A camp where creative young learners can come and expect to experience something they’ve never done before! From designing a shirt to building with cardboard, the students of this camp will get to use their creativity to make, build, and design things that are entirely new to them. Each day will have a theme or idea that they will create around.

• Grades: 4-6 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates:  June 17-21 (no camp June 19) 
• Time: 12 -2:30 pm
• Cost: $70
• Teacher: Delaney O’Rourke, Le'Royia Campbell
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Participants: 24
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)
  

A camp where creative young learners can come and expect to experience something they’ve never done before! From designing a shirt to building with cardboard, the students of this camp will get to use their creativity to make, build, and design things that are entirely new to them. Each day will have a theme or idea that they will create around.

• Grades: 1-3 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates:  June 24-28 
• Time: 12 -2:30 pm
• Cost: $70
• Teacher: Delaney O’Rourke, Le'Royia Campbell
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Participants: 24
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)
  

Campers will learn how to needle felt on a flat surface and a 3D sculpture and how to wet felt.

• Grades: 4-6 (2024-25 School Year) 
• Dates:
  • July 1-5 (no camp July 4) 
• Time: 8:30 - 11 am
• Cost: $70
• Teacher: Delaney O'Rourke & Lindsey Moss
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Participants: 24
• Registration Here (Checkout as Guest)

Theater camp at YMS is an active experience with characterization, stage work, and performance.  It is open to students who are entering grades 7-9.  This is an excellent chance to make new friends, and get acquainted with the YMS theater program. Students must wear comfortable clothing they can move in and closed-toe shoes. Students must also pack a lunch. Refrigeration is available. 

No experience is necessary.

• Grades: 7-9 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 11-14 
• Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
• Cost - $100
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teacher: Tammy Eaton & Julie Gartung
• Participants: 25+
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

Come join this fun camp where you will be acting, singing, and dancing in the musical The Most Epic Birthday Party. 

Skyler is about to turn 12, and she’s planned the biggest celebration of the year. But in the middle of the party, something mysterious happens - all the adults suddenly vanish! Trapped in the backyard, the kids realize they must create a brand new society. However, when they elect Skyler’s older brother, Charlie, as their ruler, things really begin to spin out of control. Eventually, the kids learn a big lesson in responsibility, while Skyler and Charlie develop a greater respect for one another.

No previous experience is required.  

Auditions will be held June 14th and the camp will culminate in a performance on June 21st at 3 pm.

• Grades: 4-6 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 11-June 21 (No camp 6/19)
• Time: 8 am -12 pm
  • *June 20 & 21 will run from 8 am - 2:30 pm 
• Cost: $100
• Teacher: Ryan Crocilla-Martinez,  Tori Vicich
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Participants: 20
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)
  

Calling all future Picassos! Come have fun in this engaging arts and crafts camp where students will have fun first learning about animals and then creating their art masterpieces to showcase those animals!

• Grades: 1-3 (2024-25 School Year) 
• Dates:
  • Session 1 - June 24-28
  • Session 2 - July 1-5 (no camp July 4)
• Time: 8:30-11 am
• Cost: $70
• Teacher: Rachel Litchfield
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Participants: 12
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

Have you ever wished you could literally wear your art on your sleeve? With this camp, you will! Join us and you'll have the opportunity to create a variety of wearable art including buttons, clay beads for jewelry, and even your own shirt!

• Grades: 4-6 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates:  July 1-5 (no camp July 4)
• Time: 12-2:30 pm
• Cost: $70
• Teacher: Lindsey Moss,  Delaney O’Rourke
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Participants: 24
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)
  

Do you love to bake? Would you love to learn to decorate? Join this camp and learn the basics of cake decorating. Campers will create borders, stars, flowers, and leaves and will leave this camp with their own cake-decorating tool kit to continue creating at home! Campers must bring a plastic container with their name on it for icing storage.

• Grades: 5-9 (2024-25 School Year)
• Date: June  17-21 (no camp June 19) 
  • Session 1: 8:30 - 11 am
  • Session 2: 12 - 2:30 pm
• Cost: $70
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teachers: Christine Amoni
• Participants: 10-12 per session
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)
  

Come and learn basic fondant techniques and create fondant figures each day. Camp will culminate with a decorated cake to take home on the last day of camp. Campers must bring a plastic container with their name on it for fondant storage.

