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Welcome to CBK Summer Camp
Park Slope !

Created By Kids is excited to announce our 5th year running our Summer Camp Program! We will host a twelve-week Summer Camp Program beginning this June. Each week, students explore different thematic concepts, beginning with an educational foundation as inspiration.

Each camp week is based on a unique theme. During the week we’ll use a variety of art-making techniques, including ceramics (both hand-built and wheel-thrown), jewelry-making, mixed media, textiles, printmaking, paper-making, art installations and more! The variety will keep kids interested while they learn about cultures, history, and literature through unique artistic projects.

All camps are held at our studio located at 592 Pacific St. Brooklyn, NY steps away from Atlantic Terminal/Barclays Center. Camp drop off begins at 8:45 am, with pick up at 4 pm. We offer an Early Drop off beginning at 8 am and Extended Day until 6 pm (see pricing in camp description). Please read our policies & general info page before registering for camp. We hope to see everyone for another CREATIVE SUMMER at CBK!

CBK will be running our Jr. Counselor Program again this summer, please see description at the bottom of our summer camp themes.

**Most camps are for children 5-10 years old

** Sibling Discount offered for FULL Week Camp
Registrations ONLY enter code S1BLING (not available with early bird discount and Jr. Counselors)**

LET THE CREATIVITY BEGIN!

Summer Camp / Park Slope 2017
See our CREATIVE themes below!

Click on the titles for description

FINE ART DAY CAMP
JUNE 19 | 23
JUNE 26 | 30
JULY 3 | 7

Fine Art Camp

JUNE 19 - JULY 7

At the end of our week-long summer camps, every student goes home with an armload of cool projects that we've been working on throughout the week. But because we realize the season's schedules are hectic and not all schools are dismissed at the same time, we've created a shorter series of day-long camps in the three weeks leading up to our various, ever-popular themed weeks. These day sessions have a sharper focus, with projects spanning a range of media that can be completed in a single day - other than clay works, these finished pieces can usually be taken home right after class. Like our fine arts camps in which students had the opportunity to try their hand at a little bit of everything, we'll explore printmaking, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, and impressionistic drawing and painting. As always, we'll look at famous examples for inspiration (and a bit of a mini-art-history lesson, too). If you'd like to enroll for the full week anyway, we offer special bundle discounts - just check out our pricing below!

PRICING / SCHEDULE
June 19 | june 23

Time : 9:00am - 4:00pm
Daily Price: $125
Full Week: $550
Early drop off option :
8 - 9am : Daily $20.00 | Full Week $80
Extended day options :
4 - 5pm & 5 - 6pm: Daily/Hourly $20.00
Full Week: $80/$160

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june 26 | 30

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JULY 3 | July 7

FASHION DESIGN | SEWING ( 7/10 - 7/14 )

Fashion Design & Sewing

JULY 10 - JULY 14

Clothing and textiles are a part of our everyday lives, but there’s a long process that goes into their design and construction. That’s what makes fashion design one of the most exciting careers in the art world! During our Fashion Design week, we’ll explore the process from beginning to end, with the ultimate goal of creating two wearable garment of the student's’ choosing. This begins with a study of today’s fashion where we’ll look at style, movement, and color to create our own illustrations and collages from magazines to design fashion boards. We’ll learn the basics of hand sewing, stitchery, and machine sewing - each student will have their own sewing station to practice these essential skills, such as hemming and making seams. Students will design their own textiles from raw material, creating a unique design through safe dyeing processes, painting, printing (block or screen) and batik techniques; this is what they will use to construct their final pieces - either a dress, skirt, shirt, or bag. We’ll use sewing patterns according to each child’s choice of garment, measuring carefully as we build a finished product they can really wear. Students will be asked to conceptualize their own fashion brand, designing a personalized logo, making a tag, and sewing in a label - just like the apparel they wear every day!

