Art & Pottery Summer Camps
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Our fun & enriching programs educate, inspire & entertain your creative young artists! Variety is the spice of life so all of our camps offer a wide range of project topics and supplies that will spark their creativity & expose them to a stimulating mix of age-appropriate art techniques each day.
Summer camps give us time to dive into larger-scale, more grandiose projects like papier mache, batik painting, sculpture & printmaking! For our die-hard campers who return year after year (or week after week), we catalog all projects students complete & make every effort to avoid repeating projects!
Summer Camps in Charlotte
HALF + FULL DAY OPTIONS:
Weekly half day Mixed Media Art Camps (9am-12p or 1-4pm) for ages 4-14 includes painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, printmaking, chalk pastel, & more! $295 / 10% sibling discount.
Weekly half day Pottery Camps (9am-12pm or 1-4pm) for ages 6-14 includes the pottery wheel + hand building! $295 / 10% sibling discount.
Full Day Pottery + Mixed Media Art Camps camps are 9am-4pm, and include lunch time childcare (students bring a light morning + afternoon snack and a lunch). $545 / 10% sibling discount.
HALF DAY & FULL DAY CAMP OPTIONS:
Imagine combining your wildly imaginative children with impressive art supplies, phenomenal art teachers, oodles of fun & a dash (or 8) of glitter. All you need to worry about is deciding where you’re going to display your new art collection!
We strive to create a welcoming environment that fosters your child’s creativity and individuality, where new friendships blossom and kids get time to collaborate with other camp-mates as well. Each day, we plan a well-paced line up of projects, involving a wide variety of materials, subjects, and art principles. We might start the day with a watercolor painting project, and then finish a papier mache project from the day before. Throughout the week, students could have the chance to explore decoupage, painting, drawing, chalk pastel, oil pastel, sculpture, papier mache, collage, printmaking or batik making! As necessary, students are split into age groups to work on age and developmentally appropriate projects.
A short break half way through each day allows for a healthy snack & giggle break. Your budding super stars are washed up and ready to go right at pick-up. Be prepared, as they will have (slightly drippy) projects in hand that they are beaming to tell you about!
All camps are DROP OFF for a mixed age group from 4-14.
Our mixed age group format works very well during the summer given the low student:teacher ratio. Artists are split into groups to work on age-appropriate projects. Students might all work with the same materials (for example chalk pastels) but the project and/or techniques are modified for age as necessary to ensure that students are appropriate challenged.
South Charlotte Studio:
HALF DAY, weekly M-F, 9am-12pm or 1-4pm. Starting the week of June 15, 2020 through the week of Aug. 24, 2020. All weeks are Mixed Ages 4-14 (split into age groups, as needed).
*2020 SUMMER CAMP LOCATION NOTE: We’ll be relocated to Waverly Shopping Center in late Spring 2020, so our Summer Camps will take place at our new expanded Mixed Media studio and <gulp> NEW Pottery Studio! 7415 Waverly Walk Ave., Charlotte, NC 28277.
FULL DAY Pottery + Mixed Media camps are available M-F, starting the week of June 15 through August 24th, 9am-4pm. This combination makes for the perfect full day of creativity ~ pottery camp is all clay, and Mixed Media camp is everything except clay (painting, drawing, collage, chalk pastel, etc.). Our new location in Waverly Shopping Center (we’ll be moving in late Spring 2020) will have an expanded Mixed Media studio and connected (but separate) new Pottery Studio! It will feel like two different camps but all in the same building, with the same friendly staff! Lunch time child care is provided.
Note: We do not offer a full day Pottery only camp or full day Mixed Media only camp, because in our experience a full day of only one or the other just isn’t enough variety and kids would burn out on it!
$235/week for half day, $425 / week for Full Day Combo Pottery + Mixed Media (9am-4pm)
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Enroll in Summer Camp by March 1 and save $25 off each camp / per child – no limit! After the Early Bird Discount ends, we offer a 10% sibling discount automatically deducted for additional children in the same family.
Discounts cannot be combined. Please call to discuss which discount is most advantageous for your situation.
Mixed Media Camp Video
Pottery camp is a great opportunity for older children to explore the mess, the joy, and the challenges of working with clay. No picking pre-made pottery off a shelf to paint here! Each artist experiences the entire process of sculpting, beginning with wet clay and ending with kiln fired ceramic pieces! They will absorb fun factoids about kiln temperatures, the history of pottery making and practice rolling coils, building slabs, pressing textures, & throwing on the wheel. It’s very exciting to see these kids transform a blob of wet mud into a hand thrown bowl they can actually use!
A short snack break half way through each camp day allows your artist to socialize with new friends & recharge.
Parents, prepare yourself for ceramic awesome-ness! At pick up, you may wonder if we took your kids on a mud run through the woods and then hosed them off, but we just consider that a successful day in the clay studio! Finished & fired pieces are ready for pick up the following week.
Our Pottery Camps are geared towards students ages 6 – 14. Students must be mature enough for the challenges associated with working with clay, and physically large and strong enough to work with the pottery wheel (reaching the foot pedal, centering the clay, working with tools while the wheel is moving, etc.). While we can easily work with students older than 14 to make sure they are appropriately challenged and enjoying themselves, that is not the case for younger students who are too small or lacking in strength and/or patience for the pottery wheel.
We offer both Half Day and Full Day Pottery + Mixed Media options.
HALF DAY Pottery is weekly M-F, 9am-12pm or 1-4pm starting the week of June 15 through August 24th, 9am-4pm. *2020 SUMMER CAMP LOCATION NOTE: We’ll be relocated to Waverly Shopping Center in late Spring, so our Summer Camps will take place at our new expanded Mixed Media studio and <gulp> NEW Pottery Studio! 7415 Waverly Walk Ave., Charlotte, NC 28277.
FULL DAY Pottery + Mixed Media camps are available M-F, starting the week of June 15 through August 24th, 9am-4pm. This combination makes for the perfect full day of creativity ~ pottery camp is all clay, and Mixed Media camp is everything except clay (painting, drawing, collage, chalk pastel, etc.). Our new location in Waverly Shopping Center (we’ll be moving in late Spring 2020) will have an expanded Mixed Media studio and connected (but separate) new Pottery Studio! It will feel like two different camps but all in the same building, with the same friendly staff! Lunch time child care is provided.
We do not offer a full day Pottery only camp or full day Mixed Media only camp, because in our experience a full day of only one or the other just isn’t enough variety and kids would burn out on it!
$245/week for half day, $425 / week for Full Day Combo Pottery + Mixed Media (9am-4pm)
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Enroll in Summer Camp by March 1 and save $25 off each camp / per child – no limit! After the Early Bird Discount ends, we offer a 10% sibling discount automatically deducted for additional children in the same family.
Discounts cannot be combined. Please call to discuss which discount is most advantageous for your situation.
Pottery Camp Video
Summer Camp Cancellation Policy
A non-refundable $150 deposit, per child, per camp session, is required to register. The full balance (less your deposit) is due the week before camp. We will send you an email reminder the week before camp with a link to pay the balance due online. If you need to cancel and have already paid for the session, your payment (less the non-refundable deposit) will be refunded in the form of a studio credit if we are notified in writing seven days prior to the start of camp (info@smallhandsbigart.com). There are no studio credits for last minute cancellations less than seven days prior.
If you’d like to change the camp dates & times, please submit a change request via email at least one week prior to the start of camp to info@smallhandsbigart.com, and we will be happy to accommodate your request, space permitting.
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