Summer Registration Is Open! Details Here!

Parts & Crafts summer program registration is OPEN! REGISTER HERE!

Below are details about this year’s sessions as well as some important information new for 2026 so please read carefully!

SUMMER 2026 INFO: 

1. Early Bird Pricing. Take advantage of discounted pricing by registering before April 1st to save up to $50 per week of summer programming. Please note the discount will not apply until checkout, so you will see the full, post- April 1 price listed on the registration page. 

2. Need-based Scholarships: we will have some amount of funding for free and reduced cost spots available to kids from households earning 60% or less than the area median income (AMI is currently $148,900 for a 3 person household). Even if you have completed the scholarship application before, you must do so again for summer programs. While there is no deadline at this time, and we will announce one when/if we impose one, we will be granting these spots on a rolling basis, and all programs are space-limited, so the earlier you can complete this, the better. You can find the form here. 

3. Installment payments and outstanding balances: Last year, there was some confusion amongst folks who selected “installment” payment plans at the time of registration. For all programs, you are given the choice of paying all at once, or by installment which charges an initial amount followed by 5 monthly payments that automatically debit from the account you set up. Please read the scheduled installment dates carefully. Depending on when you register, installments may extend well beyond the date of the actual program. Please make sure that your account information is up to date for the entire time of the payment plan. If you have an overdue balance from programs in 2025 or earlier, we may cancel any additional registrations you sign up for. It’s a good idea to check your Amilia account to make sure your information is up to date and no payments are past due.

4. By popular demand, more Arcade Week! Over the last few years Arcade week has become one of the most popular weeks of P&C for both kids and staff alike. So we figure, why not have more of a good thing? This year we will offer 2 Arcade weeks, July 6-10, and August 17-21. While kids are welcome to attend both, if you find one is full, consider registering for the other. Each will have our popular Friday event where family and friends will be invited to come enjoy the “P&C Arcade.” 

5. Waitlists: Definitely put yourself on waitlists of any sessions you want. They do move, but also we can sometimes add additional staffing where demand is high! 

2026 Session information:

Below you will find the themes for each week of summer at P&C and a short description. While there’s always the opportunity to do any number of classic P&C projects and to use all of the supplies, we try to run a few activities each day in keeping with the theme of the week.

• June 22-26: Girls Invention Week A tinkering week for girl-identified kids aged 7-13.  We offer a wide range of projects that cover almost all of our favorite STEM/STEAM skills, like soldering, sewing, cutting and gluing, taking apart interesting mechanical devices, boffer sword making & battling, 3D printing our own CAD designs, and many other crafts and activities. Get ready to get messy!

• June 29-July 2: Affirm is a week where we especially invite Queer, Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender Expansive youth, their siblings, and friends to Parts & Crafts so they can create awesome crafts, play fun engaging games, and build community. It's a week for kids to just be themselves! (Please note P&C will be closed July 3rd in observance of July 4th)

• July 6-10: Arcade Week 1.0  Due to wildly popular demand, we're offering TWO separate weeks of P&C Arcade! We’ll use our engineering skills to create arcade and carnival games to share with the world!  We’ll make giant board games, cardboard arcades, marble mazes, electronic puzzles and learn how to code classic arcade games in Scratch.  At the end of the week we’ll invite family and friends to visit the Parts and Crafts Midway.

• July 13-17: Mini Worlds We love miniature worlds!  Join us for a week of tiny fun making dollhouse furniture, role playing games, 3D printed characters, doll hacking, dioramas and more!

• July 20-24: Parts & Quests 'Tis but a scratch!  We love friendly battles like water games, boffer swords, battle bots and table top gaming.  Join us for a week of medieval weaponry, cardboard armor, role playing and more!

• July 27-31: Thready, Set, Sew! Sew, it seams a bolt-load of kids are into fiber arts! Come fibe with as we crochet, cross-stitch, create with kumihimo, nålbinding, knitting, sewing, weaving, and all things stringy and fibrous! You won't beweave your eyes! Other projects will of course still be available. 

• August 3-7: Light It Up! We’re going to spend a week celebrating all things that light up and glow - by creating circuits, disco balls, LEDs, glow in the dark paint, black lights, campfires and more! We'll do lots of our usual projects, now with more lights!

• August 10-14: Spy Week We'll continue to hone our spy skills by solving mysteries, building real & Imaginary spy devices like periscopes, spy detectors, laser scopes, or secret identity badges,  escape game design, code-breaking, secret messages, disguises and more!

• August 17-21: Arcade Week 2.0 We’re excited to use our engineering skills to create arcade and carnival games to share with the world!  We’ll make giant board games, cardboard arcades, marble mazes, electronic puzzles and learn how to code classic arcade games in Scratch. At the end of the week we’ll invite family and friends to visit the Parts and Crafts Midway. While this week’s theme is the same as Arcade 1.0,