About
The Butterfly Joint Camps is a woodworking and design program where children work on projects such as making chopsticks and carving a walking stick. Campers use traditional Japanese hand tools to create wood projects from reclaimed and repurposed woods, with the goal that students create and walk away with an heirloom.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: Camps range from one-day to week-long programs that run from 9:00am–3:00pm
• Price: 1-Day Chopsticks Camp: $120.00; SFUSD Spring Break Walking Stick Camp: $525.00; Private School Spring Break Walking Stick Camp: $525.00
The Butterfly Joint Camps is an owner-operated woodworking studio for kids and café with a limit of 10–12 students per camp. Camps at The Butterfly Joint are for children in Kindergarten and up and do not include Transitional Kindergarten (TK). Campers must bring their own lunch and snacks, nuts and foods that contain nuts are allowed because they eat outdoors and at a distance for snack and lunch, and children do not share food at camp. Recess and lunch breaks take place at Golden Gate Park, Sutro Heights Park, or Ocean Beach, and the program states that it takes full advantage of the natural beauty that surrounds the shop by holding recesses at these locations. All camps are final sale with no refunds or credits.
The founder and lead instructor, Danny Montoya, is a credentialed early-childhood educator with more than a decade of classroom experience, including 7 years as a first grade teacher and 5 years in kindergarten. The business is owner-operated, and the founder answers calls, emails, and instructs classes and camps. The Butterfly Joint was established in June 2015. The stated goals as a teacher are centered around socialization, social justice, problem-solving, and creating a positive learning environment that models and teaches personal responsibility, confidence, independence, resiliency, antiracism, advocacy, manners, personal and community responsibility, empathy, and being polite, and the program offers classes and camps that instill the importance of focus, problem-solving, resilience, determination, and responsibility through woodworking.
Last updated April 7, 2026.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: Camps range from one-day to week-long programs that run from 9:00am–3:00pm
• Price: 1-Day Chopsticks Camp: $120.00; SFUSD Spring Break Walking Stick Camp: $525.00; Private School Spring Break Walking Stick Camp: $525.00
The Butterfly Joint Camps is an owner-operated woodworking studio for kids and café with a limit of 10–12 students per camp. Camps at The Butterfly Joint are for children in Kindergarten and up and do not include Transitional Kindergarten (TK). Campers must bring their own lunch and snacks, nuts and foods that contain nuts are allowed because they eat outdoors and at a distance for snack and lunch, and children do not share food at camp. Recess and lunch breaks take place at Golden Gate Park, Sutro Heights Park, or Ocean Beach, and the program states that it takes full advantage of the natural beauty that surrounds the shop by holding recesses at these locations. All camps are final sale with no refunds or credits.
The founder and lead instructor, Danny Montoya, is a credentialed early-childhood educator with more than a decade of classroom experience, including 7 years as a first grade teacher and 5 years in kindergarten. The business is owner-operated, and the founder answers calls, emails, and instructs classes and camps. The Butterfly Joint was established in June 2015. The stated goals as a teacher are centered around socialization, social justice, problem-solving, and creating a positive learning environment that models and teaches personal responsibility, confidence, independence, resiliency, antiracism, advocacy, manners, personal and community responsibility, empathy, and being polite, and the program offers classes and camps that instill the importance of focus, problem-solving, resilience, determination, and responsibility through woodworking.
Last updated April 7, 2026.
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