Ignite your creativity on the next strike day! Join our ECFTA Arts Educators for a spontaneous, freestyle day of art making and outdoor fun!
$56 per day
9 AM – 4PM
Agest 4-12
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Our first PA day of the year will find us in the gallery, exploring fluid line and shape-shifting in this day of 2-D abstraction, action painting and big shape art-making! Inspired by our upcoming tech exhibition; The Shape of Dance by glass artist Jerre Davidson: A behind-the-scenes look at how technology influences the artistic process.
Led by artists and ECFTA Arts Educators Eileen MacArthur, Natalie McDonald and Judy Anderson.
Ages 4-11 (split in two groups)
$56 per student
Max. 24 kids
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Ignite your creativity on strike day! Join our ECFTA Arts Educators for freestyle art stations and a day of art making and outdoor fun!
$56 per day
9 AM – 4PM
Ages 4-12
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Ignite your creativity on strike day! Join our ECFTA Arts Educators for freestyle art stations and a day of art making and outdoor fun!
$56 per day
9 AM – 4PM
Ages 4-12
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Ignite your creativity on strike day! Join our ECFTA Arts Educators for freestyle art stations and a day of art making and outdoor fun!
$56 per day
9 AM – 4PM
Ages 4-12
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Ignite your creativity on strike day! Join our ECFTA Arts Educators for freestyle art stations and a day of art making and outdoor fun!
$56 per day
9 AM – 4PM
Ages 4-12
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Ignite your creativity on strike day! Join our ECFTA Arts Educators for freestyle art stations and a day of winter-inspired art making and outdoor fun!
$56 per day
9 AM – 4PM
Ages 4-12
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Dive in to creative exploration and outdoor fun on strike day! Join our ECFTA Arts Educators for freestyle art stations and a day of winter-inspired art making and outdoor fun!
$56 per day
9 AM – 4PM
Ages 4-12
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Cancelled. The Centre will be closed for the week of March Break
We understand the growing concern around the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)and as promised we are closely monitoring the evolving health reports from reputable sources. The health of our community, staff and volunteers are the utmost importance to us. We are following the advice of local public health agencies and other leaders in our community as information unfolds rapidly. This morning our Executive committee made the tough decision to cancel our March Break program for this coming week. In making these difficult decisions, we hope to reduce the risk of spreading the virus, and, in turn, protect our vulnerable populations. Our hearts go out to all those impacted in Canada and across the world, and we will do our part in helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We will resume normal programming as soon as local health officials indicate it is safe to do so. Thank you for your help and support of these difficult decisions. We will begin processing refunds over the next few weeks. _____March Break will be all about our Art in the Great Outdoors Exhibition. Campers will have an have an "outdoor" art experience in our virtual reality “wilderness camp site” gallery. Watch the constellations in our "dome" projection tent, join in a group mural making in the spirit of Tom Thompson on the gallery wall, and create Canadian-inspired artwork in the Casson classroom. Indoor and outdoor creative fun, including a winter campfire in the yard!
Led by artists and ECFTA Arts Educators Eileen MacArthur, Natalie McDonald and Judy Anderson.
Ages 4 -11
$250 for the week
Max. 20 campers
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Ages 4-6
Max 12
$185/week
(a 10% discount will be applied at checkout for ECFTA Members)
Join us for a week of playful creativity under our big top canopy tent and the big blue sky! Each morning will be filled with nature-inspired creativity, outdoor art & craft making under our 1500 sq. ft. canopy, new friends and lots of free-range play perfect for a hot July week!
Maker Mornings! is led by ECFTA Arts Educators, Judy Anderson (Mon, Wed, Fri) and Sparrows Nest’s Stephanie Lines-Toohill (Tues, Thurs), along with the help of our Summer Student leader.
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Ages 7-11
Max 12
$300/week
(a 10% discount will be applied at checkout for ECFTA Members)
Campers! Join us for a full week of fresh-air fun, designed to bring out the young artist in you! Each day will be filled with nature-inspired creativity, outdoor art & craft making under our 1500 sq. ft. big-top canopy tent, new friends and lots of free-range play perfect for a hot July week!
BIG DAY OUT! is led by guest instructor Carolyn McLeod-McCarthy of Creative Spark Workshops in Guelph, along with the help of our Summer Student leader.
