEST ARTISTS this week!  To be announced very soon!
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EARTH ROMP CAMP • June 11-15 • ages 7-13 •  cost $250

Lead Teachers: gumby Montgomery & and someone else wonderful to be announced very soon!

The camp is intended to be an exuberant exploration of outdoor fun in a variety of dimensions! Big group games will send kids running and romping, hiding and spying, splashing and mucking through the woods, ponds and fields of our camps many acres. There will be opportunities to learn primitive skills such as shelter building, making fire with out matches, and archery. We'll create with vines, sticks, gourds, feathers, clay, leaves, and mud that we hunt, discover and collect ourselves. We'll play games to sharpen our senses for observing animals, weather, and all that is around us. We'll build instruments from bamboo, sticks, hub camps and bottle caps! We'll hear stories, sing songs, and experience earth inspired traditions from a variety of cultures. Our creative efforts will range from finely rendered water colors to wild rambly forts and whimsical fairy houses to hearing the heartbeat of the earth from our camp drum ensemble ---and campers can often choose the activities that suit them best.

gumby Montgomery, 

Louise Omoto Kessel, the program director at Clapping Hands Farm is the founder of the Haw River Festival, and has worked as a naturalist for the NC State Parks System at Merchants Mill Pond State Park, with the Nature Conservancy on Damariscove Island in Maine, and lived for three years on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater working with their environmental education program on the Hudson River. She is also a professional storyteller and printmaker, an art teacher, and home schooling Mom to Jabu age 10 and Makayla age 7.

SUMMER ART PARTY CAMP  June 25-29 •  Two formats for this camp week: Family Camp for ages 2-8 with a parent  or Bridge Camp for ages 5-8 on their own.