Created By Kids is excited to announce our 13TH YEAR running our Summer Camp Program!
We believe that visual arts are an important form of communication and expression and that having a creative outlet can be deeply therapeutic and spark the imagination. We created a space where all students can feel safe and comfortable expressing themselves through their art.
Our projects are created with all children in mind and are easily tailored to fit each child's needs and abilities.We ask that you fully read through our POLICIES & GENERAL INFORMATION before registering for camp. Whether you are curious about our daily schedule, wondering what to pack for the day, or in need of some light reading, our general information page will answer all your camp questions and more!
As always, students will explore different thematic concepts each week, beginning with an educational foundation as inspiration. During camp week we’ll use a variety of art-making techniques and mediums, including clay, textiles, printmaking, mixed-media projects, and more! The variety will keep kids interested while they learn about cultures, history, and literature through our unique fine arts curriculum.
SIBLING DISCOUNT & AUCTION REDEMPTION ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR USE DURING DISCOUNTS
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Our in-person camps are held at our studio, located at 592 Pacific St. Brooklyn, NY, steps away from Atlantic Terminal/Barclays Center.
Camp begins at 9 am with drop-off beginning at 8:45 am. We offer Early Bird drop-off beginning at 8 am ($25 per day/$100 per week). Staggered pick-up begins at 3:45 pm. We offer Extended Day pick-up until 5 pm ($25 per day/$100 per week).Please be sure to read through our POLICIES & GENERAL INFORMATION before you register.
SPECIALTY CAMP WEEKS: We are offering our specialty camps again this summer! These camps focus on specific art mediums and techniques. Each of these specialty weeks students will work with art equipment, depending on the camps focus, from Pottery Wheels to Sewing Machines to Filming Equipment, learning how to utilize these tools to help further their artistic knowledge. These classes have slightly higher pricing due to the specialized materials we will be using.
Regular camps are recommended for ages 5 to 10
Specialty camps are recommended for ages 6 to 10
CBK+ camps are recommended for ages 9 to 13
Get starry-eyed during our out-of-this-world camp week in which we explore outer space (with a sci-fi twist)! Campers will travel the galaxy in search of extraterrestrial life, creating spaceships from clay and interstellar lifeforms from plaster. We'll connect the dots from star to star with a textile embroidery project based on the constellations that inspired ancient astrology, closely examining these universal symbols. We’ll create stunning nighttime skyscapes using watercolor and mono-printing techniques. We'll re-imagine ourselves as sci-fi characters with an otherworldly self-portrait and launch hand-made rockets during park time. SPACE is the PLACE - join us on our creative journey across the universe!
During our Ceramics & Pottery Wheel camp week students explore the various ways in which artists use clay to make functional and sculptural items. We will learn all basic techniques involved with throwing on the pottery wheels, beginning with wedging and centering the clay. Through repeated practice, they'll learn to shape the clay as the wheel spins, gaining a feel for the proper thickness and form. The students will also get the chance to handbuild with clay not only to add to their thrown pieces (handles lids etc.) but to also make pottery by building with slabs, coils and pinching. Students will learn different glazing methods (brushing, dipping, under layering and more) to give their pottery a finished look. Throughout the week we will gather inspiration from other ceramicists, adding different textures created with a variety of tools and manipulating the functional forms into different shapes to develop their signature style of pottery. Each student will go home with a comprehensive and impressive body of work they will be proud of!
NOTE: Since all pottery needs time to air dry and fire some pieces will not be ready to go home until the following week - we will email parents when the projects are ready to be picked up.
**AGES 5-10**
Our advanced after school ceramics class takes classic hand-building, 3D design, and sculptural techniques to the next level. Building on basics we already know - like pinching, coiling, and slab construction - we will create more intricate works of art. We will study how various professional ceramicists manipulate clay forms to develop their signature styles, and learn about different types of clay in the process, including stoneware, porcelain, red clay, and more. We will introduce carving and molding different types of clay into symmetrical forms. Considering the use of organic, modern, realistic, industrial, and abstract works, as well as applique and texture, students will produce several realistic, functional and abstract projects, such as cups, bowls and figures, which will be fired in our kiln. We'll also explore a variety of glazes and glazing techniques such as painting, dipping, and staining.
NOTE: Since all pottery needs time to air dry and fire some pieces will not be ready to go home until the following week - we will email parents when the projects are ready to be picked up.
**AGES 9 - 13**
This week, students will really get their gears turning as we examine the way inventors have impacted the art world - and our lives as we know it! We'll talk about the ways that innovators and makers are still changing the world around us today. Our main muse for the week is Leonardo Da Vinci, an artist who used his skills to invent machines that enriched humankind. We'll draw up "blueprints" and help them develop ideas into artsy machines that actually work (or models of ideas too big to fit in our studio!) using a variety of mixed art mediums and materials. From Galileo to Thomas Edison to Ben Franklin to Ada Lovelace to Alexander Graham Bell to Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs, we'll look at how inventors altered the course of history and pay artistic tribute to their legacies.
