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Summer Explorers Camp 2024
Summer Explorers Camp 2024
June 17, 2024 @ 9:00 am – June 21, 2024 @ 3:00 pm
Join the Summer Camp Fun!
(AGES 5 – 10)
The Santa Fe Children’s Museum offers many opportunities for children to continue their learning when school is out! Campers are enchanted by our weekly themes and educated through art, science, and play each day!
Choose from seven weeks of jam-packed thematic STEAM Fun! Each week features new and engaging hands-on educational activities to explore. Led by our experienced museum educators, every week includes; daily private playtimes (inside and out), community guests, games, science experiments, cooking, art projects, and more!
Week 1 (June 10th-14th) – Earth Explorers
Blast to the past and dig in deep to learn about the layers of our planet’s history, from landforms to ancient life. Make crackers quake, volcanoes shake and dinosaurs wake as we investigate Earth before humans. Create ancient creatures, find fossils, and meet a real-life archaeologist on this geological journey through time.
Week 2 (June 17th-June 21st) – Ocean Explorers
Leave land behind and discover the depths of the ocean. Paint wild waves, craft aquatic creatures, build boats to survive a tsunami, and build your own bubble machine! Strengthen your stewardship of the sea as we snack on seaweed, contemplate currents, ponder pollution, and uncover layers of underwater life.
Week 3 (June 24th-June 28th) – Space Explorers
Launch into learning with an out-of-this-world adventure to space! Cook s’mores with the Sun, engineer rockets that fly, and travel all around the universe in the Stargazer Planetarium. We’ll eat the moon, play gravity games, and make planet bath bombs during this week-long celestial celebration.
Week 4 (July 8th-12th) – Rainforest Explorers–Theater Camp Week
Discover your inner critter while exploring the wild world of theater! Craft creature costumes, make a life-size forest mural, and learn about the wondrous realms of the rainforest. Put on a final performance on a real stage at the NM Military Museum! Special guest, children’s theater coach, Abby Cole, joins us for this week of dramatic tales and tails.
Week 5 (July 15th-19th) – Enchanted Explorers
Expand your imagination as we travel to the world of fairies and dragons. Breathe like a dragon, fashion wings that work, and craft houses for forest friends. Follow fantasy maps to forage tea, and plant wildflowers with Seed Ball Launchers. Special guest, NM Fairy Hair comes to sparkle camp.
Week 6 (July 22nd-26th) – Superhero Explorers– Adventure into the world of superheroes! Create comics, make action happen, and help save the world. Construct a course to race a getaway vehicle, shoot objects from the palms of your hands, and adapt powers from animal origins to be the hero of your own super story.
Week 7 (July 29th – Aug. 2nd)- Lego Explorers– Let’s go Legos! Unleash your inner engineer as we learn with Legos. Make machines that move, design your dream house, and get technical with gearbots. Print Lego portraits, manufacture a minifig, and become a Lego Master, brick by brick.
Schedule
Monday through Friday, 9 am – 3 pm
Drop-off starts at 8:45 am & pick-up is until 3:15 pm
AFTERCARE: $15 per day/per camper
Available daily from 3:15 pm – 5:30 pm. All registered parents will receive a registration link to purchase their After Care Session(s).
*All sessions must be pre-paid prior to camp. There will be no day-of or in-person transactions available.*
Pricing
$395 per child/per week
Registration
Registration Exclusively Open for Museum Members (through our Member newsletter):
Friday, March 15th (7 am)
*Must be a member by Thursday, March 14th (at 8 am) for early camp registration*
Public Launch of Registration (through our newsletter and website):
Sunday, March 17th (7 am)
** REGISTRATION NOW OPEN **
Waiting List
Is the week you want full? Get on our 2024 Waiting List!
Summer Camp Operations Guide
All parents must review and bring the acknowledgement form (last page) of this Operations Guide to the first day of camp:
Camp Scholarships
If the cost of camp is prohibitive, limited scholarships are available.
* EXTENDED DEADLINE:*
Apply by: May 31st (11:59 pm)
Plan for Play
Santa Fe Children’s Museum is CDC-compliant and since March 2020 has made changes to keep you, your family, and our staff safe and healthy. Some of the new operations include; encouraging staff/youth mentors/volunteers to be vaccinated, being outdoors as much as possible, adjustments to exhibit availability, upgrades to our HVAC system, and a purchase of new hospital-grade air purification system.
As of February 17, 2022, New Mexico does not require face masks in all indoor spaces. This policy applies to our guests, staff, and volunteers. However, everyone may continue to wear a mask to protect themselves and others from getting COVID-19. If you feel more comfortable with your child wearing a mask, that is ok! Masks must be provided from home.
We will continue to monitor and modify all recommendations to ensure that all visitors have a comfortable experience at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum. At the heart of all the policies of SFCM is abiding by the mission to keep all of your campers and staff are equitably healthy and safe.
We remain committed to delivering a fun and educational camp experience for all!
Materials & Personal Property
- Personal water bottles are highly encouraged – tap water will be available for refills
- No use of microwave will be permitted
- Please label all personal items, jackets, hats, lunchboxes, etc. with campers first name and last name initial.
- Children will spend time outdoors and classroom temperatures can flux, so please dress in layers and mess!
Drop-Off and Pick-Up Procedures
- Parents will drop off through the main entrance between 8:45 and 9:00 am. Parents must escort their camper into the building and sign them in each day.
- Parents will pick up Campers from our Sculpture Garden located in front of our Museum Office Entrance. Campers who stay for Aftercare are picked up using the main entrance and sign out at the front desk.
Refund Policy
- All registrations canceled two weeks or more before the week of the camp start date will receive a refund minus the $100 deposit. Cancellations one week or less before the camp start date will NOT be refunded, regardless of filling the spot.
- The same cancellation policy stands for campers on scholarship, however the non-refundable deposit is reduced.
For more information:
Contact Leona Hillary, Director of Education
505-989-8359 ext. 155
programs@santafechildrensmuseum.org
