School holidays are now upon us and the fight to keep my child entertained for a whole 6 weeks! Just before the end of June, I came across Apple Summer Camps on the Apple Store on my iphone.
Apple Summer Camps are FREE workshops which take place in July and August for children aged 8 -12. In these workshops children learn how to use Apple products and software. They do various sessions across the country but our local store in Southampton’s is running ‘Design Your Dream Inventions On IPad’. For my technology loving 8 year old this sounded perfect!
At the Southampton Apple store they do sessions on a Friday 4.30pm – 6pm or Saturday morning session 11.30am – 1pm. We booked on to a Friday evening session and headed there not knowing what to expect other than it was free and sounded good! The session was led by an Apple Creative and each child was given the use of an iPad and Apple Pencil. The children and their grown ups are then taught how to use the Keynote and Freeform Apps (I’d seen the apps on our devices but no idea what they did)! Once everyone participating was a bit more familiar with these apps they then all discussed their dream inventions and were asked to design their own on the Freeform app.
Once completed they displayed their creations as GIFs in the style of trading cards which were displayed on the big screens Wall Of Fame in store. As a lovely bonus each child is presented with a free Apple Summer camp T – Shirt which Mason insisted on putting on there and then!
Overall this was a brilliant activity and we would do it another one! As it’s totally free there’s no reason not to give it a go! The only negative is that Dad wants to buy an Apple Pencil now!
Sessions are run throughout the UK to book at your nearest Apple Store click here https://www.apple.com/uk/today/
Don’t forget to let us know how you get on!
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