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What to Do If Your Child Hates Camp: A Parent's Guide to Navigating a Tough Summer Situation
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June 30, 2026
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ActonArt
ActonArt offers structured, creativity-boosting visual arts classes and camps tailored for children and teens. The focus is on realistic drawing techniques and visual storytelling, designed to help students grow both artistically and confidently...
Acton
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Greater Boston
Anoka County Parks
Anoka County Parks offers a wide variety of nature-based summer day camps for kids ages 4 to 15, hosted across scenic locations like Wargo Nature Center, Coon Rapids Dam, and Bunker Hills Regional Park. Camps run June through August, and are led by trained naturalists and staff who prioritize outdoor exploration, hands-on learning, and fun...
Northern Suburbs
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Twin Cities
Applause
Applause is a long-running performing-arts training school in New York City (founded in 1995 by Audrey Kaplan) with a mission of building kids’ love for the performing arts and the confidence to find their place in the world. They teach students roughly ages 3–18 through an evolving curriculum in acting, musical theater, dance, and film acting...
Upper East Side
Full Day
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NYC
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) Academy - Lexington
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) Academy offers year-round enrichment in math and language arts for kids who enjoy being challenged and thinking deeply, generally from about grades 2–12. During the school year, AoPS Academy runs weekly...
Lexington, Acton
Few Hours
Half Day
Greater Boston
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) Academy - Nationwide
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) Academy offers year-round enrichment in math and language arts for kids who enjoy being challenged and thinking deeply, generally from about grades 2–12. During the school year...
Few Hours
Half Day
Asphalt Green - Greater New York
Asphalt Green’s summer day camp is a full-day, multi-activity camp built around confidence, character, and community. Campers are grouped by division—Pee-Wee (entering K–1), Junior (entering Grades 2–3), Senior (entering Grades 4–8), and a Leadership-in-Training program...
Full Day
NYC
Bay Farm Montessori
Bay Farm Montessori Academy’s Bay Farm Summer is a Montessori-inspired day camp program for toddlers through rising 4th graders, designed around “joyful discovery” with lots of outdoor play, nature exploration, art, themed projects, and friendship-building—all while supporting kids’ independence and confidence in a nurturing setting...
Duxbury
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Half Day
Greater Boston
Beaver Summer Camp
Beaver Summer Camp (at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, MA) offers a mix of general day camp and specialty programs for kids from PreK through rising 10th grade. The core General Camp is divided into Lower Camp (PreK–K), Middle Camp (grades 1–2), Upper Camp (grades 3–4), and Senior Camp (grades 5–8), giving kids a classic multi-activity camp day with age-appropriate groups. Days typically include...
Chestnut Hill
Full Day
Greater Boston
Boston School of Music Arts
Boston School of Music Arts (BSMA) is a year-round music school in Dorchester that serves kids and adults with private lessons across many instruments (voice, piano, guitar, drums, strings, woodwinds, brass, etc.), plus group classes, ensembles/bands, music theory, and performance workshops...
Boston
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Greater Boston
Brainiac Tennis
For New York parents looking for a flexible, low-pressure tennis option, Brainiac Tennis offers a unique, highly adaptable summer experience. Rather than a traditional fixed-location camp, Brainiac operates as a “portable” tennis program, bringing instructors and equipment directly to local schools, parks, and community spaces across NYC...
Few Hours
Full Day
NYC
Brave Arts Theatre Workshop
Brave Arts is a musical theatre-focused summer program held at The Cambridge School of Weston, built for kids who want a week (or two) of singing, dancing, acting, and performance confidence, with plenty of theatre games, improv, and outdoor play mixed in...
Weston
Full Day
Greater Boston
Brooklyn Acting Lab
Brooklyn Acting Lab (BAL) is a Brooklyn-based youth theatre organization offering acting and theatre training for Pre-K through 12th grade across multiple neighborhoods. In addition to camps, BAL runs after-school classes, drop-in classes for families who want to “test drive” without a full-session commitment, and private coaching/audition prep...
Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Ditmas Park
Full Day
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NYC
Brooklyn Robot Foundry - Brownstone Brooklyn
The Foundry’s summer circuits program is a full-week, hands-on robotics camp for rising Kindergarten through 5th grade students (in NYC locations). Each week features a distinct theme (e.g., woodland robots, space robotics, retro-inspired builds), and every day children engage in...
Park Slope, Greenwood, Dumbo
Full Day
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NYC
Brooklyn Robot Foundry - Northeast U.S.
The Foundry’s summer circuits program is a full-week, hands-on robotics camp for rising Kindergarten through 5th grade students (in NYC locations). Each week features a distinct theme...
Full Day
Few Hours
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School Camps
Summer @ BB&N (Buckingham Browne & Nichols) in Cambridge is set up as a flexible, mix-and-match day summer camp experience for kids from age 4 (PreK) through rising 12th grade. The program runs in weekly sessions over 8 weeks each summer, with regular camp hours from 8:15 a.m.–3:30 p.m. and optional...
Cambridge
Full Day
Greater Boston
Bunker Park Stables
Bunker Park Stables offers immersive horseback riding summer camps designed for children ages 4–17. These camps provide a fun, structured introduction to horsemanship in a safe, supportive environment. They offer 1-day to 5-day options, along with full and half-day options for riders of all levels and abilities...
Northern Suburbs
Full Day
Twin Cities
Cambridge Montessori School
The Passport Summer Camp runs June to August and welcomes children ages 18 months through rising 6th grade (11 yrs). The camp hosts learners from over 20 countries and offers themed weeks (e.g., Mad Scientist, Super Hero, Carnival Week) with activities like science & nature, arts & crafts, music/movement, water-sports, and more...
Cambridge
Full Day
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Greater Boston
Camp Broadway
Camp Broadway is a NYC-based musical theater day camp that’s been around since 1995 and is often described as Broadway’s “original” summer camp. It’s operated by Broadway Education Alliance, which runs year-round youth enrichment and theater education programming...
Lower East Side
Full Day
NYC
Camp Fire
Camp Fire is a national youth development nonprofit that runs programs through local Camp Fire councils/affiliates, with about 1,300 program sites reported nationwide. For families, the two biggest buckets are school-year programs and summer camp/outdoor education...
Full Day
Camp Gordon Clark
Camp Gordon Clark is a traditional YMCA summer day camp run by the South Shore YMCA, based at the Emilson Y campus in Hanover. It serves ages 3–15 on 46 wooded acres, and it’s designed for classic “move-all-day” camp energy: big outdoor play, friendships, and confidence-building...
Hanover
Full Day
Half Day
Greater Boston
Camp Harborview
Camp Harbor View is a free summer camp for Boston youth that runs on its own island in Boston Harbor—literally transforming Long Island into a camp just for city kids each summer. The camp serves about 900 young people each year from Boston’s underserved neighborhoods through two four-week sessions in July and August, giving middle-school–aged campers a chance to get out of the city...
Boston
Full Day
Greater Boston
Camp Invention
Camp Invention is a national, weeklong STEM day camp created by the National Inventors Hall of Fame, designed for curious kids entering grades K–6. Kids rotate through a set of hands-on “experiences” (think open-ended building, experimenting, and problem-solving) that are meant to spark creativity, persistence, and confidence...
Full Day
Camp Léman
Léman Manhattan Preparatory School is a private, co-educational independent school in New York City, serving students from 12 months through Grade 12. It’s an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, emphasizing academic rigor, global education, personalized learning, and community partnerships. In association, Camp Léman is a full-feature summer day camp built on the foundation of Léman Preparatory Manhattan’s mission...
Financial District
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NYC
Chanhassen Dinner Theater
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres’ Musical Theatre Camp is a long-running Twin Cities favorite (it’s been running since 1994, with 13,000+ kids/teens participating) and gives campers a behind-the-scenes taste of what it takes to put on a show—voice, movement, costumes/scenery, stage combat, and more—taught by working CDT theatre professionals...
