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Our camps offer many options to keep your child excited and engaged this summer. ARD summer camps have small class sizes and are fun for all age kids! Register today.

VISIONS SOCER

VISIONS STRIKER SOCCER SKILLS CAMP

This unique training camp focuses on SCORING GOALS! The first part of the day is spent working through a variety of fun and high energy training activities focused on improving goal scoring techniques. The second part of each day students test their goal scoring skills in a daily tournament.

Age 6-13
Location: Railhead Park
Instructor: Visions Soccer Staff
Fee: $159 | $149 resident

7/24-7/27 | Mon-Thur | 9am-12pm

 
Vission Soccer

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FUTSAL CAMP

Futsal is fun, fast, exciting and the #1 way to improve soccer skills. This camp packed full of high energy and dynamic training activities which are specially designed to help players develop their core individual skills in a fun and engaging environment. Each day campers will spend the first part of the day working through various skills activities before participating in an end of day mini-tournament.

Age 6-13
Location: Regional Gym
Instructor: Visions Soccer Staff
Fee: $159 | $149 resident

6/12-6/15 | Mon-Thur | 9am-12pm

 

SKYHAWKS SPORTS CAMP

MINI-HAWK CAMP

This multi-sport program was developed to give children a positive first step into athletics. Sports are taught in as safe, structured environment fill with encouragement and fun. Through exciting games and activities, campers explore balance, hand/eye coordination and skill development at their own pace.

Age 4-7
Location: Regional Park
Instructor: Skyhawks Staff
Fee: $155 | $145 resident

6/19-6/23 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

SKYHAWKS BASKETBALL CAMP

This fun, skill-intensive program is designed for beginning to intermediate players. Using our progression curriculum, we focus on the whole player while teaching sportsmanship and teamwork. Boys and girls will learn the fundamentals of passing, shooting, ball handling, rebounding and defense through skill-based instruction and small sided scrimmages.

Age 6-12
Location: Regional Park Gym
Instructor: Skyhawks Staff
Fee: $155 | $145 resident

6/26-6/30 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm
7/10-7/14 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

SKYHAWKS MULTI-SPORT CAMP

Multi-Sport camp is designed to introduce young athletes to a variety of different sports in one setting. Athletes will learn the rules and essential skills of each sport, along with vital life lessons such as sportsmanship and teamwork.

Age 6-12
Location: Regional Park 
Instructor: Skyhawks Staff
Fee: $155 | $145 resident

7/17-7/21 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

 

CHALLENGER SOCCER CAMPS

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER CAMP

Explore the world’s top soccer-playing nations. Players will learn tricks, skills and tactics throughout the week and showcase their skills in our ever-popular Camp Word Cup!

Age 6-14
Location: Railhead Park
Instructor: Challenger Sports Staff
Fee: $195 | $185 resident
Note: All players receive a ball & a t-shirt!

6/5-6/9 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm
7/10-7/14 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

 

Challenge Soccer

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MAD SCIENCE CAMPS

GROSSOLOGY

Ewwww, GROSS! You’ve never had so much fun with the ooey, gooey and GROSS things of Science! We get down and dirty with earthworms and learn how they and other bugs help us with composting. Show some guts as you process food in your Digestor Inspector and see what systems make our body go. Have some good, rotten fun with garbage decomposition and see how important water is for everything! You’ll learn about the power of chemistry, how it affects matter (the stuff everything is made of) and get to make your own totally yucky polymer slime to keep! Just don’t describe this stuff during dinner!

Age 6-12
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Canyon View Room
Instructor: Mad Science Staff
Fee: $190 | $180 resident

6/12-6/16 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

NASA – JOURNEY INTO OUTER SPACE

Mad Science and NASA have teamed up to bring you the excitement and wonder of space. See the principles of thrust and propulsion at work in a real rocket launch. Explore the atmosphere on earth and beyond. Journey through a galaxy as you investigate the life cycle of stars. Explore the farthest reaches of our solar system and create a lunar eclipse. Probe the mysteries of meteors and bounce around satellite light as you learn about space phenomena. Experience the life of an astronaut as you suit up for a space flight and then perform spacecraft repairs. This is truly out of this world!

