Camp Captivate: Where Science, Art and History Fit Together. Camp Captivate provides a unique summer camp experience which emphasizes the connections between science, art, and history.
Camp Captivate is a fun camp that fosters every attendee’s love of learning. Each week is based on a different history theme, which we bring alive by integrating history, science and art into a variety of projects and activities. Activities are varied and cover a wide range of exciting topics, including designing Roman mosaics, creating mummies, constructing castles, playing games of the historical period, digging for artifacts, making volcanoes erupt, and more.
June 17 – 21: Walk Like an Egyptian
June 24 – 28: Castles and Crowns
July 8 – 12: Think Greek!
July 15 – 19: Great Renaissance Minds
Camp Week 1: June 17-21
Walk Like an Egyptian
Campers will travel back to the days of the Pharaohs to discover the wonders of Ancient Egypt.
Campers will:
Dig for artifacts
Build a pyramid
Simulate the flooding of the Nile River
Record hieroglyphics in “stone”
Play Sennet
“Mummify” a friend’s arm
Make perfumes from flowers
Create cosmetics from ground minerals
Sculpt a canoptic jar
Create an Egyptian collar and cuffs
Paint a tomb’s mural
Camp Week 3: July 8-12
Think Greek!
Campers will immerse themsleves in the world of Ancient Greece.
Campers will:
Perform and watch skits about some famous Greek myths.
Create Pandora’s box
Do a water displacement experiment, like Archimedes.
Make 3D origami models of the plutonic solids.
Do Geometry!
Design a temple
Make a sculpture
Create a Medusa mask
Compete in some early Olympic events
Explore daily life
Camp Week 2: June 24-28
Castles and Crowns
Campers will enter the world of the Middle Ages.
Campers will:
Fire models of catapults and trebuchettes
Train like a knight
Investigate the bubonic plague and medieval medical practices
Play medieval games
Design a cathedral’s stained glass window
Weave
Design a coat of arms
Play with Playmobil Castle models
Make a jeweled crown with embossed “gold”
Explore daily life
Camp Week 4: July 15-19
Great Renaissance Minds
In the Renaissance, there was an explosion of scientific and artistic advancements!
Campers will:
Design a cathedral
Paint like Michelangelo
Invent like Leonardo
Discover like Galileo
Print like Guttenberg
Dream like Copernicus
Entertain like Shakespeare
Observe fabulous period costumes
Train like a knight
Explore daily life
