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Sat, 6/21/2025
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Camp Invention Summer 2025
Camp Invention: National
Inspire your child’s creativity and watch their confidence soar with our all-new Camp Invention® program, Discover! Campers in grades K-6 will team up with friends for hands-on, open-ended STEM fun. They’ll create their own claw machine, uncover the science behind optical illusions, rev up for the ultimate road trip and embark on an eco-expedition to investigate penguins in Antarctica! Each experience is designed to spark curiosity, build persistence and create an unforgettable summer. Visit invent.org/local to secure your spot! Register using CIFUN25 by 3/20 to save $25 or CIFUN15 by 5/15 to save $15 off the registration fee. Payment plans available.
Flanders Summer Camp & Academies
Flanders Nature Center and Land Trust
In our summer camp series, children can explore nature, art, agriculture, and ecology in a fun, healthy, and stimulating outdoor environment. From farm fun to outdoor explorations, art adventures or creative cooking, our camp offers more than 70 programs to keep children ages 3 to 13 entertained! Great spaces, great programs – for all ages!
Romp n' Roll Wethersfield Summer Camp
Romp n' Roll Wethersfield
At Romp n’ Roll, Summer Camp means endless giggles, creative play, and exciting weekly themes like Pirates Aaargh!, and Days of the Dinosaurs! Perfect for ages 3–5, our camps combine art, music, and movement to spark imagination and inspire learning in a safe, playful space.
Summer Camp at Stepping Stones Museum for Children
Stepping Stones Museum for Children
Adventure awaits you! At our award-winning children’s museum, kids ages 5 – 10 dive into exciting, STEAM-centered camp experiences filled with play-based learning and kid-powered fun. From immersive explorations to hands-on creativity, every day is an unforgettable adventure. At Camp Stepping Stones, your child can investigate dinosaurs, discover art in nature, explore the vastness of space or even become a superhero for a week. With dynamic themes like puppetry, sports and more, each week offers red-hot fun and thrilling learning opportunities tailored to ignite curiosity and imagination.
The Little Green Tambourine Summer Programs
The Little Green Tambourine
Our summer programs are packed with fun, themed activities each week—from art to science, games, and more! We keep our programs small to ensure personalized attention and foster meaningful friendships. Our leaders are warm, caring, and passionate about making each child’s experience unforgettable.
Mystic Seaport Museum Summer Camps
Mystic Seaport Museum - Mystic, CT
Mystic Seaport Museum offers a number of summer camps and programs that provide a unique learning adventure! Our Summer Day Camp offers campers ages 4 to 16 a kid’s-eye view of maritime history as they explore the Museum. Community Sailing day camps provide an opportunity for kids ages 6 to 15 to build and refine their sailing skills with our sailing instructors on the Mystic River. Our residential, Joseph Conrad Overnight Camp invites campers ages 8 to 15 to spend a week with us, learning to sail by day, participating in fun maritime themed activities in the evenings, and sleeping aboard a historic ship by night. And teens ages 15 and up can sail along the coast as part of the crew of the schooner Brilliant. Select a camp and give your child a summer to remember at Mystic Seaport Museum!
Tuolumne Family Camp
City of Berkeley, CA
Tuolumne Family Camp offers an unforgettable adventure nestled in the stunning Sierra Nevada mountains, where families can connect with nature and each other. With activities like hiking, campfire stories, and swimming in Tuolumne Meadows, it's a perfect escape for outdoor lovers of all ages. Experience the magic of the high country in a cozy, community-oriented setting that makes every moment feel special.
Summer Camp
Village Center for the Arts
Summer Camp at Village Center for the Arts
Spring Creative Writing Workshops
The Writers Circle Workshops
Spring Creative Writing Workshops for kids, teens, and adults start April 21 at The Writers Circle! Fiction, memoir, poetry, novel-writing, mystery, romance, kid-lit, and more in Summit, South Orange, Morristown, Verona, and online!
CT Audubon Society - Fairfield Nature Center Summer Camp
The Connecticut Audubon Society
Outdoor fun and weekly, nature-themed camp experiences in a nuturing, supportive environment. Campers, ages 4 to 18, explore, discover and build connections to the natural world while learning about ways to take care of it.
