Camps and Classes for Kids in Chicago, IL

Chicago Children's Theatre
The Station, 100 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Red Kite Classes & Camps includes creative drama, music, multisensory activities, puppetry, drama, visual arts, sensory drama games, creative play, sensory experiences, and improvised scenes. Red Kite Storyhoppers is a highly-interactive creative...
YMCA of the USA
YMCA of the USA, 101 N Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606
Y Summer Camp is part of YMCA camp programs that include day camp, overnight camp, family camp, and specialty camp. Y specialty camps offer programming for specific interests, including teen adventure, music, sports, and cooking, and the Y also...
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo, 2001 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614
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Zoo Camps includes seasonal camps where campers take part in hands-on activities, visit the animals, and explore the zoo. Campers learn about animals and how the zoo cares for them through immersive learning, team-building, weekly field trips, and...
After School Matters
Michael and Karyn Lutz Center for After School Matters, 3435 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
After School Matters offers out-of-school programs where teens take part in activities in spaces such as a black-box theater, screen-printing lab, darkroom photography lab, dance studios, welding workshop, culinary kitchens, vocal rehearsal room,...
Carole Robertson Center for Learning
Carole Robertson Center for Learning – North Lawndale, 3701 West Ogden Avenue, Chicago, IL 60623
Youth Development Programs offers after-school programs and a Summer Day Camp that include activities such as art, STEM, social-emotional learning, problem-solving skills, team-building, and activism. The program also includes general activity-based...
Lumity
Lumity Training Center, 1132 South Wabash, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60605-2326
Lumity STEM Programs includes activities such as STEMTalks, career site visits, tutoring, one-day challenges, and several longer-term STEM-focused programs. The programs include STEM Career Prep, a four-year program, and STEMWorks, a career training...
The Chopping Block
The Chopping Block, 4747 N Lincoln, Chicago, IL 60625
Kids and Teen Cooking Classes and Camps offers cooking classes, cooking camps, baking camp, family cooking classes, summer cooking camp, teen cooking camp, teen baking camp, and a Culinary Boot Camp. The program also offers sushi classes, Knife...
After School Matters
After School Matters at Gately Park, 1065 N. Orleans St, Chicago, IL 60610
After School Matters Teen Programs offers hands-on activities in performing arts, visual arts, culinary arts, business, journalism, marketing, media, sports instruction, stadium management, health and wellness, applied and natural science,...
JASC Chicago
Japanese American Service Committee (JASC), 5700 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60659
Kids Cooking Classes introduces children to cooking through hands-on preparation of dishes. The program focuses on making cultural dishes that are described as fun and engaging for participants. Class size is limited to a small group for the health...
Foundation for Culinary Arts
The Chopping Block, 4747 N Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL 60607
Yes, Chef! Culinary Camp includes spring baking sessions, fresh pasta-making and a pasta-making bootcamp, a weeklong summer culinary camp, a Thanksgiving dinner community cooking class, and a Holiday Baking Boot Camp. Campers take part in activities...
Oui Chef Chicago
Lincoln Park, 2622 N Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60614
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Oui Chef offers cooking and baking classes where kids make dishes such as Steamed Wontons, Milk Tart, English Tea, At the Beach Cupcakes, Roasted Veggie Sub with Chimichurri, Berry Crisp with Cinnamon Ice Cream, Summer Breakfast Burrito, S'more...
The Wooden Spoon
The Wooden Spoon, 5047 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60640
The Wooden Spoon Cooking Classes offers hands-on cooking classes that include working with chicken, pork, shrimp, beef, steak, vegetables, and chocolate. Students practice making pasta sauce, marinades, meringue, truffles, pancakes, dipping sauces,...
EXACT Sports
EXACT Sports, 140 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60603
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EXACT Sports Football Camps includes training and ID for aspiring college football players, college training sessions, and mental toughness training. The program includes meeting college coaches, 1:1 coach evaluations, and recruitment education....
YMCA
YMCA of the USA, 101 N Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606
YMCA Camp Programs include day camps, overnight camps, family camps, and specialty camps. YMCA day camps take place in rural, urban, and suburban settings and are structured so campers return home each afternoon. YMCA overnight camps can run from a...
YMCA of the USA
YMCA of the USA, 101 N Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606
Y Camp Programs are YMCA camp programs that include day camp, overnight camp, family camp, and specialty camp. Specialty camps include options focused on teen adventure, music, sports, and cooking. The YMCA also offers camp programs designed for...
YMCA of Anchorage Alaska
101 N Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606
Before School, After School, and Early Learning is part of the YMCA’s early learning, child care, and out-of-school time offerings. These offerings are staffed with people who understand the cognitive, physical, and social development of kids, the...
Chicago Park District
4830 S. Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60609
Summer Day Camp includes six weeks of summer activities such as sports, arts, fitness, and outdoor activities. Civic engagement, environmental awareness, inclusion, collaboration and team building, brain play, reflection and journaling, and...
Camp One Step
Camp One Step, 213 W Institute Place, Suite 410, Chicago, IL 60610
Camp One Step provides free year-round camp experiences for kids with cancer and their families. The program offers both in-person and digital camps, including a Digital Family Camp held online via Zoom. Camp One Step also includes a Camp One Step...