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All Girls Empowerment Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
For GIRLS ages 6-17 in Culver City! Our Camp Includes: Women’s Self Defense, Water Sports Lessons, Healthy Relationship, Dance, Yoga, Meditation, Nutrition, Outdoor Sports, Character Development & More! Mom’s Testimonial: “The topics discussed & skills they learned are crucial for their upcoming years in middle school & beyond. You & your staff have a very important job and you all do it with grace, humility, and intelligence. I will be recommending you to all our friends!" Hosted by SHIELD Women's Self Defense System ®. Our CAMP meets from Monday-Friday from 10am-4pm. Extended Hrs: 7:30am to 6pm. Early bird pricing in Feb! Our camp always sell out. Space is limited. Save your daughter's spot early!
Archer Summer
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Performing Arts/Theater & Music
Join us for a summer of imagination and enrichment led by an expert faculty. Archer's summer program ignites possibility, inspires creative risk-taking, and builds valuable leadership skills. Engage in real world challenges, make new friends, and experience Archer's joyful culture, which celebrates the possibility of every girl. Programs include visual arts, performing arts, creative writing, and journalism for grades 4th - 8th. Applications are available now and will close on Friday, May 15.
Destination Science
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
The fun science day camp for curious kids 5 to 11! For over 20 years, Destination Science has proudly focused on STEM learning through science-based activities. Our camp is a great place to experience fun, hands-on science during the summer to encourage year-round learning! Three engaging science stations each day, plus games, spirit days, friendships, rallies and all the fun of camp! 2020 Camp Themes: Playspace Engineering & Spy-Tech Camp, Galactic Space Training Camp, Robot Island & Movie Makers Camp, STEAM Inventors & Anti-Gravity Racers Camp! Enroll Early for Best Savings: February Save $70/wk, March Save $30/wk! Over 20 convenient neighborhood locations in LA County. Call 888-909-2822, or visit our website www.destinationscience.org for info.
Ecole du Soleil
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Speech and Language
La Petite Ecole du Soleil is for campers in preschool (born in 2017) & pre-kindergarten (born in 2016). La Grande Ecole du Soleil is for entering kindergarten-5th graders. L’Ecole du Soleil offers a bustling daily schedule and a watchful counseling staff. Our objective is to introduce children to the French language and culture at an early age while they still have a linguistic openness to easily learn a second language. Their adaptability, their lack of inhibition, and, above all, their ability to reproduce any sound accurately will help them learn a second language with great ease. We provide a unique learning context in which your children will learn at their own pace in a fun, genuine, French summer camp environment.
Fitness by the Sea Beach Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Sports & Recreation
Fitness by the Sea Beach Camp is Los Angeles’ premiere and oldest beach camp (celebrating our 21st year) for children ages 4-14. With beachside locations in Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, FBS has been recognized as the “safest beach camp” by the Chief of LA County Lifeguards for more than 20 years. FBS provides an experienced and spirited staff (average age 26), and over 200 dynamic and creative activities (surfing, soccer, gymnastics, arts and crafts, martial arts, boogie boarding, dance, baseball...) in an encouraging and nurturing environment. Sign up by the day - you can register your child for any days you wish, with no minimum days. Bus Transportation – convenient bus stops serving many communities in the Los Angeles area. 100% SAFETY RECORD: For more than 20 years, the chief of L.A. County Lifeguards has called Fitness by the...
Galileo Learning
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Science
SUMMER CAMPS KIDS LOVE Galileo Innovation Camps for pre-K – 8th graders. At Galileo, we mix day camp fun with hands-on projects in fields from science and engineering to the visual and culinary arts. Supported by the best staff around, kids grow from Camp Galileo (pre-K – 5th grades) through Galileo Summer Quest (entering 5th – 8th grades), emerging as confident creators ready to turn their ideas into reality. Sign up by March 2 to save $20 per week. 80+ locations. Optional extended care and healthy lunch. Learn more at: www.galileo-camps.com or 800-854-3684. Visit our website for a location near you.
Got Game Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
Got Game is the premier LA day camp for kids ages 4-14! Sign up for one day, one week or multiple weeks! Got Game is unique in that each child has the opportunity to fully customize their day, each day, based on what interests them the most. Daily schedules are comprised of a wide variety of sports, games and projects! Campers are broken into groups based on age. Our staff is the most fun, inspiring, engaging, totally awesome and experienced coaching crew around! Got Game coaches are professional PE instructors and teachers who work with us all year at our school sites. Got Game is more than just a camp -- it's a culture! Come be a part of our greater Got Game family!
iD Tech
Additional Categories: Academic & Education
At iD Tech, kids and teens learn to code, design video games, mod Minecraft, create with Roblox, engineer robots, print 3D characters, work with AI and machine learning, build laptops, learn about cybersecurity, and more! This summer, your child can explore a prestigious campus, make friends as they master new tech skills, and join a community of 450,000 iD alumni who are changing the world with tech. Choose from iD Tech Camps (weeklong, co-ed, 7-17), Alexa Café (weeklong, all-girls, 10-15), and iD Tech Academies (two-week, teen-only, 13-18).
Institute for Educational Advancement: Yunasa and Summer Academy
Additional Categories: Health & Wellness, Sleep Away
The Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) offers personalized programs that are child-centered and have been helping gifted children grow and live purposeful, meaningful lives. In the summer, we offer Academy classes at our Learning Center in Pasadena, CA. IEA Academy provides students in Kindergarten through 8th grade with advanced enrichment classes that promote exploration and application of knowledge. Courses provide compelling content and appropriate challenges taught at a flexible pace with small classes by highly qualified, dedicated professionals. Additionally, IEA's Yunasa Summer camps are offered for one week in Colorado and Michigan. Yunasa was designed and led by experts in the field of gifted youth. Yunasa supports the whole gifted child, encouraging growth and support of campers intellectually, socially, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
Malibu Sports Camps
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Health & Wellness
We have a passion for building kids of character. Operated by some of the best coaches and teachers in the United States. Our camps absolutely love watching the growth of our campers, not only as players but as people. We take character-building and athletic training to the next level- Come join us to see what we are all about at Malibu Sports Camps. Located on the beautiful Pepperdine University Malibu Campus. Check out our options: Baseball, Volleyball, Soccer, Running, Tennis, Water Polo, Beach Volleyball & Swimming. Both day camp and residential camp options, May- August.
PlanetBravo
Additional Categories: Academic & Education
Since 2003, PlanetBravo’s Techno-tainment camp has inspired tens of thousands of tech-hungry students in Grades 2-9 to develop their creative and curious minds through project-based learning. At a fraction of the cost of other technology camps, PlanetBravo offers a perfect balance of indoor and outdoor activities in addition to the tech course in which the child enrolls. Children choose from a wide variety of courses to explore including Coding 101, Esports, Minecraft Modding, YouTube Gamer & Vlogger, Roblox 3D Game Design, and more. Camp runs in one-week sessions Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm or 8:30am-3pm, depending on location. See why PlanetBravo has been the go-to tech summer camp for thousands of children each summer. Best prices, best hours, best overall experience for your child.
Project Scientist
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
Project Scientist has fun-filled STEM programming year-round for your daughter! Project Scientist's Summer STEM Academy immerses girls ages 4-12 in STEM through fun-filled experiments, weekly field trips to top science and technology companies, and daily interactions with STEM Superstars — women thriving in STEM. Project Scientist's credentialed teachers provide girls high-quality STEM education every day by delving into each subject with hands-on activities and experiments. View our fun weekly themes for 2020: https://projectscientist.org. On school holidays throughout the academic year, Project Scientist takes students on field trip expeditions to local STEM companies so they can experience a real-life STEM workplace through a facility tour, hands-on activities, and meet-and-greets with STEM professionals. View our open expeditions at https://projectscientist.org/year-round-expeditions.
Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research Molecular Medicine Summer Camps
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
We offer winter and summer workshops for high-achieving high school students interested in pursuing a career in medicine or related fields, such as biomedical research, drug development, pharmacy or nursing. Our summer camps include Molecular Biology of Cancer, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Immunology, Molecular Biology of Aging, Bioinformatics of Cancer and Biomedical Research. Through engaging lectures and hands-on laboratory classes, students learn normal molecular and cellular biology, and then learn how these normal processes are distorted during the development of disease. To conclude the workshop, students use what they have learned to create an original research project on a gene of their choice. More broadly, workshop attendees make friends from around the world, strengthen their academic skills, and experience college dorm life in a safe environment.
