If you have any questions about summer camps:
appropriate ages, skill levels, physical or other challenges, or if you just want more information about the projects included in a class, please contact Becka Rahn
612.436.0464 or via email.
Scholarships Available!
Complete a Scholarship Application and return to the Textile Center.
Printable Registration form
FAQ:
Q: If I sign up for a morning and afternoon session, will there be supervision over lunch?
A: Yes! Please bring a lunch and a book to read or something to do. A teacher will be in the room to supervise.
Q: Are there scholarships available?
A: Yes. We do have partial scholarships available. Please contact Becka for more information.
Q: I am a working parent. Can I drop my child off early so I can get to work on time?
A: We request that you do not drop your child off before 8:40 for morning classes or 12:40 for afternoon classes. We do not have staff available to supervise children before these times.
Q: I can't get there at 4 to pick up my child. What can I do?
A: Check out our new Knitting Club! It goes from 4 - 5:30 every day that we have camps. You can sign up for a day or the whole week. You can work on a knitting project or if you don't like to knit, we will have some textile activity for you to try new each week. We suggest that you bring a drink/snack with you to knitting club. Knitting club is for students ages 8-16.
Q: My 9 year old really wants to take a class that says it is for 10 and up. Can I sign her up anyway?
A: Please respect the ages listed on the camp description. We have worked closely with the instructors to design these classes so that every student can be successful. If you have questions, please contact Becka for more information.
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June 25-27
Serendipity Sparkles
1:00-4:00
ages 11-14
This class is all about amazing things you can do with beads. First spend some time in the dye lab creating your own hand-dyed wool felt. Then stitch an animal, doll or fantastical creature to embellish. Finally it's all about beads, beads, beads to design embellish, embroider and sparkle. Create something out of this world.
$85/$75 Textile Center Members
5 Centers for Art Camps
9:00-3:00
ages 8-12
Feed your creative appetite with five days at five art centers. Become a master artist as you learn exciting art-making techniques from professional artists. Each week-long session will follow a different artistic theme. Create a variety of art masterpieces including digital and analog photography; monoprints, drypoints, and relief prints; unique dyes and weavings; books and handmade paper; and wheel-thrown pottery and sculpture. Partners include Minnesota Center for Photography, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Textile Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Northern Clay Center.
Travel Theme: June 23rd-27th
$285/$265 Members of any of the five centers. All organizations will honor NCCs cancellation policy. REGISTER WITH NORTHERN CLAY CENTER 612-339-8007.
July 7-11 Monday - Friday
Poodle Skirt
9:00-12:00
ages 8-10
First grab some socks and a sewing machine and use them to make goofy and adorable sock dogs. What could be cuter than fuzzy stuffed puppies? A skirt with a pocket for them to ride in! Spend the rest of our week sewing a simple summer skirt with a little pocket for your friend.
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
Journey to Japan
9:00-12:00
ages 9-12
Take voyage to discover hand-crafts from Japan. We will learn traditional shibori resist dye patterns on fabrics, learn to make kumihimo braids for bracelets, design a sashiko quilted pillow, make omiyage gift boxes and to top it off, try some "yummy" felted sushi.
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
Hold This!
1:00-4:00
ages 9-12
Bags, purses, vessles, vases, wallets, cozies, key chains and more! This class is all about things to hold other things. Make a duct tape wallet, learn to sew a zippered bag, create felt key chains, make a lunch bag, stitch a pin cushion! There's something for everybody and you choose your projects. Why not get organized with style?
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
July 9 Wednesday
Cozy Kitchen
1:00-4:00
ages 11-14
Every girl needs a cute apron! Design and sew your own stylish apron and a potholder to match. You will be queen of the kitchen (and never burn another cookie) wearing this sweet kitchen accessory.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
July 14-18 Monday - Friday
Three Ring Circus
9:00-12:00
ages 8-11
Elephants, jugglers, cotton candy! We have daring dyes with silk scarves in the dye lab and tasty "cotton candy" spun on drop spindles. Do some fancy stitching and juggle your handmade bean bags. For the grand finale, capture wooly felted snapshots of your favorite circus animals. Come one, come all! (Please note: In our flyer, this camp was listed from 9:00 - 1:00, the correct time should be 9:00 - 12:00)
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
Slumber Party
1:00-4:00
ages 8-10
Dye your own fabric then learn to use a sewing machine to make your own fantastic pajama pants. We provide the macines and materials. You will learn basic sewing skills, how to read a pattern and customize your pants to fit just the way you like.
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
July 15 Tuesday
Monster Mash
9:00-12:00
ages 6-8
Design and sew your own stuffed monster! Give him snaggly teeth and curly horns or make her sweet and fluffy. Learn to sew, add buttons and sequins and even shaggy hair. Take home a new friend straight from your imagination!
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
July 16 Wednesday
American Graffiti
9:00-12:00
ages 11-14
Sew an embroidered peasant blouse like they wore in the 60s! We will make a cute and comfy top with a ribbon tie and then embroider hearts and flowers for a look that's truly timeless.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
July 21-25 Monday - Friday
Trek through India
9:00-12:00
ages 11-14
It's a whirlwind tour of textiles from this exotic land. We will batik dye fabric for a pillow, and embroider kashmiri and shisha style flowers and animals on bags with lots of beads and sparkles. Then we'll take time for a few yoga stretches, spin cotton yarns and make felted wool vessels to decorate with beads and bells.
