Classes, Workshops, & Camps
Imagination Station Summer Camps 2010
June 14 - August 6, 2010
Updated April 3, 2010
All camps run every day Monday-Friday (one full week)
Morning camps are from 9am-noon (pre-school camps are mornings only)
One camp - Members $115, Non-Members $125
Combo Camps - Members $170, Non-Members $180
Combo Camps are two camps running the same week. Register for morning and afternoon of the same week (12-1 for lunch and active play)
Lunch is provided for children staying all day.
- Payment for each camp is due in full upon registration. Checks may be made to Children's Museum of Oak Ridge. We also accept Master Card and Visa payments by phone and online through Pay Pal.
- All registration paperwork is due by 8am, 10 business days prior to the first day of camp.
- Registrations can be accepted as late as 10-day prior to camp start date if space is available.
- Cancellations received after 8am, 10 business days prior to camp are subject to a $25 cancellation fee.
All pre-school camps are from 9-noon.
Each class includes arts and crafts activities, songs, games, stories and a daily snack. Children must be able to use the toilet independently.
Pre-school camps run mornings only: Members $115, Non-Members $125
- June 14-18
Wild, Wild West
Slip on your boots and spurs and take a step back in time to the land of cowboys and Indians. Tame a tumbleweed, make a dream catcher, learn a campfire song, do some rope painting and ride a bronc.
- June 21-25
Dino-mite
Take a romp with everyone's favorite prehistoric beasts. Become a paleontologist and dig for fossils, follow the dino tracks to find the hidden nest. Make a flying pterodactyl, create a dinosaur tooth necklace and hatch a baby dino.
- June 28-July 2
Down by the Station
Join Thomas the Tank, The Little Engine that could and the Little Red Caboose for a train filled week. Visit our own train exhibit, design your own Thomas hat, bake an edible train and make a train whistle. Explore the caboose in the museum's garden.
- July 12-16
Storybook Surprise
Read stories from a different author each day. Play themed games and make your own illustrations in the author's style. For Eric Carle day create your own Hungry Caterpillar, for Sandra Boynton day make a puppet and for Dr. Seuss day cook up your own green eggs and ham and draw the Cat in the Hat.
- July 19-23
Shake, Bake and Roll
Shake it up in the kitchen as you mix, roll, stir, season and mash your favorite foods. Dish up yummy treats like pancakes, applesauce, pizza, ice cream and healthy snacks. Groceries $5.00
- July 26-30
Jitterbug - Ready, Set, Paint
Let your inner artist shine as you smear, dab, brush and splatter all the colors of the rainbow. Paint a T-shirt, tie-dye, and experiment with finger painting. Create a crayon resist to put in a decorated frame.
- August 2-6
Jungle Jaunt - Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere!
There's no such thing as too many bubbles! Blow colored bubbles, create bubble prints, play at the bubble table and make a bubble bottle. Create bubble reactions and do a bubble dance.
- June 14-18, 9-noon
Fantasyland
Let your imagination run wild with the unicorns, gnomes, fairies, giants, dragons, aliens, trolls and other mythical creatures of Fantasyland. Create your own plush creature, slay a dragon, blast into space and explore a foreign planet, build a UFO, create a unicorn mask, boil up troll stew, make a gnome hat and get your face painted.
- June 14-18, 1-4pm
Crafty Kids
Let your creative juices flow. Make a wind chime and pillow, and design a bracelet with shells. Build a hummingbird feeder and a butterfly flyer. Assemble and decorate a message board. Decoupage a frame for your favorite picture. Materials Fee $10
- June 21-25, 9-noon
Where the Wild Things Are
Take Max's exciting expedition by building a puzzle tree and a land boat. Relive your journey to the land of the wild things by creating your own wild thing mask, scepter and crown. On Friday have a "Wild Rumpus!"
- June 21-25, 1-4pm
Wild & Crazy Kids
It's time to do all those wild and crazy things you wish you could do at home! Build and play life-size board games where you are your own game piece. Play water balloon games, create a giant jigsaw puzzle and build a fort to defend yourself in a silly string war. Participate in physical challenges involving slime, Jell-O, shaving cream and more.
- June 28-July 2, 9-noon
Green Fiend
How green can you be? Use herbs from the garden to cook up a dish. Create a masterpiece from reused and recycled items to reduce waste. Beautify a T-shirt naturally. Plant a tin can herb garden, decorate a compost bin and make a toad house.
- June 28-July 2, 1-4pm
Earth & Beyond
Explore the far reaches of the Earth and then blast into space to see the sights of the Milky Way. Swim with sea creatures, explore the jungle and join a safari before visiting outer space. Design your own bottle fish, make a 3-D lion mask, plant a sunflower, build and launch your own rocket and submarine.
