ACTIVITY GROUPS

Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Football, track-and-field? This activity group is perfect for any active kid who simply loves all things sports! Each day, your camper will get to run drills and scrimmages for different sports, and have lots of fun doing it. Join us for a week of all your classic American sports, and more!

Calling all world travelers (or aspiring ones)! Adventure is out there… and here at Camp Vertical too! In this travel-themed activity group, campers will have the opportunity to explore cuisine, landmarks, sports, and even climate for different countries around the world.

This is a chill, creative group where campers can choose their own art projects, and play their favorite board and card games.

In this group, Horizoners will spend the week trying to figure out maps, solve clues and win challenges as they go on a great quest through Elmbrook church!

Our older kids will use their imagination and creativity to design, build, paint, and draw their way through a great week. This is the most advanced creative camp we’ve ever offered at Camp Vertical. So, take a look around you, dream big, and get ready for an explosion of creativity in Beyond the Brush.

Do you have sudden urges to create culinary masterpieces? Do you have dreams about cream puffs and crème Brulee? Does the thought of making and eating your own creations excite you? Then we have a camp for you! Join other cooking lovers and get ready for a week of planning, mixing, baking, boiling and tasting. A must attend camp for those who love creativity with food!

Left...left...left, right, left... Attention cadets: are you ready to be stretched to your limits? This is boot camp with a Vertical twist! Throughout the week we will work on our teamwork, experience extreme obstacle courses, and of course compete in the epic camouflage tournament.

FROM THE VAULT! The Camp Vertical show company is making its re-entrance this summer in Break a Leg! Campers in this group will spend the week learning acting skills, writing and performing skits, and the week will end with each camper starring in their very own Talent Show! It’s a week you don’t want to miss!

We know that girls like to play more than one sport, so here is your chance. We are combining all the high- energy sports into one fast-paced camp. Sign up for a slam-dunking, high-spiking week!!

Happy Birthday! Happy Easter! Happy New Year! This group is for all those celebrators out there who love special occasions! In this activity group, your kids will get to play games, do crafts and eat foods for all their favorite holidays. Get ready for an entire years’ worth of celebrating in just one week!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle All the Way… Oh what fun it is to play outside on a sunny day… HEY! That’s right, Christmas came early this year. Like way early! We are going to do all the things we love about winter and Christmas in JULY. Sledding, decorating trees and singing carols are just the beginning of this very merry camp.

This camp is filled with good eats and fun projects. Under the watchful eye of our staff, the campers will create many culinary masterpieces. Those with good taste and a creative spirit should sign up for this adventure.

This activity group is perfect for any camper who has ever wanted to star on a game show! Throughout the week they will compete with one another, playing all their favorite games like Jeopardy, The Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune, and more!

This camp is all about girls being girls! Days will be full of fun girlie things like painting nails, spa treatments, chocolate, pajama day, interactive games, and lots of other things that girls love. One of the highlights each day is when we take a break to talk about the inner qualities that make a woman truly beautiful.

This group is for all the little biologists who wonder how trees grow! In just one week, we will get to explore plant life and how things grow! Our environmental scientists will get to care for their own plant, tend to the camp vertical garden, go on nature walks and discover bird calls! We will also get to play plant inspired games, and eat lots of yummy garden snacks!

Water! Just the word makes you think of summer! We will be diving into a week full of water escapades in this group! Water wars, crazy experiments, amazing discoveries, and tons of fun await each camper as they cannonball their way into a great week. You won’t want to miss the wettest, wildest camp ever seen at Vertical! 

What if you could celebrate your birthday, easter, July 4th, Thanksgiving and Christmas all in one week? Horizoners can in this activity group! Throughout the week, campers will spend their time celebrating, eating, playing games and doing crafts for all the best holidays.

Board games come to life in this group, as Horizoners will step into their favorite board games. They become the characters, and the pieces, and the room becomes the board.

This camp will allow the more “dramatic” campers to practice their acting skills in fun and exciting ways. They will also have the opportunity to star in a Camp Vertical original featured film!

A week of high flying, loud cheering action! Girls will get a crash course in cheer and pom moves and prepare a rockin’ routine for the whole camp and parents on Friday! Stretch those muscles and get ready for a high-energy week that will be cheer-tastic!

This camp is filled with all kinds of activities that boys will love including adventures in male cooking, Lumberjack Day, and tons of other high-energy activities. The most important part of the day is when the whole group gathers to discover what it takes to not only be a real man, but a gentleman.

Calling all curious scientists! Myth blasters is an activity group for all ages, for any kid who is curious about why things work the way they do. In this group, campers will be able to use science and hands-on experiments to test whether or not common theories are true.