Southern Suburbs
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Twin Cities
Chelsea Piers
Chelsea Piers offers weekly-enrollment summer camps from June through August for children ages 3-17. Program themes include gymnastics, soccer, ninja/parkour, baseball/hockey, multi-sport, tennis, and general sports-and-fitness through their “Sports Academy”. Younger campers (ages 3-5) have preschool-style options with movement, games, and swim, while older kids (5-13 or up to 17) join more intensive full-day tracks...
Upper West Side
Full Day
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Few Hours
NYC
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
The Curiosity Camps (or early out) at the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota (Mankato) are half-day, school-year camps designed specifically for kids in Kindergarten through 3rd grade on local early-release days. Instead of scrambling for last-minute childcare when school lets out early, families can register their child...
Southern Suburbs
Half Day
Twin Cities
Children's Theater Company
Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) is the nation’s largest theatre for young people, serving 200,000+ people each year, and it’s the only youth-focused theatre to receive the Special Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Their summer camp lineup is designed...
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Full Day
Twin Cities
Child's Play
Child’s Play NY is an award-winning dramatic arts program (founded 2009) that uses theatre, storytelling, music, and creative movement to build kids’ confidence, compassion, and creativity—with programs across the NY metro area...
Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Fort Greene
Full Day
NYC
Church Street School for Music & Art
Church Street School for Music & Art’s summer programs include a mix of arts classes, music instruction, and full-day camp options in Tribeca. Families can choose toddler-and-caregiver Summer Arts Medley, Summer Arts for Children, weeklong Summer Band Factory, and private instrumental lessons...
Tribeca
Full Day
NYC
Code Wiz
Code Wiz offers coding and robotics summer camps for kids and teens ages 7–17, with both in-person and online options depending on the location. Rather than running one generic camp all summer, they structure the program so that each week is a different theme, which means your child can try something new every session. Code Wiz’s camps range from...
Full Day
Half Day
Como Park Zoo & Conservatory
Camp Como at Como Park Zoo & Conservatory is a themed summer camp that lets kids spend a full week exploring animals, plants, and behind-the-scenes zoo life. The 2026 season offers half-day morning camps for preschoolers and rising kindergarteners and full-day camps for kids entering grades 1–6...
St. Paul
Full Day
Half Day
Twin Cities
Court16 - FiDi
Court 16’s summer tennis camp is a Monday-through-Friday program (June 30 – August 29 in NYC) for kids ages roughly 4–12. Choices include half-day or full-day options. They organize groups by ball color/skill...
Financial District
Full Day
Half Day
NYC
Court16 - Greater New York
Court 16’s summer tennis camp is a Monday-through-Friday program (June 30 – August 29 in NYC) for kids ages roughly 4–12. Choices include half-day or full-day options across locations in Brooklyn, Long Island City, FiDi (Manhattan), and Philly...
Full Day
Half Day
NYC
Crossroads
Crossroads offers a variety of summer programming to keep kids of all ages engaged: Camp Wing Day Camp (Duxbury, MA) — grades K–9, Camp Wing Overnight Camp (Duxbury, MA) — grades 2–8 (eligibility-based), and C5 Leaders Summer (Camp Mitton, Brewster, MA) — entering grades 8–9 (leadership track)...
Duxbury
Full Day
Greater Boston
Downtown Dance Factory
The Downtown Dance Factory offers a summer camp that runs for 8 weeks and offers sessions for kids in preschool through middle school (K–8 grades). Campers receive instruction in a wide variety of dance styles...
Tribeca
Full Day
Half Day
NYC
Dribbl
Dribbl’s camps are centered on instructional basketball in a positive, supportive environment, with a big emphasis on fundamentals (shooting, passing, footwork, ball-handling) and a reputation for experienced staff...
Upper West Side
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NYC
Duxbury Bay Maritime School
Duxbury Bay Maritime School’s summer lineup is basically a pick-your-own waterfront adventure, with options that range from “try everything” days to skill-based tracks in sailing, paddling, rowing, marine science, and powerboating...
