Camps for Ages 6-8
Our Summer 2025 Camp Guide is available for download!
Details about the registration process and individual camp offerings will be available on our website on January 13!
Engage your kids in science and engineering summer camps at The Works Museum! Featuring new camps each season, as well as favorites like LEGO Robotics, Code Camp, architecture, and more. Our summer camps for ages 6-8 at The Works are ideal for girls and boys. Summer camp season at The Works Museum is alive with enthusiasm and creative engineering.
6-year-olds must have completed Kindergarten.
Return to camps:
Main, Pre K, Ages 6-8, Ages 9-12, One-day Camps, LEGO Camps, Robotics Camps, STEM Camps for Girls, Coding Camps
Important Camp Details:
2025 Summer Camps at the Works Museum
January 20: Innovators Club* registration begins.
January 22: Works Museum Member registration begins.
January 27: Public registration begins.
⚙︎ HINT: If you’re registering for 2 or more camps, an Innovators Club membership could save you money. See details at theworks.org/support-us/innovators-club/
*The Works Museum is committed to improving gender equity and representation in STEM. Our programs for girls are inclusive and welcoming to gender expansive students (cisgender and transgender girls, non-binary or gender non-conforming students, and any other girl-identifying youth).
$230, $207 members
Try your hand at different engineering jobs. Each day will focus on a different field of engineering. Wire a flashlight (electrical), construct a propeller car (mechanical), design a bridge (architectural), and much more!
M-Th, June 23-26 , 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
M-Th, July 21-24, 1-4 p.m.
$230, $207 members
Treasure lies at the end of your map, but first you need to engineer ways to get past roaring rapids, waterfalls, tall cliffs, and hidden traps. Team up with fellow adventurers to design solutions to
problems you encounter on your quest.
$230, $207 members
Learn how animators combine art and engineering to make movies and videos. Work together to produce your own stop motion animation.
M-Th, June 16-19, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, August 4-7, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
M-Th, August 18-21, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$230, $207 members
Build and test simple rockets to learn the basics of flight and propulsion. Discover what it takes to live in space. Participate in a simulated space mission and construct survival items you would need.
M-Th, June 16-19, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, July 14-17, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
$230, $207 members
Design, build, and test different kinds of vehicles to see how they handle a collision. Experiment with crash-proof packaging, then test it out on water balloons.
M-Th, June 16-19, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
M-Th, July 14-17, 1-4 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
M-Th, August 4-7, 1-4 p.m.
$255, $229.50 members
Use carpentry skills such as sawing and hammering to build a tabletop arcade game. Design a theme, then add elements like a launcher and traps.
$230, $207 members
Practice your woodworking skills to build a hedgehog friend using a hammer and nails. Learn about sawing, sanding, and drilling, then create wooden creatures with wiggly arms and legs.
M-Th, June 16-19, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
M-Th, July 14-17, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
M-Th, August 18-21, 1-4 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
$230, $207 members
Engineer adaptive equipment for animals who are injured or have a disability. Devise a way to rescue a pet from a tree. Design toy prototypes and enrichments for different animals.
*No live animals are attending this camp.
$230, $207 members
Investigate how things move through air as you construct hovercrafts, mini-catapults, flying saucers, rockets, and more.
M-Th, June 16-19, 1-4 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
M-Th, July 7-10, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, August 11-14, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$230, $207 members
Explore robotics concepts through games, wiring, and building. Program roving bots to navigate a custom built maze. Design and wire your own wigglebot to bring home.
M-Th, June 9-12, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
M-Th, June 23-26, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, July 14-17, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, August 4-7, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
M-Th, August 11-14, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$230, $207 members
Make a cross-section of a skyscraper, working with scale and model-making ideas. Solve design challenges for strong construction and add an elevator.
M-Th, July 21-24, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, July 28-31, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
M-Th, August 18-21, 1-4 p.m.
$230, $207 members
Build elevators, wind-up cars, and catapults with specialty LEGO pieces. Explore with gears, pulleys, and other moving parts.
M-Th, June 9-12, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, June 16-19, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
M-Th, June 23-26, 1-4 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
M-Th, July 14-17, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
M-Th, August 4-7, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, August 11-14, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, August 18-21, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
$230, $207 members
Same great LEGO Engineering camp, in a section for girls. Build elevators, wind-up cars, and catapults with specialty LEGO pieces. Explore with gears, pulleys, and other moving parts.
$230, $207 members
Learn how to build sturdy structures. Design and build your own mini golf hole and club. Put your designs together to create a mini golf course and play a round of golf with fellow campers.
M-Th, August 4-7, 1-4 p.m. | At Minnesota Children’s Museum
M-Th, August 25-29, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$230, $207 members
Enter our Greek mythology training camp and test your engineering powers. Create mythological creatures that mechanically come to life, build an Archimedes screw, and more.
$255, $229.50 members
Work in pairs to build little robots using special LEGO WeDo 2.0 pieces. Program your creations using iPads and coding software.
M-Th, July 7-10, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
M-Th, July 28-31, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, August 25-28, 1-4 p.m.
$255, $229.50 members
Same great Robocoding camp, in a section for girls. Work in pairs to build little robots using special LEGO WeDo 2.0 pieces. Program your creations using iPads and coding software.
$230, $207 members
Use your imagination to design elements of your own sci fi planet like fantastical landscapes, creatures and their homes, and more. Make your world even more unique by customizing your designs with motors and LED lights.
$230, $207 members
Explore different ways we harness the power of water. Design a boat to transport goods, create pipelines to get water from one place to another, convert energy with a water wheel, and more!
Tips for camp registration:
- Want a 5-day experience for your camper? Add on a One Day Camp to the regular camp week.
- Want to try a 1-day experience? Register just for One Day Camps or look at our July 4th week camps.
- The session you wanted is full? Get on the wait list to be notified if we’re able to add extra sessions.
- Want a full-day experience? Register for an a.m. and p.m. camp. We supervise campers while they enjoy lunch from home and play between camps. There is no need to register for lunch supervision for children combining an a.m. and a p.m. camp.
- Drop-off begins at 8:30 for a.m. camps and at 12:30 for p.m. camps.
- Pick-up is from 12-12:15 for a.m. camps and 4-4:15 for p.m. camps.
- By registering for camp you attest that you have read and agree to the camp and cancellation policies of The Works Museum.
Save money on camps and more when you become a member of The Works Museum. Purchase a membership today!