Children’s Museum of Discovery Summer Camp

Accommodation

Children’s Museum of Discovery Summer Camp is a day camp. Campers attend during the scheduled camp day and return home afterward. No overnight lodging, cabins, dorm rooms, hotel stays, or residential supervision are included.

Both Little Explorers and Big Explorers run from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM. Drop-off begins at 9:00 AM. Pick-up happens near the end of the camp day, with photo ID verification and authorized pick-up rules in place. Families receive more detailed summer drop-off and pick-up information in a welcome email before camp begins.

The camp takes place in a children’s museum setting, with daily access to indoor and outdoor museum exploration. Campers use the Indoor Classroom for camp activities, snacks, and lunch. They also spend time in museum exhibits and activity areas.

This is a focused discovery camp, not a full-day childcare program with extended evening coverage.

Meals

Campers bring their own peanut-free snacks and lunch. Food is eaten in the Indoor Classroom. The museum does not provide food for camp.

Both Little Explorers and Big Explorers have snack time and lunch built into the daily schedule. A water bottle is also recommended because the camp day includes museum exploration, STREAM activities, team time, art, and outdoor play. A water bottle refill station and water fountain are available near the outdoor sinks, with staff assistance.

The museum is a peanut-free facility. Peanuts and peanut butter-based snacks are prohibited to help protect campers with severe allergies. Campers may not bring or eat peanut-based snacks at the museum.

Safety

Children’s Museum of Discovery Summer Camp uses a 1:10 adult-to-child ratio. Enrollment does not exceed 20 children per week. This keeps groups small enough for museum-based exploration, classroom activities, and daily transitions.

Campers must be able to use bathroom facilities independently and without assistance. Museum staff cannot assist campers in the restroom. If a bathroom accident occurs, a parent or guardian is contacted and must come on-site to help the camper.

Pick-up includes safety checks. Camp staff verifies parent or guardian photo ID at pick-up, and all authorized pick-up people must be listed on the sign-out sheet. Adults must park and walk campers to the designated check-in location at drop-off.

Health & Medicine

Campers with COVID-like symptoms should stay home. Symptoms listed by the museum include fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion, runny nose, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Campers showing symptoms are asked to remain or return home.

Before returning, a camper must be symptom-free without medication for 24 hours and provide proof of a negative at-home antigen test. 

Camp traditions

Children’s Museum of Discovery Summer Camp has a curiosity-first rhythm. Campers start the day by settling in, then move through museum exploration, welcome time, STREAM projects, snack, story time, lunch, team time, art, exploratory centers, and closing story time. That daily pattern gives young children structure while keeping the day varied.

Weekly themes shape the camp’s personality. One week might send campers into robotics and coding challenges. Another may turn them into invention detectives, color-mixing chemists, bilingual farm explorers, space travelers, ocean protectors, or dinosaur investigators.

Storytime is part of both age-group schedules, which helps balance active exploration with quieter moments. Art activities and exploratory centers give campers time to create and test ideas in their own way.

The tradition is not about trophies or performances. It is about discovery: touch it, build it, ask about it, try it again, and tell someone what happened.

Children’s Museum of Discovery Summer Camp gives young learners a full day of hands-on exploration. Campers use the museum exhibits, join STREAM activities, listen to stories, make art, work with teammates, and explore indoor and outdoor museum spaces. The day is structured, but the activities stay playful and child-centered.

Little Explorers ages 4–5 follow a schedule that includes museum exploration, welcome time, a STREAM activity, snack, story time, lunch, team time, art, exploratory centers, more museum exploration, and closing story time. Big Explorers ages 6–8 have a similar day, with more time arranged around museum exploration, STREAM work, art, team activities, and exploratory centers.

Each weekly theme gives the projects a different direction. Campers may explore robotics, inventions, chemistry, agriculture, outer space, oceans, dinosaurs, or school-readiness skills. The themes help children connect science, art, reading, engineering, math, and imagination.