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heARTful Kids Summer Camp offers exploration of visual arts, music, movement, performance, and group games, along with mindfulness practices and access to a Maker’s Lab for self-led choice time. Campers take part in sequential project-based art instruction, movement-based leadership, structured art projects, a daily community circle, a closing circle, and a dance party, with optional after care that includes snacks and free play.
• Ages: 6–11 years old
• Schedule: Daily camp day from 8:30am drop off to 3:00pm pick up, with after care available from 3:15–5:30pm
• Price: $100 off through Jan. 31
Each camp day follows a set schedule that includes a morning community circle and group games, a music class, snack and play time, a movement-based leadership class, lunch and outdoor play, a structured art project class, self-directed art exploration in the Maker’s Lab, a closing circle, and a dance party before pick up. The program offers easy drop off and pick up with ample parking.
heARTful Kids Summer Camp is part of heARTful Kids, an educational consultancy and creativity incubator that serves kids, educators, families, and organizations with access to transformative educational experiences. heARTful Kids has evolved from decades of dynamic educational support with children and families in the fields of art therapy, expressive arts, play therapy, behavioral therapy, structured literacy, and academic tutoring. The program’s mission is to help kids and those that care about them leverage their innate creativity as a vehicle for greater self-awareness, joy, and connection to their unique learning process, and to cultivate a love for learning through creative skill building that empowers kids with social-emotional intelligence and leadership abilities. Programs expand the definition of art by blending empirical, therapeutic frameworks into structured opportunities to cultivate self-awareness, build deep connections, explore new ideas, and apply these learnings to everyday life, combining social-emotional learning with neuroscience, behavioral science, and expressive arts.
The camp uses art to build leaders and co-create a culture of belonging, courage, and kindness, with a focus on leadership skills and growth mindset thinking, creative risk-taking, collaboration, self-expression, and confidence-boosting social-emotional frameworks. Each camp day is designed with an intentional balance of community building, interdisciplinary arts integration, growth mindset empowerment, and open play, and every morning begins with a community circle where the Mindset Mode for the day is discussed and a culture of courage and kindness is co-created. The final Friday of camp follows a different schedule to prepare for a final Showcase at the end of the day. The camper to educator ratio is approximately 6 to 1, sometimes less, and the program offers mentorship with trained leaders from a Leaders-In-Training (LIT) program for rising 7th–9th graders. The camp emphasizes an inclusive and compassionate space that supports kids with different learning styles and needs, provides access to a proven transformative arts curriculum, integrates exploration of leadership skills, and includes mindfulness for confidence and emotional well-being within a supportive, multi-generational community of artists. Frameworks leveraged include Expressive Arts, Transformative Arts, Play Therapy, Visual Learning Strategies, Sequential Visual Literacy, Applied Behavior Analysis, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Educational Psychology, Social-Emotional Learning Frameworks, Embodied Cognition, Movement and Games, and Mindfulness and Movement Practices.
Guidance at heARTful Kids Summer Camp comes from professional artists and highly trained educators, including a team of highly trained educators, creatives, and expressive artists. The leadership team includes Chrissy (Program Director); Vita Pascone (Founder, Executive Director); Mz. Rhonda (Music Specialist, Creative Counselor); Vita (Expressive Arts Specialist); Ms. Clara (Creative Counselor); Camille (Assistant Teacher); and Dom (Creative Counselor). Prior to entrepreneurship, Vita Pascone served as a Behavioral Therapist and Educational Specialist for children with divergent learning needs, received her Master’s in Transformative Arts from JFK University in Berkeley, CA in 2014, and gathered certifications in Mindfulness, Play-Based Facilitation, and Art Therapy after a deep dive into scientifically proven approaches.
heARTful Kids designs and facilitates a series of signature transformative programs and professional development trainings in partnership with various districts, non-profits, schools, and families, and through these partnerships has served thousands of kids across the Bay Area and beyond. Testimonials from parents and professionals describe the program as a special experience with strong connections between kids and staff, an emphasis on growth mindset and important art concepts, and a passion and creativity in curriculum design and implementation, with several parents and a nonprofit director recommending or appreciating the impact of heARTful Kids on their children and communities.
