Class Information

HANDS ON ARTS & CRAFTS with Sam Spencer

Creative fun and sensory exploration! If your kid likes to get messy and explore and experiment with art, then this camp is for you! Glue and glitter, foam and paint–they will have projects to bring home and experiences to remember. We will be inside and out, working large scale and small–taking detailed care and being explosively impressionistic. If you've ever dropped your child off at Play Group at the Phinney Center, or Dragon Room Date Night, you know how much fun your child has had with Sam Spencer. Sam is a PNPC Parent, Artist and coordinator of Date Night in the Dragon Room and Playgroup.

June 21-June 25
Morning Session: 10:00 am-12:00 pm   SOLD OUT - email teacher to be put on waitlist

June 23, 24, 25 (3 days)
Afternoon Session: 1:00-3:00 pm   CANCELED

June 28 - July 2  
Morning Session: 10:00 am-12:00 pm   SOLD OUT - email teacher to be put on waitlist
Afternoon Session: 1:00-3:00 pm          SOLD OUT - email teacher to be put on waitlist

Ages 3+
MIN Enrollment: 8, MAX Enrollment: 14
5 day class = $110 (includes materials fee)
3 day class = $70 (includes materials fee)

MAMA GORDITO'S SPANISH FIESTA with Martha Escobar de Breslauer

Immerse your child in Spanish this summer, while he or she creates a fiesta! Through song, dance, crafts and words your child will learn and practice many useful Spanish phrases while enjoying the arts of Latin American culture. Taught by an experienced teacher and native Spanish speaker, Martha Escobar de Breslauer. Each student will work with other students to create a fiesta on the last day of class, which their parents will be invited to enjoy!

July 5-8 (4 days), MORNING Session: 9:30 am-12:00 pm
August 9-13 (5 days), AFTERNOON Session:  1:00-3:30 pm

Ages 4-8
MIN Enrollment:  10, MAX Enrollment: 12
$110 

SUMMER READING FUN in Japanese with Mai Takahashi DeBlieck

Summer is a great time to learn Japanese! During this one-week immersion class, students will be exposed to the Japanese language and culture through crafts, games, songs, cooking, and creative activities. We will especially focus on Hiragana letters and play a lot of games to learn them.  

Mai Takahashi DeBlieck is a PNPC co-op mom who also teaches immersion Japanese for children at the PNA and is a Japanese storyteller at Ravenna Third Place Books through Polly-Glot Tots.

July 5-8 (4 days)
Afternoon Session: 1:00-3:30pm  CANCELED

Ages 5-8
MIN Enrollment: 8, MAX Enrollment: 12
$110

SCIENCE CAMP with Lisa Storch Goldberg

Join us as we have fun learning about science through experiments, art, stories and movement. We’ll explore different science concepts by learning how rainbows are made (diffraction), what happens when solids turn to liquid (melting point), what makes a volcano explode or muffins rise (gas formation) and much more! Lisa has a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry, is a PNPC Parent and Playgroup Sitter. Please bring a snack and water bottle.

July 12–16 (5 days)
Morning session: 10:00 am-12:00 pm  SOLD OUT - email teacher to be put on waitlist
Afternoon session: 1:00 -3:00 pm        SOLD OUT - email teacher to be put on waitlist

Ages 3-5
MIN Enrollment:  8, MAX Enrollment: 12
$110

TOTALLY FUN YOGA with Wendy Cunningham

This yoga class incorporates poses and movement while traveling on imaginative journeys by utilizing themes, music, stories, art, games, and relaxation. We will focus on fun, play, and movement while introducing forms of yoga. Definitely not your average yoga class!  (Note:  Session #2 focuses more on postures, breathing, and relaxation, as well as group and partner poses.)  The instructor, Wendy Cunningham has her BS in exercise science and currently holds her 200 Hour Yoga Alliance certification and children's yoga certifications from Radiant Child Yoga Program (RCYP1 & 2) and Mini Yogis in Los Angeles. She is the owner and director of Bizzy Bodies Yoga and is also a Washington state certified PE and Health teacher.

July 19-23
Morning Session: 9:30 am- 11:30 pm   CANCELED

Ages: 3+
MIN Enrollment:  8, MAX Enrollment: 14
$105

MINI-CAMPS FOR MINI-PEOPLE with Laura Genoves

Fill up those long, napless summer afternoons with mini camps! Children 2-5 are welcome to sign up for different sessions offered throughout the week. We will provide a daily theme and activities to keep children happy and entertained. Monday -Train Camp, Tuesday- Princess and Knight Camp, Wednesday -Hawaii Camp, Thursday – Dinosaur Camp, Friday – Water, water everywhere!

