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Summer arts camps, after-school classes, and workshops/events by request in Raleigh, NC.

09/02/2026

Mini Worlds is back! I’m offering one of our most popular camps from this summer as a fall course. See the post at creativecampsnc.com to learn more, or sign up at the link in bio!
Ps check the full post to see what the kids said, too 😄(It didn’t crop right for Insta.)
🐌 💚,
Megan O’Connor Upchurch Instructor

08/21/2026

The feedback we’ve gotten from our campers and parents this summer is filling our cups…thank you so much for the encouragement to keep doing what we’re doing! And please let us know how we can improve. If you’re a parent and haven’t taken the post-camp survey yet, check your email 😉 Here are some of the campers’ surveys and testimonials. Most Fridays we asked two questions:
🌈What did you like best about this camp?
🌈If you could change something about camp, what would it be?

Ps Penny’s wish for more Mini Worlds has been granted! Mini Worlds after-school class coming this October…sign up now at creativecampsnc.com 🤗

08/17/2026

I am proud of what we are building at Creative Camps. Skills, character, expressive confidence - and projects made from just about every art supply we can get our hands on.
See creativecampsnc.com (🔗 in bio) for a breakdown of our third summer, and more encouraging details like this…
👉We went from 15 enrollments in our first summer (2024), to 6️⃣4️⃣ this summer. THANK YOU for spreading the word and bringing your friends. You are becoming a special little community where I’m already looking forward to spending next summer.

08/10/2026

What I LOVE about running Creative Camps is that art is a vehicle for so many things…
⚡️ Connection with others (as well as with any other subject matter you could imagine!).
⚡️Discovering sparks that lead to lifelong passions and/or careers.
⚡️Life lessons like resilience, self-regulation, and experimentation within boundaries.
⚡️Trying new things, building skills, and gaining confidence.

For me (Megan O’Connor Upchurch ) there’s always been more to Creative Camps than just making cute crafts. Swipe to see some of the other emphases of our summer camps and whether we’re a good fit for your family!

How to Train Your Dragon camp last week (pictured above) allowed us to explore pretty much all our values. Though we incorporate them to some degree in each session, some camps are more focused on certain aspects, like skill-building with a specific material. If you ever have questions about what a particular session will entail, don’t hesitate to reach out - here or via email to [email protected] 📩

Huge thanks to our wonderful families for an awesome week of dragons & Vikings! And a special thanks to robyn patterson for requesting this super fun theme ☺️

08/05/2026

In How to Train Your Dragon, there’s a giant dragon that lives in a pit and forces all the other dragons to go out in search of sheep to drop into its waiting jaws. Here’s how we recreated that scene at camp using just yarn and bowls 🐑 Their imaginations easily filled in the rest - and of course a few campers became too emotionally attached to their sheep to toss them over the edge. (If I’m honest, that probably would have been me as a kid, too ;))

08/04/2026

Did we save the best camp for last? Honestly, when a parent requested this custom camp theme…I had no idea how much fun it would be to plan it - and now to run it!

Yesterday we made dragon log books for the week - and campers helped clear the grounds after recent storms by finding twigs to use for the binding ;)
We learned Viking-style lettering.
I made some activity pages for the inside of the books and the first was to imagine they’d found a new dragon species. What are its special features and what would the species be named? Etc.
We then made large drawings/diagrams of the new dragons and gave the drawings a weathered look by ripping the edges and dribbling tea on them. Then we played a game in the “Arena.”

And if you didn’t catch this at the beginning - yes, you can request camp themes and recruit campers to join 😊

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Raleigh, NC
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http://www.creativecampsnc.com/

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