April School Break Camp: Vacationland!

Ages: 4-10

Session 1: April 1 - 5

Session 2: April 22 - 26

Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Tuition: $375, Materials Fee: $25

Financial assistance is available. Please contact alanna@catskillwheelhouse.org for more information.

Description: Welcome to Paradise!

Kids get to plan an elaborate vacation playland - merging ideas to build an immersive world of imagined spaces and experiences in the indoor and outdoor classrooms at Wheelhouse Creative Education Center.

By Friday afternoon, families will be led through our created world by their own tour guide. Take home custom memorabilia to forever remember this epic vacation!

Join artist educator Chelsea Snider in making pretend!

Who knows WHERE we’ll go??? Beach party? Discoteque? Lei-making? Screenprinting? Spa Treatments? Outdoor Adventuring? Postcard Press? Karaoke? Yes!!!

Past Programs

February Break Camp: Let the Wild Rumpus Start!

This winter break we will run wild in the forest of our imagination as we explore the books of author Maurice Sendak, with themes of transformed spaces, working together, playing with words, building characters, and conquering worlds.

Add language arts, self-regulation, emotional embodiment, and social interactions to your child’s “Wheelhouse” with our winter break vacation camp on story immersion through play-based exploration! This program will offer a comfortable, home-like atmosphere for explorations of themes that emerge from readings of “Where The Wild Things Are” and other books by Maurice Sendak and the collective play of the classroom community.

Our gentle daily rhythm will include outdoor play (including frequent walks in our nine acres of forest), frequent breaks and meals, a time for listening to and creating stories and songs, and an art activity based on our daily story theme.

Daily Flow:

9:00    “Welcome!” Open play
9:45    Gather for Chat & Snack
10:00  Reading & song
10:30  Turn on our mindfulness before “booting up”
10:45  Play outside!
12:00  Warm up & Luncheon
12:30  Quiet Play
1:30    Turn on our mindfulness before “booting up”
1:45    Walk to Song & Story Spot
2:00    Outdoor Exploration of Story
2:45    Play Yard
3:00    “Toodaloo!”

Daily Exploration of Story & Methods

Monday: What is the story? Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Tuesday: Play & Move with the story

Wednesday: Story listening & sound-making

Thursday: Visual story with puppets and projections

Friday: Story Theatre with “toybox” theater & figure-making