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.
Outdoor Explorers: Adventure
Location: VCS’s Outdoor Education Center, 2369 Spear Street, Charlotte, VT
Cost: $375 per week
Adventure weeks are all about wilderness skill-building. Campers will practice how to read maps, use a compass, build a fire, tie knots, build shelters, and more! Whether it’s campfire cooking, identifying animal tracks, or learning the best way to pack your hiking backpack, campers will gain the knowledge and skills to tackle any challenge that nature may throw their way.
Session Dates:
• July 13-17
Outdoor Explorers: Discovery
Location: VCS’s Outdoor Education Center, 2369 Spear Street, Charlotte, VT
Cost: $375 per week
Discovery weeks are for budding biologists and curious creatives alike. Campers will create their own personal field guides throughout the week, filling them with drawings and how-tos so they can identify all sorts of plants and animals and keep track of their findings. From investigating aerodynamics by building simple catapults to capturing nature’s beauty with pressed flowers and sunprints, each week will be an opportunity to learn more about the world around us and have fun while doing it!
Session Dates:
• August 17-21
Cardboard Contraptions
Location: Green Mountain Drive Campus, South Burlington, VT
Cost: $375 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
Kitchen Creations
Location: Green Mountain Drive Campus, South Burlington, VT
Cost: $300
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: $375 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: $375 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 is open–click here to enroll!
