For Any Students Entering Kindergarten in Fall 2025.
CAIS Enrollment Not Required.
| Dates | Camp |
|---|---|
| 6/16 – 6/20 (closed 6/19) | Myths & Legends |
| 6/23 – 6/27 | Marvels of the Natural World |
| 6/30 – 7/3 (closed 7/4) | Building & Engineering |
| 7/7 – 7/11 | Light & Shadow |
| 7/14 – 7/18 | Sound & Movement |
| 7/21 – 7/25 | Myths & Legends |
| 7/28 – 8/1 | Marvels of the Natural World |
| 8/4 – 8/8 | Building & Engineering |
Cost: $619/week
Location: CAIS Campus, 3250 19th Ave, San Francisco CA
Dates: Weekly from July 16 – August 8
Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Morning Care: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. (complimentary)
Aftercare: 3:45 – 5:30 p.m. ($130/week)
Contact: team@campdoodles.com
Myths and Legends
Come discover the stories of the before-time. Experience ancient myths and legends, and learn about local Native American folklore. Play with Coyote and Raven while exploring elements of character and theater. Are you a trickster or a hero?
- Learn about oral storytelling traditions in different cultures.
- Investigate different versions of traditional fairy tales!
- Think about character traits in stories, and how to tell a story dramatically.
- Complete the theater experience writing your own myth, creating characters, rehearsing, and performing for an audience.
Marvels of the Natural World
Slow down and really pay attention. Investigate nature all around us – that we can only see if we look carefully. Insects and spiders, dirt and rocks, leaves and sticks transform with magnification. You can visit a whole new world.
- Become an entomologist as you study the physical science behind all kinds of creepy crawly things!
- Expand your critical thinking skills as you compare and contrast humans with bugs, birds, and other kinds of mammals.
- Experience magnification and the detail it adds to your observation – then use it for art.
- Explore different kids of artistic expression with natural materials, including Native weaving and pottery!
Building and Engineering
Calling all architects and engineers! Design, build and test your structures as you learn to apply different construction principles. Since working with friends is not only fun but also very helpful in the creative process, you will develop construction strategies in collaboration with your peers.
- Learn the basic engineering design process as you experiment with balance, gravity, measurement, symmetry, and spatial relationships.
- Develop your divergent thinking as you prototype different three-dimensional designs in different environments.
- Play with different combinations of materials including rocks and logs, metal and magnets, and new and recycled materials as you test their impact on your structures.
Light and Shadow
Our shadows go with us everywhere! But where do they come from? We will observe the sun as a source of light, and explore the cause and effect of light and shadows at different times of the day.
- Observe the changes to shadows during the course of the day. Synthesize how this relates to night and day.
- Investigate creativity with shadows – drawing, painting, and shadow puppets will inspire campers’ imaginations.
- Utilize different multi-sensory light sources such as flashlights, LEDs, light projectors, and even natural light in combination with materials that respond to illumination.
- Become a scientist as you explore the properties of transparent, translucent, and opaque materials in relationship to light.
Sound and Movement
Sound and movement have been important to humans since the first human discovered dance! This year we will investigate rhythm from a multi-cultural perspective. There is a science to the sense of hearing, but there is also an element of art and social-emotional engagement that is intensely creative.
- Study how our ears work to help our brains process sound.
- Develop fine motor skills and rhythm with instruments.
- Explore through art the close relationship between music and emotions.
- Let it all go with kinesthetic experiences that will develop your gross motor skills, cognitive processing, and emotional intelligence.