Summer Camps for Pre-K Children
Registration is open!
Join us this summer at our awesome camps in the Garden! Every week includes daily cooking and tasting so all kids build skills, confidence, and willingness to try new foods. Children garden, engage in nature-based arts and crafts, learn environmental stewardship, and savor unstructured time to play and explore outside. These camps adapt our Elementary camp themes perfectly for our youngest campers. We can't wait to welcome your child to summer camp!
Camp information
Camp runs from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm for children who are age 3 to rising 1st graders.
Camp is held at the Garden, 4056 Shadow Mountain Dr, Park City, UT 84098 (off of Old Ranch Road).
Fees are $375 per weekly session (except the 4 day week 6/30-7/3). Scholarships may be available.
Pre-K camps will be taught by Tracy Zisselsberger and Brittney Angle. Tracy lives in Park City, has her MEd, her AMS Montessori certification, and 10 years of experience teaching early childhood and elementary education. Brittney is a second grade apprentice teacher at a private school in Park City. She has taught elementary at both public and private schools.
All of our camps are ripe for adventure—but some might be full! Get on the waitlist, and you could be the next to harvest a spot!
If you have older kids, register for our Elementary camps.
If you have older older kids, we welcome junior high or middle school students to participate in our camps as volunteer counselors-in-training. Reach out to Erica, our Director of Youth Education at erica@summitcommunitygardens.org with any questions.
Parent/Guardian must submit this SMARTWAIVER for each camper before they can participate in camp.
Scholarships
We want to make sure all kids can come to camp. If cost is preventing your family from participating, scholarships may be available! Children whose families live in Summit or Wasatch County and have an income below 80% Area Median Income (AMI) for Summit County may be able to have qualify for a full scholarship, and attend for free. For children whose families are 80-120% AMI, a partial scholarship may be available. We would also like to hear from you if there is a special circumstance. Scholarships are limited to 2 per child, 4 per family, to enable more young people to participate. Please reach out to Erica at erica@summitcommunitygardens.org for more information. We have already given out over 55 scholarships this year! Please sign-up below to be considered for a scholarship if more open up.
2025 Summer Camp Schedule - Pre-K
Refund Policy
You will receive a full refund (minus the 3.5% processing fee) if notice is given within 10 days of registration or purchase. You will receive a 50% refund if notice is given no later than 30 days prior to the start date. We are not able to offer refunds less than 30 days before a camp, class, or event starts (even if notice is given within 10 days of registration or purchase). Please email your request to withdraw to erica@summitcommunitygardens.org.
June 16th - 20th, 9:00 - 12:00 pm
Age 3 - rising 1st graders
Our “Arts in the Garden” week explores our natural world as art. Each day will hold opportunities for art, physical activity and gardening. We will forage and gather items to create art pieces such as nature mandalas, self-portraits and landscapes. We will explore painting floral still life with our Garden backdrop. We will incorporate art as movement, through dance; art as music, with new instruments incorporated in the garden space; and food as edible art, preparing food from the garden. We will tend our rainbow garden and plant vegetables in the Children’s Garden planters. Each day campers will learn about art as an expression of creativity and imagination.
Nuestro campamento “Artes en el Jardín” explora el mundo natural a través de una lente artística. Cada día habrá oportunidades para el arte, la actividad física y la jardinería. Buscaremos y recolectamos elementos para crear obras de arte como mandalas de la naturaleza, autorretratos y paisajes. Pintaremos obras maestras de bodegones florales, con nuestro Jardín como telón de fondo. Incorporamos el arte como movimiento: a través de la danza; el arte como música, con instrumentos musicales en nuestro espacio de jardín; y la comida como arte comestible, preparando alimentos de la huerta. Cuidaremos los parterres de nuestro jardín, plantaremos hortalizas y otras delicias. Cada día los campistas tendrán la oportunidad de aprender sobre el arte como expresión de creatividad e imaginación.