Duxbury
Full Day
Greater Boston
Einstein's Workshop
Einstein’s Workshop in Burlington is a STEAM-focused camp and learning center that offers a variety of summer and school vacation programs for kids in roughly grades K–8. Their summer camp runs as week-long sessions during summer vacation, with half-day (9 a.m.–12 p.m. or 1–4 p.m.) and full-day options, and themed camps that cover everything from...
Burlington
Full Day
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Greater Boston
Elite Gymnastics - Greater New York
NYC Elite provides classes, camps, birthday parties, and private lessons in gymnastics. Their goal is to provide a safe, top-quality learning environment that supports both physical and emotional well-being...
Full Day
Half Day
NYC
Elite Gymnastics - Tribeca
NYC Elite provides classes, camps, birthday parties, and private lessons in gymnastics. Their goal is to provide a safe, top-quality learning environment that supports both physical and emotional well-being. NYC Elite's summer camp runs June through August for children aged 3 and up. The program includes both half-day and full-day options, offering gymnastics events (including trampoline & foam pit play), arts & crafts, and bounce house fun!...
Tribeca
Full Day
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NYC
Fessenden Summer Camps
Fessenden Summer Camps in West Newton offer a mix of day, sports, and specialty camps for girls and boys from age 3.5 through entering grade 10, designed so families can build a summer that fits both their child’s interests and their schedule. The Day Camp is divided into Lower Camp (age 3.5–entering K), Middle Camp (grades 1–3), Upper Camp (grades 4–7), and Teen Trippers (grade 8)...
Newton
Full Day
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Greater Boston
French Woods
French Woods (French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts) is a co-ed overnight summer camp for ages 7–17 in Hancock, New York (Catskills), built around an “individual choice” model: instead of one fixed track, campers design their own schedule and can go deep in one area or mix multiple interests...
Hancock (Catskills)
Full Day
NYC
Goldfish Swim School - Nationwide
Goldfish Swim School is a nationwide swim center that offers swim lessons designed for children as young as 4 months up to 12 years. Their programs are grouped by age and skill level, with a focus on safety, confidence, and...
Few Hours
Goldfish Swim School - Westford
Goldfish Swim School in Westford provides year-round, indoor swim lessons for children ages 4 months to 12 years, with an emphasis on safety, confidence, and skill development—all in a warm 90° pool that helps little ones feel comfortable and confident...
Westford
Few Hours
Greater Boston
Good Pickin' Farm
Good Pickin’ Farm offers hands-on, outdoor-focused camps that give kids a taste of farm life while encouraging creativity, responsibility, and curiosity. Good Pickin’ Farm’s summer programs cater to children ages 5–12 and run in weekly sessions. Kids experience...
Westford
Full Day
Half Day
Greater Boston
Gotham Gymnastics
Gotham Gymnastics’ camp programming is centered on School’s Out sessions, offered year-round for kids ages 3+ whenever school isn’t in session. Campers of all genders get a high-energy gymnastics day built around...
Gowanus
Full Day
Half Day
NYC
Greenwood Trails
Greenwood Trails is a coed sleepaway summer camp in Winsted, Connecticut (foothills of the Berkshires) for kids ~7–16. Families can choose 2- or 3-week sessions, or combine them for 5 weeks or a full 7-week summer for the ultimate camper!...
Full Day
Guggenheim Art Camps
The Guggenheim offers week‐long art camps for children (typically ages 5-7 and 8-11) where participants explore visual arts in a museum setting. Campers engage in hands-on workshops inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and architecture—doing projects in drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and sculptural media. The sessions are structured but flexible...
Upper East Side
Full Day
NYC
iD Tech
iD Tech offers weeklong summer tech camps for kids and teens ages 7–17, held at 75+ prestigious universities across the U.S. (think Stanford, NYU, UC Berkeley, MIT partners, etc.). Their flagship “Tech Camps” are either day or overnight programs, where campers spend the week on a real college campus getting hands-on with technology...
