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Photo by Hunter Canning, courtesy of Child’s Play NY
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We know many parents are focused on planning for the summer break* and it’s easy to forget about the many shorter school breaks throughout the year – from single days off to entire weeks – including the upcoming breaks over the Holidays, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lunar New Year, and the week-long Mid-Winter Break in February. Please remember to make school break plans to keep your kids happy, learning, and developing in new ways during time away from school this winter! The great camps listed below are just a few of our favorite winter school break options.
*And don’t forget to register to attend the 2019 Brooklyn Camp Expo on February 17th to find the perfect summer camp, holiday camp, or after school program for your kids!
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BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange
This president’s week camp allows kids (K-5th grade) to explore different arts specialities and imaginative themes every day in a morning performing arts workshop and afternoon visual arts workshop. The daily themes of the 2019 President’s Week Arts Program are “World Shakers, History Makers” (dance), “A Winter’s Tale” (circus), “Kooky Kingdom and Loopy Lands” (tumbling), “Around the World in One Day” (theater), and “Homelands and Heartlands” (music). They also provide supplemental enrichment activities and social play throughout the week. Dates: February 18-22 / Ages: K-5th Grade / Location: Park Slope
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Brooklyn Game Lab
Holiday Labs start with their unique twist on chess and continue with strategic board games. Kids (ages 6-14) create game modifications and new game designs and receive merit badges for contributions and skills. The afternoon concludes with role playing games, design time, and free play. Dates: Christmas Break (12/24-12/31), MLK Jr Day (1/21), Lunar New Year (2/5), and Midwinter Recess (2/18-2/22) / Ages: 6-14 / Locations: Park Slope, South Slope, Tribeca
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Brooklyn Robot Foundry
Their Winter Full-Day Sessions feature two engaging projects each day with other fun activities in between. Children learn basic mechanical engineering and electrical principles while creating robots! They offer the standard Robot Builders program (grades K-4) and the Robot Inventors program (grades 3-5) at four locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Dates: Dec. 26th-29th, Jan. 21st, Feb. 5th, and Feb. 18th-22nd / Ages: K-5th Grade / Locations: South Slope, Atlantic Ave/Boerum Hill, Tribeca, Upper East Side
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Child’s Play NY
Their one-day school break camps develop musicality and creativity with their unique brand of dramatic play. The Winter Vacation Day Camp themes include “Mini Musical: NYC Kids” (ages 3-6), “Acting Hamilton” (ages 7-11), “Mini Musical: Once Upon a Time” (ages 3-6), “Mini Musical: Charlie + The Chocolate Factory” (ages 3-6), and “Roald Dahl on Stage” (ages 7-11). Dates: January 21 (MLK Day), Feb 5 (Lunar New Year) and Feb 18 (President’s Day) / Ages: 3-11 / Locations: Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights
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Prospect Park Zoofari Camp
The Zoofari Winter Break Camp participants will learn all about birds, build birds’ nests, practice “eating” like a bird, explore bird adaptations, and meet some incredible animals up close. The Zoofari Mid-Winter Break Camp allows kids to learn about caring for the zoo animals as they explore zoo exhibits, meet animals up close, create animal enrichment, and prepare animal diets. The Prospect Park Zoo also offers school break camps on Martin Luther King Day and other breaks. Dates: Christmas Break (12/26-12/28), MLK Day (1/21), Mid-Winter Break (2/18-2/22) / Ages: K-5 grade / Location: Prospect Park
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SKATEYOGI
This day camp allows kids to explore Prospect Park and the city’s skateparks (weather permitting) while also skating and learning in their home base (140 Empire Blvd). For the winter holiday camp (12/24-1/4), they are offering a holiday 3-day pack for $395. Otherwise, it’s $149/day for regular day 8:30am-3:30pm; +$30 for extended day until 6pm. They have a 4:1 camper to instructor ratio. Dates: Winter Holiday Camp (12/24, 12/27, 12/28, 12/31, 1/3 1/4), MLK Day (1/21), Lunar New Year (2/5), Presidents Week (2/18-2/22) / Ages: 6-12 / Location: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
