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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 2010 Themes & Schedules |
| Week 1: |
June
3-5 ANYTHING GOES
A small sampling of what's in store for the summer. . . including some of our favorites from 2009! |
| Week 2: |
June 7-11 ABOVE AND BEYOND
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 3: |
June 14-18 WEIRD SCIENCE
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 4: |
June 21-25 SPACED OUT
Hop aboard a rocket built by your imagination. Blast off into outer space and explore the different planets. Watch out for asteroids, shooting stars, and satellites! Explore the solar system and worlds beyond Earth. |
| Week 5: |
June 28-July 2 GADGETS N' GIZMOS
Enter the world of whirlygigs. 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. Take part in our Invention Convention. |
| Week 6: |
July 5-9 GROSS ME OUT
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 7: |
July 12-16 SPLASH DOWN
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 4th Annual Dog Wash Fundraiser on Wednesday, July 14th! |
| Week 8: |
July 19-23 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. Solve the mystery around town. Learn about disguises and challenge yourself at the CIA training course. |
| Week 9: |
July 26-30 KIDS VS. WILD
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 as you become "Survivorkid". End the week with a camp out on Friday night. (Camp site & times to be announced) |
| Week 10: |
August 2-6 SHOWTIME
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 11: |
August 9-13 GREEN EGGS AND HAM
Jump into the world of Dr. Seuss. . . mix up some Schloppity Schlopp, become Thing 1 and Thing 2, go green with The Lorax, play Sneetch ball, and much more! Oh the Places We'll go and earn a Horton Certificate! |
| 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. |
