Specialty Camps

A Camp For Anyone

Camp Webb Knoxville offers numerous specialty camps throughout the summer. Just a few interests our camps offer are: Music, art, science, cooking, building with Legos™, theatre, nature, crafting, stop motion animation, dance, and more! Check back in February to view a full listing of this year’s camps in our 2022 brochure!

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Sample Specialty Camp Offerings

3D Modeling

Ages: Entering grades 5 - 7
Director: Miller Callaway, Webb Middle School science teacher

Calling all future architects and digital designers! Campers attending this camp will learn the basics of Computer Added Design (CAD), using the free software program SketchUp. After the basics are learned, campers will design a simple 3D name tag that will be printed on one of the classroom’s 3D printers. Campers will also investigate bridges and buildings from around the world using LEGO® Architecture kits and K’Nex to build models of famous structures.

Cost: $250

Acting for the Movies

Ages: Entering grades 3 - 5
Director: Steve Sherman, Knoxville Children’s Theatre Instructor

Want to be a movie star? Learn how to act in front of the camera from actor Steve Sherman, a lecturer in acting at the University of Tennessee and instructor with the Knoxville Children's Theatre. Campers will enjoy making mock commercials and their own original short film! Get ready to be creative, improve your acting skills and become a filmmaker!

Adventures in Writing

Ages: Entering grades 4 - 6
Director: Christy Conley, Director of Dance at Webb Dance Academy and former Webb Lower School teacher

Do fantastic stories grow inside your brain? Have you ever wanted to write your own stories or novel but didn’t know where to start? Are you amazed by The Lightning Thief, Harry Potter, Matilda, and everything in between? Then Adventures in Writing is the camp for you! Using the Snowflake method, Three-Act Structure, silly activities, and campus excursions, Ms. Conley will help you explore and develop your inventive ideas into a “for real” piece of fiction.

Cost: $240

Barnyard Bonanza

Ages: Entering kindergarten - 1st grade
Director: Amy Marion, Webb Lower School teacher

Oink, Moo, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! Barnyard Bonanza camp is just for you! If you like playing in the dirt, hitching up your wagon, or livin’ high on the hog, put on your work boots and join us for a week of fun! At our home on the range, campers will spend their days crafting, reading, playing games, and learning all about barnyard animals! If you join us, we’d be as happy as a pig-in-mud!

Cost: $215

Books, Baking and Buckets of Fun

Ages: Entering kindergarten - 3rd grade
Director: Emily Hicks, Webb Lower School teacher

Does your child enjoy books and baking? Books by well known authors are used to launch a variety of activities, such as baking, making books and other creative hands-on projects designed to stimulate reading and language skills. Your child is sure to enjoy this camp, cover to cover.

Cost: $250

Breakout Camp

Ages: Entering grades 4 - 6
Director: Kate Lewallen, Webb School Librarian

Can you escape a desert island, stop the zombie apocalypse and solve history’s greatest mysteries...all in one week? Only at Breakout Camp! Like the increasingly popular escape rooms, campers will work together to solve puzzles and “breakout” of a variety of scenarios before the timer ends; all the while developing teamwork, critical thinking and communication skills. At the end of the week, campers will work in groups to create and share their own breakout games.

Cost: $245

Camp Hogwarts

Ages: Entering grades 5 - 8
Director: Amanda Lee, Webb Middle School teacher & David Haines, Webb Middle School Dean of Students

Calling all Muggles! Summer is coming and that means it’s time for CAMP HOGWARTS! First Years... find out which house you’re assigned to in the sorting hat ceremony. Bond with your prefects and housemates. Make chocolate frogs. Test your skills in Potions and Herbology class. Visit Hogsmeade, frolic with mystical creatures and help your house battle for the Quidditch and House Cups. Join your fellow witches and wizards as we use all seven books to guide us through a magical week of Pottermania! Note: Buddy Requests are not honored in this camp. Friends may be placed in separate houses. Please take this into consideration before applying for this camp.

Cost: $265

Chess Camp

Director: Leonard Dickerson, Chess Life Master and three-time Tennessee state champion

Do you love chess and want to improve your game? Then join Leonard Dickerson for a week of strategic learning. Session I is mainly for chess players who may not have much competitive play experience. Campers work on piece mechanics, opening strategies, tactics, and general principles. The complexity of the material covered depends upon the skill levels of the campers. Session II is for players who have ideally participated in tournaments or a previous camp and would like to improve their tournament play. Those in the Advanced Camp work on understanding combinations, critical endgame techniques, positional analysis, and team play. In both camps, there will be an ongoing tournament. At each camp’s completion, each camper will receive a personal evaluation, as well as a chess set (if needed) or book.