Age 6-12
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Canyon View Room
Instructor: Mad Science Staff
Fee: $190 | $180 resident

6/12-6/16 | Mon-Fri | 1-4pm

EUREKA! THE INVENTORS’ CAMP

Be inspired by the most famous inventors in history – Ben Franklin, the Wright Brothers, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Rube Goldberg! – and create your OWN inventions! Use their techniques to break through a series of modern-day challenges. You will learn how to invent solutions to problems and make them come to life, just like these legendary innovators did. Construct catapults and forts, design underwater vehicles, build a mini-amplifier, and assemble a working lightsaber to take home. Thomas Edison said invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, but this camp is 100% fun.

Age 6-12
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Foothills Room
Instructor: Mad Science Staff
Fee: $190 | $180 resident

6/19-6/23 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

CASTAWAY CAMP

An ecological adventure – Campers will find themselves stranded on an island…now what?! Work together using the supplies you have to learn to survive until you are rescued. Create shelters, use water filtration systems, and study the island’s animals. Learn how to harness the sun’s energy to create solar cookers, communicate with technology, and work as a team! Campers will build daily projects to survive and escape the island. Don’t forget your new duct tape flip-flops on your journey back home!

Age 6-12
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Foothills Room
Instructor: Mad Science Staff
Fee: $190 | $180 resident

6/19-6/23 | Mon-Fri | 1pm-4pm

 
FLIGHT ACADEMY CAMP

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s…everything from the earliest flying machines to the first rocket flights. This hands-on program will let you learn all about aerodynamics and the world above us. Explore the basic principles of flight, build airplanes, test them in wind tunnels, ride a hovercraft and construct balloon copters. Discover the mysteries of the galaxy, learn about celestial navigation, and take home a rocket that you have built yourself. We’ll be moving at light speed throughout this high velocity week!

Age 6-12
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Canyon View Room
Instructor: Mad Science Staff
Fee: $190 | $180 resident

7/10-7/14 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

CRAZY CHEMWORKS

Lose your mind in the vast and exciting world of chemistry! This camp is full of reactions, observations, solutions, suspensions, explosions, concoctions, perplexions, digestions, reflections, and Dalmatians (kidding), just to name a few! You will challenge your friends in the labware game, combat evaporation, be amazed at the awesome power of glue technology and trigger some shocking chemical reactions. You’ll snoop out counterfeit money, launch chemical explosions (not TOO big) and learn how and why the chemical world works. So dive into our fantastically fun pool of chemical experimentation!

Age 6-12
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Foothills Room
Instructor: Mad Science Staff
Fee: $190 | $180 resident

7/10-7/14 | Mon-Fri | 1-4pm

 

INTELLIBRICKS

LEGO ROBOTICS: COUNTY FAIR

Have a fun week of building and playing with the working models of Ferris Wheel, Merry Go round, Carousel and more. Use the intuitive. With the colorful, intuitive WeDo, drag-and-drop interface being used alongside child-friendly themes, this class is bound to excite children who will bring everyday LEGO® to life by exploring and adding new technology!

Age 6-10
Location: Canyon View Community Center
Instructor: Intellibricks Staff
Fee: $205 | $195 resident

6/12-6/16 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

Smmer Camps

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LEGO ROBOTICS: PLAYFUL GIZMOS 

In our LEGO® Robotics Playful Gizmos camp, get ready to start building working models of a robot claw, slide launcher, conveyor belt or a robot house. With a colorful, drag-and-drop interface being used alongside child-friendly themes, this class is bound to excite children who will bring everyday LEGO® to life by exploring and adding new technology!

Age 6-10
Location: Canyon View Community Center
Instructor: Intellibricks Staff
Fee: $205 | $195 resident

7/10-7/14 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

PLAY WELL LEGO CAMPS

ADVENTURES IN STEM USING LEGO® MATERIALS

Let your imagination run wild with tens of thousands of LEGO® parts! Build engineer-designed projects and use special pieces to create your own unique designs! Projects are rotated seasonally to ensure that both new and returning students can explore the endless creative possibilities of the LEGO® building system.

