| Kids Out and About Philadelphia
Sun, 7/13/2025 -
Sat, 7/19/2025
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2025 Summer Camp at Elmwood Park Zoo
Elmwood Park Zoo
Each week of our Summer Camp offers a fun-filled, educational experience with engaging activities such as crafts, storytelling, snacks, animal encounters, and behind-the-scenes zoo tours. Campers will also enjoy regular zoo events and live shows, integrated into their weekly schedule.
Sports Fun Camp
Elite Sports Factory
Elite Sports Factory offers top-quality camps throughout the year, including summer, holidays, and no-school days. Whether it's summer break or a holiday, there's always an exciting camp waiting for your child to stay active, engaged, and having a blast!
Summer Camps at The Little Gym of Abington!
The Little Gym of Abington
Summer Camps are back and better than ever at The Little Gym of Abington! Join us for our camps Monday - Thursday at either 9:00 - 12:00 and/or 12:00 - 3:00. Camp sessions are noncommittal, so you can sign up for as many 3-hour sessions as you want from June 16 until August 14. Sign up today!
Summer Camp - Doylestown Rock Gym & Adventure Center
Doylestown Rock Gym & Adventure Center
This camp is designed for climbers to learn and practice all the foundational skills they need for climbing. Even if your climber has scaled our walls before, each day will bring new excitement and challenges. All campers will learn proper safety, how to use a harness and helmet, various knots, climbing technique and more. Climbers staying for a full day experience will have the added bonus of climbing advanced walls as well as try our indoor challenge course. This camp is available as half day or full day sessions. Open to ages 5 - 12.
Kids on Campus Summer Camps
Bucks County Community College Kids on Campus
Kids on Campus runs from June 16 to August 8, 2025. Camps are Monday – Friday, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The weeks of June 16 and July 4 are four-day weeks.
Summer Camp - Haverford Community Recreation & Environmental Center
Haverford Community Recreation & Environmental Center
Head back to the Independence Seaport Museum for another fun-filled summer with our award-winning Seaport Summer Camp. Campers will be able to explore Philadelphia’s river of history and world of connections through hands-on programming, crafts, activities, and more. If your child is between the ages of 6-11, this is the camp for them. Come join us this summer!
Summer Camp 2025 - The Schuylkill Center
Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
Explore Nature at Camp Schuylkill: Philadelphia’s Summer Camp for Outdoor Adventures. Camp Schuylkill provides a unique summer camp experience for kids ages 4-15 in Philadelphia. Located at the Schuylkill Center’s 365 acres of natural beauty in Roxborough, we offer immersive outdoor exploration, environmental education, and hands-on activities.
Summer Rock Climbing
Movement Callowhill Rock Climbing
In Summer Programs, climbers will learn how to tie knots and belay as well as playing plenty of climbing games. Open to climbers of all levels, our full-day programs ensures fun through climbing, teamwork, games, and challenges all week long! Open to youth climbers ages 6-13.
Summer Camps at Brandywine Zoo
Brandywine Zoo
Our summer camps provide children, ages 4-14, the opportunity to learn about animals, zoos, and wildlife conservation. This enriching and educational experience will be filled with Zoo visits, live animal presentations, crafts, games, stories, learning projects, and much more! Through our summer camp program, we hope to inspire the next generation of wildlife conservationists and stewards of the environment.
Summer Camps at Allens Lane Art Center
Allens Lane Art Center
This is a camp where we play with art—but take the joy of creating seriously. Aligned with our dedication to make the arts accessible to everyone in our community, campers will explore a variety of creative outlets. Each week offers a fresh workshop, medium, and theme to spark discovery. From painting and drawing to ceramics, improv, scriptwriting, film, and more – there’s always something new to try!
Riverbend Summer Camp at Gladwyne
Riverbend Environmental Education Center
Children have fun as they connect with nature and build upon skills and knowledge. Our qualified and enthusiastic educators (some who were campers themselves!) guide children in hands-on nature exploration and investigation, games, crafts, hikes and more. Your child’s favorite summer memories await!