- July 12-16, 9-noon
Kid Cuisine
It's time to take charge and make your own meals. Learn cooking basics like following recipes, making healthy food choices, planning menus and kitchen safety. Then take it to the next level as you create a new mini-meal each day. Think burgers and homemade fries, grilled cheeses and chicken noodle soup. By the end of the week you'll have a cookbook and the skills to dish up dinner for the whole family. Groceries $5.00
- July 12-16, 1-4pm
Inspector Gadget
Use your know-how to create a new gadget each day and foil the plans of the wily Dr. Claw. Can you use a rope, a spring and a cardboard box to stop Dr. Claw from kidnapping Brain the dog? Create a periscope, a pulley and a slingshot to launch water balloons. Make an electric car from simple household objects.
- July 19-23, 9-noon
All Things Disney
Are you a fan of the Disney Channel? If so, you'll love this camp! Decorate a Hannah Montana-inspired T-shirt, build a shoebox guitar and rock out like the Jonas Brothers. Create your own Wizards of Waverly Place wand, make a Mickey Mouse pillow and throw a Luau party like Cody and Zach from the Suite Life. Materials Fee: $10
- July 19-23, 1-4pm
Messy Masterpieces
You're not having fun until you've made a mess! Put on an apron and prepare to get dirty making masterpieces. Make a picture with paint-filled balloons, squirt guns, flyswatters, rubber bands and marbles. Form Papier Mache piñatas and bowls. Dress for the mess!
- July 26-30, 9-noon
The Human Factor
Icky, creepy and just plain gross! Ever wonder how many bones are in the human skeleton or what snot does? You'll discover the answer to these questions and many more as you tour the human body and its many systems. Make an edible skin model, a germ garden, digestion in a baggie and drink almost real blood!
- July 26-30, 1-4pm
Walk the Plank
Argh matey! Join our pirate crew and sail the high seas. Learn pirate lingo, make yer own Jolly Roger and defend the ship against enemy crews while singing a pirate song. Follow the clues to find the hidden treasure before the captain makes ye walk the plank. Can you finish the pirate training obstacle course to prove you're a worthy sea dog?
- August 2-6, 9-noon
Wizard School
Come see how Muggles perform in the wizarding world. Make your own wand, take a potions class, learn about dragons while drawing one and play field quidditch. The sorting hat will be adding up each house's points during the week. Cook up some chocolate exploding frogs and be on the look out for Lord Voldomort's apprentice!
- August 2-6, 1-4pm
Spy Camp
Learn all the tricks of the trade in our top-secret spy training class. Practice karate moves, train your observation skills, crack secret codes and develop a secret identity complete with code name and disguise.
- June 14-18 9-noon
Party 'Round the World
Hop on the party express and voyage around the world to experience celebrations of many cultures. Design a dragon and join our parade for the Chinese New Year. Make a skull mask for Mexico's Day of the Dead, string flowers into a lei for a Hawaiian luau, create a clay lamp for India's Festival of Lights and bake a King's Cake for a traditional French Mardi Gras.
- June 14-18 1-4pm
Project Catwalk
Are you in or are you out? Learn about international fashion, create your own sketchbook and discover eight ways to transform a T-shirt. Design your own outfit and strut your stuff on the catwalk Friday. Material Fee: $10
- June 21-25 9-noon
Kinesthetic Astronomy
Add the fourth dimension of time to your space adventure. Stargaze during the day in the Starlab, build a telescope and create a sundial while learning silly songs about the stars. Play astronomy board and card games.
- June 21-25 1-4pm
Acting Out
Hit the stage and show off your performing talents. Write a skit and act it out, learn the tricks of improvisation using props and basic skills an actor needs. Do an encore performance on Friday.
- June 28-July 2 9-noon
Can You Dig It?
Put our archeologist hat on and prepare to dig and explore buried history from dinosaur times to Native Americans. Work on a dig site right here at the museum. Learn about bones, fossils, minerals and precious stones as you make an arrowhead necklace and polish your own gems.
- June 28-July 2 1-4pm
Sweet Treats
Join professional bakers from the Cupcakery to make baked goods, Panera bread to make pastries and Touch of Love Catering to make healthy sweet treats. Frost a six-inch layer cake and decorate it professionally and more. Materials Fee: $10
- July 12-16 9-noon
Model Train Layout
Hands on experience in building and setting up model train layouts using T-Track concepts. Learn train sizes and types and how they work. Train will run over connected layout on Friday. Materials Fee: $25
- July 12-16 1-4pm
Animal Art,
Create masks and become puppeteers, then transform yourself with face painting. Make a chalkboard and do chalk art and animal portraiture.
