Mountain Top Children's Museum | Breckenridge , Colorado


The Mountain Top Children's Museum, Inc. offers a 12 week summer program packed full of projects, art antics, and crazy experiments. Come explore nature, create from loose parts, and use your noodle to figure things out. Each camp week is based on an exciting theme that offers children opportunities to be creative, inquisitive, and adventurous.Download full Summer 2011 Themes & Schedules
Week 1:	June 6-10 EEW. . . .GROSS! It's slime time as we work with purple potion, mix up a batch of glup, and stir together some crazy concoctions. Make fungus among us, learn about molds and spores, and about the human body INSIDE and out
Week 2:	June 13-17 CENTER STAGE Step into the spotlight, create a radio show, and become a movie star. Make puppets, masks, and props from your imagination and put on a five star production! Create your own product and make a commercial, share your hidden talents. Lights, camera, action!
Week 3:	June 20-24 COLOR ME CRAZY Turn the June sunshine into "funshine" as you drink a Sun Soda, design a sun print, mix up a jelly crystal rainbow, as we blast through this week with color. Learn about the spectrum, how to capture light and create some colorful works of art.
Week 4:	June 27-July 1 LET IT FLY Let your imagination take flight like Leonardo DiVinci, design paper airplanes and rockets. Make kites fly and hot air balloons soar. Sky's the limit when you WING IT!
Week 5:	July 5-8 I SPY Become an undercover agent, break the secret codes, investigate clues, and find treasure. Take a visit downtown and see what the experts do. Solve the mystery around town. Learn about disguises and challenge yourself at the CIA training course.
Week 6:	July 11-15 OPERATION IRRIGATION Splish Splash into a week full of water! Learn the properties of water, create an original watercolor painting, and sink a submarine. Spend a day on the "beach", design a boat, make a fish print and prepare to get wet! ** Mark your calendar for the 5th Annual Dog Wash Fundraiser on Wednesday, July 13th!
Week 7:	July 18-22 GREEN MACHINE Go GREEN as we learn about recycling and other ways to help our planet. Become Mother Nature's helper and explore what's underground. Think like a worm as you dig into your dirt dessert.
Week 8:	July 25-29 MEDIEVAL MADNESS Build a Mountain Top kingdom and transform into royalty. Create a catapult, castle, or design a coat of arms. Be a playwright and conjure up a feast fit for a king. Prepare yourself for the Mighty Bean Battle.
Week 9:	August 1-5 SPANGLERIFIC Step into the world of science guru Steve Spangler. Make potatoes and toilet paper fly and blast off giant smoke rings with a vortex generator. It will be a week filled with screaming balloons, flying soda, preposterous polymers, and dry ice experiments.
Week 10:	August 8-12 CLOWNING AROUND Come to the animal fair, design a circus set-up, and put on a BIG TOP show. Learn yo-yo tricks and try group juggling. Silly stunts and fantastic feats will amaze your friends.
Week 11:	August 15-19 INVENTION CONVENTION Enter the world of gadgets and gizmos. Invent and build from parts and pieces, learn how "stuff" works, become an architect, and experiment with gadgets and gizmos.
Week 12:	August 17-21 COLORIFFIC Turn the August sunshine into "funshine" as you drink a Sun Soda, design a sun print, make a hot piece of art, as we blast through this week with color. Learn about the spectrum, how to capture light and create some colorful works of art.