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SOLD OUT!
PD DAY JUNE | MORE BEES PLEASE!
FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2022 from 9AM - 4 PM
AGES 4-11 | Max 15 campers
$60 per student (no HST)
Join us for the last PD day of the year for an in-&-out-door day of art-making and fun our cheery studio classroom and sunny ECFTA yard!
This will be a day full of creativity and learning inspired by the friendly world of entomology and ornithology.
Make a bee house, explore the difference between bugs and insects, make a bug telescope and go on a search for the many legged creatures living outside!
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LUCKY DUCKLINGS! HALF DAY MORNING MINI SUMMER CAMP (3 DAYS) | WITH JUDY ANDERSON
Monday July 4 - Wednesday July 6, 2022 | 9 - 12 AM (morning only)
AGES 4-6 | Max 18 campers
$90 per student (no HST)
Join us for a morning of mini-making, story time and indoor and outdoor play for our youngest artists in our sunny studio classroom and under our big top canopy tent situated in the ECFTA large and lush yard! This 3-day morning camp will be a great way to ease into the summer after a long school year! Projects will include; eye spy flashlight in a bag, blue jay garden sticks, “no-peeking” sketching, animal shadow drawing, cloud telescopes and more!
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LUCKY DUCKLINGS! HALF DAY AFTERNOON MINI SUMMER CAMP (3 DAYS) | WITH STEPH LINES-TOOHILL
Monday July 4 - Wednesday July 6, 2022 | 1 - 4 PM (afternoons only)
AGES 4-6 | Max 18 campers
$90 per student (no HST)
Join us for an afternoon of mini-making, story time and indoor and outdoor play for our youngest artists in our sunny studio classroom and under our big top canopy tent situated in the ECFTA large and lush yard! This 3-day morning camp will be a great way to ease into the summer after a long school year! Projects will include; eye spy flashlight in a bag, blue jay garden sticks, “no-peeking” sketching, animal shadow drawing, cloud telescopes and more!
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July 11 - 15, 2022 | 9AM - 4 PM
AGES 7-12 | MAX 18 campers
$300 PER STUDENT (NO HST)
Join us for a week with no limits! Our Earth and Space art camp is designed to connect campers to outer space, the skies above and their own special place here on Earth. Projects will include papier mâché moon landing, design your own rocket ship, dazzling acrylic pour planet planets, spacey shrinky art, and more!
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SOLD OUT! STORY+ STRETCH + ART | HALF-DAY MORNING MINI CAMP
JULY 18 - 22, 2022 | 9AM - 12 PM
AGES 4-6 | MAX 18
$150 per student (no HST)
What’s the story morning glory? Yoga and story camp! Wake up with a streeetch in the gallery, followed by a hand-picked book for story-time to inspire a make and take art project each day.
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STORY+ STRETCH + ART | HALF-DAY AFTERNOON MINI CAMP
JULY 18 - 22, 2022 | 1 - 4 PM
AGES 4-6 | MAX 18
$150 per student (no HST)
SOLD OUT!Join us for 5 wide-eyed afternoons of Yoga and Story camp! Start with a streeetch in the gallery, followed by a hand-picked book for story-time to inspire a make-and-take art project each day!
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FRIENDS OF THE PLANET! | 5 DAY SUMMER CAMP
JULY 25 - 29, 2022 | 9AM - 4 PM
AGES 7-11 | MAX 18 campers
$300 PER STUDENT (no HST)
Campers! Recycle, Upcycle and Go Green this July as we gather together in our cheery studio classroom and out in the great outdoors for fresh-air creativity and fun designed to bring out the Friend of the Planet in you! Each day will be filled with eco-inspired creativity. Make a recycled jean bag with blanket stitching, upcycled T shirts, story stones, nature crafting and free-range play perfect for a hot July week!
Led by artist and educator Carolyn McLeod of Creative Spark Workshops in Guelph with the support of student leaders from the Canada Summer Jobs Youth Program.
