Summer Camps
2021
Contact Us:
203.270.4349
8 Simpson Street, Newtown, CT
Newtowncommunitycenter.org
UNPLUG WITH US!
Summer Camps Don’t forget to Pre-register!
Character
Animation
Ages 6 – 12 Ages 8 – 14
Race4Chase Kid’s Triathlon Program is aimed to provide Animation is an art form where we can make anything
children with a safe, healthy, non-competitive environment happen! Campers will learn to create cartoon and anime
to discover the sport of triathlon. Designed as a five-week inspired characters on sketchbooks, tablets, phones &
goal oriented summer program, the program provides computers. Great for creative kids of all skill levels!
kids with expert instruction in swimming, cycling, running, June 21 - 25 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
strength training and flexibility, and also teaches them
the fundamentals of good nutrition under the supportive 2D Character Animation Cost (per child/per week)
guidance of coaches, lifeguards and instructors. At the Member: $275 | Non-Member $300
culmination of the training camp, all of the youth athletes
come together to compete in a USAT-sanctioned triathlon
race.
Application due no later than May 14th. Limited enrollment AquaKidz
– applications will be evaluated and selected based on
first time registration, a demonstration of need, and those
indicating a sincere desire to participate for the complete
duration of the program. There’s a reason they say, “Practice Makes Perfect”. Looking
to maximize the benefits of your child’s lesson? Enrolling
June 28 - July 30 | 9:00 am – 12:30 pm your student in classes twice-a-week doubles the amount
of time they get to work on skills and practice them in
the water! Swim Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and
Thursday for 45 mins each class.
Joy of Art Session 1: July 12- August 05
10:00-10:45am | Preschool Level 1 & School Age Level 1
10:45-11:30am | Preschool Level 2 & School age Level 2
Ages 5 – 10 11:30-12:15pm | Preschool Level 3 & School age Level 3
Here you will explore artists from around the World! Your 12:15-1:00pm | School Age Level 4 & School Age Level 5
child will learn about each artist, their art, as well as have Session 2: August 9 - September 2
hands on art activities including painting and photography.
10:00-10:45am | Preschool Level 1 & School Age Level 1
Each day will also include kids yoga or yoga nidra. At the
end of the week there will be an art show inviting family and 10:45-11:30am | Preschool Level 2 & School age Level 2
friends to enjoy works created from the week! 11:30-12:15pm | Preschool Level 3 & School age Level 3
June 14 – 18 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm 12:15-1:00pm | School Age Level 4 & School Age Level 5
Joy of Art Camp Cost (per child/per week) Aquakidz Program Cost (per child/per week)
Member: $175 | Non-Member: $200 Member: $145
Resident Non-Member: $290
Non-Resident Non-Member: $320
Summer Camps Don’t forget to Pre-register!
Jewelry
& Abrakadoodle
Art Camp
Ages 8 - 13 Ages 5 – 10
Learn the art of metal work with Lee Skalkos, from Newtown. Jump into this “Under the Sea” Art Adventure. During
During each day students will experience drawing for design, this camp you will learn about and create art based on
fabrication and creation of metal pieces. Students will learn underwater creatures that live in the sea! Have a great
cutting with a jewelry saw, filing, forging, twisting of wire, time creating fun art projects, playing games, and making
piercing, sanding and polishing and if time allows, soldering friends. Brought to you by Abrakadoodle, providing trained
and torch techniques and possibly stone settings. art instructors.
June 21 - 25 | 9:00am – 12:00pm June 28 – July 2 | 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Jewelry & Metalsmithing Cost (per child/per week) Abrakadoodle Art Camp Cost (per child/per week)
Member: $240 | Non-Member: $265 Member: $175 | Non-Member: $200
Summer
BASH
Ages 3 – 4
Ages 6 – 10
Our tiny campers will participate in all of the typical camp
This camp has a little bit of everything! Each day will have activities geared towards this younger age group including:
free swim and then themed activities that may include an traditional camp games, music, arts and crafts, swimming,
arts & crafts, cooking, hiking, or a health and wellness class. hiking, and story time fun. They will follow a simple daily
Bring a bag lunch. rhythm that builds a sense of trust and ease while making
Week 1 – June 21 – 25 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm new friends and learning new skills.
Week 2 – June 28 – July 2 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Week 1: June 28 – July 2 | 9:00am – 12:00pm
Week 3 – July 26 – 30 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Week 2: July 12 – 16 | 9:00am – 12:00pm
Week 4 – August 2 – 6 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Tiny Campers Cost (per child/per week)
Week 5 – August 16 – 20 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Member: $110 | Non-Member: $135
Week 6 – August 23 – 27 | 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Summer Bash Cost (per child/per week)
Member: $175 | Non-Member: $200
Summer Camps Don’t forget to Pre-register !
Mermaid
Camp
Ages 7 – 11 Ages 5-7
Does your swimmer love mermaids? Make their dreams It’s all about trust, balance, and juggling! This summer camp
come true and learn how to swim as gracefully as a will delve a bit deeper to develop lasting skills for use in and
mermaid under the sea! This five-day camp will include out of the ring! Balance peacock feathers, spinning plates,
activities too! Take part in treasure hunts in the pool and juggling scarves, standing on globes, walking the tight-wire,
mermaid themed arts and crafts in our art studio! Tails surfing the balance board, and playing lots of skill building
provided for each day or you can bring your own. games.
July 5 – 9 | 9:00 am – 1:00 pm July 19 - 23 | 9:00am – 12:00pm
August 9 – 13 | 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Life in the Circus Cost (per child/per week)
Mermaid Camp Cost (per child/per week) Member: $150 | Non-Member: $175
Member: $150 | Non-Member: $175
Storybook
Ballet Camp
Ages 3 – 5
Ages 3 – 4
Join Abrakadoodle for this “mini-doodlers” art camp & make
Every day of this dance camp focuses on a different ballet:
a mess! Everything about this camp is messy, gooey & slimy.