- July 19-23 9-noon
Kitchen Chemistry
There's chemistry in your kitchen! Make some delicious experiments you can eat and discover your in-house "laboratory." Make a cabbage juice indicator, hot ice, a solar cooker for s'mores and more.
- July 19-23 1-4pm
Beadazzled
Use beads, charms, lacing, shells and jewels to create your own personalized jewelry. You can design such things as necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, key chains and more. Make your own beads and decorate a box to store your new creations in.
- July 26-30 9-noon
Picture This!
Test out your photo snapping skills in this camp all about the art of photography. Learn the tricks of still life and outdoor photography as well as portraits. Experiment with lighting, backgrounds, shutter speed and black and white images. Then create your own photo exhibit to show your parents on Friday. Bring your camera if you have one or buy a disposable camera at the museum store.
- July 26-30 1-4pm
Boom, Boom, Kack!
Hip to the Hop dance. Count your steps and join local choreographer Tony Williams as you learn to dance multiple styles of hip-hop including popping and locking, lyrical hip-hop and other styles seen on TV. Be prepared to perform your dances for your parents on Friday.
- August 2-6 9-noon
Mission Construct
Become a do-it yourself expert. Create a topiary bird for the garden, fashion a plastic bottle trellis, and reuse a wooden chair. Make a toolbox to put your tools in. Materials Fee $10
- August 2-6 1-4pm
Sherlock Holmes
Try your hand at crime scene investigation. Solve crimes by piecing together evidence to stop Holmes' archenemy the evil Dr. Moriarity. Solve crimes through observation, data analysis and forming a theory based on the facts.
Professional clay artist Sherrie Carris, will be teaching clay camps. She has a BFA from the University of Texas, an MFA from the University of Iowa and teaching certification from UTK, Tennessee.
Camps include clay, glazing and firing.
- June 14-18
9-noon
Monster Mash
Ages 8-12
Campers will need to search the depths of their imagination to create the slimiest, ickiest, grossest monsters they can think of. Learn about handbuilding and creating forms from coils. Have a blast exploring clay in this fun monster camp.
1pm-4pm
Beginning Clay
Ages 6-10
Create something new everyday: an animal, wall hanging, garden bells, self portrait, mosaic frame and a memory garden stone.
- June 21-25
9am-noon
Fantasy Fish
Ages 6-12
Handbuild a fish, paint it and build a stand to display it. Then create an underwater collage for a backdrop.
1pm-4pm
Animal Safari
Ages 6-10
Explore the continents as your zoologist creates handbuilt animals from around the world: from penguins to eagles and lions to cats. Campers will create their favorite creatures in clay. The menagerie of animals will live in a shadowbox constructed by campers.
- June 28-July 2,
9am-noon
Tubular Totem Pots
Ages 9 and up
How high can you make your cylinder climb? Build a series of forms and stack them up high to make unique vases and sculptures. Create your own totem family.
1-4pm
Mosaic class
Ages 6-12
Create your own mosaic frame, memory garden stone, memory box, and sculpture. Design and make a piece out of clay and other materials.
- July 12-16,
9am-noon
Printmaking
Ages 9-12
Learn the basics of printmaking. Create collagraphs, linocuts and incise your own designs. Print your own unique design.
1-4pm
Let's Make Lunch!
Ages 6-12
What are your favorite foods? Make clay spaghetti, tacos, cupcakes, bagels or any of your favorites. Then make a plate to put them on and a cup to drink out of.
- July 19-23,
9am-noon
Pottery to Pit
Ages 9 and up
Throw a series of pots in different styles to be fired the following Saturday after camp in a pit fire. Bring your marshmallows!
1-4pm
Dinosaurs Unearthed
Ages 6-9
Create your favorite dinosaur from a picture and a proper habitat out of clay for it to live in using a variety of handbuilding techniques and decorative colorful slips.
- July 26-30,
9am-noon
Exploring Clay
Ages 3-5
Students discover the magical qualities of clay while handbuilding whimsical animal sculptures, coil pots, shakers and more.
1-4pm
Beadorama!
Ages 6-9
Create colorful clay beads in all shapes, sizes and colors to form into necklaces, pins, pendants and bracelets. Handbuild a jewelry box to place your creations in.
- August 2-6
9am-4pm
MusiClay Inclined
Ages 6-12
Georgi Schmitt, professional musician, will guide campers as they discover their abilities of composition while creating a performance using the clay instruments they have created with professional clay artists Bill Capshaw and Sherrie Carris. Working as a group, they will draw and paint a musical backdrop with artist Leslie James for their performance. On Friday, after the performance, they will host a reception.
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