Summer at New Roads
Additional Categories: Performing Arts/Theater & Music, Tech
Whether for enrichment, consolidation or adventure, New Roads School’s Summer Program offerings are designed for K-12 students to delight in learning. At New Roads, we believe that optimal growth and development occurs in the interchanging sweet spot between direct instruction and discovery learning. Our programs challenge students to build upon and satisfy their natural curiosity, to seek and evaluate information, and to use the information they acquire to delve deeply and critically into their studies in order to creatively apply their skills and knowledge to real-world problems. We give students a strong conceptual and analytic foundation from which they can launch their own explorations, and develop and pursue their own passions.
Summer at The Center
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Sports & Recreation
Calling all first through sixth graders: join us at Summer at The Center from June 15-August 14, 2020! Whether you want to direct a play, design a robot, learn a language, brush up on math skills or dance your heart out, do it all this Summer at The Center! And don’t miss special programs from The Unincorporated Life, Camp S.H.A.K.E., and Otis College of Art and Design @ CEE! Mix and match to create your summer of fun! Half- and full-day programs are available. Summer at The Center features engaging class offerings, state-of-the-art classrooms, outstanding athletic facilities, nurturing staff, and expert teachers. Sign up for summer excitement and learning at CEE’s expanded campus in West Hollywood! Registration opens on February 20.
Summer at Viewpoint
Additional Categories: Leadership, Multi-Activity
We are proud to offer a wide variety of exciting and enriching day camps for kids from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade designed to meet your family’s needs. Our goal is to provide each camper with a memorable summer filled with new adventures and lasting friendships. We offer academic summer camps, High School courses for credit, specialized sports camps, robotics, computer programming, musical theater, a service-learning camp, and fine arts. All of our programs are created and facilitated by caring, qualified, and committed educators who seek to provide a vibrant, safe, and stimulating environment for our campers and students. We invite you to explore our program offerings to learn more.
Summer@Stratford
Additional Categories: Science, Sports & Recreation
Summer@Stratford – Discover Where the Extraordinary Begins Stratford School infuses its STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) program into an innovative and enriching summer camp experience. A wide-variety of camp sessions are designed especially for children entering Preschool through 8th Grade (2.5–14 years old). Beginning in preschool, weekly themes come to life as young campers learn, explore, and engage in imaginative camp-style activities that promote STEAM learning. For elementary-age campers, we take our enriched academic preparation and themed project-based learning to a whole new level! Stratford’s robust camps for middle school camp students feature creative problem-solving, design-thinking, leadership development, hands-on collaboration, and communication skills building. Camp sessions start in June. Explore Summer@Stratford at www.stratfordschools.com/summer for more information about our four Southern California campuses. Summer@Stratford locations: Altadena: 2046 Allen Ave., Altadena (626) 794-1000 Los Angeles: 1200 N. Cahuenga Blvd., L.A....
Teenage Drama Workshop
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
Teenage Drama Workshop (TADW) is a six-week immersive summer program for students between the ages of 11 – 18. For the past 63 years, TADW has been held on the campus of California State University Northridge. Our goal is to teach not only theatre arts but the importance of ensemble and team work through our intensive classes and productions. Over the course of six weeks, students experience what it’s like to collaborate with industry professionals and create live theatre. This year we are traveling back in time (5000 years ago) to discover the origins of these two brothers in Marvel Comics’ Hammered: A Thor and Loki Play. Then, we’ll travel to Arendelle to perform the classic story of Disney’s Frozen Jr.
The REALM Creative Academy
Additional Categories: Art, Outdoor Activity
This summer at The REALM, be ready to: Be Curious, Play, Explore, Ask Questions, Connect & Discover! To be curious is to see the world as a place full of interesting questions begging to be explored! While many camps specialize heavily in one area such as arts, music, sports, etc., at The REALM Camps, we provide a wide variety of experiences and activities that will allow kids to freely work their creative muscles! Throughout our camp days, kids at the REALM are experiencing learning through doing, creating, collaborating and playing.
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Archer Summer
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Performing Arts/Theater & Music
Join us for a summer of imagination and enrichment led by an expert faculty. Archer's summer program ignites possibility, inspires creative risk-taking, and builds valuable leadership skills. Engage in real world challenges, make new friends, and experience Archer's joyful culture, which celebrates the possibility of every girl. Programs include visual arts, performing arts, creative writing, and journalism for grades 4th - 8th. Applications are available now and will close on Friday, May 15.
Camp Ed at The Ed Asner Family Center
Additional Categories: Art, Multi-Activity
Offering classes in a variety of Expressive arts, as well as lessons in surfing. At Camp Ed, these programs, along with a commitment to hire differently abled counselors and instructors, create a unique day camp experience that fosters community inclusion.
Steve & Kate’s Camp
Additional Categories: Art, Fashion
At Steve & Kate's Camp, we trust kids to trust themselves! Our summer camp empowers your kids to make their own choices, setting them up for a fulfilling and creative future. Activities include baking, sewing, crafting, media lab, sports, karaoke, and so much more! Ages 4-12. Open 7:30am-6pm. Lunch and snacks included. Click here to find the camp location closest to you in Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach, Pasadena, or Valley Village.
The Lycee LA Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Art, Sports & Recreation
CREATE - PLAY - DISCOVER. Le Lycée (pronounced lee-say) Français (fraan-say) de Los Angeles hosts a weekly summer camp at its Main Campus from June 15-July 24, 2020. It is open to non-Lycée, as well as current Lycée students from 4-14 years. Additionally, our Pacific Palisades Campus offers a 2-week summer camp from June 15-26, 2020 for 3-6 years. (3 year olds must be potty trained). Some of the activities include swimming, arts and crafts, cooking, drama, soccer, and field trips. Campers are broken into groups by age. The camp hours are 8:00am - 4:45pm daily. To learn more please contact generalinfo@lyceela.org or call 310-836-3464. Online registration will be available soon.
The REALM Creative Academy
Additional Categories: Art, Outdoor Activity
This summer at The REALM, be ready to: Be Curious, Play, Explore, Ask Questions, Connect & Discover! To be curious is to see the world as a place full of interesting questions begging to be explored! While many camps specialize heavily in one area such as arts, music, sports, etc., at The REALM Camps, we provide a wide variety of experiences and activities that will allow kids to freely work their creative muscles! Throughout our camp days, kids at the REALM are experiencing learning through doing, creating, collaborating and playing.
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Performing Arts Workshops
Additional Categories: Dance, Multi-Activity
Past winner of BEST Camp in LA Parent Magazine. Performing Arts Workshops’ award winning camps include: Musical Theater, Camp LOL, Guitar, Filmmaking, Magic, Stage Makeup, Rock The Mic, Photography and Debate Camp! PAW offers the ultimate “Arts” experience from rehearsal to performance. Children ages 5-15 can perform in: SNOW QUEEN RETURNS, CATS, HIP-HOP HAMILTON, HOGWARTS THE MUSICAL and HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. Sessions run 6/15-8/14. All a child needs is a curiosity and a passion for performing, whether they are novices or seasoned thespians. Shows are free and open to family and friends. Ten Locations Include: LA, Valley and Beach Cities. Teachers are nurturing, skilled instructors who bring out the best in children and create a summer camp experience where kids make friends and lifelong memories.
Shakespeare kids
Additional Categories: Dance, Outdoor Activity
All camps culminate in a free performance for friends and family. Shakespeare Camps (dates on our website) for ages 6-17 in Mammoth, Simi, LA, Ventura and La Crescenta. Each camper is given two Shakespeare parts (in two scenes or full play, depending on location) and learns acting, stage combat, elizabethan song and dance, improv, crafts, ensemble work and more! * Musical Theatre Camp in La Crescenta, July 13-17. * Playwriting and Improv Camp in Simi, July 6-10. Through improvisation, character development, theater games and more, students will have fun creating their own original play to be presented as a staged reading for the parents on the last day.
SOCAPA School of Creative & Performing Arts
Additional Categories: Dance, Sleep Away
Come join the next generation of visual and performing artists at SOCAPA - The School of Creative & Performing Arts! SOCAPA’s Los Angeles and New York campuses offer 1-3 week summer program intensives in Filmmaking, Acting, Music, Dance, Photography and Screenwriting. Campers of all experience levels are challenged to advance their craft through hands-on learning with teachers who are leaders in their fields. With all this hard work comes the best of summer – a time for friendship and fun with activities every night and weekend that take advantage of the wonderful locations where we host our programs. Please join us this summer!
Fashion
Modeling Camp
Additional Categories: Fashion
Modeling Camp invites girls ages 11-17 to come discover the model you this summer. This one-of-a-kind summer camp introduces girls to the exciting world of modeling and fashion. Have your own fashion photo shoot, participate in a live fashion show, learn the ins and outs of the industry and meet famous faces. Learn how the industry works from leading professionals in an age-appropriate, friendly and non-competitive environment. Featured on Good Morning America and NBC News, this is the ideal camp for all fashionistas!
