Summer Camp 2025
Registration for Summer Sessions will open on
Saturday, January 25th at 9:00am!
To be added to a waitlist for sold out camp please
send an email to:
[email protected]
All Hands Allston’s Summer Sessions are especially designed for children who love crafting projects and making art. We can be very flexible in our scheduling because our cohort size is small (no more than six children) and we do not share our space.
Mornings will usually start with an extended project lasting an hour and a half to two hours. Often this first part of the day will be spent doing woodworking. The morning may also include a short art activity or game before or after the long session. Late morning, around eleven o’clock, we will get ready and head to a neighborhood park about a 10 to 15 minute walk from the studio. The park we plan to most often use is quiet and shady. It offers open space, playground equipment and a sprinkler. At the park we’ll have a relaxed recess and lunch, including a chance to cool off in the water. Some days we may choose to go to different parks in the neighborhood. Upon returning to the studio everyone will have a chance to change into dry clothing and get ready for the afternoon. By about 12:30 we’ll start the afternoon art making. Most afternoons will be broken into two or more project sessions. Depending on the week’s theme, projects could include printmaking, sculpting with found and recycled objects, painting, book making, weaving, felting, sewing, dying, mixing slime, and many other possibilities. In the middle of the afternoon we’ll take a brief popsicle break. At about 3:15 everyone will help clean up and get ready for pick up time at 3:30. On Friday afternoons parents and guardians are invited to arrive twenty minutes early, at 3:10pm, to enjoy a display of everyone’s artwork!
Camp is $560.00 per week - all materials are included.
Summer Camp Sessions 2025
Monday - Friday 9:00am - 3:30pm
July 7 - July 11 ages 7-12
Animals Wild and Tame
This week we’ll focus on animals real and imaginary. Everyone will design and build an animal bench in woodworking. Campers will invent a magical animal and then bring it to life with papier mâché. This week will include drawing, collage, painting, and sculpting while working with a wide variety of art and recycled materials.
July 14 - July 18 Ages 7-12
Things That Fly
Campers will make a bird, dragon or other beast with flapping wings in woodworking. Gadgets to launch paper planes, catapults to launch pompoms or other flying inventions will be built.
This week will include drawing, collage, painting, and sculpting while working with a wide variety of art and recycled materials. And of course we’ll blast off hand made rockets!
July 21 – July 25 ages 7-12
Traveling in the Enchanted Forest
In woodworking each camper will design and build a gypsy wagon for traveling wizards, elves or fairies to live in. Using wood, cloth, clay and natural materials the wagons will be furnished. This week will mix art and science. We’ll explore making layered and fizzing potions. We’ll draw, paint, and sculpt while working with a wide variety of art and recycled materials.
July 28 – August 2 ages 5-10
Pirates and Mermaids
Every camper will build a wooden treasure chest of their own design. Many items will be made to fill the chests such as pirate hats, mermaid jewelry and treasure maps. Each camper will also create a magical under the ocean world filled with items such as sunken ships, mermaids, sharks and sea monsters. Underwater themed projects will include painting, drawing and sculpting in a variety of materials.
August 4 - August 8 ages 4-7
Messy Morning and Artful Afternoons
This session is a mix of art, science and fun projects! Make wild animals or ‘things that go’ in woodworking, mix slime and other potions, paint with shaving cream or spray bottles and make amazing creations using a variety of art, recycled and natural materials. Each day will include experimenting with a wide variety of art materials and techniques, always asking the question “What happens if?”.