Four-week bilingual summer camp arranges both indoor hands-on activities and tours exploring Beijing. Featuring authentic traditional Chinese culture, the four themed weeks (You can book by week) are scheduled throughout the summer/ Christmas/ Chinese New Yea and Spring break, open to kids aged from 5-12. The size of the camp is between 6-16. The guides and teachers or artists are all well-trained bilingual staff for CCC's adult programs and tours. We provide all formal lunches, morning and afternoon snacks, fruits and yogurts,etc. and clean and safe air-conditioned transportation for the tours, and of course security coordinators to look after the kids.

Venue: Chaoyang Park location (Victoria Gardens).
Monday-Friday camp: drop-off between 8:45-9:15; pick-up between 15:30-16:30
There will be two to four experienced counselors to attend the kids, and one artist or expert to offer cultural programs.
  • Cultural Week I 
    Monday:  morning- painting on silk fan; afternoon: Tibetan Music and Tibetan Dance Learning
    Tuesday:  Visit China Ethnic Minority Costume and Accessory Muesum; Afernoon: tailer-made a small costume with fabrics.
    Wednesday: Morning - Japanese Flower and Plant Braiding; Afternoon - Lotus lantern-making
    Thursday: Chartered Dragon Boat tour to the Summer Palace
    Friday: Morning - Make traditional Beijing Style toy: Kungfu Guy

    Cultural Week II 
    Monday:
    Morning: Flower Arrangement workshop;
    Afternoon - visit a very famous folk artist who makes "bristle Men" in his courtyard house near houhai, downtown Beijing.See all his private collections of Beijing toys and bristle men and women in Peking Opera style. Watch his "bristle men performance" and demonstration of bristle men making. And make a paper toy in his home.
    Tuesday: Monring -Make a "running rat" in the studio classroom of the China Culture Center, instructed by the artist from famous Toy Tang Family - a famous Manchu toy maker.
    Lunch in a well-known Beijing style restaurant.
    Afternoon: Tea ritual hands-on class
    Wednesday:  Morning - Watch a 72-years old opera artist to do face-painting - Monkey King and then watch performance and learn some basic Monkey King facial expressions and movements.  
    Afternoon: hands-on - Chinese Tie-dye
    Thursday: Morning: Half-day tour to Beijing Enamel Art Factory and see the artisans do the cloisonne making; Afternoon- Learn Five Animal Frolics (ancient exercises)  and kids meditation.
    Friday: Morning - Pedicab hutong tour around Xuanwu District, visit a local family and learn their everyday life, and the knowledge of courtyard house structure and cultural symbols; Afternoon  -Cookery class: Imperial Pastry

    Cultural Week III 
    Monday Morning -Palace-style lantern-making; Afternoon - Snack Tanghulu (hawberry stick)-making
    Tuesday outing: Meilanfang Opera Master's Former Residence Visit;  visit the Imperial First Agriculture God Palace and Altar, Ancient Chinese Architecture Museum
    Wednesday: morning - Traditional Beijing Style Toy-making: a gymnastic monkey on horizontal bar; afternoon: Make traditional Swallow kite
    Thursday: outing - An Intimate Visit to a Fortress Villages By the Great Wall
    Friday: Morning -calligraphy and Chinese Classic Recitation; Afternoon: Mongolian music and dance learning classes.

    Cultural Week IV
    Monday: traditional windmill-making; Chinese juggler show and magic class.
    Tuesday: Chinese bell knotting class; visit a traditional Chinese clinic, learn the herbs and accupoints and make haw berry balls.
    WednesdayMorning –Chinese style Bonsai; make fabric tigers toys.
    ThursdayBeijing Amblers: Legacies of Suburb Tongzhou - Old Bridges, Wall & Gate Tower,Pagoda and Canal 
    Friday: learn the Chinese Shuanghuang (two-men comic) show; Hand-pulled noodle and Shaomai workshop

    Note: the sequence of the classes and tours will adjust accordingly to the weather and air quality.

  • CCC does not offer regular set packages for this class. However we are happy to help you plan a private custom-made one. Please scroll this web page down to check non-negotiable fixed prices and propose a date for your own group. Please note that we do not create a private class or workshop and then make it available for individual people to join. We also do not contact other people to add to a group tour. Similarly, we can create custom-made private activities or events for you and your family or friends or co-workers at set-prices.