Steve & Kate’s Camp
Additional Categories: Art, Fashion
At Steve & Kate's Camp, we trust kids to trust themselves! Our summer camp empowers your kids to make their own choices, setting them up for a fulfilling and creative future. Activities include baking, sewing, crafting, media lab, sports, karaoke, and so much more! Ages 4-12. Open 7:30am-6pm. Lunch and snacks included. Click here to find the camp location closest to you in Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach, Pasadena, or Valley Village.
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Leaps n Boundz
Additional Categories: Gymnastics, Sports & Recreation
Camp offers children, teens and young adults the opportunity to explore new places, make new friends, and try new things. At Camp Leaps n Boundz we make every camp day one to remember. Our day camp hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM. During each camp day, pro-social behaviors and socialization are encouraged to help make those lasting camp relationships! You do not need to be currently enrolled in Leaps n Boundz to attend camp days. An initial assessment is required to determine best placement/support.
Health & Wellness
Institute for Educational Advancement: Yunasa and Summer Academy
Additional Categories: Health & Wellness, Sleep Away
The Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) offers personalized programs that are child-centered and have been helping gifted children grow and live purposeful, meaningful lives. In the summer, we offer Academy classes at our Learning Center in Pasadena, CA. IEA Academy provides students in Kindergarten through 8th grade with advanced enrichment classes that promote exploration and application of knowledge. Courses provide compelling content and appropriate challenges taught at a flexible pace with small classes by highly qualified, dedicated professionals. Additionally, IEA's Yunasa Summer camps are offered for one week in Colorado and Michigan. Yunasa was designed and led by experts in the field of gifted youth. Yunasa supports the whole gifted child, encouraging growth and support of campers intellectually, socially, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
LMU Athletics Sports Camps
Additional Categories: Health & Wellness
Learn to play the Lion Way with LMU Athletics Summer Camps. Featuring camps in a variety of sports across skill levels, LMU Athletics Summer Camps provide a little of everything in terms of opportunities to compete, learn and grow. All of our camps provide the best training and instruction around as they are run by our Division 1 coaches and student-athletes, while giving kids a chance to have a whole lot of fun. And this is all happening on one of the most beautiful college campuses in Southern California! Each camp is five days and all campers receive an exclusive LMU summer camp t-shirt, water bottle, lunch every day, swim time each day and discounted tickets during the school year.
Malibu Sports Camps
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Health & Wellness
We have a passion for building kids of character. Operated by some of the best coaches and teachers in the United States. Our camps absolutely love watching the growth of our campers, not only as players but as people. We take character-building and athletic training to the next level- Come join us to see what we are all about at Malibu Sports Camps. Located on the beautiful Pepperdine University Malibu Campus. Check out our options: Baseball, Volleyball, Soccer, Running, Tennis, Water Polo, Beach Volleyball & Swimming. Both day camp and residential camp options, May- August.
Leadership
Summer at Viewpoint
Additional Categories: Leadership, Multi-Activity
We are proud to offer a wide variety of exciting and enriching day camps for kids from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade designed to meet your family’s needs. Our goal is to provide each camper with a memorable summer filled with new adventures and lasting friendships. We offer academic summer camps, High School courses for credit, specialized sports camps, robotics, computer programming, musical theater, a service-learning camp, and fine arts. All of our programs are created and facilitated by caring, qualified, and committed educators who seek to provide a vibrant, safe, and stimulating environment for our campers and students. We invite you to explore our program offerings to learn more.
Modeling
Modeling Camp
Additional Categories: Fashion
Modeling Camp invites girls ages 11-17 to come discover the model you this summer. This one-of-a-kind summer camp introduces girls to the exciting world of modeling and fashion. Have your own fashion photo shoot, participate in a live fashion show, learn the ins and outs of the industry and meet famous faces. Learn how the industry works from leading professionals in an age-appropriate, friendly and non-competitive environment. Featured on Good Morning America and NBC News, this is the ideal camp for all fashionistas!
Multi-Activity
All Girls Empowerment Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
For GIRLS ages 6-17 in Culver City! Our Camp Includes: Women’s Self Defense, Water Sports Lessons, Healthy Relationship, Dance, Yoga, Meditation, Nutrition, Outdoor Sports, Character Development & More! Mom’s Testimonial: “The topics discussed & skills they learned are crucial for their upcoming years in middle school & beyond. You & your staff have a very important job and you all do it with grace, humility, and intelligence. I will be recommending you to all our friends!" Hosted by SHIELD Women's Self Defense System ®. Our CAMP meets from Monday-Friday from 10am-4pm. Extended Hrs: 7:30am to 6pm. Early bird pricing in Feb! Our camp always sell out. Space is limited. Save your daughter's spot early!
Arboretum Summer Nature Camp
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity
Embark on a new adventure at Arboretum Summer Nature Camp! Designed to provide children with exciting hands-on experiences, our summer camp offers a different theme each week that is sure to inspire children from all walks of life. By integrating playful exploration of our gardens with nature-themed science and art activities, Arboretum Nature Camp unlocks entirely new avenues for children to learn and explore at their own pace while fostering meaningful relationships with peers. From bizarre botany experiments and cooking adventures to cultural discoveries and insect explorations, Arboretum Nature Camp offers something for everyone. One of the most affordable camps in the area, Arboretum Nature Camp helps to foster a connection with nature through unforgettable, joyful experiences. Come explore with us!
Cali Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity
Cali Camp is a summer day camp for children ages 3- 15. We provide transportation in the cost of camp tuition, and offer many stops throughout the valley and city. Cali Campers will enjoy daily swimming and a variety of classic camp activities. We have everything from horseback riding to go-carts, rock climbing and zip lining. We also balance out the adventure with dance, arts and crafts, and drama. If sports are more your thing, you’ll love our beach volleyball court, backyard games, ping pong, foosball, and even some Harry Potter Quidditch! We pride ourselves on our amazing staff who have a combined hundreds of years of camp experience working with children. Cali Camp will quickly become your home away from home.
Camp Ed at The Ed Asner Family Center
Additional Categories: Art, Multi-Activity
Offering classes in a variety of Expressive arts, as well as lessons in surfing. At Camp Ed, these programs, along with a commitment to hire differently abled counselors and instructors, create a unique day camp experience that fosters community inclusion.
Camp Hess Kramer and Gindling Hilltop Camp
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Sleep Away
Camp at CSU Channel Islands brings the magic of camp to a new yet similarly coastal home. For more than 65 years, Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps have been providing an inclusive and fun environment where campers and staff become part of a supportive community. Our camps provide a variety of athletic, artistic, and recreational activities. Campers experience everything camp has to offer through a combination of elective and age-specific programming.
Camp Los Encinos
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Camp Los Encinos is the day camp where the campers get to choose! Campers entering grades 1-6 and CITs entering grades 7-9 are welcome to join us daily or weekly (with free extended care 8:00am-4:00pm). Kids build each day around a variety of cool activities, such as sports, arts & crafts, technology, photography, drone-flying, iMovie-making, comic book creation, cooking, yoga, as well as enrichment classes like math and reading if you want to stay sharp, just to name a few. The choice is yours! Water slides and awesome field trips round out each week. Located in the heart of Encino on the beautiful Los Encinos School campus, Camp Los Encinos is a super summer day camp!
Canyon Creek Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sports & Recreation
Canyon Creek is a diverse, multi-sport sleepaway camp located just an hour north of Los Angeles in the Angeles National Forest. Campers will experience a well-balanced camp program that encourages interaction with others and allows for the mastery of new skills. We provide high-caliber instruction by trained professionals to help build confidence and stress the importance of teamwork. Whether you are speeding around the go-kart track, making your way across the zip line, adding the final touches to your art piece, scoring the winning soccer goal, dancing on your chair in the dining hall, or laughing uncontrollably with your new friends, Canyon Creek is the place where you get to live in the moment, be yourself, and discover new talents you never knew you had!
Destination Science
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
The fun science day camp for curious kids 5 to 11! For over 20 years, Destination Science has proudly focused on STEM learning through science-based activities. Our camp is a great place to experience fun, hands-on science during the summer to encourage year-round learning! Three engaging science stations each day, plus games, spirit days, friendships, rallies and all the fun of camp! 2020 Camp Themes: Playspace Engineering & Spy-Tech Camp, Galactic Space Training Camp, Robot Island & Movie Makers Camp, STEAM Inventors & Anti-Gravity Racers Camp! Enroll Early for Best Savings: February Save $70/wk, March Save $30/wk! Over 20 convenient neighborhood locations in LA County. Call 888-909-2822, or visit our website www.destinationscience.org for info.
