Camps and Classes for Kids in Sonoma, CA

The Game Academy’s Adventure Gaming Summer Camps explore collaborative storytelling games in a mentorship model to foster empathy, communication, critical thinking, creativity, and cooperative problem-solving.

A week of exploration in art, education, and cooking led by Ana Rios, Sonia Mendoza (from Kid Scoop), and Chef Gerardo Diaz. Esta semana será una semana de exploración en arte, educación y cocina dirigida por Ana Ríos, Sonia Mendoza (de Kid Scoop) y el chef Gerardo Díaz.

Colors of Mexico: Spring Art Camp, a fun and creative spring camp where children explore Mexican culture through hands-on art projects like painting alebrijes, crafting Catrina masks, embossing with recycled materials, and experimenting with watercolor, acrylics, and collage.

Learn how to create comics and find your voice from New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Campbell! This one week camp will explore the importance of self expression through comics and cartoons.

Let’s Play! With clay of course. This week-long camp will focus on foundational clay techniques and exploration of the material. Through games and art history, students will create fun and meaningful projects that will build their confidence.

Let’s make clay animals! Learn how to use coils, pinch pots and more to create real or mythical animals. Projects will be glazed and fired. All levels are welcome.

Let’s make clay fairy houses and gardens. Learn how to use slabs and pinching techniques to build a fairy house and garden. Projects will be fired and glazed. All levels are welcome.

Join us for a week of fun in this hands-on arts camp. Participants will actively imagine, explore and create using clay, fiber, and paper mache.

Join us for Brush & Storybook Camp, a creative spring camp where children will write and illustrate their very own book!

The class is designed as a young child’s first independent movement class. Instruction will include warm-ups exercises, basic elements of dance an dballet positions, across the floor movement, and a creative dance through the use of stories, props and games.

The class will begin with a lecture and demo from the chef about certain cuts and knife techniques. After the demo, each student will join a work station and have the opportunity to practice these skills.

During this week of camp, we will be exploring different and creative ways to express ourselves through upcycled fashion, crafting, storytelling, costumes, masks, puppets, drawing, painting, dance parties and movies.

The Giant Puppet camp will offer children an adventure in creativity, myth creation, collaboration, and celebration. Campers will collectively imagine a world of characters for the Sonoma 2025 Fourth of July Parade.

Love doodling? Have you ever wanted to make a movie? Well, this hand-drawn animation and stop-motion camp is the perfect introduction to the art of animated stop motion!

Let’s discover a few of the amazing things we can do with water! We’ll upcycle salvaged items to make fascinating functional sculptures that move water, spray water, and maybe even do work with water.

Let’s explore the magic of multiplication, play with numbers, and make art using math!

Make your own plant-dyed tote bag! A whole week of painting, dyeing, and screen printing with plants, plus one day of sewing to transform your beautiful plant-dyed artworks into a summer tote.

Print Camp is for the print curious, art-focused, creative camper! This unique, week-long immersive camp will introduce your child to the intriguing, versatile world of printmaking.