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Here’s our Creative Writing Camp Lineup for 2012!
Camps at Classroom Matters, in Berkeley
Kids ages 9 – 12
(Read full descriptions of each camp at the bottom of this camp page.)
Stamps and Letters©
July 30 – August 3 (1 week) M-F, 9:00-4:00 Kids ages 8 – 12
Bedtime Story: Write & Illustrate Your Own Children’s Book©
August 6 – 10 ( 1 week) M-F, 9:00 – 4:00 Kids ages 8 – 12
Location: 2436 Sacramento Street, Berkeley
Cost: $350 per camper for 9 am – 4 pm. After- care until 5pm for $25 extra per week. Tuition includes a journal and pen, snacks and art materials.
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Classes at Piedmont Parks and Recreation, (East Bay)
Kids ages 9 – 12. Tuition includes a journal and pen, snacks and for full day camps, art materials.
Parents who want to register for Piedmont camps can do so through their online catalogue at http://www.ci.piedmont.ca.us/recreation/catalog.shtml *
(Read full descriptions of each camp at the bottom of this camp page.)
* Please note, the catalogue prices are not correct. When you click into their registration software you’ll see the correct prices.
Peanut Butter & the Pen – Food Writing for Kids!©
June 18-22 (1 week) M-F, 9:00-12:00
Grammar-ama and The Punctuation Party©
July 9-13 (1 week) M-F, 9:00-12:00
Stamps and Letters©
July 16-20 (1 week) M-F, 9:00-12:00
Take Flight!©
July 23-27 (1 week) M-F, 9:00-4:00
Bedtime Story: Write & Illustrate Your Own Children’s Book©
July 30-August 3 (1 week) M-F, 9:00-4:00
Found Treasures & Scavenger Hunts©
August 6-10 (1 week) M-F, 9:00-4:00
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San Francisco
Camps at Seesaw
All camps are from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm. Kids ages 8 – 12. Tuition includes a journal and pen and snacks.
(Read full descriptions of each camp at the bottom of this camp page.)
Peanut Butter & the Pen – Food Writing for Kids!©
July 9th – 13th
Grammar-ama and The Punctuation Party©
July 16th- 20th
Stamps and Letters©
July 23rd – 27th
Take Flight!©
July 30th – August 3rd
Location: 600A Octavia Street, Hayes Valley, San Francisco
Cost: $250 per camper, 10% off for each sibling registrant.
Camp at 18 Reasons
What Would the Big Bad Wolf Make For Supper? A Fairytale Food Romp©
Kids ages 8 – 12
June 18th – June 22nd (1 week) M-F, 9:00-12:15
We’re going to re-imagine beloved fairytales using food as a central theme. Of course, to do that we’ll be eating food and learning to use metaphor, simile and other writing tools to write about all things edible. Tuition includes a journal and pen and snacks.
Location: 18 Reasons, 3674 18th Street, in the Misson District
Cost: $250 per camper, 10% discount to children of 18 Reasons members, 10% off for each sibling registrant.
Camp Descriptions:
Peanut Butter & the Pen – Food Writing for Kids!©
Do you have an appetite for writing? Then come join us for Peanut Butter and the Pen – our unique food writing class for kids. We’ll taste food, read excerpts from some of literature’s greatest writing in praise of food, and explore tantalizing ways to describe all things edible. Then we’ll write love letters to our favorite foods, food mysteries and more!
Stamps and Letters©
What is to become of the hand written letter? We’ll practice the (almost lost) art of letter writing, make mail art, have fun with rubber-stamping and then mail our creations to strange and distant lands.
Bedtime Story: Write & Illustrate Your Own Children’s Book©
Come in with a notebook, a pencil and your imagination and leave with an original children’s book. We’ll learn the building blocks for creating an engaging story for younger readers (K – 2), and after exploring different illustration techniques, create original illustrations.
Grammar-ama and The Punctuation Party©
Brushing up on writing mechanics should never be boring! Take our Dangling Modifier Dare and join our Participle Parade. Our take on commas and conjunctions will tickle your funny bone and leave you wanting more!
Take Flight!©
Using art and creative writing we’ll explore flight – flights of fancy, the flight of the bumble bee, the first airplane flight, space flight, the flight of Cupid’s arrow, and more. Come fly with us!
Found Treasures and Scavenger Hunts!©
Ever wonder how writers get their ideas? In this camp we’ll explore the art of found inspiration. We’re going to scavenge for words, collect phrases, hunt down hidden ideas in unusual places. We’ll create original poems and and stories using what we’ve collected. Using found and recycled materials we’ll also make art that transforms trash into treasure!
What is our camp day like?
Half day camps:
We’ll spend each day with paper and pencil, immersing ourselves in words centered around the camp theme. Our writing activities are designed to spark kids’ imaginations and include solo and collaborative writing projects. Camp culminates in a reading and art exhibit for parents and friends at the end of the week. Plus, we’ll read writing by well-known authors, edit, painting, snack, erase, gab, read stories, as well as admire and share our work.
Full day camps:
We’ll spend half of each day with paper and pencil, immersing ourselves in words centered around the camp theme. Our writing activities are designed to spark kids’ imaginations and include solo and collaborative writing projects. The other half of the day we’ll interpret that same theme using visual art, exploring a range of mediums. Camp culminates in a reading and art exhibit for parents and friends at the end of the week.
Plus, we’ll read writing by well-known authors, look at art by famous artists and have fun drawing, writing, editing, painting, snacking, erasing, gabbing, reading stories, as well as admiring and sharing our work.
Teaching art for our full day camps this summer are two artists, Angela Baker, and Laurie Croft.
Angela has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Columbus College of Art and Design, with an emphasis in painting and drawing. Since 2001 Angela has been teaching both in-school and after school visual art classes with established San Francisco arts organizations such as Leap…imagination in Learning, ArtSpan and the San Francisco Arts Education Project. Angela is also an exhibiting painter whose work has been showcased in group and solo shows in Budapest, San Francisco and New York.
Laurie is an artist and art instructor at MOCHA (Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland) teaching classroom field trips and off-site Community Workshops curriculum and craft projects based on California Visual Arts standards. She was the designer of Flying Colors Ceramics sold nationally and commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum to produce jewelry based on their permanent collection. Laurie has a BFA in painting from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and is currently taking Early Childhood Development classes at Merritt College.
Creative writing will be taught by our wonderful instructors. Their bios are here.