Ecole du Soleil
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Speech and Language
La Petite Ecole du Soleil is for campers in preschool (born in 2017) & pre-kindergarten (born in 2016). La Grande Ecole du Soleil is for entering kindergarten-5th graders. L’Ecole du Soleil offers a bustling daily schedule and a watchful counseling staff. Our objective is to introduce children to the French language and culture at an early age while they still have a linguistic openness to easily learn a second language. Their adaptability, their lack of inhibition, and, above all, their ability to reproduce any sound accurately will help them learn a second language with great ease. We provide a unique learning context in which your children will learn at their own pace in a fun, genuine, French summer camp environment.
Fitness by the Sea Beach Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Sports & Recreation
Fitness by the Sea Beach Camp is Los Angeles’ premiere and oldest beach camp (celebrating our 21st year) for children ages 4-14. With beachside locations in Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, FBS has been recognized as the “safest beach camp” by the Chief of LA County Lifeguards for more than 20 years. FBS provides an experienced and spirited staff (average age 26), and over 200 dynamic and creative activities (surfing, soccer, gymnastics, arts and crafts, martial arts, boogie boarding, dance, baseball...) in an encouraging and nurturing environment. Sign up by the day - you can register your child for any days you wish, with no minimum days. Bus Transportation – convenient bus stops serving many communities in the Los Angeles area. 100% SAFETY RECORD: For more than 20 years, the chief of L.A. County Lifeguards has called Fitness by the...
Galileo Learning
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Science
SUMMER CAMPS KIDS LOVE Galileo Innovation Camps for pre-K – 8th graders. At Galileo, we mix day camp fun with hands-on projects in fields from science and engineering to the visual and culinary arts. Supported by the best staff around, kids grow from Camp Galileo (pre-K – 5th grades) through Galileo Summer Quest (entering 5th – 8th grades), emerging as confident creators ready to turn their ideas into reality. Sign up by March 2 to save $20 per week. 80+ locations. Optional extended care and healthy lunch. Learn more at: www.galileo-camps.com or 800-854-3684. Visit our website for a location near you.
Got Game Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
Got Game is the premier LA day camp for kids ages 4-14! Sign up for one day, one week or multiple weeks! Got Game is unique in that each child has the opportunity to fully customize their day, each day, based on what interests them the most. Daily schedules are comprised of a wide variety of sports, games and projects! Campers are broken into groups based on age. Our staff is the most fun, inspiring, engaging, totally awesome and experienced coaching crew around! Got Game coaches are professional PE instructors and teachers who work with us all year at our school sites. Got Game is more than just a camp -- it's a culture! Come be a part of our greater Got Game family!
Performing Arts Workshops
Additional Categories: Dance, Multi-Activity
Past winner of BEST Camp in LA Parent Magazine. Performing Arts Workshops’ award winning camps include: Musical Theater, Camp LOL, Guitar, Filmmaking, Magic, Stage Makeup, Rock The Mic, Photography and Debate Camp! PAW offers the ultimate “Arts” experience from rehearsal to performance. Children ages 5-15 can perform in: SNOW QUEEN RETURNS, CATS, HIP-HOP HAMILTON, HOGWARTS THE MUSICAL and HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. Sessions run 6/15-8/14. All a child needs is a curiosity and a passion for performing, whether they are novices or seasoned thespians. Shows are free and open to family and friends. Ten Locations Include: LA, Valley and Beach Cities. Teachers are nurturing, skilled instructors who bring out the best in children and create a summer camp experience where kids make friends and lifelong memories.
River Way Ranch Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sports & Recreation
Memories and friendships await at River Way Ranch Camp! Nestled in the scenic foothills of Sequoia National Park, River Way offers children, ages 7-16, an unparalleled environment to learn, thrive and grow. Extraordinary, highly trained staff encourage and guide campers to try a wide array of activities. Through 75+ activities, campers will improve their confidence and enjoy activities such as waterskiing, horseback riding, ropes course, theater, culinary arts, mini-bikes, go-karts, waverunners, gymnastics, overnights and much more. With an emphasis on first time campers, River Way provides exciting experiences, proving to strengthen core values while increasing independence and social skills. Campers, ages 7-9, remain with their counselors throughout the day participating in a variety of activities, while 10-16-year-olds customize their schedules. For more information, contact Inquiry@riverwayranchcamp.com.
Steve & Kate’s Camp
Additional Categories: Art, Fashion
At Steve & Kate's Camp, we trust kids to trust themselves! Our summer camp empowers your kids to make their own choices, setting them up for a fulfilling and creative future. Activities include baking, sewing, crafting, media lab, sports, karaoke, and so much more! Ages 4-12. Open 7:30am-6pm. Lunch and snacks included. Click here to find the camp location closest to you in Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach, Pasadena, or Valley Village.
Summer at The Center
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Sports & Recreation
Calling all first through sixth graders: join us at Summer at The Center from June 15-August 14, 2020! Whether you want to direct a play, design a robot, learn a language, brush up on math skills or dance your heart out, do it all this Summer at The Center! And don’t miss special programs from The Unincorporated Life, Camp S.H.A.K.E., and Otis College of Art and Design @ CEE! Mix and match to create your summer of fun! Half- and full-day programs are available. Summer at The Center features engaging class offerings, state-of-the-art classrooms, outstanding athletic facilities, nurturing staff, and expert teachers. Sign up for summer excitement and learning at CEE’s expanded campus in West Hollywood! Registration opens on February 20.
Summer at Viewpoint
Additional Categories: Leadership, Multi-Activity
We are proud to offer a wide variety of exciting and enriching day camps for kids from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade designed to meet your family’s needs. Our goal is to provide each camper with a memorable summer filled with new adventures and lasting friendships. We offer academic summer camps, High School courses for credit, specialized sports camps, robotics, computer programming, musical theater, a service-learning camp, and fine arts. All of our programs are created and facilitated by caring, qualified, and committed educators who seek to provide a vibrant, safe, and stimulating environment for our campers and students. We invite you to explore our program offerings to learn more.
Tall Ship Island Adventure Sea Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sleep Away
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime! Los Angeles Maritime Institute's Tall Ship Adventure Camp offers day camps and 5-day, 4-night, or 12-day voyages to the Channel Islands as sleep-away camps. We offer day camps for 6-8 year olds and sleep-away camps for 9-17 year olds. We have been offering programs to students for 28 years. Discover the beautiful Southern California Coast in a way that most people never experience. Visit us at www.lamitopsail.org/activity/catalina-island-sea-camp-adventure for more camp information.
The Help Group’s Kids Like Me Summer Camps
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity
The Help Group's Kids Like Me camps provide a safe and enriching atmosphere for children, teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder and other special needs. Our unique day camps, located in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas, create opportunities to engage, experience and explore. Each camp strives to developmentally and chronologically match each camper across the spectrum to ensure an appropriate peer group for learning and fun. Campers will participate in a wide variety of fun activities, such as art, STEM-related projects, sensory play, special events, animal-assisted activities, field trips and much more!
The Lycee LA Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Art, Sports & Recreation
CREATE - PLAY - DISCOVER. Le Lycée (pronounced lee-say) Français (fraan-say) de Los Angeles hosts a weekly summer camp at its Main Campus from June 15-July 24, 2020. It is open to non-Lycée, as well as current Lycée students from 4-14 years. Additionally, our Pacific Palisades Campus offers a 2-week summer camp from June 15-26, 2020 for 3-6 years. (3 year olds must be potty trained). Some of the activities include swimming, arts and crafts, cooking, drama, soccer, and field trips. Campers are broken into groups by age. The camp hours are 8:00am - 4:45pm daily. To learn more please contact generalinfo@lyceela.org or call 310-836-3464. Online registration will be available soon.
Tumbleweed Day Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity
Tumbleweed has everything you want for your child -- and everything your child wants this summer. We are 100% unplugged -- no screens, no apps, no social media stress. Instead of wasting time on technology, we make friends, share ideas and laugh together as we explore all day long! With 100 private acres in sunny Los Angeles, the opportunities for fun are endless. Most importantly, we play! Children learn how to be their best selves through play, and our highly trained staff create caring, safe and supporting environments for this learning to happen. Oh, and did we mention transportation is included for all camp programs? We have after-camp horseback riding lessons, there is extended afternoon care, and we have popsicles every Thursday and Friday. Yep! Best. Summer. Ever!
