Art Summer Camp

Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art (FCMOCA) is offering art summer camps for ages 7-12. There's a Artist Painting Studio camp and a Creative Contraptions: Active Art Camps. Visit their website to download the flyer or read the descriptions from the Coloradoan.

Mad Scientist Camps

From their website:

• Mad Science Camp programs are designed to educate, entertain, and enrich children's knowledge of science. Our fun and engaging programming varies from individual hands-on activities to spectacular shows. Your child will become a junior scientist for the week, having the opportunity to experience a variety of science adventures. We use an inquiry-based technique that allows even the youngest camper to enjoy learning. We involve campers in diverse activities of science exploration ranging from making a bridge with a team of camper engineers, to watching a rocket lift off into the sky! Children will design, create, build and assemble a variety of interesting projects and will take at least one project home every day.

Locations all over the Front Range (FtC, Loveland, Longmont, Denver-area and more).

Summer Music Camps

Walking with Dinosaurs

My kids LOVE to watch the Walking with Dinosaurs BBC series. Now it's coming live to the Pepsi Center where life size dinos will roam the floor! It is pricey (cheap seats are $20 each plus fees), but it does look really cool. Might not be for the young or easily scared. Check out the info at http://www.dinosaurlive.com/ .

MND at CSU

Shakespeare at Sunset presents A Midsummer Night's Dream outside on the University Center for the Arts North Lawn on Thursday - Sunday evenings July 9 - 19.

CSU School of the Arts' traditional summer theatre festival returns with Shakespeare's beloved tale of shenanigans and love. Performed outdoors and set to Purcell's beautiful music, The Fairy Queen, this will be a delightful evening the whole family can enjoy.

Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. - please bring a blanket or lawn chair and a picnic! Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will not be pre-sold for this event and the cost is $5, payable by cash at the show. For more information please call 970-491-3603

Imagination Fair

Beet Street's Imagination Fair will bring a glimpse into the rising merge of science, art and music, to inspire the imagination and creative enterprise within the northern Colorado community. In a world becoming glazed over with television, video games and text messaging, there are still many exciting things happening that bring together cutting edge technology and artistic expression. The Imagination Fair will take place in three locations in Old Town, Oak Street Plaza, Opera Galleria and The Lincoln Center.

Event partner, Discovery Science Center, Colorado's NASA link site, will also be showcasing NASA exhibits and "hands-on" activities as well as award-winning student science fair exhibits in the Opera Galleria. Poudre School District will be bringing several local robotics teams for demonstrations, and the Colorado State University Engines and Energy Conservation Laboratory will be showcasing their low cost, high-performance cookstoves, engineered for the developing world. These exhibits are free and open to the public.

On the heels of the Imagination Fair, Beet Street will also be presenting artistic pioneer and renowned performance artist Laurie Anderson to present, Burning Leaves: A Retrospective Songs and Stories 2009. Anderson, became well known for her use of technology and invention to enhance her poignant and complex violin and performance art pieces.

Beet Street presents an Imagination Fair Friday, June 5, in downtown Fort Collins from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. For more information please visit http://www.beetstreet.org/Imagination-Fair

Summertime Movies

There are lots of options for free or nearly free movies this summer. They may not be new releases, but your kids will still love them!

Centerra is again hosting the Friday Night movies:
http://www.thepromenadeshopsatcenterra.com/go/displayHours.cfm

Cinemark is offering their $1 kid's movies again this summer:
http://www.cinemark.com/summermovieclubhouse/304.html

Cinema Saver 6 is offering free kid's movies again too. Hint: Get there early. REALLY early:
http://www.bigscreen.com/journal.php?id=1494

The Lyric is offering Saturday Morning Cartoons everyday but Sunday for free. There is a $5 cereal bar if you'd like breakfast with your cartoons:
http://lyriccinemacafe.com/?cat=1

And don't forget the drive-in for family fun too. It may not be free, but it's lots of fun and you can bring your own snacks!