Adventures (Rising 1st-3rd)

Become an amateur archaeologist digging for artifacts and find treasures buried in the sand. Learn the secrets of how to mummify a pharaoh and how the pyramids were built. Make burial masks and mini mummies. Explore secret passages, escape booby traps, and decipher ancient symbols to find lost treasures! Make ancient jewelry and Egyptian clothing. Learn to write in Hieroglyphics and learn about famous female pharaohs. Mummify cats and crocodiles, play King Tut’s favorite board game, and make protective amulets. Adventure awaits!    

*This is a 4-day week, as we are closed Thursday, June 19, for the national holiday, Juneteenth.

Is there a Bigfoot in every state? Lake creatures on every continent? Are there goblins living in Kentucky? Is there really buried treasure hidden in Virginia? And how many crazy things live in West Virginia? Do any of these things exist?? Come explore these and other unexplained phenomena that make us say, “What was that?!” Track Bigfoot’s footprints and set traps for this oversized furball. Build UFOs, make your own cryptic creatures, and seek out ancient cities lost to time. Create alien containment units, make glove monsters, creature masks, hunt for the Loveland Frogmen, and make a Mothman plushie! We will film our own “sightings” footage, and, on Friday, we will put our creature tracking skills to the test in our quest to round up all the cryptids while avoiding the mysterious Men In Black. 

Choose a project to build, such as a new castle design, treasure chest, bookshelf, birdhouse, toolbox, dollhouse, and more! Learn how to safely use a handsaw, hammer, hand drill, square, pliers, wood rasp, and screwdriver to build your masterpiece. When not in the carpentry room, campers will work on a variety of wood crafts and architectural challenges, such as building towers, creating with giant connecting blocks, and making wooden snakes and robots. Campers will test their skills in our lumberjack games, design and create Rube Goldberg machines, and build town structures to see if they can survive a multitude of natural disasters.    

Make your own pirate flag and get ready to set sail on the high seas for adventure as we learn all about a pirate’s life! Learn how to use a compass, design your own pirate wardrobe, make “pieces of eight,” create giant treasure maps and build a mini treasure chest. Go on daily hunts for treasure and learn legends of famous pirates such as Ching Shih, Blackbeard, and Jean Lafitte, as well as the legend of hidden Madagascar treasure, and the tale of Joseph Bannister. Build your own piratical viking longboat, cook ship’s biscuits, make scurvy-fighting lemon-limeade, and design, build, and race your own pirate ship. Join us, mateys!    

Travel, geography, and mystery abound this week where we will learn about exotic and exciting locations in the U.S. and around the world. Everywhere we explore has an air of legend and lore, so intrigue awaits when we try to solve a mystery or crime at every location we visit. Make passports to gain access to different countries, create disguises to fool bad guys, and help recover valuable treasures. Search for missing ancient Roman coins and artifacts, create a replica priceless necklace, crack the code to a safe to protect a national treasure from being stolen. Try to guess what the strange object is in our “what is it” game of items from around the globe. Learn all about maps, the continents, oceans, and hone our observational skills looking for clues all week long. Friday will be our grand travel finale as we try to solve a major mystery that will require all we've learned during the week.    

Join us as we learn all about the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece! Try your luck at the twelve labors of Heracles, design your own Spartan shield and Athenian helmet, make a laurel wreath, and visit the oracle to have your future told. Stamp your own coins and make leather pouches to carry them, cook and enjoy honey cakes. Compete in our own Olympic games and go on an epic journey where we will challenge the Titans for the rule of Mt. Olympus while we fight off Medusa, the Minotaur, and many other monsters of Greek lore!