BRICKS 4 KIDZ SUMMER CAMPS
Below is a listing of some of our past Camp Descriptions (ages 5-14)
Advanced Robotics (ages 9-14) Experience the cutting edge of technology with the introduction of LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 Robotics. Students will be captivated as they incorporate the newest generation of motors, sensors and software by programming their commands directly into the intelligent brick. Test their capabilities by moving an object with a robotic claw, building a robot that draws or a creating a mouse trap. Our endless list of builds is sure to provide the complete fundamental components of robotics at best!
*LEGO® and MINDSTORMS are registered trademarks and/or copyrights of the LEGO® Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse these programs.
Worlds of Amusement Park (ages 5-12) “Worlds of Amusement” camp takes you on a thrilling adventure building amusement park themed models. Spend time visiting the Wizard World by building your favorite wizard and his magical owl! Build and give your despicable yellow movie characters a thrilling roller coaster ride! Get your amusement park ticket stamped as you turn games, food, rides and attractions into exciting model builds! All this and more awaits at Bricks 4 Kidz Worlds of Amusement Camp!
A Pirate’s Quest (ages 5-12) Shiver me timbers as we explore the popular culture behind the life of a pirate. Build a motorized pirate ship, a helm and an anchor and we’ll batten down the hatches as we prepare for mutiny. Protect the hands on deck by building a launching catapult. But beware me mateys, if it’s too late, you must abandon ship and build a rowboat to escape! Watch out for crocodiles, anchors aweigh!
Advanced Builders (ages 9-13) Do you know a serious LEGO® enthusiast that is between the ages of 9 and 14? Are they advanced builders? Do you want them to have fun playing with LEGO® while still learning many basic S.T.E.M. principles? During our Black Diamond Builders camp students will customize their builds and modify the model’s performance by changing the gear ratios and/or axle placements. Problem solving, and thinking beyond the scope of the building plans, is what this camp is all about!! Other activities include creative play, LEGO® based games and challenges, and snack time.
Bricks 4 Girlz (ages 5-12) Grab your friends and come hang out with us for a girls-only week camp of crafting and creating with LEGO® Bricks! We’ll introduce your friends to our “Friends” as we get to know LEGO® Brand’s line of girl-themed models. Express your talents and interests by building a gymnast, a dancer and a collage that represents you. We’ll do lots of other unique activities with bricks, from jewelry –making to brick art, with a take-home project each day. Learn that anyone can be an architect or an engineer, especially girls, when you practice your architectural and engineering skills building motorized models. No boys allowed because this week is all about girls!
Journey to the UK(ages 5-12) Let’s take a journey to the amazing United Kingdom! There is so much to learn about, explore and build. Find out the significance of the marching Queen’s Guard. Learn interesting details of the rough and tough bunch of historic northern Scotland, the Highlanders. Do you know why the gigantic British ship called the Titanic sank? Let’s find out! We’ll build all these fun models and more, each representing a historical icons of the United Kingdom. Come learn, build and play with us on this exciting journey to the UK!
Minecraft (ages 5-12) Experience the world of Minecraft with LEGO® bricks in this fun camp! Kids will start by crafting their shelters and some of the mobs, critters and tools using LEGO® bricks. Campers will face new challenges each day, building motorized Bricks 4 Kidz® models and crafting key elements from the popular Minecraft game. During Bricks 4 Kidz Minecraft camp, children will build all of their favorite characters out of LEGO bricks like creepers, Steve, pigs, chickens, Mooshrooms, zombie pigmen and more! They will also be challenged with motorized builds of fun Minecraft models and rotate through different stations. Campers will be challenged to bring their virtual designs to life by building new mob figures, mosaics and custom models incorporating LEGO® Bricks. Along with this building fun, we will play games and race custom LEGO® cars on our racetrack…So, are you ready for the challenge?
Pocket Brick Monsters (POKEMON) (ages 5-12) Get ready for an adventure in the world of Pokémon®! Capture wild Pokémon®! Creatures and train them for battle. Improve your accuracy and power as you learn new moves and use special abilities. Tap into your inner engineer as we build Dratini, Pikachu, Poké Balls and more. Bring your own Pokémon® trading cards if you wish to play and trade at the end of each day. Show off your skills as you battle for power in your journey through the Pokémon® universe. Do you have what it takes to become a Pokémon® Master?
Remote Control Mania (ages 5-12) Making it move is the name of the game at this exciting camp! Campers will love to see their creations in motion using LEGO® wireless remote controls. Each day, campers will use fascinating and challenging LEGO® components to create dynamic vehicles, inventions, machines and more! As they enjoy the fun of building, campers will come to understand the basic working principles of many ingenious devices that are part of our everyday lives. Campers will also learn how to magnify, diminish and redirect force to move objects and different speeds and in different directions. This camp is loads of fun and learning for budding builders!
Superhero Academy (ages 5-12) Join Bricks 4 Kidz for a week building Super Heroes with LEGO® bricks. Explore all of the caped crusaders and discover their super powers. Create a fantasy world and protect it against all the evil arch enemies with custom contraptions made with LEGO® bricks. A the end of the week all SUPER HERO CAMPERS will go home with a custom mini figure. *This camp is not affiliated with Marvel Comics
The Secret Life of Pets (ages 5-12) Based on the popular new movie coming out this summer!! Ever wonder what your pets do while you are at school? Join Max, an adorable dog and Snowball the rabbit on this fun and furry adventure. Then, dive to the depths of the ocean with Dory to help her search for her family. Build other favorite aquatic movie sea life as well. In addition to imagining what pets do when left alone, build various critters, including motorized buzzing bees, fluttering butterflies and more. Show off your take-home handbook displaying all the brick critters you built at this exciting camp!
