Design & Style (Grades K-4)
1 week sessions 9:00am - 3:00pm Price: $615 - $715
In DEAN’s Design & Style Studio, campers explore fashion, fibers, and imaginative transformations through hands-on projects that let them express their individuality. From designing outfits and jewelry to weaving textiles, and embroidering details. Every program gives campers the chance to discover new ways to bring their ideas to life. With a welcoming space that celebrates creativity, collaboration, and resilience, campers learn to take artistic risks, share inspiration with peers, and celebrate their unique style. Each session offers new challenges that inspire growth, so campers gain both confidence and a toolkit of creative skills they can use long after summer ends.
Skills Learned
Each week, campers engage in design and fabrication projects, learning key skills and mindsets. The specific skills taught vary by program, giving each camper the chance to explore different aspects of design and style:
- Foundation Skills: creativity when experimenting with materials and design concepts, collaboration as they share feedback and inspiration, and responsibility as they handle tools, fabrics, and multimedia materials. They also develop resilience as they refine their work through experimentation and iteration, learning that great design often comes from trying, adjusting, and trying again.
- Technical Abilities: fashion illustration, mood boarding, draping, pinning, embroidery, pom-pom making, weaving, textile design, needle felting, jewelry construction, and special effects techniques such as sculpting, blending, and painting, while handling tools, fabrics, and multimedia materials with responsibility
As they design and create, campers also strengthen essential character skills:
- Collaboration: Sharing feedback and inspiration with fellow designers
- Resilience and Creativity: Refining their work through experimentation and iteration, discovering that great design often comes from trying, adjusting, and trying again
By the end of the week, every camper leaves with finished products they can proudly wear, display, or share, along with a growing portfolio of creative techniques and the confidence to express their individual styles in new and imaginative ways.
General Daily Schedule
Morning introduction
Activity period—approximately 1 hour
Snack and stretch break—approximately 15 minutes, outside weather permitting
Activity period—approximately 1 hour
Lunch and Recess break—approximately 1 hour, outside weather permitting
Activity period—approximately 2 hours (included in this time can be a stretch break as needed)
Clean up, pack up, dismissal
Dates, Hours, and Fees
| 2026 Dates | Program |
| June 15 - 18 *4-day week | Jewelry Making |
| June 22 - 26 | Fiber Arts |
| June 29 - July 2 *4-day week | Fashion design & Styling |
| July 6 - 10 | Jewelry Making |
| July 13 - 17 | Glamorize Your Doll |
| July 20 - 24 | Fashion Design & Styling |
| July 27 - 31 | Fiber Arts |
| August 3 - 7 | Jewelry Making |
| August 10 - 14 | Glamorize Your Doll |
| Hours | |
| 9:00am – 3:00pm | |
| Fees | |
| $715 5-day week / $615 4-day week | |
Program Overview
Fashion Design & Styling
Does your child envision eclectic ensembles or sketch showstopping accessories?
Dive into the dazzling realm of our Fashion Design & Styling program, where we celebrate the art of fashion, design, and styling. From refining illustrative skills to creating mood boards, delving into draping and fast-paced styling challenges, this program gives our budding fashionista a creative edge.
By the end of the week, designers won't just be following trends, but they'll be setting them—customizing their own T-shirts, totes, and wearable accessories. Join us and see campers take fashion from drab to fab!
Techniques Learned in Fashion Design & Styling
Draping, Illustration-Fashion Croquis, Hand Sewing, Embroidery, Accessory Sewing, Machine Sewing, Measuring, Abstraction, Mood Boarding, Tracing, Needle Felting, Wonder Knitting, Pom Pom Making, Textile Design, Proper Scissor Usage, Pinning, Making Knots
Fiber Arts
Get ready to create! In Fiber Arts, campers transform yarn, fabric, and thread into one-of-a-kind projects they’ll be excited to take home. With guidance from expert instructors, they’ll dive into hands-on techniques like needle felting, wonder knitting, embroidery, hand sewing, pom-pom making, and more.
Along the way, they’ll master practical skills—measuring, tracing, pinning, knot-tying, and safe scissor use—while experimenting with the design process from sketch to final product. Campers practice responsibility as they handle tools, resilience as they refine new techniques, and creativity as they bring their ideas to life.
The week wraps up with a collection of finished projects that showcase both skill and imagination—proof of just how much they can do with fabric, yarn, and a spark of curiosity!
Glamorize Your Doll
Fashion takes center stage as campers design and create a custom wardrobe for their very own 18-inch doll. With guidance from instructors, they’ll learn real design techniques including hand sewing, embroidery, and needle felting, plus skills like pinning, measuring, and creating patterns. Campers will design and construct stylish outfits and accessories, exploring everything from pom-pom making to fashion illustration.
Each day builds new skills while sparking creativity and collaboration, as campers share designs and learn from one another. Responsibility shines as they handle real tools safely, and resilience grows as they refine their pieces to get the perfect fit.
By the end of the week, every camper heads home with a one-of-a-kind doll wardrobe they’ve created—along with the pride of mastering new skills and sharing the fun with friends.
Techniques Learned in Glamorize Your Doll
Hand Sewing, Embroidery, Garment Sewing, Accessory Sewing, Machine Sewing, Measuring, Illustration- Fashion Croquis, Tracing, Needle Felting, Wonder Knitting, Pom Pom Making, Proper Scissor Usage, Pinning, Making Knots
Jewelry Making
Whether to add a little sparkle or hold memories close in a sentimental keepsake, jewelry has always been an important form of wearable self-expression and art.
Campers will delight in discovering that jewelry making is also a fun and accessible way to get creative. From whimsical necklaces made from polymer clay to sophisticated and elegant wire-beaded rings, campers will create their one-of-a-kind pieces with the help of our patient Handwork Studio counselors.
Bling never looked so good!
Techniques Learned in Jewelry Making
Measuring, String Beading, Wire Wrapping, Clay Jewelry, Bead Making, Color Theory, Jump Rings, Pearler Beads, Brush Techniques, Product Design, Collection Design, Sculpting, Painting