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 Smmer 2008 Theme & Schedule
Week 1:	June 4-6 ANIMANIA Get crazy with creatures and critters of the wild. Become a tracking maniac, converse with a critter, hunker down in a habitat, and design an animal all your own.
Week 2:	June 9-13 DOWN TO EARTH Dig back in time, find fossils and footprints, and create a Jurassic giant. 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 3:	June 16-20 GET A CLUE Become an undercover agent, break the secret codes, investigate clues, and find treasure. Take a visit downtown and see what the experts do. Discover hidden pictures and solve the mystery. Learn about disguises and challenge yourself at the CIA training course.
Week 4:	June 23-27 MEDIEVAL MAYHEM 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 5:	June 30-July 3 SUPER POWERS Forces will prevail as we experiment with electricity, solar energy, and the power of water. Manipulate amazing magnets, learn about lightning and predict the powers of the future. Learn about vortex generators, make giant smoke rings and flying potatoes.
Week 6:	July 7-11 MOUNTAIN TOP MEDICAL CENTER Learn about the human body INSIDE and OUT. You are what you eat – climb the nutritional pyramid! Find out what’s inside your head, what makes your heart beat, and how much air your lungs can hold. Your leg bone’s connected to your hip bone.
Week 7:	July 14-18 BOOT CAMP Find your way with compass and map, learn to be a junior “EMT”. Survive the group challenge and find out about safety in the wilderness. End the week with a camp out on Friday night. (Camp site & times to be announced)
Week 8:	July 21-25 JUNGLE BOOGIE Step into the Rainforest world under a canopy. Go on an African safari, learn about animals of the tropics, and plant a miniature tropical garden. Explore the Amazon and create a tropical rain storm. Put the lime in the coconut and mix ‘em both up.
Week 9:	July 28-August 1 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! Lights, camera, action!
Week 10:	August 4-8 MIX IT UP 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 come up with your own recipe for snot! Experiment with dry ice, make soup soufflé, and whip up some elephant toothpaste.
Week 11:	August 11-15 HIGH COUNTRY OLYMPICS Take part in the very first Olympic Games, lace up your sneakers and get ready to compete. Get involved in our Get Fit program. Compete in games from the shot put to the cracker and whistle race. Everyone wins a Gold medal.
Week 12:	August 18-22 IMAGINEER IT Enter the world of gadgets and gizmos. Invent and build from parts and pieces, learn how “stuff” works, become an architect, and experiment with whatchamacallits and thingamajigs. Put on your safety goggles and take things apart.