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2018 Summer Camps That Still Have Openings

Summer Camps with Openings

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Summer Camps with Openings

The sun is out, sprinklers are on, and school is almost out… which means summer is just about here! Are you still looking for a summer camp for your kids?  If you never got around to finding the perfect camp or just decided to add additional camp weeks this summer, we’ve got you covered… see below for a list of great summer camps openings. Please contact them directly for details and exact availability. (And quickly, before they fill up!)

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Acting Out! – Musical Theatre Boot Camp

Acting Out!’s Musical Theatre Boot Camp is an intensive musical theatre program that offers training in acting, dancing, ensemble work, and group singing.  Age Range: 10-16 years old / Location: Bay Ridge

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Beam Center Summer Day Camp

The Beam Center Summer Day Camps offers younger kids a “choose your own adventure” exploration into being an artist and designer, while older kids work in small groups to develop and prototype projects based on a surprise design challenge. Age Range: 7-10 and 11-13 years old / Location: Carroll Gardens/Red Hook

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Brooklyn Game Lab

Summer campers play chess, cooperative, and strategy games as well as create new games, modify existing games, analyze game structure, tinker with rules, create tactics, and collaborate with new friends. Age range: 6.5-13 years old / Location: Park Slope

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Brooklyn Museum Summer Camp

Kids explore art from David Bowie to Ancient Egypt and make their own artwork by painting, photographing, drawing, sculpting, and animating at the Brooklyn Museum. Age range: 8-13 years old / Location: Prospect Heights

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Camp Jump-In

Campers will participate in a large variety of activities such as Recreational Sports, Arts and Crafts, Music, Dance, Drama, Fitness Fun and Swimming at this enrichment camp that focuses on education, fun, and community involvement. Age range: 5-14 years old / Location: Park Slope

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Child’s Play NY

These week-long theater camps led by professional actors encourage kids to flex their imaginative muscles and learn theater technique with weekly themes featuring superheroes, mythology, and fairy tales as well as sessions inspired by HamiltonHarry PotterThe Lion King and Moana. Age range: 3-5, 4-6, 7-11 / Location: Carroll Gardens, Fort Greene, and Brooklyn Heights

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CinemaKidz

Cinemakidz offers children the chance to become Filmmakers, Animators, Movie-stars, and Adventurers during week-long steam and film camps where campers work together on creative hands-on projects, learning the technical art of film and animation through exploration. Age range: 6-14 years old / Location: Lower Manhattan

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ConstructionKids

Campers learn safe and appropriate tool usage, build dynamic projects, and develop confidence in skills like designing, building, and revising with weekly themes and activities that match builders’ cognitive, physical and social development ages. Age range: 4-6 and 7-9 years old / Locations: Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and several locations in Manhattan.

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Dancewave Summer Camp

This non-profit dance center offers week-long summer camp programs for kids interested in art and dance, with an emphasis on balance, rhythm, coordination, muscle isolation and flexibility while incorporating musicality and personal expression. Age range: 5-6, 7-9, 10-12 years old / Location: Park Slope

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Elite Minds Montessori

This French bilingual early childhood preschool has a strong focus on arts and emphasizes creativity, movement and music as well as traditional Montessori activities. Age range: 2-5 years old / Location: Columbia Street Waterfront District

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Gasworks NYC Ceramics Summer Camp

The immersive 5-day sessions for kids and teens offers hands-on exploration of clay through hand-building, throwing on the potter’s wheel, surface techniques, and glazing.  Age range: 7-17 years old / Location: South Slope

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Geek Forest Summer of STEAM

At The Geek Forest’s Maker Education Lab, kids can collaborate and participate in everything from creating mini evil robots to hacking stuffed animals to stop motion animation to game design during their Summer of STEAM. Age range: K-6th grade / Location: Williamsburg

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Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet

The Storybook Ballet Camp includes a week of ballet, arts & crafts, music and theater with each day focusing on a different classical ballet (including Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia and Peter & the Wolf) and culminating with a family showing. Age range: 3-8 years old / Location: DUMBO

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Goose Grease Art and Diorama Intensive

Teaching history and cultural awareness through art and sculpture, Goose Grease offers art classes with different themes including PIONEER HISTORY, THE AZTECS, HUCKLEBERRY FINN, and THE TITANIC. Age range: 5-12 years old / Location: Williamsburg

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International Ballet Institute New York

The summer program includes daily training in classical ballet technique, tap, and musical theater classes culminating in a performance (includes costume making and set design) of Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Ballet and the musical The Wizard of Oz. Age range: 4-6 and 7-13 years old / Location: Greenpoint