It’s a Golden Age for the Graphic Novel, with titles like Captain Underpants, Pizza and Taco, Diary of a Pug, Narwhal and Jelly igniting young readers’ imaginations. Even video games like Minecraft and classic series like The Baby-Sitters Club have soared in popularity again thanks to the graphic novel format. We’ll take a closer look at how these beloved stories come to life, seeing how writers and illustrators work together to turn zany ideas to captivating panels on the page. We’ll hone basic drawing skills like proportion, shading, and perspective as we create our own long-format graphic novel throughout the camp week, picking up some bookbinding know-how along the way. We’ll also create distinctive mixed media pieces inspired by illustrators in the field, learning to convey emotion, mood, and narrative through color, shape, and line. Our explorations of frame layout and sequential storytelling will empower kids to communicate complex ideas with a creative emphasis.
*AGES 5-10*
"Hats off!" to art in this unique camp "wear" we'll go beyond traditional textiles with wearable designs and creations inspired by unconventional materials. Beginning with foundational skills and easy assembly techniques like weaving, gluing, and sewing (on machines and by hand), we’ll use natural materials and found objects to create unique textiles, sculptural hats, felted bags, and more! We’ll use recycled materials to create our own versions of haute couture looks pulled from the runways. We’ll fine-tune our perception as we create handmade wearable art pieces based on our experience of the five senses. We’ll look at the fashion design industry from beginning to end, from illustrated mood boards to pattern making to garment construction, to help us create simple, wearable pieces they’ll want to wear every day. Our students will really make a statement by wearing their own creations - with these quirky projects they’ll become walking works of art!
The ripples of pop art's influence have been felt all over the world, but there's no one place that has embraced the movement quite so distinctly as Japan, where manga and anime's influence have merged into the fine art world. Our all-new Kawaii Pop camp explores those connections with characters immediately familiar to kids - like Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, and Naruto - as well as looking back at the history of pop art in Japan. We'll learn about the avant-garde artists like Harue Kogo and Tadanori Yokoo, who, early on, adopted the hallmarks of pop art - bright colors, bold lines, and cultural reference points - while the dotted pumpkins of Yayoi Kusama made the iconic artist and overnight sensation (and drew praise from Andy Warhol). We'll see how Takashi Murakami achieved huge commercial success with his "Superflat" style by combining traditional Japanese woodblock carving and cartoony patterns. And we'll look at how cute, child-like characters still appear in Japanese contemporary art, from Yoshimoto Nara and Tomoko Nagao to the modern MicroPop movement. Students will love creating unique projects in this captivating style, while also discovering how art can build bridges between cultures.
This week, wonder, sorcery, and art collide! Throughout camp, children will create their own art projects based on the fantastical illusions and magic spells from the stories we all love. From Harry Potter to The Wizard of Oz to modern-day magicians like Penn & Teller and David Copperfield, magic has enchanted our imaginations. The projects will center around the mystical objects that give wizards and magicians their special powers - we'll mix magic potions in spooky hand-made bottles, make intricate wands and mysterious magic books adorned with strange talismans, and create mixed-media animal avatars to assist us in our magical (and artistic!) journeys.
Lights! Camera! Art! It's movie week at CBK and your child is in the director’s chair. We'll spend the week working together to create our very own stop motion animated film. Kids will create storyboards and production notebooks to flesh out their characters and narrative. Throughout the week we'll use paint and paper to create various sets, build and animate characters out of clay, record voice work as well as their own foley for sound effects using found objects, and ultimately film the finished project. Students will also design and print their own movie posters and other "marketing materials" to promote their movies far and wide. We're ready for our closeup!
Throughout the ages, music has played a key role in the art world. From ancient, intricate flutes made of mammoth ivory to hidden songs in Hieronymus Bosch paintings, from album art and concert posters to interactive videos and visualizers and the design of sound itself, music and visual arts easily go hand in hand. This week's camp embraces both as we build instruments from clay, create musical personas with "limited-edition" screen printed merch, and more. We'll see how beloved pop icons like Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo bring their songs to life through art direction and create stage costumes for tours. We'll learn how audio scientists visualise sounds as we create abstract work from these waveforms. And we'll fill the studio with the silly sounds of original song parodies! So strike up the band and get your ARTS BEATING!
*AGES 5-10*
They say Rome wasn't built in a day so luckily we'll have an entire week to study the artistic and historical context of this ancient culture. Working in clay, we'll be both recreate some of Rome's great works of architecture - we'll build the Colosseum and ancient temples, and learn about different types of columns Romans used. Your child can be the ruler of Rome as we make coins with their own portraits. We'll create an array of jewelry and armor. Children become artists, archaeologists, and gladiators alike while spending a week with this incredible civilization.
*AGES 5-10*
Whether artists use materials found in nature to create their art or simply take inspiration from natural surroundings, art and nature have gone hand in hand for centuries. In this unique Summer Camp students will learn about nature's role in art. We will use objects found in nature to add texture to handbuild ceramic trinket dishes, create one-of-a-kind textiles using natural dyes and fibers, work with light and water to develop photographic papers, and create our very own sketchbooks using recycled paper. We'll look to artists like Andy Goldsworthy, Tatiana Arocha, and more for inspiration. Join us in learning more about how the natural world around us can be used to create art!
*AGES 5-10*