• Grades 5-9 (2024-25 School Year)
• Date: July 1-5 (no class on July 4) 
  • Session 1: 8:30 - 11 am
  • Session 2: 12 - 2:30 pm
• Cost: $70
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teacher: Christine Amoni
• Participants: 12
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

Explore the world of children’s literature with tasty tidbits inspired by the fun-loving characters from your favorite children’s books! Campers will bring the stories to life through their edible creations.

• Grades: 1-3 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 24-28
  • Session 1: 9 - 11 am
  • Session 2: 12 - 2 pm
• Cost: $70
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teacher: Christine Amoni
• Participants: 10 per session
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)
  

Do you have a sweet tooth? Come enjoy a weeklong class learning how to make delicious desserts! Students will learn basic measurement skills while baking and have fun decorating with a variety of edible goodies. All bakers will bring home a cookbook full of recipes made throughout the week.

• Grades 3-5 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 24-28
  • Session 1: 8:30 -11 am
  • Session 2: 12 - 2:30 pm
• Cost: $75
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teachers:  Anne Ress & Katie Dackow 
• Participants: 16 per session
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)
  

Improve your spoken Spanish and have fun while doing it.  This camp is for anyone who likes crafts big and small and likes to make what you've only imagined.  Please join us and see how much your Spanish can crecer (which means to grow)!

• Grades: 1-3 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 17-21 (no camp June 19)
• Time:
  • Session 1-8:30-11 am
  • Session 2-12-2:30 pm
• Cost: $70
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teacher: Toni Morgan
• Participants: 12
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)
  

The World is Wide Open When You Read! 

Each week, gather with your peers to find new titles in our collection, complete the Olympic Reading Tic Tac Toe for grand prizes, play different games, and do Olympic inspired crafts! Full access to the YMS Library for summer reading. 5 Sessions Wednesdays. Open to students entering grades 5 and up!

• Grades:5 and up (2024-25 School Year)
• Time: 11 am - 1:30 pm
• Dates: July 3, 10, 17, 24, & 31 
• Cost: $35
• Teachers: Wamecca Rodriguez, Julie Gartung
• Location: YMS Library
• Participants: 20+
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

A Course in Musical Exploration. This piano course will teach advanced concepts and focus on teaching notes, rhythm, and beats using the piano and percussion instruments. This camp is sure to spark the imagination and inspire continued learning and enrichment. The last day will culminate in a piano recital.

• Grades: 4-6 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 17 - June 21 (no camp 6/19) 
• Time: 10:30 am - 12 pm
• Cost: $55
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teachers: Joe Rand & Jennifer Martin
• Participants: 16 
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

“Circle of Fifths” made easy! This camp is a must for those who play a musical instrument. Keyboards will be used (no piano experience is necessary) to unlock unique patterns within key signatures, making the Circle of Fifths easy to memorize and understand.

• Grades: 7-12 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 17 - 21 (no camp 6/19) 
• Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
• Cost: $55
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teacher: Joe Rand
• Participants: 20
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

This exciting introduction to piano and musical concepts is perfect for all campers. This camp will focus on teaching notes, rhythm, and beats using the piano and percussion instruments while introducing young campers to the incredible world of music. This camp is sure to spark the imagination and inspire continued learning and enrichment. The last day will culminate in a piano recital.

• Grades: 1-3 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 17 - June 21 (no camp June 19) 
• Time: 8:30 -10 am
• Cost: $55
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teachers: Joe Rand & Jennifer Martin
• Participants:16 
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 lets campers unleash a world of walking, talking, and thinking robots that do anything campers can imagine. Complete a series of challenging missions using the intuitive icon-based EV3 Programmer App. This camp is designed for those who have never participated in the Mindstorm camp. Learn how to build a Lego driving base and learn how to use coding to perform specific tasks.