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Keylab Camps

Kids get to try out music, film, podcasting, and more with a different focus each week including writing and recording music, learning how to play in a band, or making short films in a fun and educational environment. Age range: 5 and up / Location: Carroll Gardens

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Locals Surf Camp

Locals Surf Camp is a Summer program in Rockaway Beach, NYC for kids to learn how to surf or improve their surfing skills while having a blast at the beach. Age range: 4+ / Location: Rockaway Beach

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Musication Camp

This music camp explores different themes each week (including “Music From Around Around the World” and “Discovering Different Music Styles”) through singing, instrument playing, live concerts, drum circles, instrument craft making, movement/dancing, playing and exploring sound in Prospect Park. Age range: 3-6 years old / Location: Lefferts Gardens and Park Slope

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NY Kids Club Summer Day Camp

NY Kids Club campers participate in a “summer of Time Travel” that will keep them moving, creating and learning in a new place and time each week including the stone age, ancient Egypt, Medieval times, and the Gold Rush of the Wild West. Age range: 2.5-6 years old / Location: Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Dumbo, Park Slope

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One World Project “Hola Summer” Camp

Each two-week session takes kids to a new country (this summer they will be touring Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico, and Spain) while incorporating art, games, cooking, sports, music, outdoor play, field trips for older children, and lots of Spanish. Age range: 2-10 years old (separated into three groups) / Location: Windsor Terrace

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play:ground NYC Summer Camp Adventure on Governors Island

Campers work together to bring big ideas to life using a wide array of materials, craft supplies, and basic hand tools on their Governors Island play lot – a blank slate ready to be transformed into a land of their own imagining in this self-directed summer camp. Age range: 1st-6th grade / Location: Governor’s Island

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r3space

These week-long summer programs in science, technology, engineering and robotics allow campers explore fun new topics each week and engage in creative workshops utilizing the “learn-create-explore” method, where kids participate in hands-on and digital projects to take home. Use promo code CAMP20 to get a 20% discount. Age range: 4-12 years old / Location: Southside Williamsburg

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SKATEYOGI

The SKATEYOGI Summer Camp teaches skateboarding to all levels in their indoor skate park and on weekly field trips, while the new SKATEYOGI Urban Shredders program allows older, more experienced students to go on daily field trips to skate parks. Age range: 6-12 and 7-14 years old / Location: Prospect Lefferts Gardens

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Textile Arts Center Summer Camp

Campers connect with the world of textiles in week-long programs where they create an in-depth project in Weaving Class or Textile Surface Design Class, as well as daily craft projects using fiber and textile processes and concepts drawn from the exhibitions visited on field trips. Age range: 5-13 years old / Location: Gowanus

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Thalia Book Club Camp

In this summer program at Symphony Space. young readers and writers get to meet favorite children’s authors and illustrators, take part in book discussions, engage in writing, drama, drawing or other activities related to the books, and go on book-related field trips around New York City. Age range: 9-14 years old / Location: Upper West Side

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The Barrow Group Acting School

The acting school introduces campers to theater, storytelling, and The Barrow Group approach through ensemble building games, story structure/story telling exercises, improv and scene study culminating in a showing in The Barrow Group’s Studio Theatre. Age range: 7-17 years old / Location: Brooklyn Heights and Manhattan

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The Brooklyn Strategist

The camp allows kids to spend the day playing games and developing critical cognitive and social skills through a wide range of fun and flexible options each day including Creative Game Design, Open Play, Tournaments, RPGs, Pokemon and Warhammer. Age range: 5-15 years old / Location: Cobble Hill

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The League of Young Inventors

This innovative STEM program allows elementary school children to use their imagination and construction skills while taking a tour of humanity’s greatest inventions through storytelling, hands-on exploration, and creating. Age range: K-5th Grade / Location: Park Slope

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Trail Blazers

They have a Brooklyn Day Camp where kids spend most of their time outdoors in Prospect Park, a Farmstead Camp where kids explore and learn about farm life (promo code Farmstead2018 for 10% off until 7/14),  and an Overnight Camp at their forested program in New Jersey (promo code Adventure2018 for $100 off any two-week overnight program registration until 6/30). Age range: 3-15 years old / Locations: Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Crown Heights, and Park Slope; Walton, NY; Montague, NJ

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Wildlife Conservation Society Camps

The Wildlife Conservation Society has openings in their New York Aquarium, Prospect Park Zoo, and Queens Zoo summer camps which all include fun, age-appropriate, and hands-on activities as well as up-close animal experiences and time to explore nature. Age range: 2-12 years old / Locations: Coney Island, Prospect Park, Corona

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