What Are Jewelry Making Jobs at Summer Camp?
Jewelry Making Jobs at Summer Camps
Jewelry making jobs at summer camps are a perfect fit for working jewelers, beaders, and craft instructors who love the tactile joy of building wearable art with kids. From beading and stringing at classic sleepaway camps to more advanced wire wrap, silversmithing, and enameling at specialty residential fine arts camps, jewelry making instructors lead one of the most beloved take-home crafts of the summer.
As a jewelry making instructor at an overnight camp, you’ll teach foundational techniques — stringing, knotting, wire wrap, basic soldering — while running daily studio time and supporting individual camper projects. You’ll manage tools, beads, wire inventory, and supplies. Many co-ed residential camps blend jewelry making into broader arts and crafts or fine arts programs, giving multi-discipline instructors creative variety across the summer.
You’ll teach stringing, knotting, wire wrap, and basic metalwork while running daily studio sessions. Most sleepaway camps with jewelry programs include rotating projects throughout the summer camp season.
Professional experience helps but isn’t required. Hobbyist makers and craft instructors with strong technical skills do well at residential camps. Comfort working with kids and great safety habits matter most.
Beads, cord, wire, basic pliers, jump rings, and findings are standard at overnight camps. Specialty fine arts residential camps may also stock sheet metal, torches, and stone-setting tools. Supply scope varies by camp.
Pay is competitive and commensurate with experience. Sleepaway camps include room, board, and laundry alongside salary, which makes the overall summer camp package noticeably more valuable than the base figure.
Yes — it’s one of the friendliest entry points into camp arts programming. The skills are teachable, the projects are universally loved, and many residential camps support newer instructors with strong jewelry program leads on staff.
