What do kids learn in STEM camps?
How to make a hand sanitizer dispensing dinosaur
Events in Your Area 🎄🎅🏼
Boston
Solstice ‘Scapes (Acton Discovery Museum)
December Vacation Week (Acton Discovery Museum)
Santa & Mrs. Claus’ Farmhouse Christmas (Good Pickin’ Farm)
Candy Engineering (Metropolitan Waterworks Museum)
Countdown to Kindergarten Playgroup (FREE! Boston Public Library)
Zoo Lights (Stone Zoo)
Christmas by Candlelight (Old Sturbridge Village)
Farm Festival of Lights (Good Pickin’ Farms)
Milk, Cookies, and Storytime (Old Sturbridge Village)
NYC
Mix-n-Mingle Math Program (FREE! National Museum of Mathematics)
Winter Wonderland (Waterdrinker Farms)
Merry Market (Waterdrinker Farms)
Spin, Sing, and Shine for Hanukkah! (Children’s Museum of Manhattan)
San Francisco
Reindeer Games (Children’s Creativity Museum Theater)
Winter Break Camps (Bay Area Discovery Museum)
Lightscape (SF Botanic Gardens)
Twin Cities
Winterapolis (Minneapolis/St. Paul area)
Activity Spotlight: Nory Stem Camp 🤖
Nory has been one of our go-to’s for the last couple of years for holiday day camps and summer weekly camps. For kids in ages 3-12, Nory offers a fun and age-appropriate approach for creating, building, and solving problems. It focuses on robotics, engineering, coding, science, woodworking, and other creative projects.
Most camps run on a weekly theme, such as robotic pets, scooters, baseball equipment or fencing gear, or problem solving creations like hand sanitizer dispensing dinosaurs! The creations that kids bring home are cool, but full disclosure for parents: you can end up with a lot of stuff!
Area: Throughout NYC and recently in Boston
Price: $890/week, $178/day for NYC camps. Discounts on multi-weeks.
Hours: 9am-3pm
Early Drop-off: + $20/day
Extended Care: + $30/day
Highlights: Fun intro to robotics for young children, while including outdoor play every day. Older kids can participate in coding camps.
Note: lunch is not included.
What’s New This Week 📰
How to Find Camps in Your Area: This guide walks through how to actually find camps in your area, using the same grassroots detective work most parents rely on now (mom groups, word of mouth, driving around town, school flyers, PTO emails, local papers), plus a few region-specific ideas if you’re in New York City, Boston, San Francisco, or Minneapolis–St. Paul.
Handling Big Feelings (Emotional Regulation in Young Kids): Name-it-to-tame-it and other simple tools to help kids calm down. We hear your big feelings too.
What We’re Working On 📊
We’re all in on camps. A mom friend, former colleague, and writer—who recently relocated from Minneapolis to Boston—will be sharing her perspective and tips on summer camps in the South Boston area. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, we’re making steady progress on Project Camp, even amid an unusually intense juggle of client work and family life — like Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. We’ve cataloged just under 50 camps and counting and are actively building our initial web app MVP.
We’re aiming to launch in January, right as many camps begin releasing details and families start planning for summer. We’ll be taking a short pause in the final week of December to spend time with our families, and we’re excited to see you in the new year!
Happy Holidays!
Your Team at MomBrains