Age 5-8
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Foothills Room
Instructor: Play Well Staff
Fee: $185 | $175 resident

6/5-6/9 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

BASH’EM BOTS USING LEGO® MATERIALS

Design your custom LEGO® bot to take on any challenge. Mix and match chassis designs using wheels, treads, or walking legs. Combine these with tools like drills, hammers, and battering rams as you refine your masterpiece by sparring with friends and overcoming obstacles. Apply real-world engineering and physics concepts to help you bash and crash your way to victory!

Age 8-14
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Foothills Room
Instructor: Play Well Staff
Fee: $185 | $175 resident

6/5-6/9 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

 

STEM + ANIMIAL ADVENTURES USING LEGO® MATERIALS

Prepare for a full-day LEGO® camp packed with hands-on and minds-on STEM fun! Start the day by building engineer-designed projects and using special pieces to create your own unique designs. Then step into a world inspired by the animal kingdom as you design and build leaping dolphins, buzzing beehives, and towering giraffes. Play, create, and learn in this new full-day camp for LEGO® fanatics!

Age 6-10
Location: Canyon View Community Center, American River Room
Instructor: Play Well Staff
Fee: $240 | $230 resident

7/5-7/7 | Wed-Fri | 9am-4pm

MANDALORIAN TRAINING USING LEGO® MATERIALS

Here’s our chance to join our friends and learn what it takes to become a true Mandalorian. Using LEGO, an experienced instructor will guide us through the skills and equipment needed to earn the title. We will build our gauntlet fighter ship to weave through the galaxy, our Z-6 jetpacks to maneuver through the air, and of course defend ourselves with our Mandalorian armor. Coming to a galaxy near you!

Age 5-9
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Foothills Room
Instructor: Play Well Staff
Fee: $185 | $175 resident

7/31-175 | Mon-Fri | 9am-12pm

MINECRAFT MASTER ENGINEERING USING LEGO® MATERIALS

Bring your favorite Minecraft adventures to life with our enthusiastic Play-Well instructors. In a Minecraft world powered by LEGO® resources, we will build shelters to keep out Creepers, craft mystical items that only true masters can wield, and perfect our crossbow skills to stop the Wither from taking over! If you can imagine it, we can build it.

Age 7-12
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Foothills Room
Instructor: Play Well Staff
Fee: $185 | $175 resident

7/31-8/4 | Mon-Fri | 1-4pm

Youth Classes

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YOUTH ART CAMPS

PLAY WITH CLAY CAMP

If you like to create with clay, then this is the class for you. Make sculptures, bowls, plates, cups, etc. Learn about various kinds of clay and create with each type. Final pieces will be fired and glazed and returned to Parks and Rec for pick up.

Age 8-17
Location: Recreation Park, Teen Center
Instructor: Susie Belle
Fee: $100 | $90 resident; $40 material fee due first day of class

6/26-6/29 | Mon-Thur | 9:30-10:30am

FUN WITH PAINT CAMP

Want to be a brilliant painter? This camp will help you on your way. Enjoy painting with step-by-step instructions learning the tricks of the trade. Explore your creative side. Paint on canvas, wood, and various other pieces. Bring an apron or just wear clothes that can get paint on them.

Age 8-17
Location: Recreation Park, Teen Center
Instructor: Susie Belle
Fee: $100 | $90 resident; $40 material fee due first day of class

7/10-7/13 | Mon-Thur | 9:30-10:30am

FAIRY AND GNOME HABITATS

Come to this class where you will not just be building any old Fairy or Gnome garden, but a living growing garden. Large bowls will be provided to fill with dirt, sand, tiny furniture, glitter, etc. Also make tiny things for your tiny home. Create a high end home for your fairy or gnome.

