Summer camp can be a magical place. Kids make new friends, develop their passions and learn important skills. Here in St. Louis, there seems to be a camp for every interest—sports, theater and technology barely scratch the surface. But we thought it would be fun to ask kids what their dream camps would look like. Here’s what they told us.

I would want to go to a really cool cooking camp in Paris! It would be at a super nice restaurant, and professional chefs would be the teachers. There wouldn’t be a lot of kids, just a few, and they all would have their own cooking spaces. All of the ingredients would be provided, and we would learn how to make all sorts of food. It would be a couple of weeks, maybe three, for a few hours each day, but we would get the weekends off. At the end, we would cook for the chefs, and they would judge us.
ryan trammell, third-grader

I would like to have a camp that teaches life lessons and everyday skills. It would also let the campers explore new things to widen their views on what they want to do when they’re older.
alex beckerle, seventh-grader

 

My camp would be called Pro Sports. It would be at an indoor dome in downtown St. Louis. It would be for two weeks, and we would spend two days each on different sports: hockey, football, soccer, swimming, basketball and lacrosse. At the end of the two days, we would play a game against each other. We would go on Saturdays too, but for less time, and we would get Sundays off. All of the equipment would be there, and there would be a huge pool for swimming. We would have different age groups; it would start at age 2 and go up to 14. A professional player would teach kids stuff at the end of each day for their sport, like Vladimir Tarasenko would come for hockey, an NFL quarterback for football, and Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo for soccer.
autumn meyer, third-grader

My dream camp would be a movie production camp with actors, mics and CGI if we need it. We could shoot a mini movie and then edit it with an audience screening on the last day. Some kids could be at an acting camp and some at a producing camp, so everyone gets to practice their passion.
isley newton, seventh-grader