Last updated May 23, 2026.
• Ages: 6–11 years old
• Schedule: Daily camp day from 8:30am drop off to 3:00pm pick up, with after care available from 3:15–5:30pm
• Price: $100 off through Jan. 31
Each camp day follows a set schedule that includes a morning community circle and group games, a music class, snack and play time, a movement-based leadership class, lunch and outdoor play, a structured art project class, self-directed art exploration in the Maker’s Lab, a closing circle, and a dance party before pick up. The program offers easy drop off and pick up with ample parking.
heARTful Kids Summer Camp is part of heARTful Kids, an educational consultancy and creativity incubator that serves kids, educators, families, and organizations with access to transformative educational experiences. heARTful Kids has evolved from decades of dynamic educational support with children and families in the fields of art therapy, expressive arts, play therapy, behavioral therapy, structured literacy, and academic tutoring. The program’s mission is to help kids and those that care about them leverage their innate creativity as a vehicle for greater self-awareness, joy, and connection to their unique learning process, and to cultivate a love for learning through creative skill building that empowers kids with social-emotional intelligence and leadership abilities. Programs expand the definition of art by blending empirical, therapeutic frameworks into structured opportunities to cultivate self-awareness, build deep connections, explore new ideas, and apply these learnings to everyday life, combining social-emotional learning with neuroscience, behavioral science, and expressive arts.
The camp uses art to build leaders and co-create a culture of belonging, courage, and kindness, with a focus on leadership skills and growth mindset thinking, creative risk-taking, collaboration, self-expression, and confidence-boosting social-emotional frameworks. Each camp day is designed with an intentional balance of community building, interdisciplinary arts integration, growth mindset empowerment, and open play, and every morning begins with a community circle where the Mindset Mode for the day is discussed and a culture of courage and kindness is co-created. The final Friday of camp follows a different schedule to prepare for a final Showcase at the end of the day. The camper to educator ratio is approximately 6 to 1, sometimes less, and the program offers mentorship with trained leaders from a Leaders-In-Training (LIT) program for rising 7th–9th graders. The camp emphasizes an inclusive and compassionate space that supports kids with different learning styles and needs, provides access to a proven transformative arts curriculum, integrates exploration of leadership skills, and includes mindfulness for confidence and emotional well-being within a supportive, multi-generational community of artists. Frameworks leveraged include Expressive Arts, Transformative Arts, Play Therapy, Visual Learning Strategies, Sequential Visual Literacy, Applied Behavior Analysis, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Educational Psychology, Social-Emotional Learning Frameworks, Embodied Cognition, Movement and Games, and Mindfulness and Movement Practices.
Guidance at heARTful Kids Summer Camp comes from professional artists and highly trained educators, including a team of highly trained educators, creatives, and expressive artists. The leadership team includes Chrissy (Program Director); Vita Pascone (Founder, Executive Director); Mz. Rhonda (Music Specialist, Creative Counselor); Vita (Expressive Arts Specialist); Ms. Clara (Creative Counselor); Camille (Assistant Teacher); and Dom (Creative Counselor). Prior to entrepreneurship, Vita Pascone served as a Behavioral Therapist and Educational Specialist for children with divergent learning needs, received her Master’s in Transformative Arts from JFK University in Berkeley, CA in 2014, and gathered certifications in Mindfulness, Play-Based Facilitation, and Art Therapy after a deep dive into scientifically proven approaches.
heARTful Kids designs and facilitates a series of signature transformative programs and professional development trainings in partnership with various districts, non-profits, schools, and families, and through these partnerships has served thousands of kids across the Bay Area and beyond. Testimonials from parents and professionals describe the program as a special experience with strong connections between kids and staff, an emphasis on growth mindset and important art concepts, and a passion and creativity in curriculum design and implementation, with several parents and a nonprofit director recommending or appreciating the impact of heARTful Kids on their children and communities.
Last updated May 23, 2026.
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