All Summer Camps

GRADES: 3/4s
DATES: June 8 - 26
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $245/week ($585 for all 3 weeks)

Prepare for a prehistoric adventure this session! Campers will learn about dinosaurs that roamed the earth millions of years ago. Dig for dino bones, build a dinosaur replica, and munch on dino snacks in a dino cave. Take a hike to find prehistoric lizards that once walked the earth (or at least around the Central West End!).

GRADES: 4/5s - Kindergarten
DATES: June 8 - 26
TIMES: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $245/week ($585 for all 3 weeks)

Come and “tinker” with us! Your child will design, build, concoct and discover as they explore a variety of materials in our Tinker Lab. They will be challenged to experiment with various materials to design works of art, build structures using loose parts, concoct potions and edible investigations, and discover the natural world guided by their curiosity. Campers will keep an Idea Journal of questions, discoveries and inventions. The Tinker Lab encourages creative and flexible thinking, problem solving and cooperative learning and it’s fun! We’ll visit a tinker TECH Shop at the Magic House, the Discovery Room at the Science Center and see Alice In Wonderland at Kirkwood Theater.

GRADES: 1 - 2
DATES: June 8 - 26
TIMES: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $265 / week ($625 for all 3 weeks)

Learn how to think like a designer! Do you like to build? Campers will spend time in our Innovation Lab creating and designing, building and tearing down then rebuilding until we get it right. Receive materials and challenges each week: bend the rules, don’t break them! Each challenge has guidelines: for example, campers must build a bridge that is the width of a canyon but with enough room for cars to move freely. Campers will tap into their inner engineer, learning principles like compression, tension, and much more. Invent a NEW device! The possibilities are endless. We’ll daytrip to the Myseum, the Arch, and City Garden, splash at a waterpark, and more!

GRADES: 3
DATES: June 8 - 26
TIMES: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $265/week ($625 for all 3 weeks)

Campers will use our Innovation Lab to get their creative juices flowing! Imagine how the future will look. Now picture yourself inventing something that will impact the world in appositive way. Campers will be given mini design challenges using the engineering design process. How tall a tower can you make out of one piece of paper? How many pennies will your straw raft hold? Will your team design the winning invention that will lift an object and move it to another place? The LAB is the place to be! We will daytrip twice each week this session. What a fantastic way to start off the summer!

GRADES: 8 - 10
DATES: June 8 - 12
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $290

The week is designed for students who have completed 7th grade and are interested in training to be a Junior Camp Counselor. C.I.T.’s will receive guidance and feedback throughout this experience. After successfully completing this weeklong intensive camp, C.I.T.’s will be eligible to volunteer for a two week session at an agreed upon time. The two weeks of volunteer hours can be used for community service commitment hours. This training week will be led by former NCS Extended Day counselor and current St. Louis Public School educator, Lisa Kargus.

GRADES: 4 - 6
DATES: June 8 - 12
TIMES: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $290

Campers will put their S.T.E.A.M. skills to use while learning basic circuitry and coding as they create motor powered cars and make their own speaker.  There will also be many chances for their creativity to thrive as they compete in engineering challenges.

GRADES: 1 - 7
DATES: June 8 - 26
TIMES: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $700/3 week session

Campers with a strong interest and ability in performing arts should sign up to be a cast or crew member in this children’s theater production involving full-scale costumes, makeup, set, props, lighting, sound and more. Scripts will be delivered to cast members prior to the start of camp.While all who sign up will be assured a part in the production, auditions for larger roles will be held at the beginning of camp. All campers will receive professional training in acting, vocal, dance and technical instruction. Older campers (4th-7th Grade) who are interested in working solely behind the scenes are welcome. New City School Performing Arts teacher Ben Griffiths and his team return to direct this three week camp. This camp will end with a daytime show for other New City School campers, and two evening shows for family and friends. 

GRADES: 4 - 6
DATES: June 15 - 19
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:00 pm
COST: $290

Journey into the world of programming! Campers will program a computer game for everyone to play, bring robots to life with code, and work with sensors and microcontrollers to create a cardboard arcade game.

GRADES: 2 - 6
DATES: June 22 - 26
TIMES: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $260

Sew, you feel like sewing! Design and create your own plushies, hand sew a mini quilt, and learn new embroidery stitches with art teacher Shannah Burton in this week long textile art camp. We will take a special trip to the fabric store to pick out your very own fabrics and enjoy walks to the ice cream shop and picnic treats in Forest Park!

GRADES: 3/4s
DATES: July 6 - 17
TIMES: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $245 / week ($410 for 2 weeks)

Learn all about jellyfish, dolphins, whales and mermaids! There’s nothing fishy about using cool tools and materials to create fun painting, collages, sculptures, and much more. You will have oceans of fun playing games, reading stories, learning about ecology, and exploring underwater habitats. We’ll make a BIG SPLASH during this session! 