Cost: $245

Coach Owen’s Summer Hangout

Ages: Entering grades 2 - 5
Director: Steve Owen, former Webb Lower School P.E. teacher

If you want to design a bottle-style rocket ship and launch it into the air, and play some of the coolest games around, then Coach Owen's Summer Hangout is the perfect camp for you! Each day, campers will enjoy a variety of fun P.E activities such as Pirate's Gold, Star Wars Rebel Assault, Medic, Capture the Flag, and lots more! Plus, there'll be some sportier options like kickball, soccer, frisbee. But that's not all, we'll have opportunities to draw, play card games, and end each day cooling off with popsicles, magic tricks and storytelling! Of course no proper summer hangout would be complete without shooting cans and balloons at our BB range (goggles, BB rifles and NAA and BSA certified safety instruction provided). So, come and enjoy Hanging-out with us! Can't wait to see you there!

Double Play Science and Games

Ages: Entering grades 1 - 4
Director: Lisa Haskell, local science teacher

This camp will develop your mind and body with both science and games. Learn to think critically and solve science riddles, and have a blast while doing it! Make a balloon brain and protect it with a homemade helmet, then see who survives a “crash.” Create “foam-er-ators” and we’ll shoot them outside. We’ll also make leaf tokens, tornadoes and survival rafts, test groovy lava lamps, and learn lots of magic science tricks. For the other half of the day, we’ll play cooperative team building games like Army Navy, American Gladiators, Scram Ball, Scatterball, Dodgeball, Prison Dodgeball, Mighty Mouse, Pac-Man, Museum, and lots more!

Cost: $225

Dungeon Masters

Ages: Entering grades 7 - 8
Director: John Williams, Webb Middle School teacher

Hail and well met, traveler! If it's an adventure you seek, you need look no further! Join the party as we seek glory, wonder and riches in the fantastical world of the tabletop role-playing game! In this camp, we will learn the basics of playing Dungeons & Dragons® fifth edition, including character creation, role-playing, dungeon design, and much more! Prepare to embark on the ultimate quest!

Cost: $240

Engineering Camp

Ages: Entering grades 3 - 5
Director: Charlie Arp, Webb Lower School science teacher

Game controllers, robots and rockets are all fun to use, but have you ever tried building them? Working in teams, campers will learn the steps of the engineering process in order to design and create exciting gadgets. Campers will then put their new knowledge to the test in various engineering challenges. Some of the activities may include building and racing cars made from recycled materials, creating game controllers that will hook up to a computer, and tinkering with robots using toy motors and everyday objects.

Cost: $255

Eureka! Mythology Camp

Ages: Entering grades 4 - 6
Director: Jenny Fields, Webb Upper School Latin teacher

εὕρηκα heúrēka! You have found it! The perfect camp for those wanting to venture into Greek folklore and legends. Scavenger hunts, catapult making, chariot rides, and the ancient tradition of “Tog-a”-war await those campers bold enough to partake. We will investigate the infamous olympians, heroes and monsters whose adventures have withstood the test of time! So prepare for a week of great discoveries and activities which will bring these ancient myths to life!

Cost: $245

Fairy Camp

Ages: Entering kindergarten - 1st grade
Director: Denine Benedetto, Webb Middle teacher

If you believe in fairies, don’t just clap your hands; join us for a “fairy-tastic” week of magical adventures! Fairies will twirl their way through a whole host of pixie-perfect activities: a fairy naming ceremony, earning their wings, listening to and telling fairy stories, making fairy crafts, water play, building fairy homes, fairy dances and tea parties, and “flying” with their very own fairy wings on nature walks. Experience the magic with us!

Cost: $250

Hip Hop Fly Girls

Ages: Girls entering grades 2 - 6
Director: Jennifer Venable Austin, professional dancer and founder of Arts In Motion

Girlfriends...are you ready to “get down with your bad self?” Join us for this camp’s 12th year at Camp Webb. In this classic camp of awesomeness, learn hip hop dance moves, including stomp dances, row dancing, jump and thump, and pop-and-lock skills. No prior dance training is required to learn street combinations with “kickin’”moves; just comfortable clothing and sneakers.

Cost: $250

Junior Explorers

Director: Erika Letsinger, Webb Lower School Learning Specialist

Calling all jet-setters and aspiring globetrotters! Get ready to take off and see places all around the world with us this summer! We’ll experience what it’s like to live in other countries through food, music, crafts and much more. Come explore cultures from around the globe while never having to leave the comforts of Camp Webb! Don’t forget your passport as we adventure through all seven continents and discover what makes each new place unique!