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Textile Arts Center
They offer full-day camp sessions where kids (ages 5-11) explore subjects such as weaving, sewing, embroidery, printing, felting and dyeing. Each day is dedicated to a full project, and supplemented with organized play time. They offer one-day mini camp sessions on short school breaks like Martin Luther King Jr. Day (1/21) and Lunar New Year (2/5), as well as a longer Winter Break Camp during President’s Week (2/18-2/22). For the week-long camp, the students will explore a different activity each day (weaving, dyeing, printing, and felting). Dates: 1/21, 2/5, 2/18-2/22 / Ages: 5-11 / Locations: Gowanus, Greenwich Village
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The Geek Forest
The Makerspace offers a Winter Day Camp for kids to participate in experimental STEAM projects, collaborations, self-learning, making, exploring, sharing & tinkering. Their day camp for “Tinkerers” (grades K-2) and “Hackers” (grades 3-6) have cool themes like “Lego Stop Motion Animation,” “Robotics Lab,” “DIY Game Coder,” and “Terrarium Lab.” Hours for all camps are 9 AM – 4 PM (with 6 PM late pick up option) and they try to spend at least one hour outside every day. Dates: President’s Week (2/18-2/22) / Ages: K-6th Grade / Location: Greenpoint
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The League of Young Inventors
Kids become inventors during Holiday Workshops like “Cardboard Castles & Catapults,” where younger kids (K-5th grade) work together to construct a castle made out of cardboard and build different catapults to test its strength, and “Automata: Puppetry in Motion” (12/28 and 1/4), where older kids (2nd-5th Grade) explore simple mechanical elements such as levers and linkages to crate their own mechanical sculptures. They also offer a single day workshop called “The Great Gravity Race” (1/2) for younger kids to construct fast wheeled machines and explore different ways to power them. Dates: 12/27, 12/28, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 / Ages: K-5th Grade / Location: Park Slope
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Trail Blazers
This nature-focused camp has a Holiday Camp (12/26-12/28 and 12/31), where kids spend time exploring nature in Prospect Park, building snow people, and learning how living things survive and thrive in cold environments before warming up indoors with winter crafts and story time. They also offer an MLK Day Camp (1/21), Lunar New Year Camp (2/5), and a Winter Day Camp (2/18-2/22) that includes lots of outdoor play and a fun field trip. Older kids (grades 3-5) in the Winter Day Camp have the option of participating in the day camp from Monday to Wednesday and heading up to camp for the Thursday-Friday overnight. Dates: Holiday Camp (12/26-12/28 and 12/31), MLK Day Camp (1/21), Lunar New Year Camp (2/5), Winter Day Camp (2/18-2/22) / Ages: Pre-K-5th Grade / Location: Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Montague, NJ
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Brooklyn Museum Winter Camp: Painting and Photography – Kids explore art with gallery visits, art-making, and more. This President’s Week camp will focus on the upcoming exhibit “Frida Kahlo: Appearances can be Deceiving” and explore themes of portraiture and cultural identity in painting and photography. Develop painting skills, learn to use a camera and make digital prints, and end the week by sharing work in an open studio. Dates: President’s Week (2/19-2/22) / Ages: 8-13 / Location: Prospect Heights
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Ume Ume Music + Arts – The Winter Themed Music & Arts Holiday Camp gets kids moving, creating, and learning in a fun, safe, collaborative, artistic and academic environment. Campers explore the works of famous composers, musicians, artists, and dancers while implementing and developing their own creative skills through the arts. Activities include music composition and songwriting, singing, violin, arts and crafts, and movement. Dates: Holiday Break (12/26-12/28) / Ages: 3-8 / Location: Park Slope
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THESE CAMPS WERE CHOSEN BY OUR EDITORS AND INCLUDED AT NO COST, BUT SOME CAMPS HAVE CHOSEN TO SPONSOR THEIR LISTINGS AFTER SELECTION.
Come check out the 2019 Camp Expo on February 17th to meet with lots of camps that have sessions during many of the school breaks!
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