About BCAP Summer Camp

Our Program Model Who We Serve This Year's Theme Program Highlights

Our Program Model

BCAP makes learning an adventure! BCAP is a program of Heart of Brooklyn, a unique partnership among six of Brooklyn's most treasured cultural institutions: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Park and Prospect Park Zoo. BCAP takes advantage of these incredible resources by offering thematically linked, hands-on experiences at each of our partner institutions.

During our two-week summer program, our campers visit two of our Heart of Brooklyn partner institutions each day. There, they engage in creative projects, exploration, experimentation, games, and educator led tours that weave thematic connections between art, world culture, literature, history, nature, and science.

All lessons are consistent with New York State Learning Standards and are lead by members of the educational staff of each institution.

Who We Serve

Age Range: (7-12)

Children who apply for BCAP must be at least 7 years of age before the session that they attend and be no older than 12 years of age.

Age Grouping

Adventures are grouped with children in their general age range:

Group A: 7–8-year-olds

Group B: 8–10-year-olds

Group C: 10–12-year-olds

Each BCAP Group consists of 20-23 children who are supervised by 4-5 of our highly qualified staff members.

Valuing Diversity

BCAP Adventures come from backgrounds as diverse as Brooklyn itself! We welcome children from all cultures, economic backgrounds, and family structures. We believe that one of the best ways to learn about diversity is by building friendships with diverse groups of people. We build a sense of community centered on common interests and respect for differences.

Financial Aid Available to 50%

To help ensure that children from all economic backgrounds have equal access to BCAP Summer Camp’s award winning programming, we offer full and partial financial aid to families who qualify, based on their economic needs.

No Residency Requirement

You don’t need to be a Brooklyn resident to be a BCAP Adventurer! Each year we welcome children, not only from across the city but also the country, even a few from across the world!

This Year’s Theme

Transformations

Take a journey this summer to discover how places, ideas and living things can change into something new.

Program Highlights

At recent BCAP Summer Camp sessions, Adventurers:

Conducted experiments on Venus Fly Traps at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Explored how children in Hangzhou, China got wild celebrating the Year of the Tiger at Brooklyn Children's Museum

Designed their own, child-safe panes of mock "stained glass" by applying techniques used by stained glass makers to create art that interacts with sunlight at the Brooklyn Museum

Immersed themselves in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are by creating their own Wild Things and monster movies at Brooklyn Public Library

Created their own dyes out of natural materials and used them to make their own Batiks at the Lefferts Historic House

Experienced what it's like to be prey by playing the Predators and Prey game at the Audubon Center

Encountered both predators and prey up close and personal and examined the physical features that help them survive at the Prospect Park Zoo

Thank You To Our Supporters

Brooklyn Cultural Adventures Program is grateful for leadership support from Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin, American Eagle Outfitters Foundation, American Ireland Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Cashin Family Fund, Goldman Sachs Gives, Harry Chapin Foundation, Ingrassia Charity Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Senator Eric Adams, O. Paul Decker Memorial Foundation, Offensend Family Foundation, The Pinkerton Foundation, Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, and the generosity of individuals and member institutions. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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