UCLA Lab School Summer School
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Outdoor Activity
Your child can perform in a musical, explore architecture, cook a story or grow a garden of friends. These are just some of the fun and exciting experiences our program offers. Taught by UCLA Lab School faculty, our classes are designed to actively involve children in the learning process. They provide a boost in science, math, reading, writing, social studies and art, all in the context of a nurturing, caring and fun environment. Our campus adds to the enjoyment by offering a relaxing, natural setting, with play yards and even a Redwood Forest. Sports Camp and Extended Day continue the fun with plenty of time to play, learn new skills and enjoy friends. Many of our families return year after year!
Valley Trails Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Sports & Recreation
Valley Trails Summer Camp, established in 1969, provides traditional summer camp experiences while instilling 21st century skills, confidence, and friendships. From learning archery and playing gaga, ropes courses to arts and crafts, our campers gain life skills in an environment like no other. We focus on providing opportunities for your camper to gain self-confidence, resiliency, collaborate, and make friends in age-specific groups. Your camper will go home dirty and tired after their day at camp as they enjoy all that Valley Trails Summer Camp has to offer.
Outdoor Activity
Arboretum Summer Nature Camp
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity
Embark on a new adventure at Arboretum Summer Nature Camp! Designed to provide children with exciting hands-on experiences, our summer camp offers a different theme each week that is sure to inspire children from all walks of life. By integrating playful exploration of our gardens with nature-themed science and art activities, Arboretum Nature Camp unlocks entirely new avenues for children to learn and explore at their own pace while fostering meaningful relationships with peers. From bizarre botany experiments and cooking adventures to cultural discoveries and insect explorations, Arboretum Nature Camp offers something for everyone. One of the most affordable camps in the area, Arboretum Nature Camp helps to foster a connection with nature through unforgettable, joyful experiences. Come explore with us!
Cali Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity
Cali Camp is a summer day camp for children ages 3- 15. We provide transportation in the cost of camp tuition, and offer many stops throughout the valley and city. Cali Campers will enjoy daily swimming and a variety of classic camp activities. We have everything from horseback riding to go-carts, rock climbing and zip lining. We also balance out the adventure with dance, arts and crafts, and drama. If sports are more your thing, you’ll love our beach volleyball court, backyard games, ping pong, foosball, and even some Harry Potter Quidditch! We pride ourselves on our amazing staff who have a combined hundreds of years of camp experience working with children. Cali Camp will quickly become your home away from home.
Camp Hess Kramer and Gindling Hilltop Camp
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Sleep Away
Camp at CSU Channel Islands brings the magic of camp to a new yet similarly coastal home. For more than 65 years, Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps have been providing an inclusive and fun environment where campers and staff become part of a supportive community. Our camps provide a variety of athletic, artistic, and recreational activities. Campers experience everything camp has to offer through a combination of elective and age-specific programming.
Pedalheads Bike Camps
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity
The Pedalheads learn-to-ride bike program for kids ages 2 through 12 is best known for helping children get off training wheels. Kids can then progress to higher levels to learn how to ride safely on the road. Register for Spring Break bike camps in West Hollywood at https://www.pedalheads.com/camp Why Pedalheads Bike? -Taught over 250,000 kids how to ride a bike confidently for over 30 years -Proven track record: Most kids learn to ride within 1 week -Engaging instructors for beginner and advanced levels Pedalheads Bike has summer camp locations in Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Central LA, Sherman Oaks, Pasadena, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Lake Forest and Laguna Niguel.
Shakespeare kids
Additional Categories: Dance, Outdoor Activity
All camps culminate in a free performance for friends and family. Shakespeare Camps (dates on our website) for ages 6-17 in Mammoth, Simi, LA, Ventura and La Crescenta. Each camper is given two Shakespeare parts (in two scenes or full play, depending on location) and learns acting, stage combat, elizabethan song and dance, improv, crafts, ensemble work and more! * Musical Theatre Camp in La Crescenta, July 13-17. * Playwriting and Improv Camp in Simi, July 6-10. Through improvisation, character development, theater games and more, students will have fun creating their own original play to be presented as a staged reading for the parents on the last day.
Tall Ship Island Adventure Sea Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sleep Away
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime! Los Angeles Maritime Institute's Tall Ship Adventure Camp offers day camps and 5-day, 4-night, or 12-day voyages to the Channel Islands as sleep-away camps. We offer day camps for 6-8 year olds and sleep-away camps for 9-17 year olds. We have been offering programs to students for 28 years. Discover the beautiful Southern California Coast in a way that most people never experience. Visit us at www.lamitopsail.org/activity/catalina-island-sea-camp-adventure for more camp information.
The REALM Creative Academy
Additional Categories: Art, Outdoor Activity
This summer at The REALM, be ready to: Be Curious, Play, Explore, Ask Questions, Connect & Discover! To be curious is to see the world as a place full of interesting questions begging to be explored! While many camps specialize heavily in one area such as arts, music, sports, etc., at The REALM Camps, we provide a wide variety of experiences and activities that will allow kids to freely work their creative muscles! Throughout our camp days, kids at the REALM are experiencing learning through doing, creating, collaborating and playing.
Tumbleweed Day Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity
Tumbleweed has everything you want for your child -- and everything your child wants this summer. We are 100% unplugged -- no screens, no apps, no social media stress. Instead of wasting time on technology, we make friends, share ideas and laugh together as we explore all day long! With 100 private acres in sunny Los Angeles, the opportunities for fun are endless. Most importantly, we play! Children learn how to be their best selves through play, and our highly trained staff create caring, safe and supporting environments for this learning to happen. Oh, and did we mention transportation is included for all camp programs? We have after-camp horseback riding lessons, there is extended afternoon care, and we have popsicles every Thursday and Friday. Yep! Best. Summer. Ever!
UCLA Lab School Summer School
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Outdoor Activity
Your child can perform in a musical, explore architecture, cook a story or grow a garden of friends. These are just some of the fun and exciting experiences our program offers. Taught by UCLA Lab School faculty, our classes are designed to actively involve children in the learning process. They provide a boost in science, math, reading, writing, social studies and art, all in the context of a nurturing, caring and fun environment. Our campus adds to the enjoyment by offering a relaxing, natural setting, with play yards and even a Redwood Forest. Sports Camp and Extended Day continue the fun with plenty of time to play, learn new skills and enjoy friends. Many of our families return year after year!
Valley Trails Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Sports & Recreation
Valley Trails Summer Camp, established in 1969, provides traditional summer camp experiences while instilling 21st century skills, confidence, and friendships. From learning archery and playing gaga, ropes courses to arts and crafts, our campers gain life skills in an environment like no other. We focus on providing opportunities for your camper to gain self-confidence, resiliency, collaborate, and make friends in age-specific groups. Your camper will go home dirty and tired after their day at camp as they enjoy all that Valley Trails Summer Camp has to offer.
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum Summer Camps
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Speech and Language
Theatricum’s Youth and Teen Classes seek to empower students with confidence; provide them opportunities to practice collaboration, creative and critical thinking in a positive, nurturing environment; and to introduce them to Shakespeare, theatre, and poetry, with the goal of inspiring a lifelong relationship with language, history, and art. Our programs include: Young People's Camp (ages 3-7): Nine sessions specially designed to introduce young children to the imaginative world of Shakespeare and classical theatre! Youth Drama Camp Shakespeare (ages 8-14): Children collaborate, create, and build confidence in a nurturing, child-centered environment, culminating in a performance of a Shakespeare play. Theatricum Teen Reperetory (ages 15-18): Work with leading professional artists on classical theatre techniques and apply them to your own production of a Shakespeare play.
Performing Arts/Theater & Music
Archer Summer
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Performing Arts/Theater & Music
Join us for a summer of imagination and enrichment led by an expert faculty. Archer's summer program ignites possibility, inspires creative risk-taking, and builds valuable leadership skills. Engage in real world challenges, make new friends, and experience Archer's joyful culture, which celebrates the possibility of every girl. Programs include visual arts, performing arts, creative writing, and journalism for grades 4th - 8th. Applications are available now and will close on Friday, May 15.
Performing Arts Workshops
Additional Categories: Dance, Multi-Activity
Past winner of BEST Camp in LA Parent Magazine. Performing Arts Workshops’ award winning camps include: Musical Theater, Camp LOL, Guitar, Filmmaking, Magic, Stage Makeup, Rock The Mic, Photography and Debate Camp! PAW offers the ultimate “Arts” experience from rehearsal to performance. Children ages 5-15 can perform in: SNOW QUEEN RETURNS, CATS, HIP-HOP HAMILTON, HOGWARTS THE MUSICAL and HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. Sessions run 6/15-8/14. All a child needs is a curiosity and a passion for performing, whether they are novices or seasoned thespians. Shows are free and open to family and friends. Ten Locations Include: LA, Valley and Beach Cities. Teachers are nurturing, skilled instructors who bring out the best in children and create a summer camp experience where kids make friends and lifelong memories.