Journey with us as we learn how to survive in the wilderness. Kids will learn how to build a campfire, pitch a tent, go fishing, build a fort and much, much more. They will even have a chance to learn archery! And of course, this fun week will have an optional sleepover, just like real life camping! It will almost be like being in the Northwoods of WI. You won’t want to miss it.

Do you love reading and writing? Creating imaginary worlds and stories? Join us for a week of creative adventure as we dive into faraway lands only found in the world of books. Campers will learn the art of writing poetry, biographies, fictional stories and creating worlds of their own; while also learning how to create their own book nook and enjoy Random Reading Spot Time. So grab a good story, put on your creative writing hat, and get ready to experience the joy of storytelling.

No need to keep the color inside the lines with this crafty camp! Finger painting is just the beginning of the active and imaginative activities found here. Kids will have a chance to use their creativity to play colorful games, as well as their energy to run around and get messy. All while learning how to make something beautiful! Join us for a week filled with plenty of games and art projects that are Big, Fun and Messy and learn that anyone can put their craftsmanship to the test.

Budding Artists come in all shapes and sizes. Paints and More is designed so that each child, whether a beginner or the next Picasso, will have fun using watercolors, clay, chalk, wood and more. Get your creative juices flowing, and join us for this "masterpiece" of a week.

Girls, do you have an eye for design? In Project Runway we are going to be designing clothing of all kinds. From drawing the hippest new trend, to creating our very own clothes (out of a variety of wacky materials), this camp is all about creativity. This fun week will end with a fashion show.

Raise your hand if Gym is your favorite subject!?! If you love Gym at school, then Pumped up PE is the activity for you. Each day we are going to play the best of the best games from your gym classes. Dodgeball, Around the World, Pac-Man, Kick Ball and even Hungry Hungry Hippos are all going to come to life in the Elmbrook Gym. So if you are always longing for gym class, Pumped up PE is ready to satisfy.

Experiments, Explosions, and Eruptions… Join our Mad Scientist leaders in exploring the crazy fun side of science. Kids will participate in “hair raising” experiments that will knock their goggles off (but not really)!

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Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Kick it into high gear with pinewood derby cars, cardboard boats and more. If it has wings or wheels, this camp has got it! We will have wheels day at the Camp Vertical skate park and race day and the camp Vertical track! Join us for a week of racing as we celebrate all things that “Go!”

This week is filled with the high-flying adventure of model rocketry and loop-de-loop roller coasters. Each child will build and launch a rocket and create a marble roller coaster with enough drops and turns to make you dizzy. A great week for everyone!

FROM THE VAULT! Just in time for the 2026 World Cup, Soccer is back! In this group, campers will do all things soccer! Campers will spend the day doing warm ups, drills and lots of soccer games. All skill levels are welcome!

The carnival meets Camp Vertical in this activity group! Throughout the duration of the week, campers in Spin N Win will create their own carnival games, eat their favorite fair foods, and even work as small groups to put on their very own Camp Vertical Carnival for all of Camp to enjoy!

Open gym time is making an arrival at Camp Horizon. In Sports Galore, students will play a variety of active games and sports, and even have their own open-gym time throughout the week.

Join the Steps camp for a week of high flying, dance-tastic fun. Girls will learn the basics of dance and have fun putting them together in a routine for the whole camp on Friday! Stretch those muscles and get ready for a high-energy week that will be fun for all.

During this week, Horizoners will form tribes where they will learn survival skills and compete in mental and physical challenges. They will even have a chance to vote one another out of the tribe until there is one camper surviving.

No need to be a professional baker in this group! Horizoners become amateur bakers as they face signature, specialized and showstopping challenges each day to impress judges and leaders to vie for the title of Camp Horizon’s best baker.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to spend the week working on a top secret Vertical case. Fingerprints, clues, and dead ends are sure to keep you on your toes in this mysterious activity. Do you have what it takes to crack the code?

In this camp, we are combining the best of the 3-on-3 sports into one exciting week! Activities will include 3-on-3 basketball, 3-on-3 hockey, 3-on-3 soccer, 3-on-3 flag football, and many more. Campers, prepare for a week of high-energy action!

What do racquet-ball, bad-mitten, pickle ball, tennis and ping pong all have in common? Racket’s! Join us for this eclectic sporty week, where your campers will learn how to play all the sports that go ‘wack’ with a racket! During this week, they will learn, play, cheer and have competitions for new and different sports!

Rackets and bats and balls…oh my! The kids have spoken and we have listened: We want to play tennis. Check! We want to play frisbee-golf. Check! We want to mini-putt. Check! All these activities plus flag football, cricket, and many more will make up a week of camp you will not soon forget. Sign up quickly and get ready for a world-wide adventure in sports.

Journey with us as we learn how to survive in the wilderness, how to track animals, pitch a tent, build a fort and much, much more. Kids in this camp will spend the week in the incredible nature surrounding Elmbrook. They will discover that it truly is a WILD wilderness out there!