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Summer Camps offers project-based children’s art camps that include hands-on artmaking, exploration, and imaginative play. Campers take part in activities such as toy making, making toys that move, sewing a plushie, making a board game, and making a splatter painting with a spinning top. They also engage in building, collage, painting, relief printing, stamping, sun printing, mapping out a new place, fantasy worldbuilding, sketching, narrative creation, sculpture, ceramics with hand-building techniques like pinch pots, coils, and slabs, texture experimentation, surface design, glazing, drawing, printmaking, clay, creating prints and watercolors, creating mobiles, obstacle courses, using natural materials to make art, inventing exploration tools, daily art and design challenges, using hammers, sewing, wood burning, mixed media sculpture, learning about animal biology, designing creatures using traits from across the animal kingdom, fiber art, creating costumes and instruments, exploring set design, drawing for comics and characters, creating a comic book, and creating a cast of characters.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:45am–3:45pm
• Price: Camp pricing is the same for both members and non-members. Camps are $550 per week.
Summer Camps at The New Children’s Museum in San Diego are led by professional artist-educators. The program is described as offering award-winning, project-based children’s art camps for ages 5–13. Camps include time in the art studio space Artopia: NCM Creative Studios, which is described as a brand-new creative hub, as well as time throughout the Museum. The New Children’s Museum states that its interactive art installations and hands-on art programming provide creative and educational experiences for children and families. Registration for 2026 Summer Camps is open. As part of giving back to the community that supports them, The New Children’s Museum donates a 3–4 person membership to nonprofit organizations for fundraising events benefiting the community, with priority given to San Diego County organizations. The New Children’s Museum is open 6 days a week (closed on Tuesdays) from 9am–4pm.
Last updated June 25, 2026.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:45am–3:45pm
• Price: Camp pricing is the same for both members and non-members. Camps are $550 per week.
Summer Camps at The New Children’s Museum in San Diego are led by professional artist-educators. The program is described as offering award-winning, project-based children’s art camps for ages 5–13. Camps include time in the art studio space Artopia: NCM Creative Studios, which is described as a brand-new creative hub, as well as time throughout the Museum. The New Children’s Museum states that its interactive art installations and hands-on art programming provide creative and educational experiences for children and families. Registration for 2026 Summer Camps is open. As part of giving back to the community that supports them, The New Children’s Museum donates a 3–4 person membership to nonprofit organizations for fundraising events benefiting the community, with priority given to San Diego County organizations. The New Children’s Museum is open 6 days a week (closed on Tuesdays) from 9am–4pm.
Last updated June 25, 2026.
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