The Cultural Activities Center (CAC) in Temple, Texas, offers a diverse array of summer camps designed to ignite creativity and foster artistic expression in children and teens. These camps provide engaging, hands-on experiences across various disciplines, including visual arts, music, theater, dance, and culinary arts.
2026 Summer Camps |
- June 1-5: Art Detective Academy invites ages 10-16 to uncover clues, learn fingerprinting, sketch like a pro, and solve an art mystery! Each day, you’ll tackle creative projects tied to your investigation – until the case is cracked! This camps needs a minimum of 10 campers to register by May 22, 2026. Campers should bring a water bottle, snacks, and a blank sketchbook.
- June 1-5: CAC Art Camp | Drawing and Painting is a beginning level class for ages 7-12 designed to engage young learners in painting and drawing techniques. All supplies provided by instructor. The class will need a minimum number of 10 students enrolled to make.
- June 15-19: Art on the Magic School Bus | Science & Creativity is a week of Magic School Bus-Inspired fun for ages 7-12. Each day we will explore a new theme from the show with a hands-on art project and science activity to match. Imagination and creativity guaranteed! We will explore lessons from episodes “Inside Ralphie”, “Gets Ready, Set, Dough”, “Lost in Space”, and “Take a Dive”. Campers need to bring water bottle, snack, and clothes to get messy in. This camp will need 10 campers to sign up by 6/5/2026 to make.
- July 6-10: CAC Art Camp | 3D Art inspired by Shel Silverstein Poetry invites ages 7-15 to explore the expressive world of Shel Silverstein poetry and create 3-D Artwork and a staged reading. Campers will work with poetry, creative drama lessons, and build art in a collaborative process. This camp will need at least 10 campers to register by June 26, 2026. Campers should bring a water bottle, lunch, and come in clothes they can get messy in.
- July 13-17: Camp Aamp'd invites campers ages 7-18 to explore the music industry and prepare for a final stage performance. The camp includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, a t-shirt, a backpack, and supplies. Final Performance will be Friday, July 17 at 8 PM and is free to the public.
- July 27-31: Fun on the Farm Music Theatre Workshop invites campers ages 5-8 to use inspiration from children’s books and songs to explore singing, dancing, acting, and art. Register by July 13. Space is limited. Showcase will be held July 31 at 6 PM.
The Cultural Activities Center, in Temple, Texas, believes in the power of creation! We want to enrich the lives of all Central Texas residents by inspiring exploration, involvement, and enjoyment in the arts. The CAC is a community funded not-for-profit arts center with the goal of encouraging and cooperating with other area arts institutions, supporting the arts in education, and providing culturally enriching programs. We especially want kids to realize early that we are all artists, that every action of our day has the potential to be art, and that each of us possess the raw tools to make this a reality using our own natural creative abilities. The CAC gives the community a facility in which to dance, to perform, to play games, to make music, to make art, develop talent, teach technique, share ideas, and learn from other creators and performers ways to express life's richness, in all of its disciplines and freedoms, sorrows and joys, ugliness and beauty. We each have the power to recreate ourselves and change our lives and our world for the good of all.
Using a fully equipped theater with technical support, 4 art studios, 4 lovely art galleries, and 4 beautiful meeting rooms for parties and events, the CAC hosts professional touring shows, concerts with world class musicians, community staged productions, gallery exhibits, classes and workshops, summer arts camps, and we provide a home to organizations like the Central Texas Orchestral Society, Central Texas Film Society, and The Wildflower Guild Belles and Beaux. The CAC celebrates all of the arts and humanities as an essential exercise of life and liberty, and encourages participation by people of all ages, interests, and backgrounds.
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"The Cultural Activities Center was covered in gorgeous art, the likes of which i had not seen before. I was there to bring my son to Performing Arts Camp all week, which was top notch and the kids had a total blaset learning in a hugely affirming environment. Bravo to Camp Aamp’d and Cultural Activities Center. It was just magical"
"There's always something to see and do at the CAC, the current exhibits are excellent. For the kids, I highly recommend the summer art camp. They get to try lots of mediums and come home with so much art and pride in their accomplishments! The teachers and volunteers are amazing."
"A truly fantastic place to view art. I love going when all the childrens art from the local schools is on display. They also have great classes with helpful teachers. My kids love the summer camps."
