April Vacation 2022

Dragon's Eye Adventures will host an April vacation program under RSU5 Community Programs in Freeport. Our four-day adventure will run from Tuesday, April 19 through Friday, April 22, from 9 AM to 4 PM. We will be in the library at the Freeport Middle School, at 19 Kendall Lane in Freeport. The fee for this program is $250.

Our mystery is called The Rat Queen. The story is a sequel to last summer's adventure. The Market at Wits' End. Wile traveling through the sewers of London, our team of detectives made a promise to the Rat Queen, in exchange for safe passage through her realms. This April, the Rat Queen will summon the team for help with a missing Secret Keeper. It's back to the sewers, where our heroes discover word about a legend growing among the Toshers -- a legend about the Disappearing Ghost Children of the London sewers.

We will be making Sewer Rats with tiny backpacks full of found items. Trash or treasure? It’s all in the eye of the Beholder!

April Vacation 2018: Terra Incognita (Ages 6 to 16)

World Tree

RL McNulty 2018

Micron pen, colored pencil & digital ink

The April vacation adventure will be held at the Landing YMCA in Brunswick, for all ages (6 to 16). The program will run on Tuesday, April 17 through Friday, April 20, from 9 AM to 4 PM. After hours will run from 4 to 5:30 on Tuesday through Thursday, and until 5 PM on Friday.

The adventure is "Terra Incognita," the unknown lands. These are the lands marked on the edges of old maps, the unexplored corners of the world where monsters dwell. These unknown lands are growing, while the known lands are shrinking. The Detectives race against time to uncover the reason before their memories of the known are lost in the mist.

Pull at the rhumb lines of this adventure, and a whole network of world tree myths emerge, with the fearsome Three at its core. Do the Detectives have the courage (or folly?) to visit the Dread Three?

Our project this week is one of my favorites: Origin maps. Each participant should bring copies (not originals) of photos of the people, places, animals of their lives. We'll be mapping out our journeys with a bookmaking project.

We will host a Friday presentation for parents at 3:30 PM. This will be an exhibit of the group's origin maps.

April Vacation 2017: "Return of the Midnight Cat" Update

The Midnight Cat, Summer 2013

The April vacation program for ages 9 to 16 runs from 9 AM to 4 PM on Tuesday through Friday (April 18-22) at the Landing YMCA in Brunswick.

Our mystery features one of my favorite Dragon's Eye rogues. She's causing trouble once again at the Museum of Antediluvian Antiquities in London. When the Detectives investigate, the clues lead them on a journey into the mythical realms of ancient Egypt.

We will be making winged scarab amulets and toy theaters as our projects this week. For more information about the adventure, click here.

The Dragons Return to Bowdoin College

Hiding from Dinosaurs on the Bowdoin campus
Summer 2015

We'll be returning to the Bowdoin campus this summer. While this does mean a return to a smaller room, we gain the rich landscape of Bowdoin College and possible visits to places like the Arctic Museum, the art museum or the Bowdoin library archives. As I create more Maine-based adventures, such as "The Sea Serpent of Casco Bay," those library archives become a place we can visit to see maps and learn about Maine's history.

A very special thank you to the Landing YMCA for hosting the Dragon's Eye Adventures program last summer. We loved our time at the Y and will continue to use that space for school-year programs.

Return of the Midnight Cat: April Vacation Program for Ages 9 to 16

Dragon's Eye is sponsoring an April vacation program for ages 9 to 16 at the Landing YMCA in Brunswick. The program runs from 9 AM to 4 PM on Tuesday through Friday, April 18-22.

The Midnight Cat returns with chaos following in her shadowy wake. This daughter and granddaughter of two Egyptian goddesses has a habit of “borrowing” precious jewels and artifacts from famous museums. This rarely works out for her, since the artifacts often bring problems of the mythical kind. It’s a good thing cats have nine lives.

Once again, the Detectives must step in to save the day from the troubles that follow the Midnight Cat. Our dragonmages will need all of their wits and a bit of knowledge of Egyptian mythology to solve this tangled tale.

Our activities will include Egyptian amulets and hieroglyphics.

The Winter Queen: Feb Vacation Program, Ages 6 to 12

Dragon's Eye Adventures presents a February vacation program for ages 6 to 12 at the Landing YMCA in Brunswick. The program will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday through Friday, Feb. 21-24. We will offer After Hours from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday through Thursday. Friday, we have a presentation for parents and family at 3:30 p.m.

Our mystery is "The Winter Queen."

The Winter Queen rides the skies on her white wolf, bringing fierce storms everywhere she goes. Can the Detectives find the key that frees her summer prisoner, or will winter’s bite eat away all prospects of spring?

This story is based on Irish and Scottish legends of the Cailleach Bheara and Bridgid. These old stories about the changing seasons make wonderful fireside tales for February, the month we all begin to wonder if winter will ever release her hold on the land.

Our brave Detectives will lend a hand with this year’s struggle between winter and spring. Children will need their winter gear, since we’ll be braving the elements this week!

Our activities will include sparkling Winter Crowns and Bridgid Dolls. If we’re lucky, we’ll have just the right kind of snow for building snow sculptures.

Winter & Spring Vacation with Dragon's Eye

Dragon's Eye Adventures will be offering adventures for February and April break this year. Winter break will feature "The Winter Queen," a Scottish story about the seasons, for ages 6 to 12. The Spring break will offer "Return of the Midnight Cat," an Egyptian-inspired story about a modern day jewel thief, for ages 9 to 16.

Registration for these programs will open on January 1.