2025 Summer Camp Spotlight: Thaden School

Editor’s note: Thaden School is a paid sponsor in the featured section of our 2025 Northwest Arkansas Summer Camps & Activities Guide. This featured post offers additional information about Thaden School’s summer camps and contact information.

Thaden School Summer Camps

About Thaden’s camps:

Summer camps at Thaden School offer opportunities for children and teens to experience our distinctive educational programs. (Campers do NOT have to be Thaden School students.) Thaden will host eight fun-filled weeks of camps with offerings in art exploration, cycling, culinary arts, outdoor skills, pollination, robotics, stop-motion filmmaking, and more. Registration begins March 3rd.

Address: 800 SE C Street, Bentonville, Arkansas

Phone: 479-268-5321 (Ask for Megan Steely for summer camp questions.)

Cost: Specialty camps are $350 (includes a t-shirt)

Camp hours: Camps begin at 9am and end at 3pm

Options: Thaden is now offering an optional before and aftercare service.

How to register: Click here to register online.

Camp classes/themes:

  • June 2-6, 2025
    • Box City Planning and Building: Ages 9 to 11
    • Sow and Savor: Ages 11 to 13
    • Take a Hike (Session 1): Ages 10 to 12
  • June 9-13, 2025
    • Be A Wheelie: Ages 9 to 12
    • Pollinators, Food & Flowers: Ages 7 to 10
    • Take a Hike (Session 2): Ages 10 to 12
    • Urban Wildlife Photography: Ages 8 to 11
  • June 16-20, 2025
    • Faces & Places Photography: Ages 8 to 11
    • Food and Farm: Ages 10 to 13
    • Single Track Mind (biking): Ages 10 to 13
  • June 23-27, 2025
    • Dough Nuts Session 1 (baking): Ages 10 to 15
    • Mandarin Through Music: Ages 10 to 13
    • Stop Motion Storytelling (Session 1): Ages 9 to 12
    • Trails, Tails, and Treasures: Ages 8 to 10
  • July 7-11, 2025
    • Art Explorers (Session 1): Ages 6 to 9
    • Mixed Methods Baking (Session 1): Ages 10 to 13
    • Spanish Conversations, Culture and Cuisine: Ages 9 to 12
    • Stop Motion Storytelling (Session 2): Ages 9 to 13
  • July 14-18, 2025
    • Advanced Stop Motion Storytelling: Ages 10 to 13
    • Art Explorers (Session 2): Ages 6 to 9
    • Dough Nuts Session 2 (baking): Ages 10 to 13
  • July 21-25, 2025
    • Messy Science: Ages 6 to 9
    • Mixed Methods Baking (Session 2): Ages 10 to 14
    • Robotics and Coding: Ages 10 to 14
    • Paper Art: Ages 10 to 12
  • August 4-8, 2025
    • Lego Robotics: Ages 5 to 9
    • Launch Into Middle School: Ages 10 to 13

For more info: Click here to get full descriptions of each Thaden camp as well as answers to frequently asked questions.

CLICK HERE to see more than 40 camps listed in the 2025 Summer Camps & Activities Guide for Northwest Arkansas.