GRADES: 4/5s - Kindergarten
DATES: July 6 - 17
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $245 / week ($410 for 2 weeks)

Back By Popular Demand! Ahoy there, mateys! Come aboard and join the crew—no deck swabbing required! We are getting ready to sail the high seas in search of FUN. Campers will hunt for pirate treasures, search for ships at a waterpark, visit a pirate ship if it is in port, and even build a pirate ship right here on the NCS grounds! Ever wondered what it’s like to be a Pirate? Learn to read treasure maps, and about famous Pirates. Learn how to talk like a Pirate too! AARRR!

GRADES: 1 - 2
DATES: July 6 - 17
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $265 / week ($450 for 2 weeks)

Unleash your inner artist and explore a variety of art forms! Experiment with all kinds of art materials including wire,
paper, paints and clay as we sculpt, collage, paint, tile, tie-dye and sew using various cool and crazy wild textiles. We will visit a waterpark, the Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum, play at the Waterman Pool, and participate in a community service project. Each week will offer new crafts and projects to try. Make your own board game, Design “In A Box”, try out sand and graffiti art, create a mosaic, and more! Creativity in action!

GRADES: 3
DATES: July 6 - 17
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $265 / week ($450 for 2 weeks)

Make crazy concoctions, blow up balloons without air and make elephant toothpaste! Roll up your sleeve and dive in to some messy fun. Learn about states of matter and displacement. It’s simply science! We’ll visit the MADE and splash around at a waterpark to start. Chemistry concoctions, concepts, fascinating substances, and observing amazing chemical reactions. Make slime, dancing Oobleck, and more. OH MY! Then play sports that you don’t see everyday! Badminton, Ultimate Frisbee, Bocce Ball, and many more! Be ready for some fun and fierce competition. This session is going to be AWESOME!

GRADES: 2 - 6
DATES: July 6 - 10
TIMES: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $260

In our new state-of-the-art kitchen, young chefs will enjoy lots of culinary action and tasty delights in this hands-on cooking experience. This camp will help you learn about measuring ingredients, how to follow a recipe and how to make healthy choices in food preparation. Campers create their very own recipe book to try in their own kitchen. Every recipe is a creation and every creation an adventure. We will shop at a market, harvest and cook veggies from our Centennial Garden, take in a show and take a dip at the neighborhood pool.

GRADES: 2 - 5
DATES: July 6 - 10
TIMES: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
COST: $260

Creative Contraption Warning! This is a camp designed by you—the Inventor! Each day you’ll be given a series of challenges which must be overcome using basic materials, simple machines, tips from world famous inventors and the most important thing of all – your mind. With a little bit of ingenuity you’ll construct catapults and forts and then lay siege, fabricate a winning Egg Drop design, construct a dancing robot and assemble a working light saber to take home. While Thomas Edison said invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, this camp is 100% fun!

GRADES: 1 - 7
DATES: July 13 - 24
TIME: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $475/2 week session

In this two-week camp, you will have the opportunity to travel the world of Disney. To places like under the sea, the pride lands, the alley ways, and enchanted towers. Campers will be involved in every aspect of the performance. Brennan Stylez will be returning for his fifth year as the director of this incredible musical theater magic camp. Cool costumes, dancing, singing, and fun makeup. Every camper will take the spotlight this year. This camp will be high energy and filled with fun laughs and plenty of memories from all of our favorite Disney shows. Welcome to the world of Disney musical theatre revue! Brennan Stylez will return for his 5th summer as director along with his amazing team return for their 5th summer to bring this amazingly fun musical to life with the Musical Theater Magic Camp 2020!

GRADES: 1 - 6
DATES: July 13 - 17
TIME: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
COST: $290

GOAL!! FUNdamentals are the main focus of this week long camp experience. Our goal is for all campers to enjoy their time at camp while advancing their skills and love for soccer. We aim for each player to touch the ball thousands of times to improve their touch. This will be set in a fun environment created by the St. Louis Lion’s Camp Staff, which is made up of Top Level Players from the St. Louis Lions. These current USL PDL and future professionals, enthusiastically implement a program designed from a background of great experience and knowledge of the game. Campers will have a unique opportunity to learn from top level, future pros!  The St. Louis Lions have been key to placing over 40 players into pro positions both domestic and internationally including Lawrence Olum of  Sporting KC, John Berner of the Colorado Rapids and Greg Kranz of the St. Louis Ambush to name a few! Let’s not forget Vadim Cojocov who led the camp in 2018 and is now playing for the St. Louis Ambush!