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ART OF THE BIZARRE! | 4 DAY SUMMER CAMP
AUGUST 2 - 5, 2022 (Tuesday - Friday, no camp Holiday Monday, Aug 1) | 9AM - 4 PM
AGES 7-12 | MAX 18 campers
$240 PER STUDENT (no HST)
SOLD OUT!Join us for 4 full-on days of bizzaro hands-on and interactive outdoor activities and games and extreme art-making, including; doll head planters, stuffy printmaking, drawing from the flip-side, exquisite “corpses”, surreal snow globes and radioactive-green cat sculptures! A week of Op Art, Dada, and contemporary Surrealist insane-inspiration!
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER! | 5 DAY SUMMER CAMP
AUGUST 8-12, 2022 | 9AM - 4PM
AGES 7-12 | MAX 18 campers
$300 PER STUDENT (no HST)
Birds of a Feather! Let’s flock together this August for a week of avian-inspired-projects in our sunny studio classroom and free range outdoor play!
We will fluff our friendship feathers and sharpen our art-making talons as we explore the aerial world of all things feathered and plumed.
Projects will include songbird marionettes, owl pastel, feather calligraphy pens, paper feather lanterns, crane sculpture and more!
Let’s wing it together and soar!
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ART + MUSIC = FUN! | 5 DAY SUMMER CAMP
AUGUST 22-26, 2022 | 9AM - 4 PM
AGES 7-12 | MAX 18 campers
$300 PER STUDENT (no HST)
This camp is designed to bring out the musician + artist in you! Don’t worry about knowing your way around a melody. By the end of the week, musician and educator Carolyn McLeod will have you playing a tune and creating some harmonious art to accompany it!
Let music inspire your choice of colours & style for a musical painting, learn to write an original song and then add a melody & beat, explore ways to make music with every-day objects, create a box drum and rubber band guitar, experiment with water glass chimes, and art-up your own unique instruments. Who said music theory was boring? Not us!
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AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
9 AM - 4 PM | AGES 7-12
MAX 18 campers
$300 PER STUDENT (no HST)
You don’t have to be a superhero artist to join this fun-filled camp. You just have to be SUPER! Join artist and illustrator Katherine Olenic for a week of animating your way to becoming a comic genius!
Design your own characters for action, fantasy or super high tech adventures, learn to plan a story, create fantastical landscapes, build action hero puppets and create your own comic.
Ka-POW!
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3-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7
If your budding artist loves art, with a little get-up-and-go mixed in, this ART + MOVEMENT camp is for you!
We’ll invent our own junior yoga moves and get those ants in your pants dancing and singing, along with playful creativity and friend-making!
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5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Let’s time-jump into the art time machine and look at Art THEN + NOW! This camp is full-on art making, trying out new materials, and exploring the connections between art today and art of the past!
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5 DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
If you love to experiment, innovate, and collaborate then this camp is for you! This STE(A)M-injected camp brings super-sonic art making to young artists who love bright colours, bright ideas and are curious about how science and tech can POWER their ART explorations!
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5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7
Let’s answer the call of the wild in this nature-inspired camp, designed to bring out the WILD artist in you! We’ll use our creative nature to wander, wonder and engage with the wild world all around us in a week of fresh-air creativity, nature explorations and outdoor play!
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5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Ready for a week of avant-garde awesomeness? This kinetic camp will introduce young artists to American Modernist, Alexander Calder’s 1931 Cirque! A moveable feast of characters, contortionists, fire eaters, hi-wire performers and circus animals. We will spend the week creating our own kinetic circus fun!
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4-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7
Junior artists! Turn your fave book into a power pop-up 3-D Diorama Story Box. We will start each morning with a story and then get to work exploring visual story-making and transform our own favourite stories from home into sculptural ART!
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5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Young Makers! Turn your fave book into a power pop-up Diorama Story Box. Let’s explore visual story making and transform each of our favourite storybooks from home into sculptural Kid-Lit ART!
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5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7
Birds of a feather flock together in this week of high-flying fun! Join us for creative making inspired by our feathery friends! Whether you’re an early bird or a night owl we’ll spread our art wings and soar together and make memories that take flight!
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4-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Love to draw and shadowy storytelling?! Join us for some old-timey illustration inspired by American Gothic writer and illustrator Edward Gorey. Let’s explore the world of fancy-fine-line drawing, graphic story-telling and dark humour in this week of drawing and doodling.
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