Roleplaying Camps
Have you always wondered what it is like to live in the past? Now is your chance to find out! Dress in costumes, try-out period crafts and games, and develop acting and improvisation skills. Roleplaying camps are for ages 6 – 17. The content becomes progressively more detailed and authentic the older you get. Most Jr. Roleplayers have the chance to be volunteer roleplayers at the museum for special events.
History Alive (ages 6-8)
- Session I: July 17 – 21, 2023
- Session II: July 31 – August 4, 2023
Both camps are full. Email to be placed on a waiting list.
Monday – Friday, 9:00AM – 3:00PM. $325.00 per week. SBM Family Members receive a 10% discount.
History In Play (ages 9-11)
- Growing Up Victorian June 26 – 30, 2023
- Growing Up Colonial, July 31 – August 4, 2023
Both camps are full. Email to be placed on a waiting list.
Monday – Friday, 9:00AM – 3:00PM. $325.00 per week. SBM Family Members receive a 10% discount.
Jr. Roleplayers (ages 12 – 17)
- Industrial Era (1820 – 1908) July 10 – 21, 2023
- Modern Age (1908 – 1955) August 7 – 18, 2023
Both camps are full. Email to be placed on a waiting list.
Two week camp! Monday – Friday, 9:00AM – 3:00PM. $650.00. SBM Family Members receive a 10% discount.
Hands-On History Camps
Calling all artists, cooks, inventors and detectives! Hands-On History Camps help kids connect with the past through creative activities of all kinds. Each camp looks at history through a different lens filling each day with indoor & outdoor, behind the scenes and interactive projects that immerse campers in the past.
DIY Inventions (ages 6 – 8)
This camp is full. Email to be placed on a waiting list.
Bright Ideas July 24 – 28, 2023
Explore some of the most famous inventors and inventions of the early 20th-century. From planes and motor cars to Teddy bears and crayons; our youngest campers will not only make their own versions of these innovations, they will also participate in their own experiments.
9:00AM – 3:00PM. $325.00 per week. SBM Family Members receive a 10% discount.
Crafty Kids (ages 9 – 11)
Daring Discoveries July 10 – 14, 2023
This camp is full. Email to be placed on a waiting list.
Star in a silent film, cook a Depression-era meal, take a ride in a model-A Ford, roll up your sleeves to work in a 1940s Victory Garden, learn to Paint like Picasso and lend your voice to a radio show recording.
9:00AM – 3:00PM. $325.00 per week. SBM Family Members receive a 10% discount.
Uncovering the Past (ages 10 – 12)
Building Detectives July 24 – 28, 2023
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You know how to read a mystery book, but can you read and solve the mysteries of a building? Discover how buildings can teach us about the people who lived long ago. Go behind the scenes to explore attics and basements in historic homes, build a model of an 18th-century post-and-beam house, venture on an architectural scavenger hunt and unlock the secrets of Strawbery Banke’s unrestored homes.
9:00AM – 3:00PM. $325.00 per week. SBM Family Members receive a 10% discount.
Explore the Past (ages 7 – 9)
Celebrating the Past August 7 – 11, 2023
This camp is full. Email to be placed on a waiting list.
Campers will explore the origins of different holidays while participating in parts of each celebration. From cuisine to entertainments, participants will develop an understanding of how modern traditions embrace many different cultures and ideas throughout history.
9:00AM – 3:00PM. $325.00 per week. SBM Family Members receive a 10% discount.
New Mini-Camp! Blast to the Past
Kids in the Kitchen (ages 10 – 12) June 26, 28 & 30, 2023
Investigate how foods have been grown, harvested, preserved, cooked and eaten through time. Try out a variety of period recipes on the hearth and 19th-century cookstove. Learn about convenience foods from hardtack to TV dinners. Discover foods that immigrants brought from all over the world, and even create and cook your own recipes.
3 day camp (Monday, Wednesday & Friday), 9:00 – 3:00. $195.00. SBM Family Members receive a 10% discount.
Take advantage of these camp discounts!
Membership Discount: Family members and higher always receive 10% off the price of each camp.
Sibling/Multiple Camp Discount: Register one child for multiple camps or multiple children for the same camp and receive 10% off each registration. (cannot be combined with other discounts.)
COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS:
The protocols for summer camp will be finalized in June. Click below to read Strawbery Banke Museum’s current COVID-19 Precautions.