PRICING / SCHEDULE

Time : 9:00am - 4:00pm
Full week price: $625
Early drop off option :
8 - 9am : Daily $20.00 | Full Week $80
Extended day options :
4 - 5pm & 5 - 6pm: Daily/Hourly $20.00
Full Week: $80/$160

**Class ages: 7-12 | LIMITED TO 16 KIDS**

(NOT AVAILABLE FOR AUCTOIN WINNERS OR JR COUNSELORS)

MASTERS WEEK 7/17 - 7/21 )

MASTERS WEEK

JULY 17 - JULY 21

The reach of art is far and wide and this week explores three pioneers from across the eras. Students will study three masters of their craft and learn to emulate their distinct styles with a personal twist. Up first, the man himself, Leonardo DaVinci (1452 - 1519). We look to his most famous painting the Mona-Lisa and create our own self-portraits with your child flashing that mysterious smile. Next we'll study the works of Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) working with clay to create sculptures reminiscent of his famous style. To follow, we'll be blacking out part of the studio and create our own light paintings with long exposures to print and take home. Finally we'll cover the work of Jeff Koons (1955 - present) where kids will get to recreate the balloon animals sculptures in papier-mâché and metallic paint. Of course these are only three artists in a world of potential candidates, though it will be easy to branch off and show how far each artist influences another across decades and even centuries.

PRICING / SCHEDULE

Time : 9:00am - 4:00pm
Full week price : $550
Early drop off option :
8 - 9am : Daily $20.00 | Full Week $80
Extended day options :
4 - 5pm & 5 - 6pm: Daily/Hourly $20.00
Full Week: $80/$160

ART & ARCHITECTURE ( 7/24 - 7/28 )

Art & Architecture

JULY 24 - JULY 28

New York kids are surrounded by buildings, but rarely do we stop to admire those massive skyscrapers or beautiful brownstones for the works of art that they are. This week will awaken the architectural designer in your child as we challenge each other to construct kid-sized replicas of famous buildings. We’ll sketch detailed perspective drawings of busy city blocks, paper-mache Gothic-inspired cathedrals, and make block prints based on the iconic Russian skyline. We’ll draft blueprints and build mini-cities using acrylic-painted wood. After our architecture week, your child will never see the city in the same way again!

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SPACE ODYSSEY ( 7/31 - 8/4 )

Space Odyessy

JULY 31 - August 4

Travel with Created By Kids through the stars during our out-of-this-world Outer Space Week. We’ll make embroidered textile constellation scrolls to guide us on our journey, based on symbolism that has personal significance to each student. Along the way, we’ll create goofy alien creatures from clay, and build their planets from paper mache. And we’ll create stunning nighttime skyscapes using watercolor, splattering techniques, and mono printed moons. We’ve also got a special, extra-exciting activity where the kids will build rockets that we blast off at the park!

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ART BEATS ( 8/7 - 8/11 )

Art Beats

AUGUST 7 - AUGUST 11

Throughout the ages, music has played a key role in the world of art. From ancient, intricate flutes made of mammoth ivory to hidden songs in Hieronymus Bosch paintings to the stunning array of visual sound apps and interactive programs on the market today - music has always held its own as a visual medium. This camp will focus on those aspects in a way that allows for creative exploration in a number creative mediums, allowing students to explore the world of sound from all angles. We'll be creating our own working musical instruments out of clay and mixed materials, we'll screen print concert posters based on fictional bands the students envision, and use musical scales as inspiration for unique paintings. The week will be filled with a variety of songwriting and music-related activities as well, and students will perform their own parody songs! So strike up the band and get your ARTS BEATING!

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ART CRUSADERS ( 8/14 - 8/18 )

Art Crusaders

AUGUST 14 - AUGUST 18

Grandiose tales of dragons, kings and queens and knights in shining armor - these heroic fables will provide epic inspiration when we explore Medieval arts. We’ll design family crests to create mixed-media shields, and screen print beautiful flags with their personalized coat of arms. They’ll build mini castles out of clay and design tapestries based on the period’s elaborate textiles depicting mythical beasts. We’ll also learn some physics when we make small working catapults out of wood, wire, and rubber bands, and try our hand at calligraphy. It will be a true Renaissance for your young artist.

