Some of the many area camps being offered this summer include:

-- Box of Light Theater in Bloomsburg is offering camps in Danville and Lewisburg this summer. Students have the opportunity to make kung fu films, fractured fairytale videos and crazy commercials as well as take classes in robotics, claymation, and Odyssey Of The Mind style “brain games” this summer.

There are two new summer camp classes: “Interactive Story Telling” for pre-school kids (ages 4-5) and a Stand-Up Comedy Camp for ages 9-14.

Danville camps run the weeks of June 15, June 22, June 29, and July 27. The classes include: Claymation, Robotics, Stage Combat, Stand Up Comedy Class and Kung Fu Film.

Lewisburg camps run the weeks of July 6 and July 13. Students can take Pre-School Interactive Stories, Claymation, Robotics, Crazy Commercials and Kung Fu Film.

To register visit www.boxoflight.org or call (800) 722-1978.

-- Slifer House Museum will be transformed into a Civil War soldier’s boot camp, a literary salon, a Victorian tea room, and an 1860s home for its Third Annual History Summer Camp June 22-26 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day. Applications are available online at www.albrightcare.org/slifer-house or by calling 524-2245.

The camp is open to children in grades 3-8 (approximately 8-14 years of age). Tuition is $175 and includes lunch and snacks each day. During the week, children will be studying and performing the music, chores, and games of the 19th century as well as participating in sessions on literature, arts and crafts, etiquette, and the life of a Civil War soldier.

Session II will be held Aug. 3-7 from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. each day. Session II will include activities that differ from Session I. It will include a mock archaeological dig, an old-fashioned picnic and hayride. The children will also produce a short Victorian play and participate in a watermelon seed-spitting contest. Tuition for session II is also $175 an includes lunch and snacks each day. Alumni of previous year’s camps will be invited to a “I Remember When…” afternoon.

-- Packwood House Museum 2009 Summer Kids Programs, 15 N. Water St., Lewisburg. Call 524-0323.

Tuesdays as listed. Programs are free; registration may be required and spaces do go fast. All sessions 10:30 a.m. to noon with the exception of storyteller Fiona Powell’s visit on June 30, which will be 10:30-11:30 a.m.

June 23: Jennifer Baney, “Board Games for Kids” ages 6 and up, limit of 15. June 30: Fiona Powell, “Soap Tales” all ages, no limit, July 7: Susan Faeder, “Edith’s Pet Rooster Alfie,” a fun appliqué class for ages 12 and up, limit of 15. July 14: Marlin Troutman, “A Nineteenth Century Magic Show,” ages 7 and up, limit of 35. July 21: Tiffini Scott, “Creating Your Own Photographs,” ages 8-15, limit of 15. July 28:

Samantha Ulrich, “Painting Your Own Pottery,” ages 5 and up, limit of 15 and held at In a Glaze, 512 Market St. Aug. 4: Sherry Walter,

“Buttons, Buttons, Who has the Buttons,” button-related crafts and games, ages 6-12, limit of 12. Aug. 11: Sherry Walter, “Making Your Own Buttons,” ages 8-12, limit of 12.

-- The Lewisburg Area Recreation Authority (LARA), 629 Fairground Road, has a wide variety of camps available for the summer. For information, visit www.golara.org or phone 524-4774.