About BCAP Summer Camp

**Important Information for Summer 2013 Camp Families: Our registration offices are now at BPL! Be sure you are using BCAP's new contact information when sending in forms, and check your spam or junk mail to make sure you haven't missed any emails from a brooklynpubliclibrary.org email address.

Address: BCAP c/o BPL, Youth Wing, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238   phone: (718) 230-2753   fax: (718) 230-2039  

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

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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: 

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. 

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

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