Summer Day Camps
Get ready for summer fun at Vermont Commons School!
Modeled after our signature Encounter Week program and designed for children ages 8-11, each 1-week session will give campers an opportunity to immerse themselves in hands-on, project-based activities that allow them to create, explore, and connect. There will be plenty of summertime fun and games as well! Play with clay and make sculptures, create a chain reaction machine and design a cardboard arcade game, combine culinary experimentation with creative writing to create a food magazine, explore the woods and study the nature of Vermont, and more!
9 weeks of summer camp at VCS! 5 different themes to choose from! Read more below or see our schedule overview here.
Outdoor Explorers
Location: VCS’s Outdoor Education Center, 2369 Spear Street, Charlotte, VT
Cost: $450 per week ($360 the week of June 29th)
Summertime is for being outside, and that’s the name of the game for our nature-based Outdoor Explorers Camp! Using our Outdoor Education Center as our home base, each day will be filled with adventures, games, and learning about the natural world. From nature crafts and flora and fauna identification to outdoor survival skills and day trips to local trails and peaks, campers will have plenty of summer fun, rain or shine!
Session Dates:
• June 22-26
• June 29-July 2 (No Camp on Fri. July 3rd)
• July 6-10
• July 13-17
• July 20-24
• July 27-31
• August 3-7
• August 10-14
• August 17-21
• …and stay tuned, we may add a session the week of 8/24-28!
Cardboard Contraptions
Location: Green Mountain Drive Campus, South Burlington, VT
Cost: $425 per week
Can you imagine all the different things you can build and do with something as simple as cardboard? We can, and it’s going to be a blast! We’ll build chain reaction machines and cardboard arcade games, take on fun challenges like cardboard car races, and more!
Session Dates:
• June 22-26
• July 13-17
Kitchen Creations
Location: Green Mountain Drive Campus, South Burlington, VT
Cost: $340
Let’s don our aprons and get cookin’! We’ll try new recipes, both savory and sweet, and we’ll also do some food-related art projects and creative writing. Your work over the week will be compiled into a food magazine, showing off your culinary triumphs and sharing your stories!
Session Dates:
• June 29-July 2 (No Camp on Fri. July 3rd)
Play with Clay
Location: Green Mountain Drive Campus, South Burlington, VT
Cost: $450 per week
Make all sorts of clay creations, from useful to decorative to utterly fantastical. Experiment with stoneware, air dry, and polymer clays, along with other 3D sculpting techniques. Get ready to get your hands dirty and let your imagination and your creativity run wild!
Session Dates:
• July 6-10
• July 20-24
• August 3-7
Sensational Storytelling
Location: Green Mountain Drive Campus, South Burlington, VT
Cost: $425 per week
Calling all creative writers and performers! The stories aren’t going to tell themselves—that’s our job! We’re going to flex our storytelling muscles both on the stage and on the page. We’ll play improv games and perform our own skits, as well as write and illustrate our own short stories and comics. Let’s bring some new worlds and characters to life!
Session Dates:
• July 27-31
• August 10-14
Registration for Summer 2026 will open in mid-January.
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