Full Day
Inly
Inly is a Montessori-school serving the South Shore area. Summer at Inly is a 10-week lineup of on-campus summer programs designed for a wide age range (ages 3+ through older elementary/middle grades, depending on the program). Families can choose Preschool Camp for the youngest campers...
Scituate
Full Day
Half Day
Greater Boston
Kids in the Game - Northeast
Kids in the Game runs two main camp formats: summer camps (their big, multi-week day camp program across NYC + nearby) and school break camps (shorter camps during school vacations). Both are built around their mission of “positive experiences through sports & creative play,” and both layer...
Full Day
Kids' League of Westford
The Kids’ League of Westford offers flexible, play-based childcare programs tailored to working families, with a strong emphasis on safety, enrichment, and social development. Programs serve children in preschool through 5th grade and are built around after-school care, school vacations, and summer camp in early education...
Westford
Full Day
Half Day
Few Hours
Greater Boston
Kids 'N Comedy
Kids ’N Comedy is a NYC comedy program where “funny kids” can learn to write and perform stand-up comedy—with programming primarily for ages 10–18. Their summer camp is the main camp offering: it runs in 2-week sessions and each session culminates in a graduation show live at a real theater....
Chelsea
Few Hours
NYC
Kumon - Acton
Kumon is an after-school program that focuses on math and reading for kids from roughly pre-K through high school. Instead of traditional “tutoring,” it uses a structured, worksheet-based system where each child starts at a personalized level (often below grade level at first), then works through...
Acton
Few Hours
Greater Boston
Kumon - Nationwide
Kumon is a nationwide after-school program that focuses on math and reading for kids from roughly pre-K through high school. Instead of traditional “tutoring,” it uses a structured, worksheet-based system where each child starts at a personalized level...
Few Hours
Lakeshore Players Theatre
Lakeshore Players Theatre’s summer camps (hosted through their Theatre Education program in White Bear Lake) are designed as week-by-week, age-banded theatre experiences—from playful “storybook” camps for little kids to production, acting, and tech intensives for older students...
Western Suburbs
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Twin Cities
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Levitate Camps
Levitate Camps (Marshfield, MA) are built for kids who love an outdoor, creative, board-sports lifestyle—think surfing, skateboarding, art, and beach days—with a mission centered on confidence, creativity, and connection to nature. Their core summer camp offerings include...
Marshfield
Half Day
Few Hours
Greater Boston
Life Time - Burlington
At the Burlington Life Time location, members can enroll their children in thoughtfully structured summer camps and school break camps that combine fitness, fun, and enrichment in a safe and engaging environment...
Burlington
Full Day
Half Day
Greater Boston
Life Time - Nationwide
Life Time offers a variety of kids camps across its nationwide network of athletic country clubs, designed exclusively for Life Time members. These programs blend fitness, enrichment, and fun, and are held during summer months as well as select school holidays and breaks...
Full Day
Half Day
Linx Camps
LINX Camps is a large summer day camp program based in Wellesley (on the Dana Hall School campus) built around one big idea: families can mix-and-match weeks by interest area while still getting the “classic camp” experience. The campus setup is a major draw for parents...
Wellesley
Full Day
Greater Boston
MacPhail Center for Music
MacPhail’s summer camps are a music-filled menu of weeklong (and some multi-day) camps designed for a wide range of ages and experience levels—everything from early learners to teens (and even some adult offerings). In general, their camps emphasize high-quality instruction, lots of playing with other students, and a balance of skill-building + creative expression...
Minneapolis, Southern Suburbs
Full Day
Twin Cities
Manhattan Youth
Manhattan Youth runs a variety of youth programs, including a full-day summer camp program known as Downtown Day Camp for children from elementary through early middle school ages (typically K-8th grade). It combines a wide mix of activities including daily swim lessons in their private pool, organized field sports on Battery Park City’s ball fields, access to the beach volleyball and mini-golf at Pier 25, arts and crafts, “ooey-gooey” science projects, music and drumming, LEGO/robotics builds, movement & dance, and weekly trips/special events...
