2026-2027 homeschool art and nature camp | Clapping Hands Farm, LLC

Homeschool Camp at Clapping Hands Farm in Pittsboro runs from 9:00 am-3:30 pm on THURSDAYS throughout the Fall-Winter-Spring. Clapping Hands is an arts and nature camp and retreat with a special love for community. Our homeschool camp workshops include visual arts, crafts, music, theater and dance—and also engineering, building, nature exploration, game creation, and more! This beloved program had a joyful restart during the Fall-Winter-Spring of 2023-2024 after a long pandemic pause. Our homeschool camp participants are an extraordinary group of creative, kind, collaborative campers and we are looking forward to another year!

Below is an overview of our Homeschool Camp program, along with dates for our 2026-2027 sessions. We are actively working on pinning down workshops and details and hope to have registration open very soon!

To learn about our spring break and summer camps, please visit our Spring and Summer Camps page.

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During the Fall-Winter-Spring of 2026-2027 will have FOUR 6-week sessions of Homeschool Camp.

Session #1: Sept 10-Oct 15 with Oct 22 reserved as a weather make-up day
Session #2: Oct. 29-Dec. 10 with Dec. 17 reserved as a weather make-up day and NO CAMP Nov 26
Session #3: Jan 7-Feb. 11 with Feb. 18 and 25 reserved as weather make-up days
Session #4: will likely be between March 4-April 29 with the exact dates TBD.

Each session will be 6 weeks long with an additional Thursday reserved as a WEATHER MAKE-UP DAY. The Fall and Spring sessions, (sessions #1 and #4) will follow a similar schedule to the past few years: camp will run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and will include Games, Morning Circle, Morning Workshops in Focus Groups, Lunch, Anything Goes and All Camp Activities in the afternoon, Buddy Group check in, and a Closing Circle.

Our Fall and Spring sessions will serve ages 8-16. Each session will have at least two Morning Workshop FOCUS GROUPS; campers CHOOSE one Focus Group to join for the entire 6 week session. Each afternoon we have Anything Goes choice activities which are different each day, are based on campers requests, and will include opportunities to explore BOTH Focus Group topics. In other words if you are interested in BOTH Focus Groups you can sign up for one of them for the morning workshops and still be able to “taste” the other during Anything Goes! We are also pleased to announce that we recently invested in archery equipment and training for our staff so we will be offering archery as a choice class many afternoons.

Sessions #2 and #3 will be Winter Intensives for ages 12-16. These sessions will provide a deep dive into specific topics that group members have a shared passion about. Campers will choose between two intensives: one indoor that will focus on a topic in either art, music or writing, and one outdoor intensive focusing on nature exploration or outdoor skills.

We accept campers older than 16 who are interested in our Focus Group topics. Parents, Adults and older teens are also needed as Counselors or Volunteers. Our parent volunteers at Homeschool camp do so much to make our program fantastic!

Camp at Clapping Hands Farm takes place OUTDOORS for the most part. We generally run camp in all weather conditions unless there is hazardous driving conditions or it is cold AND wet. In other words if it’s raining and 70 degrees, we will have camp. If it’s 30 degrees and not raining we will have camp. But if it’s 40 degrees and raining we will skip camp and use our weather make-up day. During the winter session we will have a heated studio available that can accommodate one group.