Activity Offerings

2019 Activity Offerings

Each week of family camp this summer is jam-packed with opportunities to try new things, allowing each member of your family to customize their own vacation experience!

Most of our talented staff come year after year. Many are professionals in their field who are taking a vacation from their daily lives to share their passions with our campers.  Learn more about this year's instructors below!

Week 1 (7/20-7/26)

Glass with Matt Losee

Ukulele lessons with Clare Innes

Collagraph Printmaking with Kate Brett

Improv games with Liz Ritter

 

Week 2 (7/27-8/2)

Glass with Matt Losee and Marc Kornbluh

Ukulele lessons with Clare Innes

Nia with Suzy Finnefrock

Woodcarving with Tim Gillespie 

 

Week 3 (8/3-8/9)

Holistic Acrylic Painting with Cicely Carew

Photography with Esther Hiamang 

Watercolor with Kate Hartley 

Chamber music with Martha Siegel 

 

Week 4 (8/10-8/16)

Mixed Media Collage with Sean Qualls and Selina Alko 

Shibori fabric dying with Miriam Jacobs

Wild Foraging with Clare Walker

Chamber music with Martha Siegel 

 

Activities that take place each week:

• Tennis •  Swimming • Guided hikes • Archery • Soccer • Softball • Giant Bubbles • Educational tours of neighboring Footprint Farm • Board games • Afternoon and evening family activities • Camper Samplers: Share your own talents during an hour block in the afternoon! • Campfire • Big Show (end of week talent show) • Quidditch • Brick Oven Pizza Night • Rollicking evening activities for all ages (look for clues throughout the week...curious characters have been known to appear) • Golf outing • Hiking & nature exploration • Men’s Group (adults only) • Women’s Group (adults only) •

Kidville

Our morning program for children between the ages of 3 and 12 is called Kidville. This time a magical piece of the Common Ground puzzle and provides children a chance to make concrete choices about their daily activities. 3-5 year olds have their own space and specific programming geared towards their healthy and happy development. These include art, messy science experiments, trips to the blueberry patch and plenty of unstructured play time. Each morning the group of 6-11 year olds is offered choices ranging from exciting nature games, sports, art projects or performance arts. The children aren't forced into any particular activity but they do need to choose one of the options. After a healthy snack mid morning they'll get a chance to choose again, so the stakes aren't too high. When there is a critical mass of 11-12 year olds they'll be off on their own doing a more specialized program preparing them for our teen group and exploring some of Vermont's treasures off site. 

Teen Program

Camp Common Ground prides itself on being flexible for the needs of campers of all ages, nowhere is this more true that in our teen program. Young people aged 13-17 will have access to  adult activities each morning before getting together with their peers and leaders for off site adventures, special service projects or youth directed activities. The teen schedule is tailored to meet the needs of participants with youth leaders spending time with the group later in to the evening and program directors relying on the young people to help make evening activities more fun. This is a great way to spend a week making friends, learning skills and practicing what it means to reach consensus.