Shakespeare kids
Additional Categories: Dance, Outdoor Activity
All camps culminate in a free performance for friends and family. Shakespeare Camps (dates on our website) for ages 6-17 in Mammoth, Simi, LA, Ventura and La Crescenta. Each camper is given two Shakespeare parts (in two scenes or full play, depending on location) and learns acting, stage combat, elizabethan song and dance, improv, crafts, ensemble work and more! * Musical Theatre Camp in La Crescenta, July 13-17. * Playwriting and Improv Camp in Simi, July 6-10. Through improvisation, character development, theater games and more, students will have fun creating their own original play to be presented as a staged reading for the parents on the last day.
SOCAPA School of Creative & Performing Arts
Additional Categories: Dance, Sleep Away
Come join the next generation of visual and performing artists at SOCAPA - The School of Creative & Performing Arts! SOCAPA’s Los Angeles and New York campuses offer 1-3 week summer program intensives in Filmmaking, Acting, Music, Dance, Photography and Screenwriting. Campers of all experience levels are challenged to advance their craft through hands-on learning with teachers who are leaders in their fields. With all this hard work comes the best of summer – a time for friendship and fun with activities every night and weekend that take advantage of the wonderful locations where we host our programs. Please join us this summer!
Summer at New Roads
Additional Categories: Performing Arts/Theater & Music, Tech
Whether for enrichment, consolidation or adventure, New Roads School’s Summer Program offerings are designed for K-12 students to delight in learning. At New Roads, we believe that optimal growth and development occurs in the interchanging sweet spot between direct instruction and discovery learning. Our programs challenge students to build upon and satisfy their natural curiosity, to seek and evaluate information, and to use the information they acquire to delve deeply and critically into their studies in order to creatively apply their skills and knowledge to real-world problems. We give students a strong conceptual and analytic foundation from which they can launch their own explorations, and develop and pursue their own passions.
Teenage Drama Workshop
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
Teenage Drama Workshop (TADW) is a six-week immersive summer program for students between the ages of 11 – 18. For the past 63 years, TADW has been held on the campus of California State University Northridge. Our goal is to teach not only theatre arts but the importance of ensemble and team work through our intensive classes and productions. Over the course of six weeks, students experience what it’s like to collaborate with industry professionals and create live theatre. This year we are traveling back in time (5000 years ago) to discover the origins of these two brothers in Marvel Comics’ Hammered: A Thor and Loki Play. Then, we’ll travel to Arendelle to perform the classic story of Disney’s Frozen Jr.
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum Summer Camps
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Speech and Language
Theatricum’s Youth and Teen Classes seek to empower students with confidence; provide them opportunities to practice collaboration, creative and critical thinking in a positive, nurturing environment; and to introduce them to Shakespeare, theatre, and poetry, with the goal of inspiring a lifelong relationship with language, history, and art. Our programs include: Young People's Camp (ages 3-7): Nine sessions specially designed to introduce young children to the imaginative world of Shakespeare and classical theatre! Youth Drama Camp Shakespeare (ages 8-14): Children collaborate, create, and build confidence in a nurturing, child-centered environment, culminating in a performance of a Shakespeare play. Theatricum Teen Reperetory (ages 15-18): Work with leading professional artists on classical theatre techniques and apply them to your own production of a Shakespeare play.
Science
Destination Science
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
The fun science day camp for curious kids 5 to 11! For over 20 years, Destination Science has proudly focused on STEM learning through science-based activities. Our camp is a great place to experience fun, hands-on science during the summer to encourage year-round learning! Three engaging science stations each day, plus games, spirit days, friendships, rallies and all the fun of camp! 2020 Camp Themes: Playspace Engineering & Spy-Tech Camp, Galactic Space Training Camp, Robot Island & Movie Makers Camp, STEAM Inventors & Anti-Gravity Racers Camp! Enroll Early for Best Savings: February Save $70/wk, March Save $30/wk! Over 20 convenient neighborhood locations in LA County. Call 888-909-2822, or visit our website www.destinationscience.org for info.
Galileo Learning
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Science
SUMMER CAMPS KIDS LOVE Galileo Innovation Camps for pre-K – 8th graders. At Galileo, we mix day camp fun with hands-on projects in fields from science and engineering to the visual and culinary arts. Supported by the best staff around, kids grow from Camp Galileo (pre-K – 5th grades) through Galileo Summer Quest (entering 5th – 8th grades), emerging as confident creators ready to turn their ideas into reality. Sign up by March 2 to save $20 per week. 80+ locations. Optional extended care and healthy lunch. Learn more at: www.galileo-camps.com or 800-854-3684. Visit our website for a location near you.
Project Scientist
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
Project Scientist has fun-filled STEM programming year-round for your daughter! Project Scientist's Summer STEM Academy immerses girls ages 4-12 in STEM through fun-filled experiments, weekly field trips to top science and technology companies, and daily interactions with STEM Superstars — women thriving in STEM. Project Scientist's credentialed teachers provide girls high-quality STEM education every day by delving into each subject with hands-on activities and experiments. View our fun weekly themes for 2020: https://projectscientist.org. On school holidays throughout the academic year, Project Scientist takes students on field trip expeditions to local STEM companies so they can experience a real-life STEM workplace through a facility tour, hands-on activities, and meet-and-greets with STEM professionals. View our open expeditions at https://projectscientist.org/year-round-expeditions.
Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research Molecular Medicine Summer Camps
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
We offer winter and summer workshops for high-achieving high school students interested in pursuing a career in medicine or related fields, such as biomedical research, drug development, pharmacy or nursing. Our summer camps include Molecular Biology of Cancer, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Immunology, Molecular Biology of Aging, Bioinformatics of Cancer and Biomedical Research. Through engaging lectures and hands-on laboratory classes, students learn normal molecular and cellular biology, and then learn how these normal processes are distorted during the development of disease. To conclude the workshop, students use what they have learned to create an original research project on a gene of their choice. More broadly, workshop attendees make friends from around the world, strengthen their academic skills, and experience college dorm life in a safe environment.
Summer@Stratford
Additional Categories: Science, Sports & Recreation
Summer@Stratford – Discover Where the Extraordinary Begins Stratford School infuses its STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) program into an innovative and enriching summer camp experience. A wide-variety of camp sessions are designed especially for children entering Preschool through 8th Grade (2.5–14 years old). Beginning in preschool, weekly themes come to life as young campers learn, explore, and engage in imaginative camp-style activities that promote STEAM learning. For elementary-age campers, we take our enriched academic preparation and themed project-based learning to a whole new level! Stratford’s robust camps for middle school camp students feature creative problem-solving, design-thinking, leadership development, hands-on collaboration, and communication skills building. Camp sessions start in June. Explore Summer@Stratford at www.stratfordschools.com/summer for more information about our four Southern California campuses. Summer@Stratford locations: Altadena: 2046 Allen Ave., Altadena (626) 794-1000 Los Angeles: 1200 N. Cahuenga Blvd., L.A....
Sleep Away
Camp Hess Kramer and Gindling Hilltop Camp
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Sleep Away
Camp at CSU Channel Islands brings the magic of camp to a new yet similarly coastal home. For more than 65 years, Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps have been providing an inclusive and fun environment where campers and staff become part of a supportive community. Our camps provide a variety of athletic, artistic, and recreational activities. Campers experience everything camp has to offer through a combination of elective and age-specific programming.
Canyon Creek Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sports & Recreation
Canyon Creek is a diverse, multi-sport sleepaway camp located just an hour north of Los Angeles in the Angeles National Forest. Campers will experience a well-balanced camp program that encourages interaction with others and allows for the mastery of new skills. We provide high-caliber instruction by trained professionals to help build confidence and stress the importance of teamwork. Whether you are speeding around the go-kart track, making your way across the zip line, adding the final touches to your art piece, scoring the winning soccer goal, dancing on your chair in the dining hall, or laughing uncontrollably with your new friends, Canyon Creek is the place where you get to live in the moment, be yourself, and discover new talents you never knew you had!
