It includes detailed lesson plans and resources looking at the history of the festival, creative tasks such as making indoor kites and Chinese opera masks, and a research project on the endangered snub-nosed monkey.
And, as always, winter in Rome features the most refined indoor activities possible: world-class opera and art exhibits in the city's magnificent palazzos.
From the set of a soap opera to an indoor climbing centre, there have been some eye-catching venue choices.
There are a restored opera house, an indoor community swimming pool and a $2.5 million Dutch-built working windmill all paid for mostly by the charitable foundations of Pella Corp. and Vermeer or members of these firms' founding families.
"Yarden is a seminal artist changing environments via moving image and whilst most of those are indoor environments of theater and opera and musical events, he creates works for seamless, non-framed or non-proscenium screen stages," says Times Square arts director Sherry Dobbin.
A plus for opera-lovers is that the Rossini festival in Pesaro, not far away, is held at nearly the same time as the Sferisterio season; but the rare Rossini operas it stages are all, alas, indoor.
It's a period soap opera, a Cornish precursor to Downton Abbey, and despite the dated theatrical indoor sets, the stagey vocal mannerisms and the odd accents of some of the cast it still works.
With few indoor sights to choose from we decided to take a tour around Teatro Massimo, Palermo's recently renovated and reopened opera house - the third largest in Europe.
And the small indoor theater, the Rosen House Music Room, will not go unused: the soprano Sumi Jo, accompanied by Caramoor's director of opera, Will Crutchfield, on piano, closes out the Fall Festival on Oct. 4.
