Summer Camps

Deco Arts Camp

$450 for the week, Ages 6-12, June-August, Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm, Glen Echo Park MD
The Deco Arts Camp is a week of art inspired by the park, its history, and Art Deco architecture. Your child can create fantastic objects, silkscreen prints, marbleized paper, plaster fossils, terra cotta sculptures, and color wheels on real canvas. Learn fundamentals like color, shape, line, and texture, while enjoying the park, and beautiful, historic carousel. Take one or more week-long camp sessions. Returning campers get new challenges and alternative projects. Tuition includes a $50 nonrefundable deposit, and materials are included.

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Week 1: June 19-June 23

Week 2: June 26-June 30

Week 3: July 5-July 7 (Great Outdoors Camp, see below, no camp July 4th)

Week 4: July 10-July 14

Week 5: July 17-July 21 (Carousel of Animals Camp for Teens, see below)

Week 6: July 24-July 28

Week 7: July 31-August 4

Week 8: August 7-August 11

Week 9: August 14-August 18

Week 10: August 21-August 25

Carousel of Animals (Teen Camp)

$475 for the week, Ages 12-16, Jul 17-21, Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm, Glen Echo Park MD
At the Carousel of Animals Camp your teen will create a life sized papier mâché carousel animal or a miniature carousel. This camp is a great option for the teen who’s interested in engineering, design, and getting their hands dirty. Your camper will get the chance to build a wood armature, cover it in chicken wire and papier mâché, and paint it. Tuition includes $50 nonrefundable deposit, and materials are included.

Register February 17th at glenechopark.org/camps

The Great Outdoors Camp

$345 for 3 days, Ages 6-12, Wednesday July 5th – Friday July 7th, 9am-3pm, Glen Echo Park MD

This Summer, enhance your understanding and appreciation of the great outdoors! Your child can create fantastic sculptures, landscape paintings on real canvas, and so much more. This camp is ideal for your artistic elementary school student who loves to learn more about the natural sciences. We will focus on our local flora and fauna, and create works of art inspired by the wildlife around us. This camp will take place the week of the 4th of July, and it will take place both in the Arcade building and outside around the park. Tuition includes $50 nonrefundable deposit, and materials are included.