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Summer Camp Adventures at
Creative Discovery Museum
Registration Open!
(April 9, 2010) - Surprises await summer campers at Creative Discovery Museum! With a variety of themes, lessons, and excitement around every corner, the Museum is offering one of a kind day camp experiences for ages 4 - 5 and children in Kindergarten through 5th grade.
“Camps at Creative Discovery Museum offer a great deal of variety for children,“ states Lynne Mulligan, Programs Manager for the Museum. “Not only do kids have access to the Museum’s exhibits and special programming, but we make sure to utilize our downtown resources with field trips and outside play, as well.” For instance, Kindergarten – 2nd grade campers in the “Ponies, Pioneers, and Prairie Dogs” group will take a trip to explore a local farm and experience a bit of farm-life fun.
Half-day camps are available for 4 and 5 year olds, providing a great first-time camp experience. Museum staff ensures a safe, fun environment with Museum play, theme-related crafts, time in the Culinary Corner, and a variety of activities that relate to the camp’s individual theme.
“The themes are child-friendly and activities vary each day. We also mix-up the themes each year to reflect current interests, so many campers return year after year,” says Mrs. Mulligan. “It really is neat to see the friendships that develop between the campers and counselors as we, as educators, get to know the families and build those relationships over time.”
A featured theme for 2010 will include activities related to the Museum’s upcoming summer exhibit, Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body. Campers will be amazed by all the science they will learn during this week of camp. It is sure to be the talk of the summer for these campers (and counselors) according to Mrs. Mulligan.
Half-day opportunities for Summer 2010 include:
Ages 4 and 5
Ponies, Pioneers, and Prairie Dogs: June 7 - 11
This Wild West camp will include building “log cabins,” cooking pioneer treats, racing your own homemade ponies, and much more!
Ages 4 and 5
Where the Wild Things Play: June 14 - 18
Inspired by the popular children’s book Where the Wild Things Are by author Maurice Sendak, campers will create their own wild things, dance to monster music, design their own boats, plant their own jungle, have a “wild rumpus” and much more.
Full day camps are available to Kindergarten through 5th graders. These fun-filled camps include time in the Museum, a mid-week field trip, snacks, group projects, and emphasis on different educational topics related to the camp’s theme.
Full day opportunities for Summer 2010 include:
Kindergarten – 2nd grade
Grossology: June 21 - 25
Children will spend the week learning about the icky (yet scientific) things that occur every day in the human body!” They will learn interesting and fascinating facts about science and health while exploring sweating, burping, sneezing, spitting, and other amazing things the human body can do!
Where the Wild Things Play: June 28 – July 2
Campers will create their own wild things, dance to monster music, design their own boats, plant a “jungle,” have a “wild rumpus” and participate in many other creative activities, including a field trip, inspired by the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
Ponies, Pioneers, and Prairie Dogs: July 12 - 16
In addition to building “log cabins”, cooking up grub, and racing homemade ponies, campers in this Wild West group will visit a farm and have an exciting CDM-style rodeo.
3rd – 5th grade
Grossology: June 21 - 25
Campers will get an up close and personal view of the nose to understand the “finer points of breathing, sneezing, and congestion”. Plus, they will learn interesting information about burps and gas, and other gross stuff like body odor, and bad breath. The week will be spent learning these grossly surprising (yet scientific) things that occur every day in the human body!
Mythology Alive: June 28 – July 2
The perfect camp for fans of mythology, ancient Greece, and Percy Jackson!
Campers will crawl inside the Museum’s giant, inflatable STARLAB and listen to the Greek legends of the skies as they view the constellations. They will go on a quest for the Golden Fleece, concoct a menu of blue foods that Percy Jackson and his friends would love, navigate through a labyrinth, and have much more Olympian-sized fun.
Ponies, Pioneers, and Prairie Dogs: July 12 - 16
Cowboys and cowgirls are invited to this Wild West camp to “lasso wild horses,” pan for “gold,” participate in barrel racing, cook pioneer treats, ride horses, and much more. Plus, campers will get to visit a farm and have a CDM-style rodeo.
Reservations for Summer Camp 2010 at Creative Discovery Museum may be made by calling Nancy at (423) 648-6045 or Beth at (423) 648-6040. For more information call the Museum at (423) 756-2738.
About Creative Discovery Museum
Creative Discovery Museum is open Mon-Sat: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun: noon-5 p.m. 321 Chestnut Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402. Creative Discovery Museum is recognized as one of the top children’s museums in the nation. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to educational enrichment for children age’s 4-months to 12-years-old through interactive, hands-on experiences that foster creative and critical thinking. Creative Discovery Museum focuses on a broad range of areas encompassed by Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Technology and the Sciences. In addition to its exhibits, Creative Discovery Museum provides local residents and visitors with special events, educational programming, teacher resources for the classroom, field trips, after school programming, early childhood education classes, artist residencies, camps, art lessons, science demonstrations, and a branch of the local library. Creative Discovery Museum is a funded agency of Allied Arts and Tennessee Arts Commission and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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