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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 - $285

ages 3-5

Monday - Friday 9am - 12pm

Weeks of: June 1, June 8, June 15, June 22, July 6, July 13

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.

Dirty, Messy, Awesome! - $425

Entering Grades 1-2 OR Entering Grades 3-5

Monday - Friday 9am - 3pm

DMA! - Classic

Week of June 1

Join our camp counsellors 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.

DMA! - Runnin’ Wild

Week of June 8

Runnin’ Wild week is filled with all sorts of activities, with a focus on movement! Play hilarious games, build an obstacle course, 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.

DMA! - Messy Masterpiece

Week of June 15

Your camper will have a blast in this art 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! In addition to all the fun, we will play games, hike, and explore the natural world around us.

DMA! - Nature Navigators

Week of June 22

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.

Theater in The Woods - $525

Entering Grades 5-7

Week of June 8

Monday - Friday 9am - 3pm

Lights, lines, and lots of imagination! During this one-week Theatre Camp, campers will dive into the magic of the stage—practising lines, exploring scripts, and bringing stories to life. We’ll experiment with props and costumes, play theatre games, and work together to build confidence, creativity, and strong relationships with fellow performers.

By the end of the week, campers will be ready to shine, having learned the joy of collaboration, expression, storytelling and performance.

Final performance for friends and family at 2:45pm on the Friday of camp week

Outdoor Odyssey - $525

Entering Grades 5-7

Week June 15

Monday - Wednesday 9am - 3pm and Thursday 9am - Friday 12pm

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 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.