Glendale Heights Child Care Summer Camp

Glendale Heights Child Care Summer Program includes field trips outside the center, including visits to Cedarburg Pool, Fox Brook Park, and Shalom Wildlife Zoo. Children take part in hands-on experiences that encourage creativity, innovative thinking, problem solving, and teamwork. The program also includes experiences that promote active play both indoors and outdoors, along with fun activities and field trips that are geared toward the developmental levels and interests of the children in the classrooms.

• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Center hours Monday–Friday, 6:30 a.m.–6 p.m., with the program running from June through August.

Glendale Heights Child Care Summer Program is part of a privately owned child care center that welcomes children aged 6 weeks to 12 years and offers a summer camp program for all ages. The program uses creative and exciting weekly camp themes and offers a variety of hands-on experiences throughout the summer, with a summer of fun that includes a little literacy, math, and science mixed in. The center’s degreed lead teachers state that they have found that the best way that children learn is through play, even when they are school age, and the programs are described as developmentally appropriate with a strong curriculum foundation. Glendale Heights was founded in 1990 and reports low staff turnover, a quality teaching staff, and a warm, nurturing environment, with programs that are described as top rated and emphasizing both care and education, and as so much more than just daycare, driven by purpose, a growth mindset, and gratitude. The mission statement says that each child is treated as an individual whose unique qualities are nurtured, with a focus on helping children learn about themselves, their feelings, and others while they develop social, cognitive, motor, artistic, and language skills, and it states a commitment to building a partnership with families, supporting them in their parenting role, reflecting home cultures in the program, and appreciating family participation. The child care center is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and is rated 5 stars on the Wisconsin Youngstar rating scale, and it is described as a nationally accredited and 5-star state-rated child care center, including NAEYC accredited 5-star child care in Glendale, WI.

Last updated January 15, 2026.