GRADES: 1 - 6
DATES: July 20 - 24
TIMES: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $260

Chess Camp is a fun way to introduce chess to newcomers of the game as well as deepen the understanding of the game for intermediate or advanced players. Whether you are interested in casual or competitive chess, this camp is for you. Pins, forks, skewers, discoveries, sacrifices and defending against the ATTACK! Understanding the game’s basic fundamentals and scenarios is the goal of this camp. Players are placed in groups according to skill levels to practice strategy and moves while expanding their critical thinking skills concluding with a fun, in-class tournament.  

GRADES: 3/4s
DATES: July 20 - August 7
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $245 / week ($585 for all 3 weeks)

This is a camp where children are encouraged to follow their curiosities! They will be encouraged to experiment with various materials to build structures using all sorts of fun loose parts, do edible investigations, and discover the natural world, guided by their curiosity. Who knows what your 3-year-old camper will discover!

GRADES: 4/5s - Kindergarten
DATES: July 20 - August 7
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $245 / week ($585 for all 3 weeks)

Campers will work to create delicious recipes pulled right out of their favorite literature! We will create journal-style recipe books with illustrations to go with our recipes. Campers will participate in each step of the cooking process: counting, measuring, pouring, mixing, and of course, eating! We will visit a farm and learn more about how food arrives at our tables. We will gather our own fresh ingredients, while enjoying tales such as “The Little Red Hen,” “Let’s Eat Together,” “Chicks and Salsa,” and many more! Come join us in our new state-of-the-art kitchen as we embark on a journey to find the freshest, tastiest ingredients and create something truly extraordinary! We’ll visit the downtown Library, bake at the Cup Cakery, and round out the summer with a trip to the Manchester Waterpark.

Any allergies or dietary restrictions will be taken into account for every recipe used, ensuring that the experience is healthy and fun for all!

GRADES: 1 - 2
DATES: July 20 - August 7
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $265 / week ($625 for all 3 weeks)

Start this session with Ping Pong Palooza, summer memories, scrapbooking, harvesting veggies from our Centenniel Garden and enjoying a picnic. Lots of team building activities and team challenges will take place here at base camp and in Forest Park. Swim at the Waterman Pool, sing and dance to karaoke...how many more adventures can we go on? We’ll round-up the summer with a trip to the Manchester Waterpark and the Snow Cone Sled. We will go bowling and visit Sports Fusion. So many fun activities…so little time left in the summer! WE CAN DO IT!

GRADES: 3
DATES: July 20 - August 7
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $265 / week ($625 for all 3 weeks)

Build it up, break it down! A new challenge will be set each week to design and build an object such as a corn maze, underground tunnel, bridge or catapult. Construct projects using everything from foam noodles to LEGO pieces. Bend the rules, but don’t break them! We will learn basic building skills and lots of teamwork. Just how much space can we take up in our Innovation Lab? Join us, we’ll see. We will bowl at Olivette Lanes, visit a local maze to test our personal GPS skills, swim at Manchester Waterpark, and much more!

GRADES: 1 - 5
DATES: July 20 - 24
TIME: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $260

Come join us for a STEAMin’ Summer! Campers will come together to hone their engineering skills, create Art, enjoy recreational endeavors and create their perfect world with STEAMin’ Programs. We will merge current social concerns and improvement ideas together with our engineering skills to design and build a perfect city in an amazing, recycled 3D design. Club campers will complete theme-based activities and projects, as they develop academic and life skills, while having tons of fun along the way. This camp is a perfect fit for your emerging engineer, super scientist, techy-technician or budding architect.

GRADES: 4 - 6
DATES: July 27 - 31
TIME: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $290

Want to run a Math Facts Marathon? How many problems can you solve in one minute? Increase your knowledge of math facts while competing on problem solving teams. How much fun can you have while increasing your logical-mathematical knowledge? After a morning of math with NCS teachers, we’ll see just how much water we can find around town. It’s the perfect time of year for some wet fun! Bring your swimsuit, towel and some sunscreen: let’s see how many new waterparks we can get to in one week.

GRADES: 4/5s - Grade 5
DATES: July 27 - 31 and August 3 - 7
TIMES: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
COST: $255/week

Children enjoy fun-filled days exploring drama, visual art, creative movement and music with professional teaching artists. Creative discovery is what it’s all about as the arts disciplines blend together. For instance, campers might create a dance inspired by music they have composed or a sculpture inspired by an improvisation scene they have developed. Children share highlights of their week each Friday afternoon for family and friends. Creative Arts Camp is a great place to make new friends, build self-confidence and nurture imagination.

*Children must be at least 4 years old on or before July 29th, 2020 to participate in this camp.

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GRADES: 4 - 6
DATES: August 3 - 7
TIMES: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
COST: $290

What an imaginative way to end the summer! Campers will get the chance to plan the activities for the last week of camp. Campers will be given a budget to design their own week of fun. Who knows what they will come up with; maybe the movies, more waterparks, go carts, a sundae buffet or lunch around town. No matter where they go, it’s sure to be an adventure!