Institute for Educational Advancement: Yunasa and Summer Academy
Additional Categories: Health & Wellness, Sleep Away
The Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) offers personalized programs that are child-centered and have been helping gifted children grow and live purposeful, meaningful lives. In the summer, we offer Academy classes at our Learning Center in Pasadena, CA. IEA Academy provides students in Kindergarten through 8th grade with advanced enrichment classes that promote exploration and application of knowledge. Courses provide compelling content and appropriate challenges taught at a flexible pace with small classes by highly qualified, dedicated professionals. Additionally, IEA's Yunasa Summer camps are offered for one week in Colorado and Michigan. Yunasa was designed and led by experts in the field of gifted youth. Yunasa supports the whole gifted child, encouraging growth and support of campers intellectually, socially, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
River Way Ranch Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sports & Recreation
Memories and friendships await at River Way Ranch Camp! Nestled in the scenic foothills of Sequoia National Park, River Way offers children, ages 7-16, an unparalleled environment to learn, thrive and grow. Extraordinary, highly trained staff encourage and guide campers to try a wide array of activities. Through 75+ activities, campers will improve their confidence and enjoy activities such as waterskiing, horseback riding, ropes course, theater, culinary arts, mini-bikes, go-karts, waverunners, gymnastics, overnights and much more. With an emphasis on first time campers, River Way provides exciting experiences, proving to strengthen core values while increasing independence and social skills. Campers, ages 7-9, remain with their counselors throughout the day participating in a variety of activities, while 10-16-year-olds customize their schedules. For more information, contact Inquiry@riverwayranchcamp.com.
SOCAPA School of Creative & Performing Arts
Additional Categories: Dance, Sleep Away
Come join the next generation of visual and performing artists at SOCAPA - The School of Creative & Performing Arts! SOCAPA’s Los Angeles and New York campuses offer 1-3 week summer program intensives in Filmmaking, Acting, Music, Dance, Photography and Screenwriting. Campers of all experience levels are challenged to advance their craft through hands-on learning with teachers who are leaders in their fields. With all this hard work comes the best of summer – a time for friendship and fun with activities every night and weekend that take advantage of the wonderful locations where we host our programs. Please join us this summer!
Tall Ship Island Adventure Sea Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sleep Away
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime! Los Angeles Maritime Institute's Tall Ship Adventure Camp offers day camps and 5-day, 4-night, or 12-day voyages to the Channel Islands as sleep-away camps. We offer day camps for 6-8 year olds and sleep-away camps for 9-17 year olds. We have been offering programs to students for 28 years. Discover the beautiful Southern California Coast in a way that most people never experience. Visit us at www.lamitopsail.org/activity/catalina-island-sea-camp-adventure for more camp information.
Special Needs
Camp Ed at The Ed Asner Family Center
Additional Categories: Art, Multi-Activity
Offering classes in a variety of Expressive arts, as well as lessons in surfing. At Camp Ed, these programs, along with a commitment to hire differently abled counselors and instructors, create a unique day camp experience that fosters community inclusion.
Leaps n Boundz
Additional Categories: Gymnastics, Sports & Recreation
Camp offers children, teens and young adults the opportunity to explore new places, make new friends, and try new things. At Camp Leaps n Boundz we make every camp day one to remember. Our day camp hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM. During each camp day, pro-social behaviors and socialization are encouraged to help make those lasting camp relationships! You do not need to be currently enrolled in Leaps n Boundz to attend camp days. An initial assessment is required to determine best placement/support.
The Help Group’s Kids Like Me Summer Camps
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity
The Help Group's Kids Like Me camps provide a safe and enriching atmosphere for children, teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder and other special needs. Our unique day camps, located in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas, create opportunities to engage, experience and explore. Each camp strives to developmentally and chronologically match each camper across the spectrum to ensure an appropriate peer group for learning and fun. Campers will participate in a wide variety of fun activities, such as art, STEM-related projects, sensory play, special events, animal-assisted activities, field trips and much more!
Speech and Language
Ecole du Soleil
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Speech and Language
La Petite Ecole du Soleil is for campers in preschool (born in 2017) & pre-kindergarten (born in 2016). La Grande Ecole du Soleil is for entering kindergarten-5th graders. L’Ecole du Soleil offers a bustling daily schedule and a watchful counseling staff. Our objective is to introduce children to the French language and culture at an early age while they still have a linguistic openness to easily learn a second language. Their adaptability, their lack of inhibition, and, above all, their ability to reproduce any sound accurately will help them learn a second language with great ease. We provide a unique learning context in which your children will learn at their own pace in a fun, genuine, French summer camp environment.
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum Summer Camps
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Speech and Language
Theatricum’s Youth and Teen Classes seek to empower students with confidence; provide them opportunities to practice collaboration, creative and critical thinking in a positive, nurturing environment; and to introduce them to Shakespeare, theatre, and poetry, with the goal of inspiring a lifelong relationship with language, history, and art. Our programs include: Young People's Camp (ages 3-7): Nine sessions specially designed to introduce young children to the imaginative world of Shakespeare and classical theatre! Youth Drama Camp Shakespeare (ages 8-14): Children collaborate, create, and build confidence in a nurturing, child-centered environment, culminating in a performance of a Shakespeare play. Theatricum Teen Reperetory (ages 15-18): Work with leading professional artists on classical theatre techniques and apply them to your own production of a Shakespeare play.
Sports & Recreation
All Girls Empowerment Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
For GIRLS ages 6-17 in Culver City! Our Camp Includes: Women’s Self Defense, Water Sports Lessons, Healthy Relationship, Dance, Yoga, Meditation, Nutrition, Outdoor Sports, Character Development & More! Mom’s Testimonial: “The topics discussed & skills they learned are crucial for their upcoming years in middle school & beyond. You & your staff have a very important job and you all do it with grace, humility, and intelligence. I will be recommending you to all our friends!" Hosted by SHIELD Women's Self Defense System ®. Our CAMP meets from Monday-Friday from 10am-4pm. Extended Hrs: 7:30am to 6pm. Early bird pricing in Feb! Our camp always sell out. Space is limited. Save your daughter's spot early!
Canyon Creek Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sports & Recreation
Canyon Creek is a diverse, multi-sport sleepaway camp located just an hour north of Los Angeles in the Angeles National Forest. Campers will experience a well-balanced camp program that encourages interaction with others and allows for the mastery of new skills. We provide high-caliber instruction by trained professionals to help build confidence and stress the importance of teamwork. Whether you are speeding around the go-kart track, making your way across the zip line, adding the final touches to your art piece, scoring the winning soccer goal, dancing on your chair in the dining hall, or laughing uncontrollably with your new friends, Canyon Creek is the place where you get to live in the moment, be yourself, and discover new talents you never knew you had!
Fitness by the Sea Beach Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Sports & Recreation
Fitness by the Sea Beach Camp is Los Angeles’ premiere and oldest beach camp (celebrating our 21st year) for children ages 4-14. With beachside locations in Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, FBS has been recognized as the “safest beach camp” by the Chief of LA County Lifeguards for more than 20 years. FBS provides an experienced and spirited staff (average age 26), and over 200 dynamic and creative activities (surfing, soccer, gymnastics, arts and crafts, martial arts, boogie boarding, dance, baseball...) in an encouraging and nurturing environment. Sign up by the day - you can register your child for any days you wish, with no minimum days. Bus Transportation – convenient bus stops serving many communities in the Los Angeles area. 100% SAFETY RECORD: For more than 20 years, the chief of L.A. County Lifeguards has called Fitness by the...
Got Game Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
Got Game is the premier LA day camp for kids ages 4-14! Sign up for one day, one week or multiple weeks! Got Game is unique in that each child has the opportunity to fully customize their day, each day, based on what interests them the most. Daily schedules are comprised of a wide variety of sports, games and projects! Campers are broken into groups based on age. Our staff is the most fun, inspiring, engaging, totally awesome and experienced coaching crew around! Got Game coaches are professional PE instructors and teachers who work with us all year at our school sites. Got Game is more than just a camp -- it's a culture! Come be a part of our greater Got Game family!
Leaps n Boundz
Additional Categories: Gymnastics, Sports & Recreation
Camp offers children, teens and young adults the opportunity to explore new places, make new friends, and try new things. At Camp Leaps n Boundz we make every camp day one to remember. Our day camp hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM. During each camp day, pro-social behaviors and socialization are encouraged to help make those lasting camp relationships! You do not need to be currently enrolled in Leaps n Boundz to attend camp days. An initial assessment is required to determine best placement/support.
LMU Athletics Sports Camps
Additional Categories: Health & Wellness
Learn to play the Lion Way with LMU Athletics Summer Camps. Featuring camps in a variety of sports across skill levels, LMU Athletics Summer Camps provide a little of everything in terms of opportunities to compete, learn and grow. All of our camps provide the best training and instruction around as they are run by our Division 1 coaches and student-athletes, while giving kids a chance to have a whole lot of fun. And this is all happening on one of the most beautiful college campuses in Southern California! Each camp is five days and all campers receive an exclusive LMU summer camp t-shirt, water bottle, lunch every day, swim time each day and discounted tickets during the school year.