Jurassic Brick Land (ages 5-12) Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Put on your hiking boots and camouflage…you’re about to enter Jurassic Brick Land! Campers will build a world that comes to life with gentle Brontosaurus, ferocious Velociraptor, terrible T.Rex, and more. We’ll learn about amazing dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic period, and other extinct, prehistoric animals that roamed the earth and swam the seas during that era and millions of years later. Show us your building skills using our specialized project kits! Come learn, build and play at Jurassic Brick Land camp!
Brick Explorer Quest (ages 5-12) Get ready for a building quest that will take you on exciting missions around the globe! Encounter worst case scenario survival brick challenges in the snowy Norwegian forest aboard Sven’s sleigh. Venture to Queen Elsa’s secluded brick ice castle. Explore far away kingdoms as your favorite brick knight for resources needed to construct a base camp to complete your quest. Build a lava launcher to defeat the evil jester. Do you have what it takes to go on an extreme explorer quest?
Galaxies Far Away (ages 5-12) Build the Redstone Rocket to blast through the atmosphere into a realm that is truly out of this world. Travel back in time to build NASA’s Gemini Capsule. Trust your astronaut’s building skills to pilot a spacecraft that will bring you back to Earth safely. We’ll build motorized models that represent spacecraft from your favorite popular space movie and meet some not so friendly aliens. Come experience this stellar journey to a galaxy far away!
Minions (ages 5-12) Based on the popularity of the Despicable Me and Minions movies, this creative camp will feature LEGO mosaics, 3-D LEGO Builds, motorized LEGO projects, and more of your favorite yellow friends! From designing mini-minion sculptures, to minion mosaics, to motorized LEGO inventions they might be called on to create for Gru and Dr. Nefario’s crazy adventures, your child will be engaged in STEM-enriched activities and making new LEGO-loving friends
Bricks 4 GOD (ages 5-12) Explore great stories of faith as we build LEGO models from favorite bible stories. The tree in the GARDEN OF EDEN, NOAH’S ARK, a lion such as Daniel faced in the lion’s den, THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. THE WHALE THAT SWALLOWED JONAH and a house of worship to name a few. These models engage students’ imaginations as they retell the stories from scripture and identify key lessons from each account.
Pre-School Camp (ages 4-5)
Introduce your preschooler to the fun of learning, building and playing the bricks 4 Kidz way! Watch their eyes light up as they dig into a pile of brightly colored DUPLO bricks, to create fun, simple sculptures based on the ABS’s. Join us for a week of classes as we build different models each day and play games…
Famous Places (ages 4-5)
Join us on an imaginary trip around the world to some amazing places! Travel to Egypt to see the massive pyramids. Learn about and build tall towers reaching to the sky. Find out what happens when a volcano erupts. Children will develop an understanding of different people, structures and places around the world. They will practice letter recognition, size comparison, shape and color identification, counting, placement vocabulary, and patterning.
About Our Camps
Our summer camp experience is a very fun one indeed! Our typical camp setting is 3 hours per day, 1-5 days per week. During this time children will interact and team up with peers, play fun and enriching games and be immersed into their specific camp theme. For example, during a Minecraft camp, your child will be assigned a character each day of camp (for example; creeper, Steve, zombie etc), he/she will receive a name tag with his/her team and then work with 1-3 other similar aged campers for that day. Each group will rotate through different stations for about 25 minutes, building with several different types of LEGO; mosaic, 3D, technic, craft. After each station, we take a break and play a game, or spend some time building a custom LEGO race-car that will be raced down our LEGO ramp at the end of each day. Children work very closely with our instructors, who are after-school Bricks 4 Kidz teachers and whose job is to make the camp experience the most fun your child will have all summer. The camp setting is a relaxed one, where your child’s happiness is our No. 1 priority and where children get to work at their own pace. We take pride in working with children one-on-one and attending to all of their needs. Many friendships are also made at these camps. Stop Motion Animation, Comic Creator and Advanced Robotics camps have a different setting. Children will be in groups of 2-3 and will work closely with their group in brainstorming ideas and working together. Groups will have a laptop and work area where they will have room to spread out and be comfortable. During these camps we spend a lot of time getting to know the children and making sure they are comfortable with the topics they are working on. Our instructors have also trained in these camps and are very excited to show your children how they can be successful. All children attending camp will receive a Bricks 4 Kidz camp t-shirt, a custom mini figure (some camps will also take home a craft relating to the camp each day). If you have any questions, please call us at: 219-316-4470. Camps require that campers bring a Peanut-free snack and drink.
What is your cancellation policy for summer camp?
If the dates you have reserved for camp no longer work for you, you are welcome to transfer to another camp week at no charge (pending availability). If you do not wish to transfer to another camp, you can request a refund (minus $15 administrative fee). If it is more than 7 days out from camp, there is a full refund, If it is less than 7 days, we cannot issue a refund, but you can have a credit toward any Bricks 4 Kidz camp or future class.
Refund Policy
We understand that sometimes situations arise which require you to change plans.
- Full refund: If you cancel at least 7 days prior to the start of a camp.
- No refund (credit only): If you cancel less than 7 days prior to the start of a camp.
You may choose to reschedule your student in another camp, if space is available. We will apply your tuition paid to another camp or event within 12 months from cancellation date.