Registration

The Alliance Française offers seven weeks of camps in Summer for children ages 5-8 & 9-12. You can either sign up for one week, several, or all of them; your choice!
All levels and Francophones are welcome. Every week, we offer a new topic with hands-on activities and a specific field trip. 

Week 5: Fasten your seatbelts and let your imagination soar! This exciting week takes young campers on a playful journey through the colorful world of theme parks, where rides, stories, and creativity come together. From spinning carousels to towering Ferris wheels, children will discover the magic behind their favorite attractions through games, songs, and hands-on building.

Using LEGO bricks, campers will design roller coasters, rides, and characters while learning simple science concepts like movement, speed, and gravity in a fun, age-appropriate way. They’ll travel across France through famous parks, create their own mini attraction park as a group, and bring it to life with drawings, models, and storytelling. Thrills, teamwork, and creativity guaranteed.

Field Trip: Flight Adventure Park in Springfield, VA

Before-Care offered from 8am to 8:45am. After-Care offered from 3:45pm to 5:30pm.

The Alliance Française offers seven weeks of camps in Summer for children ages 5-8 & 9-12. You can either sign up for one week, several, or all of them; your choice!
All levels and Francophones are welcome. Every week, we offer a new topic with hands-on activities and a specific field trip. 

Week 5: Welcome to a week where engineering, imagination, and adventure collide! Campers will explore iconic French theme parks like Parc Astérix, Vulcania, Futuroscope, and the Cité de l’Espace, discovering how attractions are designed and how science makes the thrills possible.

Through LEGO construction challenges, campers will build roller coasters, volcano rides, robots, and space-inspired attractions while learning about gravity, motion, forces, energy, and even volcanic eruptions. They’ll sharpen their geographic skills by locating parks on a map of France and dive into the history and themes behind each destination. Working in teams, campers will design and assemble a complete LEGO theme park, complete with explanations, attraction names, and presentations. A perfect blend of creativity, collaboration, and discovery.

Field Trip: Flight Adventure Park in Springfield, VA

Before-Care offered from 8am to 8:45am. After-Care offered from 3:45pm to 5:30pm.

The Alliance Française offers seven weeks of camps in Summer for children ages 5-8 & 9-12. You can either sign up for one week, several, or all of them; your choice!
All levels and Francophones are welcome. Every week, we offer a new topic with hands-on activities and a specific field trip. 

Week 6: Welcome to the movie studio! This week, young campers become storytellers, artists, and filmmakers as they create their very own stop-motion movie using modeling clay, handmade sets, and lots of imagination.

Together, children will invent a story, shape colorful characters, build simple sets, and bring everything to life one tiny movement at a time. They’ll explore emotions, sounds, and music, learn how pictures turn into motion, and discover the behind-the-scenes secrets of animation through playful, hands-on activities. Each child takes part in every step of the process, from crafting characters to recording sounds and helping with filming; where every camper shines as a true mini filmmaker.

Field Trip: The O St Museum

Before-Care offered from 8am to 8:45am. After-Care offered from 3:45pm to 5:30pm.

The Alliance Française offers seven weeks of camps in Summer for children ages 5-8 & 9-12. You can either sign up for one week, several, or all of them; your choice!
All levels and Francophones are welcome. Every week, we offer a new topic with hands-on activities and a specific field trip. 

Week 6: Action! This immersive filmmaking week invites campers to dive into the full creative process of stop-motion animation. Working as a real film crew, they will design sets, sculpt expressive characters, create sound effects, choose music, and film a complete short movie using stop-motion techniques.

Campers will explore narrative structure, learn about cinematic roles, experiment with lighting and framing, and understand how dozens of photos come together to create movement. They’ll collaborate, problem-solve, and take on specific production roles such as director, animator, sound designer, or set designer. A perfect blend of art, teamwork, language, and digital creativity.

Field Trip: The O St Museum

Before-Care offered from 8am to 8:45am. After-Care offered from 3:45pm to 5:30pm.

The Alliance Française offers seven weeks of camps in Summer for children ages 5-8 & 9-12. You can either sign up for one week, several, or all of them; your choice!
All levels and Francophones are welcome. Every week, we offer a new topic with hands-on activities and a specific field trip. 

Week 7: Get ready to lose yourself… and find your way back out! This playful and hands-on week invites young campers to explore the magical world of labyrinths through stories, movement, games, and building challenges.

Campers will discover different kinds of mazes, flat, 3D, and even vertical ones, inspired by ancient pyramids, fairy-tale gardens, and famous stories like the Labyrinth of the Minotaur. They’ll learn new vocabulary, sing a maze-themed song, and experiment with planning, testing, and improving their own creations.

Using cardboard, LEGO bricks, magnets, marbles, and their imagination, children will design and build labyrinths, solve problems together, and test each other’s paths.Every camper leaves as a proud Petit Ingénieur who knows that getting lost can be part of the fun.

Field Trip: The Escape Game DC

Before-Care offered from 8am to 8:45am. After-Care offered from 3:45pm to 5:30pm.

The Alliance Française offers seven weeks of camps in Summer for children ages 5-8 & 9-12. You can either sign up for one week, several, or all of them; your choice!
All levels and Francophones are welcome. Every week, we offer a new topic with hands-on activities and a specific field trip. 

Week 7: This week-long engineering adventure challenges campers to think, design, and build like true problem-solvers. Through the fascinating theme of labyrinths, campers explore how mazes have been used throughout history, from ancient Egypt and Greek mythology to Gothic cathedrals and the gardens of Versailles.

Campers will study 2D, 3D, and vertical labyrinths, then apply a real scientific process: imagining an idea, drawing a plan, building a prototype, identifying problems, and improving their design. Along the way, they’ll create marble mazes, magnetic labyrinths, vertical structures with elevators and bridges, and even connect multiple mazes together.

Blending history, engineering, teamwork, and creativity, this camp encourages critical thinking and collaboration. A clever, challenging, and deeply satisfying adventure.

Field Trip: The Escape Game DC

Before-Care offered from 8am to 8:45am. After-Care offered from 3:45pm to 5:30pm.