July 19, 20, 21, 22 and/or 23 (5 SEPARATE days)
Afternoon Sessions:  1:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Ages 2-5
MIN Enrollment:  8, MAX Enrollment: 12
$20/session

*There is a separate REGISTRATION PROCESS for Mini-Camps. 
Please download this MINI-CAMP REGISTRATION FORM and follow the directions.

FRENCH LANGUAGE CAMP with Tanya Knudsen

DDoes your child have French comprehension? Are you interested in reading and practicing with them at home? Join us for French language camp where will introduce your children to two book series: Popi and Petit Ours Brun. Games, music and arts and crafts activities will bring these French favorites to life during camp and when you practice at home. Books will be available to use in class. They are also available for subscription and loan at the Alliance Francaise in Seattle.  (French knowledge desired.) Your child will enjoy French with Tanya, the Founder and French Instructor for POLLY-GLOT TOTS and a PNPC mom!

July 26- July 30
Morning Session:  9:00-11:30 am  CANCELED

Ages 4-7
MIN Enrollment:  8, MAX Enrollment: 12
$115

GUNKY GOOP (SCIENCE SOUP) with Trina Willard

Remember when you were a kid and you made those strange concoctions in a big bowl with everything you could find?  Well now it's your kid’s turn and what an opportunity to do it with Trina, our very own PreK teacher!  Let your kids use their imaginations while mixing real ingredients to make strange concoctions and sensory experiments.  This week of gunky goop (science soup) is filled with Slime, goop, gak, dough, paste and other messy pleasures.  Dress for mess, bring a snack and a water bottle!

July 26-30  
Afternoon Session: 12:00-3:30 (3.5 HOURS!)  SOLD OUT - email teacher to be put on waitlist

Ages 4-7 (kids who are turning 4 over summer are okay if Pre-K ready)
MIN Enrollment: 8, MAX Enrollment: 10
$165 

CAMP ALOHA  with Laura Genoves

Back for a third year of fabulous Hawaiian fun! Join our ohana (family) for a week of hands-on learning about the 50th state, HAWAII. ‘ Auntie Laura’, a Hawaii native, and her two middle school sons will share the history, culture, and traditions of the 50th state through exciting games, songs, stories and activities. Weekly activities include ukulele strumming, hula dancing, interactive projects such as building a volcano and creating art with real Hawaiian sand! Our last day of camp culminates with a mini-luau for families with entertainment and samples of traditional Hawaiian foods such as poi and haupia (coconut pudding). Hele on!

August 2-6
Morning Session:  9:30-11:30 am    2 spots Left         Email Laura to register

This summer, come on a round-the-world voyage with teacher Laura, in our magical airplane. You'll explore the African Continent, learn about the various Asian cultures and make “sushi”, hop with kangaroos down under, travel on a royal tour of Europe, sample French bread and cheese and create wire sculptures. Learn to say 'hello' in Swahili, and so much more! Join other international explorers for a week, have your Dragon Room passport stamped on five different continents, and capture your memories with a variety of fabulous take-home projects.

Come join the wizard, the dragon, the rabbit and the fairies on their adventures around the world!  Each day we will work together as characters to solve a different problem, experiencing creative drama, music, dance, poetry, storytelling, puppetry and costume design along the way.  Instructor Meredith Berlin is a professional theatre artist working at Seattle Children's Theatre, where she has led the multi-arts preschool program C.A.S.T. for the past six years.

Kids love to be in the kitchen!  Feeling the food...creating yummy things to eat...just being a part of the process.  Let Jeanne McGrady, PNPC Mom and PNPC AS Chair, help your little ones explore their way through kitchen.  We will be cooking breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and snacks (so clearly no snacks from home are needed - we'll be eating our own creations!  Just bring your own water bottle).  Skills kids will also learn while we cook: kitchen safety, cracking and whisking eggs, slicing, stirring, flipping, kneading, baking and of course EATING!  Each child will receive an apron and recipe book of the dishes they made!  Come and join the KIDS IN THE KITCHEN!

August 16-20
Morning Session:  10:00 am - 12:00 pm              SOLD OUT - email teacher to be put on waitlist
Afternoon Session:  1:00-3:00 pm                       SOLD OUT - email teacher to be put on waitlist

Ages 4-6
MIN Enrollment:  7, MAX Enrollment: 10
$120 (includes a $10 materials/grocery fee)

PLEASE NOTE: due to so many food allergies that are "out there" (I have even have my own!) - Kids in the Kitchen summer camp will NOT be a food allergy free camp (materials and planning are completed prior to registration so I will have no way of knowing potential allergies). I am happy to have kids with allergies in my camp if they know what they can and cannot eat (and I am aware of the allergy) and if handling foods that contain something they cannot eat is okay.