Santa Rosa Recreation & Parks Summer Camps

Santa Rosa Recreation & Parks Summer Camps offer a wide range of activities, including canoeing, archery, nature projects, crafts, swimming, games, special events, and awesome field trips. Some camps include a special Thursday parent's night program, a camper overnight, a Friday BBQ, and a parents program with camper songs and skits. Other options focus on animal behavior and health with practice being the vet in a classroom “vet hospital,” bike focused activities and bicycling, cross-training, fencing, archery and the art of the sword with specially constructed foam weapons, fun crafts, songs, and play both indoors and out.

Additional camps include hand sewing and sewing machine use to make items such as a pin cushion, a felt bookmark with embroidery, applique projects, a sock creation, a stuffed animal, and a personal pillow. Some sessions feature improv games, stringing and weaving, making beads of clay, painting beads to look like gold and silver, and creating earrings, bracelets, and necklaces. Other art-focused activities include drawing a fashion model sketch or croquis, sketching the body, hands, feet, and face in different positions, designing clothes in pencil, pen, ink, and watercolor, making a simple outfit, and holding a mini fashion show during the last 15 minutes of Thursday’s Fashion Sketching and Design class.

Creative camps also offer painting, drawing, paper mâché, mosaics, mono printing, collage, and creating animals, still life, abstract pieces, and landscapes. Performing arts options include singing, dancing, acting, rehearsing a short original musical, and presenting the musical to family and friends on the last day of camp in Let’s Put on a Show! A Musical Theater Camp, where no experience is necessary and everyone gets a part. Other activities include creating a pencil sketch and story board format, filling in with colored pens, adding black contour and narrative in bubbles, and creating an original comic book.

Dance-focused sessions include K-Pop dance, step-by-step instructions in jazz and tap, and exploring other dance styles, with K-Pop Dance Camp described as “It’s going to be ‘Golden!’”. Additional visual arts activities include sketching animals from models and magazine pictures, working in color with pens and watercolor, creating three-dimensional objects from paper mâché and modeling clay, and making a wool felted tufted animal. Camp Wa-Tots is designed specifically for older tots and brings the same quality staff and fun activities as Camp Wa-Tam, while Camp Tiny Tots emphasizes socialization and fun and requires children to be toilet trained with no pull-ups.

Doyle Adventure Camp includes 3–4 CityBus excursions to local destinations. Bicycle Adventure Camp requires participants to be able to ride a two-wheel bicycle independently with no training wheels and to have a functioning bicycle and helmet. Fencing Adventure Camp is created with the beginning fencer and those new to the sport in mind, and the Fencing Adventure Camp instructor is Jim Liebich. Archery & Sword Adventure Camp uses specially constructed foam weapons. A 25% fee applies for any Camp Wa-Tam cancellation at any time following registration.

• Ages: 3–13 years old
• Schedule: 5-day, 4-day, and 2-day session options
• Price: $90–$270 per session

Last updated May 15, 2026.