Age 6-17
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Canyon View Room
Instructor: Susie Belle
Fee: $115 | $105 resident; $40 material fee due first day of class

7/17-7/20 | Mon-Thur | 9:30-10:30am

 

CLAY AND PAPER MACHE CAMP

This exciting mixed media camp will start you on your way to becoming a talented artist. Create with clay and cover it with paper mache to create a paper mache wall hanging. Paint it and make it fabulous. At the end of class you will have a wonderful three dimensional piece of artwork.

Age 6-17
Location: Canyon View Community Center, Canyon View Room
Instructor: Susie Belle
Fee: $115 | $105 resident; $40 material fee due first day of class

7/24-7/27 | Mon-Thur | 9:30-10:30am

ROYALTY CRAFT CAMP

Each day we will have several crafts representing one of the favorite princesses. On the last day of camp we will have a tea party and children can bring their favorite snack to share with the other camp members. Please bring a water bottle, wear comfortable clothes that can get a little messy and have children eat prior to camp.

Age 3-9
Location: Recreation Park, Stella Irving Room
Instructor: Alison Lloyd
Fee: $100 | $90 resident; $10 material fee due first day of class

6/19-6/29 | Mon/Thur | 11:30-1pm

THEATER CAMP

Children will experience all parts of theater, Acting, set design, costume making and more. On the last day of camp children will perform their show they have created for you. Please bring a water bottle, wear comfortable clothes that can get a little messy and have children eat prior to camp.

Age 6-13
Location: Recreation Park, Stella Irving Room
Instructor: Alison Lloyd
Fee: $130 | $120 resident; $10 material fee due first day of class

7/10-7/20 | Mon/Thur | 11:30-1pm

 

CRAFT CAMP

Children will have the opportunity to quietly explore their creativity side. Each day we will learn a new craft. Children will have time to work on each craft that they will be able to take home. Please bring a water bottle, wear comfortable clothes that can get a little messy and have children eat prior to camp.

Age 6-13
Location: Recreation Park, Stella Irving Room
Instructor: Alison Lloyd
Fee: $100 | $90 resident; $10 material fee due first day of class

6/19-6/29 | Mon/Thur | 1:15-2:45pm

SUPERHERO CAMP

This is a fun craft and game camp for your favorite superhero. Each day we will learn a new skill for our superhero extravaganza on the last day of camp. Please bring a water bottle, wear comfortable clothes that can get a little messy and have your superhero eat prior to camp.

Age 3-9
Location: Recreation Park, Stella Irving Room
Instructor: Alison Lloyd
Fee: $100 | $90 resident; $10 material fee due first day of class

7/24-8/4 | Mon/Thur | 11:30-1pm

 
Theater Camp

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YOUTH DANCE CAMPS

DANCE IT OUT – LINE DANCING KIDS CAMP!

This is a 3-day camp for kiddos who want to learn how to line dance! The first two days will be spent learning different steps and line dances, and the third day will be reviewing and dancing them with the opportunity for parents to join, film and get pictures!

Age 8-12
Location: Recreation Park, Stella Irving Room
Instructor: Jen Michelle
Fee: $105 | $95 resident; $25 material fee due first day of class

6/26-6/30 | Mon/Wed/Fri | 9:15-11:15am

 

DANCE CAMP

This camp will allow your children to get some wiggles out. We will dance and play games. Please bring water bottle, wear comfortable clothes and bring a small snack.

Age 5-10
Location: Recreation Park, Stella Irving Room
Instructor: Alison Lloyd
Fee: $70 | $60 resident; $10 material fee due first day of class

7/3-7/6 | Mon/Thur | 11:30-1:30pm

LIVE OAK WALDORF

ALL LIVE OAK WALDORF CAMPS:
LOCATION: Live Oak Waldorf School
410 Crother Road
Meadow Vista, CA 95722

BRING: Hearty snack and water bottle to ALL camps, Include hat, sunglasses, good walking shoes (no sandals), and sun protection to OUTDOOR camps.

FEE: $150 // $140 resident

MATERIALS FEE: due on first day of camp.

