Steve & Kate’s Camp – Colorado Springs offers activities such as coding, sewing, baking, making, sports, filming, lounging, and stop-motion animation. Campers can take part in hand-sewing and machine sewing, create 3D worlds with an interactive virtual reality experience, use interactive art apps, and work with robotics through guided activities and self-directed games that include building robot landscapes and custom mazes. The camp also features a bakery, a Tinker Lab with arts and crafts and custom maker packs, 3D pens, and games and projects like Find Chuckie, Friday Pie-Day, tabletop games, building marble mazes and forts, and using sensory objects, along with sports and recreation, a go-kart experience, classic sports, water play with water tag, inflatable slip n’ slides, and a giant sprinkler. • Ages: 4–12 years old • Schedule: Camp dates May 26–Aug 7 with camp hours from 8:00am–6:00pm; closed July 3 • Price: Parents can buy any number of day passes, attend camp any time, and receive automatic refunds for unused passes Steve & Kate’s Camp was created in 1980 and offers summer day camps for kids aged 4–12, with campers in charge of their activity choices rather than being placed in activities based on age. The Colorado Springs camp has a Director named Matte and provides a virtual camp orientation before the first day that covers drop-off and pick-up procedures, daily check-in and check-out, and what to bring or not bring, and requires additional state-required paperwork for every child before their first day. The camp includes tasty meals and snacks, long camp hours from 8:00am–6:00pm, and weekly specials such as Reptile Show, LEGO Engineering, Spoon Circus, Magic Show, and Escape Room, and follows all local water restrictions and conservation requirements at its Colorado camps, adjusting programming as needed. Steve & Kate’s Camp states that all year long kids are in rigid structure and that in summer the camp gives them freedom to expand and evolve, with campers choosing which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long, and describes this experience as both pure joy and a training ground for life where they need to be empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp include comments from Andrew Stanton, Director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, who says that children at the camp blossom and discover a freedom of identity and that kids find their thumbprint there. Apple’s Hot News states that if kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve & Kate’s Camp. Variety magazine notes that the camp did not set out to cater to children of people at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic, but that many attend given the camp’s philosophy. The Washington Post describes Steve & Kate’s Camp as a blend of traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-savvy touch, with a laid-back aura and Silicon Valley-inspired innovative approaches to programming and payment, and the Chicago Tribune states that working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model. Last updated April 30, 2026.

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