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
Pajamarama
1:00-4:00
ages 11-14
Make your own pajama pants from start to finish. Design and dye your own one-of-a-kind fabric the first day. Then learn to use a sewing machine, get tips and tricks for working with patterns, and customize your pants with drawstrings and pockets. At the end of the week, use your time to make matching slippers and a makeup bag.
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
5 Centers for Art Camps
9:00-3:00
ages 8-12
Feed your creative appetite with five days at five art centers. Become a master artist as you learn exciting art-making techniques from professional artists. Each week-long session will follow a different artistic theme. Create a variety of art masterpieces including digital and analog photography; monoprints, drypoints, and relief prints; unique dyes and weavings; books and handmade paper; and wheel-thrown pottery and sculpture. Partners include Minnesota Center for Photography, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Textile Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Northern Clay Center.
World Cultures Theme: July 21st-25th
$285/$265 Members of any of the five centers. All organizations will honor NCCs cancellation policy. REGISTER WITH NORTHERN CLAY CENTER 612-339-8007.
July 22 Tuesday
Knitting Newbies
9:00-12:00
ages 6-8
Forget the needles, we will learn to knit with our fingers! Try finger knitting and spool knitting to make knitted cords that we will turn in to headbands, skinny scarves, belts, and more.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
July 24 Thursday
Your Art Smells Terrific
9:00-12:00
ages 8-10
Have fun creating art with herbs. First, stitch a simple eye pillow. Decorate your fabric and then fill it with lavendar and flax.Then create a tiny doll from fresh rosemary, fabrics, fibers and some embroidery. Sweet smells to bring you sweet dreams. (Please note: In our flyer, this camp was listed from 9:00 - 1:00, the correct time should be 9:00 - 12:00)
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
Wild & Wooly
1:00-4:00
ages 8-10
Wool plus water equals fun fuzzy felt! Use all kinds of colorful fibers to make cozies for your electronic gizmos, flowers to wear and funny finger puppets.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
July 28 - August 1 Monday - Friday
In the Bag
9:00-12:00
ages 13-16
Start with a basic purse pattern then learn the nuts and bolts of making fabulous and fashionable bags and purses. Linings, zippers, buttons, pockets, straps, flaps, and snaps! You design it, and we will help you make it. Supply list provided.
$140/$120 Textile Center Members
Sew Your Own Style
1:00-4:00
ages 9-12
Have the perfect sewing project in mind, but just need a little help to get started? This is the place. Choose the project, gather your materials, and we'll help you from start to finish. A little sewing experience helpful. Supply list provided.
$140/$120 Textile Center Members
July 28 Monday
Flower Power
9:00-12:00
ages 9-12
Tie-dye your t-shirt and make flower clips for your hair. It's another trip back in time! Spend some time with the rainbow colors of the dye lab then make daisies, pansies, and roses with clips and pins to decorate your hair, bag, or shoes.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
July 29 Tuesday
Felted Fiber Fun
9:00-12:00
ages 6-8
Make fun things from fuzzy colorful wool. We will make scrubby felted soap, beads and bracelets for you to wear, and learn about where wool comes from and what makes it turn in to fabric.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
July 30 Wednesday
X Marks the Spot
9:00-12:00
ages 9-12
Learn to cross stitch! We will learn the basic stitches, try some fun and funky threads and stitch tiny pillows, bookmarks and more. We will even design a few of our own patterns and look at traditions rom other cutures and parts of the world.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
August 1 Friday
Going Grunge
9:00-12:00
ages 9-12
Skateboards and flannel! We will celebrate the 90's by making skateboard style wallets on a chain, creating bleach stencil t-shirts and stitching hacky-sack bean bags for a quick game.
$30/$25Textile Center Members
August 4-8 Monday - Friday
RetroMania
9:00-12:00
ages 9-12
Macrame and hairbands, legwarmers and friendship pins! We will time travel to the 70's and 80's for some retro fashion fun! Sew some legwarmers, make friendship bracelets for your BFF, stitch patches for your jeans, add some fringe and don't forget the beads. Each day we will accessorize your retro look with what was groovy way back when.
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
Sewing 101
9:00-1:00
ages 13-16
Lots of ideas but not much sewing experience? Sign up for Sewing 101. You choose the project, get the secret t tips and tricks about how to work with your pattern and get past those tricky spots with ease. Some sewing experience helpful. Supply list provided.
$140/$120 Textile Center Members
Fashion Frenzy
1:00-4:00
ages 13-16
Look out Project Runway! On day one, construct your own mini fashion model. Each following day, you will use real fashion design techniques to sketch and construct a line of mini fashions to fit your model. We will start each day with a "challenge" to inspires you to complete your own clothing line.
