Summer Camps Near Berkeley, CA

Berkeley Playhouse summer camps immerse children in theater arts, enhancing creativity and performance skills through engaging music activities, interactive games, and crafts. Participants enjoy staging mini-musicals, fostering a vibrant and collaborative environment.

Berkeley Summer Playground Programs engage children ages 5-12 in supervised outdoor activities at local parks. Kids enjoy games, arts and crafts, sports, and swimming, fostering friendships and personal growth under the guidance of trained staff.

We offer a variety of workshops on molecular medicine for high-achieving high school and middle school students interested in pursuing careers in medicine or related fields, such as biomedical research, drug development, pharmacy or nursing. Camps are offered in summer and winter and there are online and in-person options available, including residential camps held at some of the world’s best universities.

Elio Academy offers different courses throughout the year for students interested in Biology. Our programs are designed to be challenging for a rewarding academic experience.

Blue Camp offers a dynamic blend of sports, outdoor learning, arts, and group games, fostering mental health and well-being. Children engage in age-appropriate activities, promoting physical fitness and social connections in a safe, fun environment.

This camp teaches campers to design, build, program and test robotics projects with the newest materials that LEGO has to offer. All participants will get hands on learning experience as they are introduced to STEM and programming concepts.

An All Skills Camp covering fundamentals of the game in the morning and games in the afternoon. Instruction includes infield play, throwing, base running, outfield play, hitting, and pitching.

Non-contact football camp teaching fundamentals of all skill positions, emphasizing respect, responsibility, sportsmanship, and teamwork.

Golf camp at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on skill development and fun.

STart CAMP — offers three projects each week and is designed to engage CAMPers entering grades K-5. In this program, CAMPers rotate in small groups to each of the three multi-medium art projects every day and Body Movement & Games, all five days of the CAMP week. This is a structured environment that offers developmentally appropriate challenges and levels of materials usage for young makers and artists, and is well-suited to the creative needs of these ages.

Each week our campers try on a new identity as young doctors, lawyers, writers, engineers, detectives, inventors, and explorers. We believe that kids learn best when they are putting their academic skills to work while using their imaginations and dreaming of who they will become.

We host creative art projects for kids during all the one day and week-long school breaks Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Upcoming camps on MLK Day, President’s Week, Spring Break, Malcom X Day, Memorial Day and then we begin our Summer Camps!

Camp Destiny offers dance, martial arts, and visual arts classes for youth ages 5-12.

Our Doodle Spark program is inspired by the ‘maker-empowerment’ pedagogy put forward by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and its Project Zero research organization. Weekly themes explore how and why things work through hands-on maker projects. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia philosophy, our Doodle Primo program envisions children as active protagonists of their own learning. We foster experimentation, a sense of wonder and discovery through a weekly inquiry theme.

Day camp with STEAM projects, collaborative design challenges, and classic camp fun like silly skits and face painting.

CAMP GO BeYOND was created to provide a free camp experience where children diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, can have fun in a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment.

JCAS summer camps inspire creativity through hands-on workshops like Micro Bouquets and Container Gardening 101. Participants engage in collaborative learning, fostering artistic and scientific skills while ensuring equitable access for youth and families in Oakland and the East Bay.

Camp Kee Tov continues its tradition of over 50 years of excellence in day-camping with a special ruach (Kee Tov spirit) all its own. With groups for children entering Kindergarten-9th grade, our programming and traditions have inspired thousands of campers from a diverse cross-section of our community, welcoming a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, families and faiths.

At Camp Reel Stories, girls and gender-expansive youth learn the craft of filmmaking, sharpen their media literacy skills, make industry connections, and create films that represent themselves and inspire others.

Full-day, two-week sessions teaching theatre basics, improvisation, vocal training, makeup use, stage combat, and more. Culminating in a professionally-produced performance.