The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, Cinderella and
We will have spaghetti designs, paint the fizzes and pops,
Frozen! Each day there will be a dance class, art and craft
along with messy portraits that match our messy faces!
projects related to the ballet of the day along with snack and
July 5 - 9 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm story time.
Great, Big, Messy Art Camp Cost (per child/per week) July 19 – 23 | 9:00am – 11:30am
Member: $175 | Non-Member: $200 Storybook Ballet Camp Cost (per child/per week)
Member: $175 | Non-Member: $200
Musical
Theatre Digital
Ages 7 – 13 Photography
Join us for some theatrical fun this summer in this musical
Ages 8 - 14
theater workshop intensive. Here, we will experience a
musical theater vocal masterclass, giving students feedback In this camp, kids learn how to take, make and share digital
for audition cuts, vocal technique, character portrayal and photographs! using images on their phones and cameras,
overall stage presence, and dance choreography. Students young photographers discover the basics of the digital
will learn music for group performance as well, to add to the darkroom, camera mastery, composition as well as the
individual student performances showcased on the final day. history and science of photography. Includes an introduction
to Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Camera Ras. Taught by
July 6 - 9 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Mike Stuttman of Saugatuck Digital Arts.
Muscial Theatre Cost (per child/per week)
July 26 - 30 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Member: $140 | Non-Member: $165
Digital Photography Cost:
Member: $275 | Non-Member: $300
Summer Camps Don’t forget to Pre-register!
SPLASH
EXPLORE Kids In the
& MORE! Kitchen
Ages 5 – 10 Ages 8 – 12
School is out and the kids are ready for summer fun! In Get your kids back into the kitchen this summer creating
conjunction with the Catherine Violet Hubbard Foundation, some fun and healthy recipes while also exploring how to
Splash, Explore and More is a four-day, hands on experience utilize food as art. Each camper will go home with a recipe,
for fifteen (15) children ages 5 – 10. Campers will swim, a dish that your child has mastered, and a food related art
get creative and learn while having fun with natural project! Taught by Pamela Buchler of Aquarian Caterers.
science exploration. Programming will include: Art meets August 2 - 6 | 9:00am – 12:00pm
science; Plants take over the world; Bees & butterflies; August 9 - 13 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Backyard birding; plus a field trip to the Sanctuary! (weather
permitting) Kidz in the Kitchen Camp Cost (per child/per week)
July 19 - 22 | 9:00am – 1:00pm Member: $215 | Non-Member: $235
Splash, Explore, & More Program Cost (per child/per week)
Member: $175 | Non-Member: $200
Stilts | Unicycle | Tightwire
Wonders
of water
Ages 8 - 13
In this unique program, kids will develop and condition
balance, coordination, core strength and perseverance as
they explore the basics of unicycle riding, wire walking,
Ages 5 - 10 and practice walking, running, and playing games on stilts.
In partnership with EverWonder Children’s Museum, this Campers will have opportunities to cool off in the pool too!
one-week camp will include activities with a focus on the No experience necessary.
wonders and science of water. Each day of camp will have
different activities with a science based theme as well as August 2 - 6 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
swimming.
Stilts, Unicycle, Tightwire Cost (per child/per week)
Member pricing available to members of EverWonder.
Choose your week! Member: $175 | Non-Member: $200
August 2 – 6 | 9:00am – 12:00pm
August 23 – 27 | 9:00am – 12:00pm
Wonders of Water Cost (per child/per week)
Member: $175 | Non-Member: $200 Gym ‘n Swim
Ages 5 – 10
NYA Sports & Fitness Center and the Newtown Community
Center team up for this fun week of camp. Campers grades
K – 5 will start their day off playing sports and classic camp
games at the NYA and then head over to the Community
Center for afternoon swimming and art.
July 12 - 16 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
August 9 - 13 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Gym ‘N Swim Camp Cost (per child/per week)
Member: $200 | Non-member: $225
Summer Camps Don’t forget to Pre-register!
Big Top
spectacular Creativewith
Coding
Scratch
Ages 8 - 12 Ages 8 - 14
Circus Skill Fundamentals presented by Circus Moves! Learn to create interactive games, stories and animations
Bouncing, balancing, juggling, jumping, tossing, tumbling, with Scratch, a visual coding platform developed by the MIT
spinning, smiling, and lots of clowning around! A chance to Media Lab. Aspiring artists and programmers will discover
step into the ring and try your hands at the fundamentals the magic of coding using this fun and easy to learn web-
of circus and become a budding circus star, using new based application. Taught by Mike Stuttman of Saugatuck
skills to build their own circus at the end of the session. Digital Arts.
Campers should be ready to be challenged and have fun! No August 23 - 27 | 9:00 - 12:00 pm
experience necessary, all abilities welcome.
Creative Coding with Scratch (per child/per week)
August 9 - 13 | 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Member: $240 | Non:Member: $265
Big Top Spectacular Cost (per child/per week)
Member: $200 | Non-Member: $225
Beach Party
Art Camp
Ages 5 - 12
Get ready for some wet and sandy fun! Design your own
sun visor, move to the party music & create some incredible
underwater art! Learn about the world-famous sidewalk
chalk artist Julian Beevers, while we create unique sidewalk
designs. There will be an obsta-COOL course, spray bottle
painting, sand art & shell designs, beach party day & more!
August 16 - 20 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Beach Party! Art Camp Cost (per child/per week)
Member: $175 | Non-Member: $200
