Summer School Camps
Now Enrolling For Summer Camps
JUNE 17TH – AUGUST 1ST 2025
Montecito Summer School Camps
Enrollment for Summer School begins at the end of February each year. Summers at Montecito are full of imaginative summer fun! If your child is a terrific two, thrilling three, fantastic four, Kindergarten or elementary age child up to 5th grade, he or she will enjoy activities inspired by the camps below. Students are divided into groups by age and abilities. Every year we change our camp themes …Wait until you see what we have in store this year!
Gifted Gardeners and Artistic Adventures
Weeks 1 & 2: June 17th – June 27th
(No school on June 16th for Teacher Workday)
Let’s garden together, learn about the plant life cycle, dig, plant, water and explore insects we find in the garden.
- Gardening & conservation
- Learn about the plant life cycle and handle different kinds of plants
- Work with soil, water and seeds.
- Explore plants that we eat and plants we don’t
- Learn about what grows in what season and different places where plants grow
- Nature walks, insect-like cycles & bug hunts
Come explore your creative side and individual artistic expressions! Use different materials to create your awesome art.
- Create using clay, paint, fabric & glue
- Discover & explore art found in nature & in food
- Sewing & jewelry making
- Creating art using natural materials
Gadgets & Goop
Weeks 3: June 30th – July 4th
(No class on July 4th for the holiday)
Awaken your child’s mind to the marvels of the world of science. Measure, pour and create. Discover, observe, experiment, learn cause & effect, use math and all 5 senses in the lab, and develop critical thinking!
- Scientific exploration with liquids, play dough, gak, Ooblek,
invisible ink & watercolors - Build with hardware gadgets, foam, PVC pipe and wood
- Cause objects to fly, sink, float, & create volcanoes
- Measure, pour, stir, combine & weigh
- Find science in nature & build using natural objects
Music & Magic Camp – 25 Years!
Week 4 & 5: July 7th – July 18th
We are celebrating 25 years of Music & Magic! Children will look forward to two (2) weeks of being delighted with musical and magical adventures in this popular camp, taught by Teacher Phillip (Mimo the Magician) and our magical teachers. Come to create & perform with us!
- Campers will learn and take the “magician’s oath.”
- Mini Magicians make their own magic tricks and decorate
capes & magician’s hats. - Mini Musicians will create their own musical instruments
and learn new songs. - Enjoy the over-the-top “water day!” We will eat our
snacks in our bathing suits and on our beach towels, enjoy
water slides, pools and rocket water toys, play with water
toys, the slip-n-slide and play water splash ball games! - Share tricks and songs with parents in a dazzling
performance at the end of camp!
The annual M&M Camp performance will be on Friday July 18th!
Whisk Wizards and Trail Blazers
Weeks 6 & 7: July 21st to August 1st
Use all 5 senses and your creativity to make yummy cooking creations! Measure, pour, stir, create recipes and taste what you made.
- Use your taste buds, explore textures and delight in cooking!
- Take home a cookbook full of new recipes
- Be creative, discover different foods in nature & at home
- Make breads, cookies & snacks together
- Measure, pour, stir, combine & weigh
Explore and challenge your physical body, develop skills and your muscles, large and small. Engage in group cooperation and teamwork through fun outdoor games, obstacle courses and races. Explore and engage with nature, camping, animals and more. Become a pirate, a jungle animal and a rodeo star!
- Races and outdoor games, walk and run
- Participate in relay races with your friends!
- Develop your muscles & strategy through obstacle courses
- Camping adventures & exploring the outdoors
- Explore and handle animals on our Montecito safari
- Pirate, Jungle & Rodeo adventures!
Annual Ice Cream Social at 12:30 on Friday, Aug. 1st (free meet-&-greet event)