Camps

Sports, games, and arts and crafts are all offered during the Montclair Summer Experience. In addition to everyday activities field trips and enrichment classes such as cooking and music are also offered. Visit the website for more info and the registration form.

Clementine Studio is a full-time, art enrichment program for children and adults. It provides developmentally appropriate art classes for children of all ages. Children are provided the opportunity to explore art freely in a comfortable and relaxed studio setting and are provided with a variety of materials, tools and techniques. They are guided through the process of creating multi-media art, in an effort to elicit and support each child's individual style of visual expression.

Most classes are multi-week, meeting one day a week. Sunday, holiday, summer, and spring break workshops and camps are also offered. Visit the www.clementinestudioboulder.com.

Birthday parties for kids ages three to ten last 90 minutes and include a supervised art project.

Now in its 53rd year, CA Summer Day Camp provides fun-filled activities including instruction and participation in tennis, arts and crafts, organized games, archery, swimming, performance arts, academics, and special activities. Students may combine these activities with educational and other athletic pursuits for a more personalized camp experience.

Each engaging, educational Abrakadoodle art workshop, camp, or party introduces children to different materials and art-making techniques. Lessons never repeat, and every child leaves each class with a new piece of framed art.

Classes are held at locations in Aurora, Castle Rock, Centennial, Cherry Hills, Englewood, Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Littleton, and Parker for different age groups. Additional information about classes and locations is available online.

Birthday parties: Abrakadoodle books parties for children ages three through 12, and can also bring the party to you. Select an art activity; materials and a teacher are provided.

Summer camps: Half-day art camps are offered for ages three through 12, in partnership with Crayola. Children are grouped by age and introduced to a wide variety of materials and techniques, including sculpture, mosaics, collage, and paint.

Are your kids ready to rock? Then it might be time to give The Paul Green School of Rock Music a call.

The school focuses on teaching kids ages seven to 17 how to play instruments - guitar, bass, keyboard, voice, and drums - and ultimately, how to perform in a rock band. All levels of ability and experience are welcome in the afterschool classes, and kids can enroll any time. The franchise uses a specific curriculum devised by the parent company to teach music theory while also teaching kids how to play with other students.

Individual 45-minute lessons combine with supervised three-hour group rehearsals each week to prepare kids for quarterly performances in "real" rock venues. The showcase rock concerts incorporate light shows and stagecraft, just like the real thing. Additional specialized workshops covering topics such as songwriting and touring are offered throughout the year.

Summer camp programs are also available.

The winner of our 2008 Parents' Picks quest to find the best Artsy Class in Denver, My Art Workshop is a drop-in arts and crafts creativity center for kids. Children of all ages can paint and decorate woodwork, tie-dye or fabric paint clothing and accessories, do sand art, spin paint, create jewelry, paint pottery, create mosaics and stepping stones, and more.

The studio also hosts birthday parties, field trips, Parents' Night Out, summer camp programs, and offers ongoing preschool and after school classes.

Tips on Trips and Camps is a free advisory service providing information on over 600 overnight summer programs. In addition to traditional and specialty camps, consultants provide information on student travel, language immersion, outdoor adventure, community service, internships, and academic study in the US and abroad.

Tips on Trips and Camps identifies each child's needs through a dialogue with the family and matches those needs to the appropriate programs. Advisors assist parents in distinguishing between choices.

Consultants conduct interviews with summer program directors, make personal visits to programs in session, and have access to evaluations from families who've attended programs around the world, giving Tips on Trips and Camps a depth and breadth of knowledge not available elsewhere.

Search for day camps, sleep-aways, family camps, teen tours, camp jobs, special needs, national and international adventures... even weight loss and military camps!

Write to kidscamps.com at 500 NE Spanish River Boulevard, Boca Raton, Florida, 33431, or email the address above.

CampDepot.com is a search engine for summer camps, offering more than 14,000 camp listings that parents can search by zip code, specialty, location, activity, etc.

Meadow Creek Tennis and Fitness Club located in Lakewood, is one of the Denver areas finest indoor tennis clubs with seven indoor tennis courts and three outdoor tennis courts. Tennis lessons are provided for children of all ages and ability levels, as well as adults. Drop in, supervised, tennis match play for kids is offered on Fridays and Sundays.

Summer Junior Tennis Programs are offered for all ages and abilities. Tennis camps run weekly, Mon-Fri from 9am-1pm. Pee-Wee camps, drop-in programs, private lessons, and summer court passes are also available.

Meadow Creek facilities include complete workout facilities with resistance training equipment, free weights, aerobics classes, and yoga classes. A heated outdoor pool is open during the summer.

The Downtown Aquarium, formerly the nonprofit Colorado's Ocean Journey, provides guests the opportunity to not only view lots of fish and underwater wildlife, but also plenty of ecosystems and animals that depend on the oceans and rivers for survival. Exhibits include North America, Desert, Wharf, Rainforest, and more.

The facility is owned and operated by Landry's Seafood Restaurants, so it should come as no surprise that the centerpiece of the venue is the Aquarium Restaurant, where guests are seated around a 150,000 gallon aquarium. Since Landry's acquired the facility in 2003, the attraction has taken on a decidely "for profit" feeling. Visitors follow a predetermined path through the exhibits and virtually any activity (and there are several), other than simply viewing the resident critters, has an extra charge associated with it.

Birthday party packages are available. Contact 303.561.4444 for information. charm since the Landry's acquisition, we love the Summer Camps and School Vacation Day Camps that run throughout the year, paticularly the Marine Biologist for a Day and Zoologist for a Day camps, where kids get to work behind the scenes. Programs typically include age appropriate activities, such as crafts and animal visits, and center around the animals living at the aquarium. Visit the website for scheduling and registration information.

Annual memberships are available; family memberships start at $125.