Downtown
Full Day
Few Hours
NYC
Mass Audubon
Mass Audubon runs a network of nature-based summer day camps across many of its wildlife sanctuaries statewide, plus an overnight camp for older kids and teens. While details vary by location, the core idea is the same...
Full Day
Greater Boston
Mathnasium - Acton Concord
Mathnasium of Acton/Concord runs a summer math program for grades K–12 that’s all about preventing the “summer slide” and giving kids a boost going into fall. They lean heavily on the idea that kids can lose about 2.6 months of math learning over summer if they don’t use it, and position their center as the antidote to that...
Acton
Few Hours
Half Day
Greater Boston
Mathnasium - Nationwide
Mathnasium’s summer programs are designed to keep math skills from slipping over the summer (“summer slide”) and help kids get ahead for the coming school year. Their big promise: your child won’t just review worksheets...
Few Hours
Half Day
Merrill Arts Center
Merrill Arts Center (MAC) is a community-focused arts hub in Woodbury with a mission “to champion the arts,” created out of the former Woodbury Arts Council and built to be a regional cornerstone for arts access and education...
Eastern Suburbs
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Twin Cities
MetroRock - Everett
MetroRock offers action-packed climbing camps designed to help kids build confidence, physical strength, and teamwork skills—all while having fun on the wall. Their summer camps are best suited for kids...
Everett
Full Day
Half Day
Greater Boston
MetroRock - Northeast U.S.
MetroRock offers action-packed climbing camps designed to help kids build confidence, physical strength, and teamwork skills—all while having fun on the wall...
Full Day
Half Day
Minnesota Ballet School
Minnesota Ballet School is a community ballet school that teaches classical ballet using the Vaganova (Russian) method, with year-round options that include youth classes, adult classes, drop-in/open classes (ages 3+), and private lessons—so many families use it as both a “camp week” spot and an ongoing training home base...
Southern Suburbs
Few Hours
Twin Cities
Minnesota Dance Theater
Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT) is an acclaimed Minneapolis-based dance company and school (founded in 1962) that offers year-round training plus seasonal intensives for young dancers...
Minneapolis
Full Day
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Twin Cities
Minnesota Zoo
The Minnesota Zoo’s Summer Zoo Camps are classic “zoo kid” weeklong experiences built around animal encounters, special zoo experiences, tours, and games, with campers grouped by grade/age and taught by professional naturalists. Offerings span a wide range...
Southern Suburbs
Full Day
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Twin Cities
New Country Day Camps (14th St Y)
The 14th Street Y offers a mix of summer camp options designed for downtown NYC families who want a blend of community, creativity, and (as much as possible) time outside without leaving the city completely behind. The Y’s camp “ecosystem” includes a classic outdoor day camp, a more urban/indoor-based option, and programming for younger children and tweens...
East Village
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NYC
New York Performing Arts Academy (NYPAA)
NYPAA’s summer programming is a two-week, conservatory-style performing arts intensive in New York City designed for teens/older students who want a serious, all-in training block—not a casual “do-a-little-of-everything” camp. The program blends multiple disciplines—acting, musical theatre, dance, voice, stage combat, and “stage to studio” work...
Midtown
Full Day
NYC
North End Music & Performing Arts Center
NEMPAC (The North End Music & Performing Arts Center) is a Boston-based nonprofit community music school and professional performing arts center (founded in 2001) that runs year-round music, dance, and theatre programming across multiple Boston neighborhoods...
Boston
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Greater Boston
Nory.co - Fidi
NORY’s summer camp is crafted as a high-energy, project-based STEM experience for children roughly ages 3–12 (grouped as 3–4, 5–7, 8–12) in NYC. Each week features a distinct theme (robotics, woodworking, coding, smart-city design) and the program emphasizes both technical skills and soft skills like...
Financial District
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NYC
Nory.co - Northeast U.S.
