Summer Camp 2026
Registration will open on January 19th at 9am!
Summer 2026! Every Week a NEW Theme! New, Longer Hours!
Hours: 9:30-2:00 M-F
Ages may vary; please refer to each theme for specific age details.
We believe kids need to get fully immersed in messy, creative activities and have designed our curriculum accordingly. Our team of trained art teachers and assistants incorporate community building, curiosity, skill building into each week with every Friday (for our week long camps) is a celebration with a small sweet treat and gallery show for our adult friends to see what we worked so hard on all week.
June 15-19: Fashion Design
San Rafael: Ages 7-12
San Rafael: Ages 4-7
Novato: Ages 7+
Our studios have A LOT to share with our campers when it comes to fashion and design! This will be our 17th year hosting this popular camp, and it just keeps getting better!
We’ll do everything from learning traditional sewing techniques to textile dying to fashion design. Designers will create their own hat applique, upcycle a garment, learn to hand sew, design a collection, and more. Our campers will finish with their very own fashion shoot! Please come visit for a walk through at 1:45.
June 22-26: Architect Dream House
San Rafael: Ages 7-12
Novato: Ages 6-11
Get ready to build the dream house you've always imagined! This camp is a thrilling blend of design, construction, and pure imagination.
Design Time: First, we'll draw up our magical blueprints, floor plans, and elevation views, just like real pros!
Construction Zone: Then, we'll become master builders, bringing our designs to life using cool materials like wood, sturdy cardboard, colorful fabric, and recycled treasures.
Interior Magic: Makers and builders will design and decorate the interior space, crafting their very own whimsical miniature furniture to complete their tiny dream homes!
It's a week of measuring, making, and decorating fun! Don't miss the Open House on Friday at 1:45 to show off your awesome creations!
June 22-26: Castle Camp!
San Rafael: Ages 4-7
Builders will receive their very own wooden castle to decorate and design. We’ll use paint, textiles, wood, cardboard, paper, and more to decorate and furnish each room. Sculpt, build, and design your castle! Castle open house show on Friday at 1:45.
July 6-10: Young Entrepreneur
San Rafael: Ages 7-13
Novato: Ages 7-13
Harness that entrepreneurial spark in your artistic endeavors! Our end-of-week Art Market is the talk of the town, with huge community support and folks lining up down the block—it's beyond amazing!
This is an entirely camper-led camp where young creators become business owners for the week! We're bringing back the craft and focusing on awesome, sellable goods.
Campers will:
Create their products (jewelry, paintings, sculptures, stuffies—the possibilities are endless!)
Invent a shop name and aesthetic
Design professional logos and business cards
Talk all about marketing their fantastic creations!
The ultimate payoff? Campers get to table and sell their own goods at the lively Art Market on Friday at 1:45!
What will your young entrepreneur design and sell this time?
July 6-10: Rainbows and Unicorns!
San Rafael: Ages 4-7
Yes, it is as magical as it sounds. We'll bring magic, wonder, curiosity, and fun to life through sculpture, painting, clay, and printmaking.
July 13-17: Pottery Throwdown!
San Rafael: Ages 7-12
San Rafael: Ages 4-7
Novato: Ages 6-11
Let’s dive into all things clay! Artists will receive fun daily challenges to make functional ceramics, imaginative sculptures, and more. We’ll explore different techniques and styles, getting inspiration from contemporary artists, to create unique clay masterpieces. Campers will learn the art of hand-building, slab building, glaze decorating, surface design, and get to use their creative skills in building one of a kind pieces. San Rafael older group will include wheelthrowing. By the end of the week, each artist will have a collection of their very own handcrafted ceramics! Join us for a week of creativity and plenty of mud-filled fun! Art show on Friday at 1:45
July 20-24: Squishmallows!
San Rafael: Ages 7-12
San Rafael: Ages 4-7
Novato: Ages 5-11
Who Loves Squishmallows?!
Get ready for the squishiest, fluffiest, most colorful week ever! We're using our cuddly, squishy friends as the ultimate inspiration for all our artistic adventures!
This camp is packed with fun, hands-on creation:
• Paint it! We'll create whimsical paintings inspired by our favorite characters.
• Sculpt it! Campers will build 3D sculptures of their own adorable new squish friends.
• Dress it! Design the most fabulous, fashion-forward outfit for a squishmallow.
• Sew it! The grand finale: every camper will learn to sew their very own, custom-designed squishy pal to take home!
Every registered camper will receive one squishmallow to keep! Join us for the delightful Art Show on Friday at 1:45 to see all the squishy masterpieces!
July 27-31: Animals! Animals! Animals!
San Rafael: Ages 7-12
San Rafael: Ages: 4-7
Novato: Ages 5-11
Welcome to Animals! Animals! Animals! A pawsitively fun experience designed for your artist animal lover. This camp is all about… Animals! Campers will create vibrant art including paintings, sculptures, and crafts inspired by their favorite creatures. Everything from dogs, cats, axolotls, reptiles, and more can be the perfect subject for your young artist! We’ll explore watercolor, acrylics, clay, textile arts, and mixed mediums to develop new skills and discover the joy of crafting with purpose. Gallery show on Friday at 1:45pm for family and friends.
Aug 3-7: Slime and Product Design
San Rafael: Ages 7-12
Novato: Ages 5-11
We All Love Slime! 💖✨ Where Science Meets Sparkle!
Get ready for a perfectly squishy, stretchy, and satisfying week! This camp is a dynamic, gooey blend of hands-on science, creative experimentation, and real-world design technique!
• Slime Science Mastery: Campers won't just make slime—they’ll become Slime Scientists! They will work like chemists, mastering the art of the perfect batch by experimenting with ratios and ingredients. This teaches crucial concepts in measurement, precision, and problem-solving until they get the texture, stretch, and pop just right.
