Greene Hill School Day Camp (ages 3-6)

Greene Hill School Day Camp offers a nurturing environment and fun program filled with sports, arts, music and outdoor play for children ages three to six. Every day campers work with open ended materials that support GHS’s progressive philosophy and child centered approach.  Elective classes in visual arts, gymnastics, movement and music are selected weekly.  Campers enjoy our oversized block yard, big yard and nearby playgrounds rounding out the week with an all camp game day! Our Camp is supervised by Greene Hill School teachers whose deep understanding of child development connect children in wonderful ways with their world.  

Creative Writing Camp at Greene Hill

Superheroes and Stories and Poems, Oh My: Creative Writing and Storytelling

7-10 Year Olds
Weeks:  July 4, July 18, August 1
Two primary purposes of art are to explore the self and respond to our world.  Young writers will get first-hand experience in each by examining and writing stories, poems, and songs in the context of broader topics like nature, the seasons, and history.  Through class and individual exercises based around media like film, music, dance, and painting, emphasis will be placed on harnessing the five senses to create exciting written work and on the creation of engaging characters and stories.  Students might create their own superheroes or tall tales, compose their own storytelling ballads, or insert themselves into history while rewriting it, ultimately expanding their projects into the realm of illustration or video.

Stories in Motion: Fiction and Multimedia Storytelling

11-13 Year Olds
Weeks:  June 27, July 11, July 25
Storytelling may not be a science, but it is a craft, and as with any art, the trick is to harness the craft to let your imagination run wild.  Using texts like short stories and film scripts, young writers will dissect craft elements like character, action, pacing, and point of view to see what makes some very effective writing tick before letting their imaginations loose through those different craft lenses.  Writers will then examine the elements of storytelling in different media such as songwriting or video, ultimately growing their stories up and off of the page in whichever forms and directions speak most loudly to them.

Greene Hill School Visual Arts Lab

Comic Creation
7-10 Year Olds
Weeks:  June 27, July 11, July 25

A picture can say a thousand words, but a group of them strung together as a comic strip can proclaim whole worlds. Comics powerfully communicate emotions, actions, and relationships by mixing words into the imagery and creating exciting stories, and in   this workshop, young artists will experiment and practice with the concepts and methods that form the backbone of visual storytelling. By developing designs for characters and settings and experimenting with a variety of panel transitions, shapes, and layouts, young artists will get hands-on experience in both the mechanics and the heart of illustrated stories. By the end of the course they will each have their own one-of-a-kind comic book  and the skills to create more.

Painting our World
11-13 Year Olds
Weeks: July 4, July 18, August 1

Close observation is a crucial tool for any artist, and anyone using paint to bring to life the blank canvas needs to pay particular attention to  form and color. Over the course of a week, young painters  will closely observe the shapes and shades of our environment, each other, and ourselves, and use paint to depict the 3D world  on a 2D surface. We will begin with black and white, then move to monochromatic, and finally incorporate the full color spectrum into our paintings. In addition to objects and people, we will closely observe how colors impact a painting’s emotion and learn craft skills such as how to use traditional painting tools and how to mix colors for desired effects.