Cost: $245

Junior Scientist

Ages: Entering grades 1 - 4
Director: Lisa Haskell, local science teacher

Kaboom! Through exciting experiments, campers will learn simple chemistry and create erupting volcanoes, ocean waves, fireworks in a jar, and invisible ink. While learning about water, air, bugs, forces, and plants, they’ll construct rockets to launch, cargo boats, bug habitats, and even marshmallow catapults! Once campers learn about frogs, they’ll take home an aquatic frog in his/her own personally created habitat (optional).

Cost: $250

LEGO® Robotics

Ages: Entering grades 5 - 7
Director: Miller Callaway, Webb Middle School science teacher

The simplest beginnings lead to great things as campers learning computer programming using the LEGO® Mindstorms software to program LEGO® NXT robots. Basic movements will be enhanced by the introduction of touch, light and ultrasonic sensors that will help guide the robots through multiple tasks. Engineering design will be incorporated later in the week as campers combine their programming knowledge with their LEGO® building skills to create SumoBots that will battle for supremacy in the Dojo. Don’t miss out on this fun and exciting camp! No previous experience with robotics or computers is necessary.

Cost: $250

Materials Science

Ages: Entering grades 4 - 5
Director: Jenifer Lawrie, Webb Upper School science teacher

What makes steel strong, and why does Silly Putty bounce? Find out in a week of experimental learning about matter! Some of the activities may include making paint from milk, growing crystal forests, extracting copper metal from minerals, creating stretchy slimes, and making models from plastics. Under the experienced supervision of Dr. Lawrie, campers will even make fiber optic wires out of glass!

Cost: $255

Mock Trial Camp

Ages: Entering grades 6 - 8
Director: Kendra Perry, Webb Upper School English teacher

WE OBJECT… to anyone overlooking the thrilling and mind stimulating camp that is Mock Trial Camp. Exhibit A: if you love to think critically, create and execute detailed arguments, and take on the persona of a professional lawyer then this camp is perfect for you! Exhibit B: campers will have the opportunity to examine witness statements, partake in a fabricated trial, and make objections as well as closing arguments. Let there be order in the court and a week full of exhilarating fun commence!

Cost: $240

Nature Discovery

Ages: Entering grades 1 - 3
Director: Shaney Brown, Webb Middle School science teacher

Back again for its 14th year! Get ready for some “wild” fun at Nature Discovery Camp. Spend your days catching critters, investigating habitats and learning about the natural world. Campers will safely catch aquatic and terrestrial animal species and map their distribution in the Camp Webb habitat. Campers will also learn how to lessen their impact on the environment while having lots of fun with games, activities and crafts.

Cost: $250

Outdoor Art Creations

Ages: Entering grades 5 - 8
Director: Noel Smith, Webb Middle School art teacher

Todd Christopher (National Wildlife Federation’s Green Hour) said this: “There may be no better way to ensure the wellbeing of the natural world tomorrow than to introduce children to its many small wonders today.” If you are passionate about art, nature and love the outdoors, this is the camp for you! We will create outdoor art, from ceramic birdhouses to Andy Goldsworthy inspired, site-specific sculptures. Look closely at nature for shapes, forms, patterns, and textures and add them all to your palate.

Cost: $255

Rock the Voice

Ages: Entering grades 3 - 6
Director: Jean Helbig & Julie Stout, Webb School music teachers

Rock the Voice….where every camper is a star! Campers will jam out with their friends while creating their own covers of songs from some of music’s legends as well as today’s up and coming artists. But that’s not all! Throughout the week campers will learn some basic choreography, experiment with percussion instruments and even take a whack at ‘Stomp’ inspired endeavours. All this hard work will culminate in creative performance posters, personalized tie dyed t-shirts, and some rockin’ group performances!

Cost: $245

Webb Landfill Band

Ages: Entering kindergarten - 3rd grade
Director: Julie Stout, Webb Middle and Upper School Instrumental Music teacher

Music is all around us, even in places that you never would have thought of before…a bucket, a shoe, plastic bottles. How is that even possible? Come learn how to make music wherever you go with the Webb Landfill Band this summer! At the end of a crafty and musical week campers will have at least 5-7 ‘landfill’ instruments that they can take home to share with friends and family! Get ready to teach the world how one camper’s trash is another camper’s musical instrument with the Webb ‘Landfill’ Band! Let the music begin!!!

Cost: $240

Seussical Camp

Ages: Entering Kindergarten-2nd grade
Director: Laura Barton, Webb Lower School teacher

From Mulberry Street to Whoville, come explore the world of Dr. Seuss! Make friends with Mayzie, Horton, the Lorax, Yertle the Turtle, and more. Who was Dr. Seuss? Learn his real name, what inspired him to write silly, rhyming stories and create funny characters, and more. Campers will become Dr. Seuss experts by designing truffula trees, eating Seussy snacks and creating Seussical crafts.

