2026 Arts Camp Electives
The Art of Breakdancing
Introductory break-dancing class is designed for boys and girls to build confidence, rhythm, and foundational street dance skills in a fun, supportive environment. Students will learn grooves, top rock, basic footwork, and beginner freezes, gradually combining them into a short breaking round.
Art of Outdoor Survival (4th-6th Grade Only) – FULL
Enjoy God’s great outdoors while learning basic survival skills to keep yourself and others safe. Campers will also create a basic outdoor survival kit.
Book Origami – 4th-6th Grade FULL
In this class, campers will take a simple hardcover book and put some simple folds into the pages. Through their careful work, they will be able to turn these simple things into a masterpiece!
Devotions in Motion
Through the art of liturgical and sacred movement, we will learn how to use dance as a way to glorify and worship God! We will creatively choreograph a worship dance together. We will spend time worshipping God through independent movement. We will learn creative expression through worship songs and we will explore how we can dance for joy unto the Lord!
Expressions in Color! – 2nd/3rd Grade FULL
Express fun color art by making it a hands-on, messy, and experimental process rather than a strict lesson. Use activities like mixing primary colors, painting with unconventional tools (Sponges, Yarn, Straws and Stamps), learning what monochromatic colors themes are, and using color to represent emotions. We will use paper, paint, yarn and special things like feathers and googly eyes. and more. Lots of fun with color and learning how we react to color…By the way, what is your favorite color? Why? Ready to explore?
Games Kids Play
Each day, campers will learn about the lives of children in a different country. Then they will make a game that originated in the country that they can play and take home.
Glass Art – All Grades FULL
Learn how to bring style to a 5×7 picture frame using colorful glass mosaic pieces and your own unique creative style. In addition, you will be creating your own, one of kind, glass circle piece!
Mosaic Window Art – 4th-6th Grade FULL
Campers will take ordinary paper, arrange it, and throughout the week, they will turn it into a stained glass window they can take home!
Nature Journal and Craft – All Grades FULL
Let’s create art inspired by our natural world! We will start a nature journal, water color, sketch, & make some nature crafts to bring home.
Painting – 4th-6th Grade FULL
Come and discover the basics of painting! We will draw, paint and get creative with colors and materials to create amazing things!
Puppetry
Enjoy creating your own puppet character and learn how to make it come to life in this puppetry class!
Rock Painting – 4th-6th Grade FULL
Campers can learn different techniques about how to carefully paint small details on rocks to create a beautiful masterpiece!
Rubber Stamp Art
Campers will have fun learning how to make things like greeting cards, bookmarks, and other small keepsakes with rubber stamps!
Stage Combat – 4th-6th Grade FULL
In this class, campers will learn the techniques of stage combat! They will use perspective and the movement of their bodies to create the illusion of a realistic fight on a stage.
String Art and Mosaics – 2nd/3rd Grade FULL
Join our String Art and Mosaics class to learn how to use wood, string and seeds to create beautiful patterns of art. You will create your own projects to bring home and display. Please bring a hammer for pounding small nails if you have one available and if not we will have some available.
Trash into Treasure – 4th-6th Grade FULL
Help take care of God’s earth by upcycling things that would normally go in the trash to make hanging flower planters!
Unexpected Art – 4th-6th Grade FULL
Unleash your creativity! This class will show you that everyday items found at home can be used to make masterpieces. Have fun using your imagination to transform trash into art!
Vocal Music
Love to sing? Want to explore and develop your gift of song? Then come and belt it out with us! We will work on refining vocal techniques, stage presence, microphone skills, lyrical expression and more. Be taught by a professional worship director as you have fun and learn the art of singing.
Yarn Art
Come and learn how to use yarn to make art! In this class, you will learn how to craft yarn paintings with colorful yarn.
Acting & Improv-Bob Karel
Explore your dramatic side as you act, improvise, and have fun! This class engages a variety of theater games, improvisations, short scenes, and other tips and tricks of the trade to develop young actors. Learn from a teacher who loves fun and has lots of experience acting in local theatre!
Art of Survival-Bill Bartels & Kurt Dilley
Test out your survival skills in this fun, creative and adventurous class! Learn from two outdoorsmen the skills they have spent a lifetime gathering and putting in to practice as you embrace the nature God has given us and use their knowledge and experience to be equipped to survive!
Created Under the Sea-Marlene Feistamel
Fun art making some of the wonderful creatures that live in the sea. We will do painting, beautiful fish with shining, sparkling scales, watercolor backgrounds, jellyfish suncatchers and an origami fish tank.
DIY Spa Day Crafts-Kensley Huizinga & Mackenzie Stubblefield
Love the spa day feel? Then join us as we learn to make our own soaps, scrubs, and other special spa treatments out of everyday household items! Get ready for an at home spa day of your own creation.
Devotion In Motion-Kelly Honderd
This class teaches how to use the gift of dance to bring worship and glory to God. Campers will learn basic ballet techniques, sacred dance movements, and embrace their creativity with free dance time! We may even throw a little line dancing! Get moving and have some fun as you learn from a professional dance teacher and worship God together.
Lego Art- Ella Eitniear
Let’s build together! Each day you will be tasked with a different Lego building challenge and given 45 minutes to use artistic insight and imaginative engineering to complete your creation. These creations will be photographed and then disassembled, so we can take on a new challenge for the next day!
Hip Hop- Karisa VanderWeele
This high-energy dance class will teach some of the latest styles of free-style movements & street dance techniques like breaking, popping, and locking.
Nature Art-Jenni Lewis
Come on this adventure as we explore through nature and discover that the treasures we need to make art are already in the world around us! See how imaginative you can get, turning the outdoors into an awesome pieces of art! We will make our own tic tac toe sets, photo hangers, and more!
String Art with Wood-Jack and Kristi Vandenbroek
Our projects would be string art on wood (using hammers, scissors) and bird houses (hammers, hot glue, and paint).
Star Wars Origami-Beth Andrus
Explore a galaxy far, far away in our Star Wars origami class! Craft iconic characters and spacecraft from the beloved saga while unleashing your creativity. Young Padawans will master the folds needed to bring their favorite Star Wars characters to life. At the end of the week we will showcase your intergalactic creations in a unique video to share the Force-filled fun with friends and family!
Sun Catchers-Terri Blanch and Marie Jasper
Glass class making suncatchers. Inspired by Jilly’s in Pentwater (she won art prize one year).
Painting-Kathy Bartels
Come and discover the basics of painting! We will brainstorm, plan, draw out, and paint to create our own masterpiece! Get creative with your brushes and colors as you design with your new skills what is unique to your own style of painting!
Percussion-Sidney Koster
Love to drop a beat? Always wanted to give drumming a try? Now is the time! Come and discover rhythmic patterns as you learn to make music through stomping, pounding, and striking using lids, buckets, and other commonly found items. You can be a drummer wherever you are, with whatever is around you!
Pony Bead Art-Tana Somerville
A fun class where we learn to make keychains and jewelry with pony beads!
Trash Into Treasures- Brittany Pospiech
Practice the art of “upcycling”, by literally turning everyday trash into creative treasures. You will be amazed by the fun and beauty you can find as you see past the average and turn clutter into spectacular art!
Vocal Music-Wendy Huizinga
Love to sing? Want to explore and develop your gift of song? Then come and belt it out with us! We will work on refining vocal techniques, stage presence, microphone skills, lyrical expression and more. Be taught by a professional worship director as you have fun and learn the art of singing.