Top summer camp options in Chicago, IL

GUS Dance Camps offers Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Musical Theater, and Tap, along with Musical Theater Intensive, Tap Intensive, and Hip Hop Intensive options. Each camp week includes a camp performance, with a new combo taught each day....

Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble Educational Programs & Camps are part of Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, which creates contemporary multidisciplinary performances rooted in the tradition of Tanztheatre and in the collaborative process of devising. The...

Filament Camps offers activities such as creating new plays for young people, exploring new styles of theatre, and crafting immersive performances for family and friends. Campers take part in acting, improv, writing, singing, using puppets, playing...

Away Dance Camp is a three-day experience that includes multiple daily training sessions, technique development across styles, execution and performance coaching, choreography and staging work, and discipline-focused instruction and corrections. The...

Porchlight Summer Camp offers theatre-focused summer camp sessions where campers take part in acting, dancing, and singing through programs such as Mini Musicals, Broadway Basics, Intermediate Ensemble, Porchlight Youth Presents Willy Wonka Jr., and...

Education & Engagement Programming for Youth includes after-school programs, hands-on theatre workshops, and immersive summer programs. The program also offers Second Saturdays at the Goodman, which are family-focused intergenerational workshops...

Grainger Academy Summer Programs include Summer Intensives, Summer Dance Workshops, Children's Program classes, Dance Lab Program classes, an Adult Summer Intensive, and Group Master Classes. Summer Session classes in the Children's and Dance Lab...

A&A Ballet International Summer Intensive includes daily dance training in ballet, pointe, men’s, partnering, variations, contemporary, character, body conditioning, repertoire, and choreography. The program also includes organized outings such as...

Summer Camp at The Revival includes improv, music, movement, and outdoor activities at nearby Roosevelt Park. Campers take part in Lunch and Free Play, Celebration Circle, Showcase Rehearsal, and a Friday afternoon performance where they showcase...

Stars Camp introduces kids to a range of dance styles, including ballet, hip hop, jazz, swing dance, tap, and creative movement. The program takes place at Intrigue Dance and Performing Arts Center and is part of a studio that welcomes dancers of...

Movement Revolution Youth and Teen Hip Hop Programs include hip hop dance, street dance, breakdance, popping, locking, grooves, freestyle, acro, yoga, and meditation. Participants learn choreography, take Hip Hop history lessons, do arts and crafts,...

Raven Theatre Summer Camp includes theater games, collaborative storytelling, building scenes, and exploring character movement. Campers invent new warriors, design clan challenges, craft their own magical wands, create Emerald City art, and work on...

Hyde Park School of Dance offers year-round and summer dance training that includes ballet, modern, tap, AcroDance, studio hip hop, and pre-professional studio companies. Students can take classes such as First Steps, Creative Movement, Pre-Ballet...

Chicago Park District Summer Day Camp includes six weeks of summer activities such as sports, arts, fitness, outdoor activities, field trips, Brain Play, and Reflection & Journaling. Six weeks of camp programming include civic engagement,...

Bennett Day Camp includes activities such as field trips to Sloomoo, the Color Factory, Altitude Trampoline Park, and Navy Pier. Campers can join a basketball clinic called Bennett Ballers, learn circus skills like juggling, balance, and simple...

Traditional Day Camps include weekly themes, dress-up days, crafts, games, sports, park adventures, playground time, music, yoga, and camp-wide special events. Campers take part in swimming, fun swim, swim assessments, and swim lessons, along with...

Youth Filmmaking Camps include hands-on activities such as a Teen Animation Class and a Filmmaking Summer Camp. Participants write, produce, and direct their own short films while creating shot-lists, scouting locations, setting up camera angles,...

Wonder Woods centers daily activities on child-led free play, with children engaging with playscapes set up by playworkers. Children may spend time drawing, painting, participating in process-based art projects, tree climbing, sculpting and...

Nature Museum Camps immerse children in the world of nature and science through interactive exploration that includes science and art projects, nature play, animal encounters, and outdoor and indoor fun. Campers observe the natural world around...

Summer Swim & Art Camp includes drawing, painting, crafts, and swim lessons as part of each camp day. Campers spend time learning drawing basics such as shapes, shading, and blending, using various mediums from charcoals to pastels, playing drawing...