Malibu Sports Camps
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Health & Wellness
We have a passion for building kids of character. Operated by some of the best coaches and teachers in the United States. Our camps absolutely love watching the growth of our campers, not only as players but as people. We take character-building and athletic training to the next level- Come join us to see what we are all about at Malibu Sports Camps. Located on the beautiful Pepperdine University Malibu Campus. Check out our options: Baseball, Volleyball, Soccer, Running, Tennis, Water Polo, Beach Volleyball & Swimming. Both day camp and residential camp options, May- August.
Pedalheads Bike Camps
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity
The Pedalheads learn-to-ride bike program for kids ages 2 through 12 is best known for helping children get off training wheels. Kids can then progress to higher levels to learn how to ride safely on the road. Register for Spring Break bike camps in West Hollywood at https://www.pedalheads.com/camp Why Pedalheads Bike? -Taught over 250,000 kids how to ride a bike confidently for over 30 years -Proven track record: Most kids learn to ride within 1 week -Engaging instructors for beginner and advanced levels Pedalheads Bike has summer camp locations in Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Central LA, Sherman Oaks, Pasadena, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Lake Forest and Laguna Niguel.
River Way Ranch Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sports & Recreation
Memories and friendships await at River Way Ranch Camp! Nestled in the scenic foothills of Sequoia National Park, River Way offers children, ages 7-16, an unparalleled environment to learn, thrive and grow. Extraordinary, highly trained staff encourage and guide campers to try a wide array of activities. Through 75+ activities, campers will improve their confidence and enjoy activities such as waterskiing, horseback riding, ropes course, theater, culinary arts, mini-bikes, go-karts, waverunners, gymnastics, overnights and much more. With an emphasis on first time campers, River Way provides exciting experiences, proving to strengthen core values while increasing independence and social skills. Campers, ages 7-9, remain with their counselors throughout the day participating in a variety of activities, while 10-16-year-olds customize their schedules. For more information, contact Inquiry@riverwayranchcamp.com.
Summer at The Center
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Sports & Recreation
Calling all first through sixth graders: join us at Summer at The Center from June 15-August 14, 2020! Whether you want to direct a play, design a robot, learn a language, brush up on math skills or dance your heart out, do it all this Summer at The Center! And don’t miss special programs from The Unincorporated Life, Camp S.H.A.K.E., and Otis College of Art and Design @ CEE! Mix and match to create your summer of fun! Half- and full-day programs are available. Summer at The Center features engaging class offerings, state-of-the-art classrooms, outstanding athletic facilities, nurturing staff, and expert teachers. Sign up for summer excitement and learning at CEE’s expanded campus in West Hollywood! Registration opens on February 20.
Summer@Stratford
Additional Categories: Science, Sports & Recreation
Summer@Stratford – Discover Where the Extraordinary Begins Stratford School infuses its STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) program into an innovative and enriching summer camp experience. A wide-variety of camp sessions are designed especially for children entering Preschool through 8th Grade (2.5–14 years old). Beginning in preschool, weekly themes come to life as young campers learn, explore, and engage in imaginative camp-style activities that promote STEAM learning. For elementary-age campers, we take our enriched academic preparation and themed project-based learning to a whole new level! Stratford’s robust camps for middle school camp students feature creative problem-solving, design-thinking, leadership development, hands-on collaboration, and communication skills building. Camp sessions start in June. Explore Summer@Stratford at www.stratfordschools.com/summer for more information about our four Southern California campuses. Summer@Stratford locations: Altadena: 2046 Allen Ave., Altadena (626) 794-1000 Los Angeles: 1200 N. Cahuenga Blvd., L.A....
The Lycee LA Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Art, Sports & Recreation
CREATE - PLAY - DISCOVER. Le Lycée (pronounced lee-say) Français (fraan-say) de Los Angeles hosts a weekly summer camp at its Main Campus from June 15-July 24, 2020. It is open to non-Lycée, as well as current Lycée students from 4-14 years. Additionally, our Pacific Palisades Campus offers a 2-week summer camp from June 15-26, 2020 for 3-6 years. (3 year olds must be potty trained). Some of the activities include swimming, arts and crafts, cooking, drama, soccer, and field trips. Campers are broken into groups by age. The camp hours are 8:00am - 4:45pm daily. To learn more please contact generalinfo@lyceela.org or call 310-836-3464. Online registration will be available soon.
Valley Trails Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Sports & Recreation
Valley Trails Summer Camp, established in 1969, provides traditional summer camp experiences while instilling 21st century skills, confidence, and friendships. From learning archery and playing gaga, ropes courses to arts and crafts, our campers gain life skills in an environment like no other. We focus on providing opportunities for your camper to gain self-confidence, resiliency, collaborate, and make friends in age-specific groups. Your camper will go home dirty and tired after their day at camp as they enjoy all that Valley Trails Summer Camp has to offer.
Tech
iD Tech
Additional Categories: Academic & Education
At iD Tech, kids and teens learn to code, design video games, mod Minecraft, create with Roblox, engineer robots, print 3D characters, work with AI and machine learning, build laptops, learn about cybersecurity, and more! This summer, your child can explore a prestigious campus, make friends as they master new tech skills, and join a community of 450,000 iD alumni who are changing the world with tech. Choose from iD Tech Camps (weeklong, co-ed, 7-17), Alexa Café (weeklong, all-girls, 10-15), and iD Tech Academies (two-week, teen-only, 13-18).
PlanetBravo
Additional Categories: Academic & Education
Since 2003, PlanetBravo’s Techno-tainment camp has inspired tens of thousands of tech-hungry students in Grades 2-9 to develop their creative and curious minds through project-based learning. At a fraction of the cost of other technology camps, PlanetBravo offers a perfect balance of indoor and outdoor activities in addition to the tech course in which the child enrolls. Children choose from a wide variety of courses to explore including Coding 101, Esports, Minecraft Modding, YouTube Gamer & Vlogger, Roblox 3D Game Design, and more. Camp runs in one-week sessions Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm or 8:30am-3pm, depending on location. See why PlanetBravo has been the go-to tech summer camp for thousands of children each summer. Best prices, best hours, best overall experience for your child.
Project Scientist
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
Project Scientist has fun-filled STEM programming year-round for your daughter! Project Scientist's Summer STEM Academy immerses girls ages 4-12 in STEM through fun-filled experiments, weekly field trips to top science and technology companies, and daily interactions with STEM Superstars — women thriving in STEM. Project Scientist's credentialed teachers provide girls high-quality STEM education every day by delving into each subject with hands-on activities and experiments. View our fun weekly themes for 2020: https://projectscientist.org. On school holidays throughout the academic year, Project Scientist takes students on field trip expeditions to local STEM companies so they can experience a real-life STEM workplace through a facility tour, hands-on activities, and meet-and-greets with STEM professionals. View our open expeditions at https://projectscientist.org/year-round-expeditions.
Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research Molecular Medicine Summer Camps
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
We offer winter and summer workshops for high-achieving high school students interested in pursuing a career in medicine or related fields, such as biomedical research, drug development, pharmacy or nursing. Our summer camps include Molecular Biology of Cancer, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Immunology, Molecular Biology of Aging, Bioinformatics of Cancer and Biomedical Research. Through engaging lectures and hands-on laboratory classes, students learn normal molecular and cellular biology, and then learn how these normal processes are distorted during the development of disease. To conclude the workshop, students use what they have learned to create an original research project on a gene of their choice. More broadly, workshop attendees make friends from around the world, strengthen their academic skills, and experience college dorm life in a safe environment.
Summer at New Roads
Additional Categories: Performing Arts/Theater & Music, Tech
Whether for enrichment, consolidation or adventure, New Roads School’s Summer Program offerings are designed for K-12 students to delight in learning. At New Roads, we believe that optimal growth and development occurs in the interchanging sweet spot between direct instruction and discovery learning. Our programs challenge students to build upon and satisfy their natural curiosity, to seek and evaluate information, and to use the information they acquire to delve deeply and critically into their studies in order to creatively apply their skills and knowledge to real-world problems. We give students a strong conceptual and analytic foundation from which they can launch their own explorations, and develop and pursue their own passions.
Teenage Drama Workshop
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
Teenage Drama Workshop (TADW) is a six-week immersive summer program for students between the ages of 11 – 18. For the past 63 years, TADW has been held on the campus of California State University Northridge. Our goal is to teach not only theatre arts but the importance of ensemble and team work through our intensive classes and productions. Over the course of six weeks, students experience what it’s like to collaborate with industry professionals and create live theatre. This year we are traveling back in time (5000 years ago) to discover the origins of these two brothers in Marvel Comics’ Hammered: A Thor and Loki Play. Then, we’ll travel to Arendelle to perform the classic story of Disney’s Frozen Jr.