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THE ART OF SCIENCE ( 8/21 - 8/25 )

The Art of Science

AUGUST 21 - AUGUST 25

True innovators can make art out of anything, and that’s the idea behind our science-meets-art week. We’ll create our materials from scratch, including paper, paint, chalk while discussing that the process is as important as the finished projects. We’ll do a textile project with safe, natural dyes, and embellish the finished work with hand-made beads created with a unique “cold porcelain” compound. We’ll use unusual techniques to create works of art, incorporating salt, baking soda, ice and vinegar into paintings and screen prints to create large-scale abstract paintings on hand-stretched canvases. These quirky projects will have them shouting EUREKA! with every new discovery.

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GREEK MYTHOLOGY ( 8/28 - 9/1 )

Greek Mythology

AUGUST 28 - SEPTEMBER 1

Ancient Greece was revered for its beautiful mosaics, classic sculpture, and advances in architecture, literature and technology. Students will learn all about Greece’s lasting impressions in these fields as they explore the mythology and craft behind the history. We’ll make relief sculptures from clay much like Ancient Greek masters did, and use plaster to create symbols representing the Grecian gods and heroes and their powers. We’ll learn about early efforts to make paper and create our own papyrus, sketching out our own mythical greek creatures on it with oil pastels. We’ll construct laurel wreath headpieces that they can actually wear, and will work on a multi-layer screen print diptych featuring the iconic black and red figures found all over Grecian pottery. Greek week is sure to awaken creativity of mythic proportions!

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FINE ART DAY CAMP ( 9/4 - 9/8 )

Fine Art Day Camp

September 4th - 8th

Fine Art Day Camp sessions have a sharper focus, with projects spanning a range of media that can be completed in a single day - other than clay works, these finished pieces can usually be taken home right after class. During our fine art day camps students will have the opportunity to try their hand at a little bit of everything, we'll explore printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and impressionistic drawing and painting. As always, we'll look at famous examples for inspiration (and a bit of a mini-art-history lesson, too). Looking forward to a few more days of CREATIVITY before school starts!

PRICING / SCHEDULE

Time : 9:00am - 4:00pm
Daily price: $125
Full week: $550
Early drop off option :
8 - 9am : Daily $20.00 | Full Week $80
Extended day options :
4 - 5pm & 5 - 6pm: Daily/Hourly $20.00
Full Week: $80/$160
(NOT AVAILABLE FOR AUCTION WINNERS)

JR. COUNSELOR PROGRAM

Jr. Counselor Program

Full Week Registrations Only

CBK's popular Jr. counselor program is back this summer. This program is offered to students ages 11-15 years old. The Jr. counselors will help assist the teachers with the daily tasks of setting up the art projects and helping the younger students. All the counselors can also choose to participate in the activities and art projects during the camp week. This is a great opportunity for the older students to learn about the art process from start to finish, while gaining a sense leadership by helping the younger students.

We will be offering a $50 discount off our regular camp price ($550) for the Jr. Counselors. We have limited spaces for jr. counselors each camp week.

**Please note our summer camps will be mixed ages 5-10 years**

PRICING / SCHEDULE

Time : 9:00am - 4:00pm
Price : $500 (EB discount does not apply)
Early drop off option :
8 - 9am : Daily $20.00 | Full Week $80
Extended day options :
4 - 5pm & 5 - 6pm: Daily/Hourly $20.00
Full Week: $80/$160

cbk Summer Camps

Welcome to CBK Summer CampPark Slope !

Summer Camp / Park Slope 2017See our CREATIVE themes below!

Welcome to CBK Summer Camp
Park Slope !

Summer Camp / Park Slope 2017
See our CREATIVE themes below!