🍳 Sticky Fingers Cooking — In-Person Summer Camps
Hands-on, chef-led cooking camps where kids prepare real recipes, learn kitchen skills, and explore new flavors in a fun, supportive environment. Each week features a unique theme to keep young chefs excited and engaged.
Camp experiences include:
- Hands-on recipe preparation
- Kitchen safety and skill-building
- Cultural and global food exploration
- Creative and themed cooking challenges
- Age-appropriate instruction
- Fun, small-group learning
2026 Summer Camps
🗓️ June 1–5, 2026
🌍 Theme: Global Taste Buds
🎯 Ages: 9–14
📍 Erie
Young chefs travel the world through cooking! Campers create globally inspired dishes while learning about culture, geography, and traditions behind each recipe. A great fit for adventurous eaters and curious cooks.
🗓️June 15–19, 2026
🎓 Theme: Basic Training COOL’inary Boot Camp
🎯 Ages: 5–10
📍 Erie
Perfect for beginners and skill-builders. Kids learn essential kitchen techniques like measuring, mixing, safe knife skills, seasoning, and food prep — all while cooking delicious recipes from scratch.
🗓️June 29–July 3, 2026
📺 Theme: Kids Cooking Network (Cooking Showdown)
🎯 Ages: 9–14
📍 Erie
Inspired by popular cooking competition shows, this camp features fun culinary challenges, creative missions, and timed cook-offs. Great for kids who love friendly competition and fast-paced kitchen fun.
🗓️July 13–17, 2026
📖 Theme: Cooks + Books
🎯 Ages: 5–10
📍 Erie
Stories come to life through food! Each day connects cooking with children’s literature, combining reading, creativity, and hands-on recipe making for a unique themed experience.
🗓️July 27–31, 2026
🧪 Theme: S.T.E.A.M. Cooking
🎯 Ages: 9–14
📍 Commerce City
Cooking meets science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Campers experiment, test, and create while learning the science behind recipes and kitchen reactions.
🗓️August 10–14, 2026
🥕 Theme: Farm to Table
🎯 Ages: 5–10
📍 Erie
Kids explore where food comes from and how fresh ingredients become meals. Focus includes seasonal produce, simple scratch cooking, and garden-to-kitchen concepts.
At Sticky Fingers Cooking, we are dedicated to “Cultivating ‘Cool’inary Curiosity in Kids®”, teaching children the joys of healthy cooking and whole foods through hands-on, inspirational, and interdisciplinary learning.
Sticky Fingers Cooking is a home-grown Colorado-based company founded in 2011. What began as a small children's cooking school has grown into a nationwide education brand offering hundreds of cooking classes and camps both online and throughout Colorado, and from coast to coast!