NORY’s summer camp is crafted as a high-energy, project-based STEM experience for children roughly ages 3–12 (grouped as 3–4, 5–7, 8–12) in NY and Boston. Each week features a distinct theme (robotics, woodworking, coding, smart-city design)...
Full Day
Half Day
Nory.co - Tribeca
NORY’s summer camp is crafted as a high-energy, project-based STEM experience for children roughly ages 3–12 (grouped as 3–4, 5–7, 8–12) in NYC. Each week features a distinct theme (robotics, woodworking, coding, smart-city design) and the program emphasizes both technical skills and soft skills like resilience, teamwork, and curiosity...
Tribeca
Full Day
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NYC
NYC Parks
NYC Parks runs a free afterschool program for kids ages 6–13 at recreation centers in all five boroughs. The program operates on school days, typically Monday–Friday from 3:00–6:00 p.m., which is that critical window when kids are out of school but many parents are still at work. It’s designed as a safe, structured environment where children get a mix of academic support and active play...
Few Hours
Full Day
NYC
Open Squash - FiDi
Open Squash’s Junior Program is built around their year-round Junior Academy, which is structured into three skill-level teams: the Green Team (beginners/Bronze level), Blue Team (intermediate), and Red Team (advanced/competitive). Each tier is designed to help kids develop correctly—from serving and returning to movement tactics and match play for tournament preparation...
Financial District
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Few Hours
NYC
Open Squash - Greater New York
Open Squash’s Junior Program is built around their year-round Junior Academy, which is structured into three skill-level teams: the Green Team (beginners/Bronze level), Blue Team (intermediate), and Red Team (advanced/competitive)...
Full Day
Half Day
Few Hours
NYC
Outdoor Classroom
Outdoor Classroom’s overnight program is a 1–5 day residential outdoor education experience designed for 4th–8th grade students from schools across the Northeast. Instead of a traditional “camp you sign up for as a family,” this is usually a school-organized trip where classes travel together to one of Outdoor Classroom’s host sites in NH, ME, MA, or CT...
Full Day
Pangea World Theater
Pangea World Theater’s summer camps are week-long, full-day theater camps in Minneapolis that focus on storytelling, masks, and ensemble-based play—with a big emphasis on their “radical welcome” approach (all experience levels are invited, and the environment is designed to be collaborative and inclusive)...
Minneapolis
Full Day
Twin Cities
Park Square Theater
Park Square Theatre’s Summer Programs ( grades K–12) are a big menu of weeklong theater camps designed by grade band—K–1, grades 2–4, grades 5–8, plus a grades 3–8 Production Series—all led by professional theatre educators and structured to work for both beginners and experienced performers...
St. Paul
Full Day
Half Day
Twin Cities
Penguin Coding School
Penguin Coding School offers coding and STEM day camps for kids and teens that run both in the summer and on school holidays, with locations in Brooklyn (Park Slope & Cobble Hill) and the Boston suburbs (Lexington, Acton, Newton, Brookline), plus live online options. Their Summer Coding & Robotics Camps run in weekly sessions...
Full Day
PGA Camps
PGA Junior Golf Camps offer a tiered set of summer camps so you can match your child’s age and experience level to the right golf experience. All camps are run at PGA facilities across the country and are taught by PGA and LPGA professionals, with kids grouped by age and skill so beginners aren’t thrown in with advanced players...
Full Day
Half Day
Piper Theatre Productions
Piper Theatre Productions’ Youth Theatre programs are built around an ensemble-based, process-driven, physical theatre approach—think collaboration, movement, storytelling, and a strong community vibe for young artists. Their after-school theatre programs run in seasonal sessions...
Park Slope
Full Day
NYC
play:groundNYC
play:groundNYC offers adventure-style summer day camps as well as mini school year camps (and one-day sessions for littlest kids) on Governors Island, designed around the idea that children learn best through self-directed play. Open to kids ages six to twelve (with a Playworker-in-Training program for ages 13-15), the camps focus on giving campers the freedom to build, explore, and invent within a unique “adventure playground.” Rather than structured schedules or themed activity blocks...