MACRAME CAMP
Learn macrame, small and big! Using natural hemp twine, jute and cotton cording, you will learn a variety of knots and create some lovely projects.

Age 11-14
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$22 materials fee
Instructor: Veronica Wetterstrom

6/19-6/23 | Daily | 9am-12pm

BEADS & TWINE CAMP

Beading onto hemp twine creates great projects! Learn and play with a fun selection of beads and colorful twine to make wearable and artistic projects.

Age 7-10
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$12 materials fee
Instructor: Veronica Wetterstrom

6/19-6/23 | Daily | 12:30-3:30pm

FUN WITH FELT CAMP
Play and create with felt! Wet felting, sewing, and numerous ways of using felt and wool will develop new skills and colorful projects.

Age 7-10
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$15 materials fee
Instructor: Veronica Wetterstrom

6/26-6/30 | Daily | 9am-12pm

NATURE CRAFTING CAMP
Spend a week crafting with nature! We will use what we find to make crafts and games together.

Age 4-6
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Noelle Thompson

7/10-7/14 | Daily | 9am-12pm

STARS OF THE SEA CAMP
Children will frolic with water play while learning about the stars of the sea, including starfish and other sea animals. Ocean art will shimmer and swim in imagination as we water color with sea salt.
 
Age 7-10
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Mercedes Fleming
 
7/10-7/14 | Daily | 9am-12pm
 
THE WONDERS OF WATER CAMP
Be prepared to get wet. Let’s play in the water, sand and sunshine!

Age 4-6
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Noelle Thompson

7/10-7/14 | Daily | 12:30-3:30pm

A CAMPING WE WILL GO CAMP
Spend a week hiking the trails of our beautiful 40 acres. Help pitch a tent, make an easy trail mix, follow a simple trail map, learn camp songs and more.

Age 4-6
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Noelle Thompson

7/17-7/21 | Daily | 9am-12pm

SUPER STARS OF THE SEA CAMP
This is the sequel to Stars of the Sea where we introduce mythical sea creatures as well as the larger animals such as great white sharks and Orcas. Includes wet felting and water colors of ocean scenes.

Age 7-10
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Mercedes Fleming

7/10-7/14 | Daily | 9am-12pm

LIFE ON THE FARM CAMP
Learn about edible herbs and flowers and the bugs that are their friends as we tend our growing garden.

Age 4-6
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Noelle Thompson

7/24-7/28 | Daily | 9am-12pm

BEAN BAGS, HULA HOOPS, BALANCE BEAMS & MORE CAMP
Games and fun with balance, rhyme and song.

Age 4-6
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Noelle Thompson

7/17-7/21 | Daily | 12:30-3:30pm

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BEGINNING BLACKSMITHING
With the joy of blacksmithing being recently rediscovered, Live-Oak is offering a hands-on camp where students will successfully build projects and gain foundational skills to pursue the art of blacksmithing.

Age 11-14
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$25 materials fee
Instructor: Beau Gieson

6/26-6/30 | Daily | 9am-12pm

KITCHEN CONCOCTIONS CAMP
Pour, mix, stir and create all from simple kitchen supplies.

Age 4-6
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Noelle Thompson

7/31-8/4 | Daily | 12:30-3:30

ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS CAMP
We will spend the week cutting, gluing and creating. Imagination is the limit.

Age 4-6
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Noelle Thompson

7/31-8/4 | Daily | 9am-12pm

GIRLS ON FIRE
Join us for a week of feminine-centered connection. This camp’s intention is to connect girls meaningfully to one another using art, journaling, movement, open conversations and a safe space to exhale and learn more about themselves. We will spend time in nature and also time indoors.

Age 11-14
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$15 materials fee
Instructor: Melanee O’Hagan

7/10-7/14 | Daily | 9am-12pm

BUGS, BUGS, BUGS CAMP
We will watch them grow, watch them creep and crawl and fly!

Age 4-6
Location: Live Oak Waldorf
$10 materials fee
Instructor: Noelle Thompson

7/24-7/28 | Daily | 12:30-3:30pm

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