summer camps now open!

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If you’re looking for a forest camp for your preschooler, an outdoor adventure for your pre-teen, or anything in between we’ve got you covered!
Prairie School of DuPage offers one-of-a-kind summer camps that revolve around the natural world, art, games, and fun for kids of all ages. These are all outdoor camps and involve lots of physical activity. Campers do not need to attend Prairie School of DuPage to join the summer camp fun!

wild things

Spend a week in the forest at Prairie School of DuPage! Each day the children, ages 3-5, explore 42 acres of prairie, woods, and wetland. Through hiking, building forts and climbing trees, water and mud play, or creating works of nature art, children’s natural curiosity is encouraged, motor skills are developed and friendships are made. Children must be fully potty trained to attend this camp.

Once registration and payment are complete, a camper packet will be sent via email about 2 weeks before the first day of camp.

Monday - Friday 9am - 12pm, $285 a week

Week 1: June 2-6, 2025

Week 2: June 9-13, 2025

Week 3: June 16-20, 2025

Week 4 June 23-27, 2025

Week 5: July 7-11, 2025

Week 6: July 14-18. 2025

Week 7: July 21-25, 2025

Dirty, Messy, Awesome!

This camp is a fan favorite and sells out quickly! Join our camp counselors for a full week of outdoor, messy, summer fun! Each week we will run two consecutive camps - one for campers entering grades 3-4 and one for campers entering grades 1-2. Each week features a different theme and different activities!

All Camps run Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm
Age requirement:
Campers entering grades 1 - 2
Campers entering grades 3 - 4

June 2-6, 2025: Dirty, Messy, Awesome-Fantasy Camp! Entering Grades 1-2

$425 for the week

In this version of Dirty, Messy, Awesome summer camp students will use all five senses to create art. Your camper will learn songs and make their own instruments. Play movement games and learn dances. create visual art such as paintings, sculptures, and origami. Learn how to make fairy wings and hobby horses. express themselves through face paint dress ups and free play.

June 2-6, 2025: Dirty, Messy, Awesome! Entering Grades 3-5

$425 for the week

Join our camp counselors for classic Dirty, Messy, fun! Each day is filled with wet and muddy games, natural building projects, a hike to Northside Park with our handmade boats, messy art projects, ginormous bubbles, make-your-own ice cream, and more.

June 9-13, 2025: Runnin’ Wild. Entering Grades 1-2 OR Entering Grades 3-5

$425 for the week

Runnin’ Wild week is filled with all sorts of activities, with a focus on movement! Learn a few parkour moves, play hilarious games, and challenge your friends to lightning-fast scavenger hunts. We will be trekking through the woods, hiking to Northside Park, and climbing trees. Our Runnin’ Wild campers will also get a chance to make art and use materials found in nature to build something amazing.

June 16-20, 2025: Messy Masterpiece. Entering Grades 1-2 OR Entering Grades 3-5

$425 for the week

Your camper will have a blast in this art and music edition of Dirty, Messy, Awesome! Bring your creativity and have fun making art and music this week. We will be painting, drawing, sculpting, building, weaving, and even making art with bubbles! Learn some fun songs, make an instrument from things we find in nature, and play in a band! In addition to all the fun, we will play games, hike, and explore the natural world around us.

June 23-27, 2025: Nature Navigators. Entering Grades 1-2 OR Entering Grades 3-5

$425 for the week

Dirty, Messy, Awesome - Nature Navigators edition focuses on investigating the natural world. Explore woods, wetlands, prairie, and garden habitats. We will make our own nature journals and learn different ways to log entries each day. We will create nature-based art, and learn about the birds and animals living on the school grounds. Campers will go bird watching and learn how to use binoculars. We round out the week with fun nature-based games and a hike to Northside Park.

Outdoor Odyssey. Entering Grades 4-6

Spend the week learning and honing your survival skills. Campers will work together on team-building challenges, nature-focused games, and forest survival-style projects. The group will work together to plan an overnight camp-out, learning and practicing campfire safety, tent and fort building, meal planning and setting up a camp kitchen, and other skills needed to survive a night in the woods! Our campers will use their new skills and challenge themselves in an overnight camp-out on Thursday night on the school campus.

Monday, June 16 - Wednesday, June 18 9am - 3pm

And Thursday, June 19- 9am through Friday, June 20- 12pm

$525 for the week