Governors Island
Full Day
NYC
Puddlestompers Nature Exploration
Puddlestompers offers a variety of programs to get your kids involved in nature! The summer camp is a weekly drop-off program (4.5 hours daily) for children ages ~4-8 in Newton, Wellesley, and Needham, MA. The camp follows a weekly nature-theme...
Newton
Full Day
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Greater Boston
Robofun
Robofun offers a broad set of STEAM-based programs for children, designed to spark curiosity, build confidence, and encourage creativity through hands-on learning. Their summer camp is structured around weekly themes (such as “Deep Space,” “Transportation,” “Animal Planet”) for kids ages roughly 3-13. Each day includes...
Upper West Side
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NYC
Robo Hub
The Robo Hub’s summer camp is a hands-on STEM camp in Cambridge for rising 1st–9th graders who are curious about robotics, AI, coding, and engineering. Each week-long program is built around a specific theme—things like Robot Explorers, Stories & STEAM, Design Squad Crafters, BattleBots, App Inventor with AI & Data, Electricity Engineers, Planes, Drones & Rockets, and more—so kids can pick camps...
Cambridge
Full Day
Greater Boston
Roudenbush Community Center
The Roudenbush Community’s Center offers nurturing and engaging childcare-based programming for children ages 15 months through 13 years—with a strong emphasis on learning through play. Their summer program...
Westford
Full Day
Half Day
Greater Boston
Running Brook Camps
Running Brook Camps offers a mix of summer camp programs for kids from preschool through high school, all designed around the same core goals: being safe, having fun, and spending lots of time outdoors...
Waltham
Full Day
Greater Boston
Russian School of Mathematics - Acton
RSM runs structured summer math camps for grades K–12 designed to either shore up fundamentals, prep for the next school year, or stretch kids who want more challenge. Classes follow the same core format as their normal tutoring programs...
Acton
Few Hours
Half Day
Greater Boston
Russian School of Mathematics - Battery Park
RSM runs structured summer math camps for grades K–12 designed to either shore up fundamentals, prep for the next school year, or stretch kids who want more challenge. Classes follow the same core format...
Battery Park
Few Hours
Half Day
NYC
Russian School of Mathematics - Nationwide
RSM runs structured summer math camps for grades K–12 designed to either shore up fundamentals, prep for the next school year, or stretch kids who want more challenge. Most locations follow the same core format...
Half Day
Few Hours
SELA (Su Escuela Language Academy)
SELA’s Summer Program is an 11-week, full-immersion Spanish experience (June–August) built around STEAM learning and weekly themes. This year, the program theme (“Eco Amigos”) focuses on nature and sustainability—kids learn through hands-on projects, sensory play, art + science exploration, and age-appropriate activities...
Norwell, Hingham
Full Day
Half Day
Few Hours
Greater Boston
Snapology - Burlington
Snapology’s summer camps offer full-day and half-day options, where children dive into themed STEAM learning — including robotics (with LEGO® bricks and K’Nex® systems), coding, animation, and hands-on design and engineering projects...
Westford, Burlington
Full Day
Half Day
Few Hours
Greater Boston
Snapology - Nationwide
Snapology’s summer camps offer full-day and half-day options, where children dive into themed STEAM learning — including robotics (with LEGO® bricks and K’Nex® systems), coding, animation, and hands-on design...
Full Day
Half Day
Few Hours
SquashRx - Manhattan Downtown
SquashRx offers dynamic summer camps geared toward junior players of all ages and skill levels. The Manhattan-Downtown camp includes three one-week sessions (June, July, August) with AM sessions for ages 5–8 and PM sessions for ages 9–14; each runs Monday–Friday...
Downtown
Half Day
NYC
Squash Rx - Northeast U.S.
SquashRx offers dynamic summer camps geared toward junior players of all ages and skill levels, held at their Manhattan (Downtown) and New Canaan, CT locations. The Manhattan-Downtown camp includes three one-week sessions...
Half Day
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