Camps and Classes for Kids in Oakland, CA

The Lake School
304 Lester Ave, Oakland, CA
The Lake School offers a play-based preschool program with three separate classrooms and large outdoor play spaces. Each classroom and the outdoor areas include pets, such as fluffy bunnies, curious chickens, a gentle tortoise, and playful lizards....
Words in the Wild
116 Montecito Avenue, Oakland, CA
Words in the Wild Summer Camp includes activities such as garden science, art, games, nature journaling, and science of reading activities embedded in nature. Campers spend time reading about the life cycle of worms, writing a worm story,...
The Salvation Army Oakland Chinatown Corps
379 12th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Afterschool 1:1 Virtual Tutoring Program offers individual online sessions focused on English tutoring, Math tutoring, and English writing. The program uses a 1:1 virtual tutoring format in an afterschool online setting. It supports low-income...
Au Beau Séjour French Preschool
Oakland, CA
Au Beau Séjour French Preschool offers daily activities in a 100% French immersion setting, including Social Emotional Learning, sports, music, open-ended art, games, and academics. Children take part in cooking activities, gardening, yoga, and art,...
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp
1305 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp offers instrument instruction, band formation, and collaborative songwriting, along with Music Herstory, Image & Identity, self-defense, zine-making, and screenprinting workshops. Campers take part in performances, and each...
BlueSkies for Children
3021 Brookdale Ave, Oakland, CA 94602
BlueSkies for Children serves about 92 children in six classrooms, where children engage in both nurturing and enriching activities in a homelike setting. The program arranges the day, the staff, and the school with consistent routines and rules so...
Daisy Child Development Center
5016 Daisy Street, Oakland, CA 94619
Daisy Child Development Center offers activities such as yoga, soccer, Spanish, carpentry, arts and crafts, science projects, cooking, music, drama, and run around the yard fun. Children also use a gazebo in the big yard and an updated play...
The East Oakland Boxing Association After-School Program is part of a multi-service youth and community development hub that includes a community garden and free farmers markets. The program uses boxing as a model of discipline, courage, and...
Mary Ellen Hill ~ Storyteller & Teacher
Oakland, CA
FAD PAD Enrichment Classes offers activities in drama, hand sewing, cooking, gardening, Harry Potter, fairy lore, and cosmology. The program also includes storytelling performances titled “We Are The Stars That Sing: The Story of The Universe” and...
Oakland Community Pools Project (OCPP)
1269 18th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Oakland Undercurrent Swim Club is a competitive youth swim program that includes a swim club and swimming lessons. The program offers structured swimming activities for young people who want to participate in organized swim practices and...
Saint Vincent’s Day Home
1086 Eighth Street, Oakland, CA 94607-2616
Saint Vincent’s Day Home Early Learning Programs offers comprehensive early learning programs for toddlers and preschool-aged children, including a licensed full-day kindergarten and holiday care for older children. The program’s environment and...
One Big Love Studio
3836 Glen Park Road, Oakland, CA 94602
One Big Love Art Camp and Art Classes offers workshops where children spend their time drawing, painting, and sculpting. Each day begins with short warm-up stretches, followed by free sketching and sharing time. The program includes learning about...
The Salvation Army Oakland Garden Center Corps
The Salvation Army Oakland Garden Center Corps, 2794 Garden Street, Oakland, CA 94601
Oakland Garden Corps Youth Programs - Troops offers activities where children earn badges, make crafts, and participate in other educational activities. The program also includes learning about God as part of its regular activities. The programs are...
My Yute Soccer
My Yute Soccer, 312 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94607
My Yute Soccer offers FREE soccer camps for children that focus on playing soccer with experienced and talented players and coaches. The program also runs a teen mentor program and holds a yearly Jamaican Jerk Cook Off Benefit Fundraiser. My Yute...
Oakland Public Conservatory of Music
Oakland Public Conservatory of Music, 3445 San Pablo Avenue, Suite 906B, Oakland, CA 94608
Youth Music Programs offers activities that include the Summer Music Academy, Music Classes for Girls, Afterschool Jazz, Afterschool Jazz for Girls, Black Girls Play, and the Black Banjo & Fiddle Fellowship. The program also includes Adult Music...
Cuong Nhu Redwood Dojo
Redwood Heights Community Center, 3883 Aliso Avenue, Oakland, CA 94619
Cuong Nhu Redwood Dojo offers traditional martial arts training in Cuong Nhu Martial Arts, including self-defense skills. Classes include specific activities such as a kata challenge and a kick challenge as part of training and events. The program...
Reading Partners
638 3rd Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Reading Partners offers one-on-one literacy tutoring through in-person, online, and virtual sessions. The program provides high-dosage tutoring supported by volunteer tutors who are trained to use an evidence-based curriculum rooted in the science...
The Children's Workshop Oakland
The Children's Workshop Oakland, 1937 8th Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606
The Children's Workshop Oakland offers arts explorations, maker explorations, math explorations, science explorations, and sensory focused explorations. Children take part in child-centered project work, immersive self guided play, collaborative...