Minecraft Modding Quest
Create & Learn
Solve puzzles, build, and create games with fun coding in Minecraft
Summer Solved with Steve & Kate's Camp
Steve & Kate's Camp - Hartford
Since 1980, Steve & Kate’s Camp has put kids in charge–allowing campers to choose from a variety of activities in real-time, including sewing, stop-motion animation, coding & gaming, sports & recreation, maker crafts, water play, baking, and more. As children are empowered to make their own choices at camp, they discover new reserves of confidence, resiliency, and creativity–learning to course correct and trust themselves as they go. Families can buy any number of days, to use at any time–no weekly reservations required. Or, buy a Summer Pass, which covers the whole season. Either way, any unused Passes are automatically refunded at summer’s end. Ages: 4–12 | Lunch, snacks & all hours (8am–6pm) included.
Manchester City Soccer Camp - MIDDLETOWN, CT
Manchester City Soccer Camps
RECEIVE A $50.00 DISCOUNT BY USING PROMO CODE: CITYABOUT Join the Manchester City Soccer Camps in Middletown, CT, for an exciting week of soccer training with official City coaches! For players aged 8-15, this is your chance to sharpen your skills, make new friends, and receive a custom PUMA kit. Finish the week with a diploma ceremony celebrating your growth and achievements—train like a pro and be part of the City family!
Maritime Aquarium Summer Camp
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
Kids ages 6 to 15 can do a fun, hands-on deep dive into the world of sharks, seals and other marine animals during the 2025 Summer Camp programs of The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Young campers will explore the wonders of the ocean world through fun stories and games. Older kids will learn how technology and engineering can solve complex environmental problems like water pollution, marine debris, and storm resiliency. Our summer camp program integrates science with art and literature to deepen children’s understanding of animals and the environment. 
Dungeons and Dragons Camp
R&H Creative Advocacy and Storytelling
Let’s learn the beginnings of Dungeons and Dragons! Campers will develop real-life skills, problem-solving, self-advocacy, math skills through active play, group games, and D&D. Time will be dedicated to understanding the rules, building meaningful characters that matter to our campers, and helping campers build lasting peer relationships. Campers will leave happy, confident, and truly able to carry these skills into their daily lives.
iD Tech On Campus Camps- Multiple locations (2025)
ID Tech Camps- Multiple locations
Register today for camps held at 75+ inspiring universities! Your child will walk the halls of their dream campus, bond with friends and mentors over legendary iD traditions, and experience the magic that’s made us the world’s #1 tech camp for 23+ years! Summer Fun on Your Child’s Dream Campus This is more than a camp. It’s a chance for your child to come face-to-face with friends and mentors who share their interests, all in an inspiring setting that excites them for the future. Between sessions of hands-on STEM fun, they’ll get the ultimate taste of collegiate life, from campus exploration and iconic architecture to meals in the dining halls and sweet dreams in the dorms. You get more. A LOT more. iD Tech is the very best experience built around your child—their interests, their skill level, their goals for the future. Our on-campus programs include an exclusive package designed for maximum inspiration and long-term success.
CURSIVE HANDWRITING + DRAWING AMERICAN HISTORY
Foundations Classical Academy
In this live online course, we improve our print and cursive handwriting through reading and writing about people and events from American history as well as drawing them. Why drawing? Drawing develops some of the same muscle groups used for handwriting. It's also lots of fun! Recommended for ages 11-18. An ADULT SECTION is also available (meeting time is different. It will start at 9:30 AM PST and end at 10:30 AM PST).
Young Writers Summer Camps
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Lighthouse offers a wide array of full and half-day summer camps from June through August for young writers ages eight to 18. Whether they've got a few novels under their belt, are new but curious about poems, or are a reluctant writer, our camps offer a fun, creative, and challenging way for young people to explore and express who they are, build new friendships, and create truly beautiful works of art.
ADAPTED CLASSICS: The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Greek History (online camp in the liberal arts)
Foundations Classical Academy
The purpose of this live ONLINE course is to spark pre-teen/early teenage students' interest in reading classic books and to teach them to engage in Socratic discussion about themes, characters, plot, etc. We will also focus on history related to the stories. Our summer 2025 readings are selections from Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey. The cost is $150 for 22.5 hours of instruction June 16-Aug. 13, 2025.