• Grades 5-8 (2024-25 School Year)
• Time: 8:30 – 11 am
  • Session 1: June 17-21 (no camp June 19)
  • Session 2: June 24-30
• Cost: $70
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teacher: Megan Johnson
• Participants: 12
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

This camp is for those who have already participated in Mindstorms-I. Students will be able to choose from multiple build designs and program their robots, using the EV3 Programmer App, to perform a variety of tasks.

• Grades: 5-8 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: July 1-5 (no camp July 4)
• Time: 8:30-11 am
• Cost: $70
• Location: Yorkville Middle School
• Teacher: Megan Johnson
• Participants: 12 per session
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

Come join this camp to create your very own robot! Using the LEGO® WeDo 2.0 kit. Students will work in pairs learning through hands-on experience the basics of programming, designing, and engineering all while having a great time.

• Grades: 2-4 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates and Times:
  • Session 1: June 17-21 8:30-11 am (no camp June 19)
  • Session 2: June 17-21 12-2:30 pm (no camp June 19)
  • Session 3: June 24-28 8:30-11 am
  • Session 4: June 24-28 12:00-2:30 pm
  • Session 5: July 1-5 8:30-11 am (no camp July 4)
  • Session 6: July 1-6 12-2:30 pm (no camp July 4)
• Cost: $70
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teacher: Katlynn Davis, Lauren Zalud, Lexi Vande Hei
• , Participants: 12 per session
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

Become a trained storm spotter and partner with the National Weather Service! This two-day camp will provide basic information on storm formation including what to look for as severe weather approaches. On day one of camp, learn to become active weather observers in the community as part of the CoCoRahs Network (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow). On day two, visit the site of the 1990 Plainfield tornado and analyze its path. The cost of this camp includes an official CoCoRahs rain gauge. More information can be found at www.cocorahs.org.

• Grades 5-9 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 17 & 18 
  • Monday, June 17: 8-10 am
  • Tuesday, June 18: 8 am-1 pm
• Cost: $70
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Teacher: Chris Palmisano
• Participants: 10-20 
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

Can you conquer the cube? Do you have what it takes to train your brain? Come join this exciting camp where you will dive into the logic and patterns of solving a Rubik’s cube. You will also have a blast playing logic games that are sure to challenge you!

Registration will include the cost of a Speed Cube for students to take home at the end of camp. We will have timers for competitions and games galore!  Are you up for it? 

• Grades: 4-8 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates July 1-5 (no camp July 4) 
• Time:
  • Session 1: 8:30 -11 am
  • Session 2: 12 - 2:30 pm
• Cost: $70
• Teacher: Jenna Heerdt
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Participants: 15
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

A camp where active young learners can come and expect to experience something they’ve never done before! From playing dodgeball to playing old video games, the students of this camp will get to be active in many different ways that are entirely new to them. Each day will be a new activity. Activities will include Zumba, Just dance, Dodgeball, Mattball, Learning line dances, and even playing old board games.

• Grades:4-6 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 24-28 
• Time: 8:30 - 11 am
• Cost: $70
• Teacher: Le’Royia Campbell & Delaney O'Rourke
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Participants: 24
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

A camp where active young learners can come and expect to experience something they’ve never done before! From playing dodgeball to playing old video games, the students of this camp will get to be active in many different ways that are entirely new to them. Each day will be a new activity. Activities will include Zumba, Just dance, Dodgeball, Mattball, Learning line dances, and even playing old board games.

• Grades:1-3 (2024-25 School Year)
• Dates: June 17-21 (no camp June 19) 
• Time: 8:30 - 11 am
• Cost: $70
• Teacher: Le’Royia Campbell & Delaney O'Rourke
• Location: Yorkville Middle School - Enter Door 19
• Participants: 24
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)

Does your child want to stay all day? If so, Camp Imagination offers Lunch Bunch. Students will need to bring their own lunch to this supervised lunch/recess time. Students will then be escorted to their afternoon camp.

• Grades: 1-8 (2024-25 School Year) 
• Dates:
  • Week 1: June 17-21 (No camp June 19) 
  • Week 2: June 24-28
  • Week 3: July 1-5 (no camp July 4)
• Cost: $5.00 per day 
• Location: Yorkville Middle School 
• REGISTER HERE (Checkout as Guest)