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
August 5 Tuesday
Rumplestiltskin
9:00-12:00
ages 6-8
Rumplestiltskin could spin straw into gold. We will spin wool into alligators! Starting with all kinds of yarns and fibers, we will learn simple ways to spin them together and make ropes and cords with all kinds of shapes and textures. Then turn your cords into animals and fantastic creatures from your own fairy tale.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
August 7 & 8 Thursday - Friday
Spin Me Around
1:00-4:00
ages 9-12
Day one in the dye lab cooking up all kinds of ways to dye wool and combine it with other fibers - silk sparkles and more! Spend day two spinning your fibers in to yarnds of yarn. Using a drop spindle, you will combine your hand-dyed fibers in to fiberlicious yarn you can use for all kinds of other projects.
$65/$50 Textile Center Members
August 11-15 Monday - Friday
Design It & Quilt It
9:00-12:00
ages 11-14
Three fun filled days in the dye lab trying out more fabric design techniques than you can count. Use sun printing, stencils, silkscreens, dyes, batik and more to design your fabric. Then switch gears and spend two days designing and sewing a simple mini quilt showing off your fabulous fabrics.
$150/$135 Textile Center Members
August 11 Monday
Cozy Creature Quilts
1:00-4:00
ages 9-12
Make a miniature doll quilt for your favorite teddy bear or cuddly kitty. A simple pattern and our sewing machines are all we need to make a mini quilt start to finish. You choose your colors and we'll jump right in and be busy quilting bees.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
August 12 Tuesday
Color Carnival
9:00-12:00
ages 6-8
Dye silk play scarves that you can use for anything you can imagine - super hero capes, parachutes, dress up and more. Blue plus yellow equals green - or does it? This day in the dye lab is all about color.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
August 18-21 Monday - Friday
5 Centers for Art Camps
9:00-3:00
ages 8-12
Feed your creative appetite with five days at five art centers. Become a master artist as you learn exciting art-making techniques from professional artists. Each week-long session will follow a different artistic theme. Create a variety of art masterpieces including digital and analog photography; monoprints, drypoints, and relief prints; unique dyes and weavings; books and handmade paper; and wheel-thrown pottery and sculpture. Partners include Minnesota Center for Photography, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Textile Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Northern Clay Center.
Creative Free-for-all: August 18th-22nd
$285/$265 Members
of any of the five centers. All organizations will honor NCCs cancellation policy. REGISTER WITH NORTHERN CLAY CENTER 612-339-8007.
August 19 Tuesday
Material Girls
9:00-12:00
ages 9-12
It's a world of legwarmers, fingerless gloves, rainbow shoelaces and friendship bracelets. Flashback to the 80's while we stitch, sew, braid and dye some fabulous retro fashions.
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
August 21 Thursday
The Bangles
9:00-12:00
ages 9-12
Felted wool, braided leather, beaded cuffs, striped ribbons, collections of buttons and more. This class is 100% bracelets. We will try many techniques to make as many kinds of bracelets as we can think of. A jewelry lovers dream!
$30/$25 Textile Center Members
Arts Partner Camps
5 Centers for Art Camps
9:00-3:00
ages 8-12
Feed your creative appetite with five days at five art centers. Become a master artist as you learn exciting art-making techniques from professional artists. Each week-long session will follow a different artistic theme. Create a variety of art masterpieces including digital and analog photography; monoprints, drypoints, and relief prints; unique dyes and weavings; books and handmade paper; and wheel-thrown pottery and sculpture. Partners include Minnesota Center for Photography, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Textile Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Northern Clay Center.
Travel Theme: June 23rd-27th
World Cultures Theme: July 21st-25th
Creative Free-for-all: August 18th-22nd
$285/$265 Members of any of the five centers. All organizations will honor NCCs cancellation policy.
Weavers Guild of Minnesota:
Weaving & Fiber Art Creativity for Kids
July 21-25 9:00-12:00 OR 1:00-4:00
ages 9-12
Please register through Weavers Guild of Minnesota. Call 612.436.0463
Weavers Guild of Minnesota:
Teen Weaving Floor Loom Projects
July 28-August 1 9:00-2:00
ages 13-18
Please register through Weavers Guild of Minnesota. Call 612.436.0463
Camps by Age
Ages 6-8
Monster Mash July 15
Knitting Newbies July 22
Felted Fiber Fun July 29
Rumplestiltskin August 5
Color Carnival August 12
Ages 8-10
Poodle Skirt July 7-11
Slumber Party July 14-18
Your Art Smells Terrific July 24
Wild & Wooly July 24
Ages 8-11
Three Ring Circus July 14-18
Ages 9-12
Journey to Japan July 7-11
Hold This! July 7-11
In the Bag July 28-August 1
Sew your Own Style July 28-August 1
Flower Power July 28
X Marks the Spot July 30
Going Grunge August 1
RetroMania August 4-8
Spin Me Around August 7 & 8
Cozy Creature Quilts August 11
Material Girls August 19
The Bangles August 21
Ages 11-14
Serendipity Sparkles June 25-27
Cozy Kitchen July 9
American Graffiti July 16
Trek Through India July 21-25
Pajamarama July 21-25
Design It & Quilt It August 11-15
Ages 13-16
Sewing 101 August 4-8
Fashion Frenzy August 4-8
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