Cost: $250

Star of the Story

Ages: Entering grades 2 - 4
Director: Carol Hill, Webb School Middle School teacher

Have you ever wanted to bring a story to life, to be the main character, to live out the adventures you read about in books? Well, you CAN! Inspired by the written word, our stars will create crafts, build sets, and play games to bring stories to life. Campers will not only get to read some of the best children’s books around but will also go on adventures and explorations! So be the star of your own story and join us for a week of fun on and off the page!

Cost: $240

Star Wars

Ages: Entering grades 1 - 3
Director: Laura Barton, Webb Lower School teacher

Calling all brave Jedi Knights! Join Commander Barton in a galaxy far, far away for Star Wars Camp! Use the force and make lightsabers, play Star Wars games, read books, and battle the Dark Side. Jedi Knights will create the Millennium Falcon, TIE fighter and X-wing Starfighter, as well as other crafts that are out of this world. Join us… it is your destiny!

Cost: $250

Stop Motion Animation

Ages: Entering grades 4 - 6
Director: Amanda Zeller, Webb Middle School Director of Academic Technology

In this innovative week, campers will create their own stop motion films from scratch. Animators will learn how animation works, build their own characters and sets, and shoot their own stop motion animation films. Have a blast learning about filmmaking and collaborating with your fellow filmmakers! Cost: $255

Summer Olympics

Ages: Entering grades 5 - 7
Director: Amanda Lee & Denine Benedetto, Webb Middle School teachers

Become an Olympian for a week! Test your athletic skills in everything from soccer and volleyball to track & field and swimming. Each day will be packed with new events where you will compete on national teams for the Ultimate World Title. You’ll jump, splash, run, hit, throw, kick, volley, and slide your way to victory. Grab your Olympic torch and join us!

Cost: $235

SuperGirl Dance Camp

Director: Christy Conley, Director of Dance at Webb Dance Academy and former Webb Lower School teacher

Are your dancing shoes moving all the time? Do you love sharing ideas and making new friends? Dance frees our inhibitions to be who we really are. We will study what makes us feel best about ourselves and then dance our hearts out! Our dances will be inspired by a mix of contemporary, ballet, jazz, lyrical, and hip hop. Bring your creative ideas for making a scrapbook about dance, performing and making new friends.

The Science of Birds & Bugs

Ages: Entering grades 6 - 8
Director: John Williams, Webb Middle School teacher

Do you love nature and want to learn more? Are you someone who appreciates the smaller things in life? Then look no further than The Science Birds & Bugs, a crash course in the discovery, identification and appreciation of the fascinating creatures with which we share our world. Embrace your inner Field Researcher as you learn about our native wildlife and conduct surveys of the vast wilderness that is the Webb School campus!

Cost: $215

Ultimate Kids Concoctions

Ages: Entering grades 2 - 5
Director: Lisa Haskell, local science teacher

Create wacky, wild and creative things to play with and observe. These projects inspire fun and innovation. Just a few of the crazy concoctions include: treasure stones with treasure inside, crystal paint, crystal farms to take home, custom-made silly scents, edible bracelets, fruity lip balm; and an Ultimate Kids’ Concoctions feast of individually-made homemade mini-foods, such as dragon candy, ladybug candy (no real insects involved), mini cakes, and pies!

Cost: $250

Academic Enrichment Camp

This year, we will be offering an afternoon enrichment camp for rising 6th graders. The camp will run from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and campers may attend only this Enrichment Camp OR attend in addition to one of our other day camp offerings. (Please be advised that if your camper attends Adventure Camp during the day, and leaves early to attend Enrichment Camp, we cannot prorate the cost of Adventure Camp due to their early departure.)

Study Skills & Middle School Readiness
Times: 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ages: Entering 6th grade
Instructors: Heather Eastwood (long time Webb Middle School teacher) and Dr. Ellen Schnoll (Middle School Learning Specialist)

This camp is designed to acclimate students to a middle school environment and help improve basic study skills. A variety of topics will be covered and include: traits of a good student, active learning, test prep skills, test-taking skills, reading text, organizing materials and study space, time management, keeping track of assignments, and knowing when to get help. Jump into Study Skills and be better prepared for the first day of school – and a successful school year. Cost: $200 Note: This is an afternoon camp; no lunch is provided unless your camper also attends one of our day camps. Snack provided for campers also enrolled in a sport/specialty camp.