Summer Discovery at Newlin Grist Mill
Newlin Grist Mill
Summer Discovery at Newlin Grist Mill offers history- and nature-based experiences in an engaging, inclusive, outdoor environment for children ages 4-12. Campers share unique experiences that connect and expand their interactions with each other and their community. Summer Discovery is the place where learning is fun!
The Art of Noise
Frankford Friends School
At Frankford Friends School, summer is all about creativity, exploration, and endless fun! Our program, designed for children entering Pre-K through 3rd grade, offers the best elements of a classic day camp. Each day is filled with exciting morning exploration sessions, time in the gym, engaging community games, hands-on art projects, and plenty of free play and socialization. Kids will stay cool with water games in our summer spray area, making every day a splash!
Colonial Kids Camp
Pennsbury Manor
In Penn’s time, food and medicine were grown in a garden, the major highway to Philadelphia was the Delaware River, and clothing was hand-spun out of wool. Our immersive summer camp promises an unforgettable blend of education, fun, and hands-on exploration for young history enthusiasts. Our expert educators bring history to life through engaging activities. Campers will try their hand at 17th-century games, master the art of quill writing, and even meet some of our friendly farm animals.
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.
Circus Camp
Philadelphia School of Circus Arts
The Philadelphia School of Circus Arts – Best of Philly Winner for “Kids Classes” – announces Summer Circus Camp 2025 for youth ages 4 – 15. Circus Camp returns with our 1-week camp program designed for campers with an emphasis on play and exploration in the exciting world of circus. Campers will learn static trapeze, aerial sling, aerial fabric, wire walking, juggling, plate-spinning, rolling globe, tumbling, unicycling, clowning and more.
Play On Philly (POP) Summer Program
Play On Philly
POP hosts a multi-week, full day summer program for rising 1st graders through recent high school graduates in the Greater Philadelphia area. Summers spent with Play On Philly are a chance to have fun, meet new friends, and grow as an artist! Through studio classes, ensemble practice, and performances each student will improve their musicianship and will explore other forms of creativity and expression such as dance, physical fitness, and visual arts.
Upper Merion Township Summer Camps
Upper Merion Township
Upper Merion Parks & Recreation offers a number of different summer camps, all designed to help your children grow and learn in a safe environment.
Riverbend Rangers Summer Camp (Ages 4-6)
Riverbend Environmental Education Center
Riverbend is offering nature camp for 4, 5, and 6-year-olds at The Wetherill School in Gladwyne, located just 10 minutes from Riverbend’s main campus. Each week has a different exciting theme, some of which are new or reinvented for this 2025 summer! This preschool location includes a forest hiking trail, log circle for songs and stories, and outdoor classroom, plus indoor amenities sized just right for young children who have not yet started Kindergarten.
Glencairn Museum Summer Camp | 11-13 year olds
Glencairn Museum
Summer camp at Glencairn is back, and we can’t wait to welcome you for a week full of fun, exploration, curiosity, discovery, friendship, and learning in a completely unique museum!
Snipes Farm Day Camp
Snipes Farm and Education Center
Farm Camp, on 80 acres of woods, creeks, fields, and gardens gives children and youth ages 5-15 a magical place for adventures every day with friends on a farm. Campers make discoveries at every bend and gain confidence and skills as they care for animals, cook and garden, play, make art, practice archery, and cool down in the creek. Beauty is all around. Our camp community, 17 years in the making, is special because of each person who is a part of it. Caring and talented counselors and staff create a safe and welcoming environment to nurture their campers, help them to grow and have amazing fun.
Riverbend Summer Camp at McKaig (Ages 5-10)
Riverbend Environmental Education Center
McKaig Nature Education Center offers pristine 91-acre woods that are well suited for hands-on nature discovery for this full-day, week-long summer camp. Camps will be led by Riverbend’s skilled educators to guide your campers in nature exploration through hikes, stream-stomping, bug-catching, and so much more.
Summer Sea Camp at Center for Aquatic Sciences
Center for Aquatic Sciences
Dive into Sea Camp! Empower young explorers to become tomorrow’s scientists, conservationists, and environmental advocates! Our summer camp program, set against the captivating backdrop of Adventure Aquarium, offers behind-the-scenes tours, exhibit exploration, and hands-on activities in our classroom spaces.