• Graphic Design & Branding: We turn that perfect slime into a successful brand! Campers get to be entrepreneurs, inventing awesome, catchy names, branding, and marketing strategies. They will learn the fundamentals of graphic design to create totally custom, professional-looking labels and packaging, giving them skills that go far beyond the mixing bowl!
• Creative Technique: It's the perfect synergy! The week is built on the experimental mindset of an inventor and the artistic eye of a designer.
It’s a week of fun, hands-on learning that leads to a totally unique and marketable product!
Aug 3-7: Slime and Potions
San Rafael: Ages 4-7
Join us for a super fun week of potions and slime! We’ll get messy experimenting and investigating interesting ingredients to create wild concoctions, bubbling potions, and fizzy creations! A camp where science and art hold hands to create amazing results.
Aug 10-14: Pop Art!
San Rafael: Ages 7-12
San Rafael: Ages 4-7
Novato: Ages 6-11
Pop! Fizz! Wow! Big, Bold, Colorful Art!
Let’s splash the canvas and fill the world with color! Just like the famous Pop Art masters, we're going to push the boundaries and turn the everyday into extraordinary art!
This camp is all about vibrant expression and amazing techniques:
• Soft Sculpture Smash: We'll create our own unexpected, larger-than-life soft sculptures (think giant plush burgers and smiling flowers!).
• Illustrative Power: Campers will develop bold illustrative techniques in their paintings, using thick lines and flat colors like comic books.
• Print Party: We'll be printing, printing, and printing some more to fill the walls with our numerous, eye-popping prints!
You'll explore eye candy worthy color theory, experiment with revolutionary techniques, and discover exactly what makes this style so special. Join us for a vibrant Pop Art Gallery Show on Friday at 1:45 for family and friends!
Let’s have some fun! Art, and school breaks and summer time, allow us to create really special projects, such a deep dive into art and making celebrating fine art techniques and contemporary approaches. We have designed all of our camps to be the absolute most fun E.V.E.R whether it is for our daily camps, or 3 or 4 day camps, or our week long camps!
FAQs
When are Do Art and Studio 4 Art camps offered?
Camps are offered whenever school is out. We have camps in October, November, December, January, February, April, June-August. There are many days where school is not in session, so we are! If your school has a day or days off that are not listed on the camp schedule in any of our locations, you can contact us to set up your own one-off camp. Email studio4artmarin@gmail.com for more details.
Why enroll in our camps?
Do Art’s mission is to give children a voice through art-making. No other curriculum allows a child to explore, from the point of the unknown to a point of completion, learning art techniques while working through mistakes and problem solving, resulting in higher self-confidence, awareness, and leadership skills.
Do Art is unique in its teaching approach and practice the Studio 4 Art teaching philosophies to all art projects and introduction to art materials. Our curriculum is progressive, child-initiated, and thought-provoking. How to teach the whole child and honor each as the individuals they are is a pretty special way of teaching. We provide growth in children through honoring ideas, executing dream designs, guidance through questions to engage problem-solving, build creative thought processes through mistake-making, and celebrate collaboration.
What age are your camps for?
4-13 (depending on week of camp)
Do you offer payment plans?
yes
What does my child do in a day?
We open our day with the main art activity introducing your child to art history, a new technique, and a chance for us as a community to learn together. The 2nd half of camp is open-ended activities that vary with new art materials set out daily.
How many children are in each camp?
Our studio is able to accommodate 25 campers ages 7-14, 10 campers age 4-6. Novato camp is limited to 14 campers per week.
Will my child get to work on the potter's wheel?
While we love the pottery wheel, during pottery throw down week campers will take a turn on the potters wheel, however, they will not be on a pottery wheel everyday. There are many ways to work with clay and we want to show them all! We can’t wait to share many techniques.
The clay items my child makes, are they food safe?
If your child is making artwork that is meant to eat out of (cup, plate, bowl, etc.) their work is food and microwave safe.
Does the paint wash out of clothes?
Most generally, no. We are a fine art studio and want our students and campers to experience true and traditional art materials, we know from experience it makes a big difference in their excitement when they see how vibrant and rich colors are and how the consistency in fine art materials differ. Please wear art clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty. We do have aprons but they don’t always cover.
Do you offer sibling discounts?
yes
Do you offer new curriculum and art projects every year?
We do offer new curriculum and art projects every year. The best part is because of our teaching philosophy in letting our students decide what their artwork will be, they become leaders of their making, allowing them to make decisions on art executions. So even if a project seems “familiar” or “I have done this before” the process invites the scaffolding of learning and they realize new techniques they may not have executed before.
My child doesn’t really know much about art, will they feel overwhelmed?
Our camps are taught to scaffold the learning of each of our campers. We will meet a child at their level and have the ability to then work together to accomplish a work of art that they are proud of. We don’t ever compare work from one camper to another, we know every child comes with their own set of knowledge, our goal is to elevate and celebrate them from where they are.
What techniques will my child learn?
With every week we want your child to walk out of our camp with art knowledge in technique, vocabulary, and history. Techniques will include fine art and contemporary applications. We experiment and learn about drawing skills, painting skills, how to work with clay, screen printing and printmaking, and sewing for soft sculpture and design thinking. From this description, you can see that we definitely put the A in Stem learning (S.T.E.A.M).
What art materials will my child work with?
Clay, paint, printmaking, drawing, mosaics, cartooning, sewing, and mixed media, are just a few examples. We are a true art studio working with all visual art materials. Our teachers are trained and have experience with all art mediums.
We love what we do and know your child will, too!