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Trail Blazers School Break Camp
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Thanksgiving break is over and kids are back in school (phew!), but more school breaks are coming soon… just around the corner is the longer Winter Break, quickly followed by Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Mid-Winter Break in February. I don’t know about you, but I often forget about all these school breaks (especially the short ones) and find myself panicking and trying to make plans for my kids at the last minute. If you want to avoid that last minute scramble, signing up for a school break camp is a great way to keep your kids happy and busy when schools are closed – and it feels great to cross that off your to do list and have one less thing to worry about! As usual, we have an abundance of options in Brooklyn, but some of them do fill up. The camps listed below are just a few of our favorite winter school break options.
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BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Their president’s week camp allows kids (K-5th grade) to explore different arts and imaginative themes every day in a morning performing arts workshop and afternoon visual arts workshop. Kids get to build skills in tumbling, dance, object theater & puppetry, and music. Different BAX teaching artists facilitate each day and this year’s themes include World Shakers, History Makers, ARTifacts, and more. Dates: February 18-21 / Ages: K-5th Grade / Location: Park Slope
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Brooklyn Game Lab
Holiday Game Labs keep kids (ages 6-14) busy and happy while sharpening their logistical thinking and social and emotional IQ. The day starts with quick-playing games and continues with more complex, strategic board games. Kids then work on new game designs and modifications and receive merit badges for contributions. After a break for outdoor game play (weather permitting), the afternoon concludes with role playing games, design time, and choice time. They are also doing a Pokemon Holiday Lab at their pop-up location that allows kids (ages 5-9) to build decks, compete, and enter an exclusive, Lab-original Pokemon themed universe. Dates: Winter Break (12/23-12/31), MLK Jr Day (1/20), and Midwinter Break (2/17-2/21) / Ages: 5-14 / Locations: Park Slope, South Slope, Prospect Heights (pop-up), Tribeca
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Brooklyn Music Factory
Creative kids ages 4-11 write songs with their bandmates and spend lots of time exploring different instruments. Campers play music games to strengthen music skills (on any instrument), make music in their bands, and jam on guitar, bass, keyboard, drums and voice in BMF’s fully equipped studios. They also enjoy outdoor playtime in the park across the street, weather permitting. Campers in February camps also go rock climbing at Brooklyn Boulders! Day camps cost $149 per day, or $695 for the week. Dates: January 20 (MLK Day), February 17, 18, 19, 20, & 21 (1-day camps) / Ages: 4-11 / Location: Gowanus
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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 the coolest 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: Winter Break (Dec. 30th & 31st), MLK Jr. Day (Jan. 20th), and Mid-Winter Break (Feb. 17th-21st)/ 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. Their “Frozen Adventures Camp” (Jan. 20th) is inspired by the original Snow Queen fairy tale as well as popular Frozen films, and it will allow kids (ages 3-6) to create their own stories while participating in theater games, improv, and music. In their “Under the Sea Camp” (Feb. 17th), kids (ages 3-6) will explore the ocean while playing theater games and singing classic songs from The Little Mermaid. Dates: January 20 (MLK Jr. Day) and Feb 17 (President’s Day) / Ages: 3-6 / Location: Carroll Gardens
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The School at Mark Morris Dance Center
The School at Mark Morris Dance Center’s multi-disciplinary camp provides a full day of activities from dance with live music to visual art. Along with daily technique classes in ballet and modern dance, students get to explore a variety of dance styles including hip-hop, jazz, African dance and more. They’ll also learn Mark Morris’ repertory and use choreographic concepts to create their own dances. Dates: February 17-21 (Mid-Winter Break) / Ages: 6-12 / Location: Fort Greene
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NORY STEM Camp
They offer Robots & Science Winter Recess Camps for inventive kids to use their strengths and develop new skills while programming a robot and building circuits and structures. The STEM camp includes builder’s engineering, motion & matter physics, robot building, and blast chemistry. Dates: 12/23-24, 12/26-27, 12/30-12/31, 1/2-1/3 (Winter Break); 1/20 (MLK Jr. Day) / Ages: 3-10 / Location: Multiple Locations in Brooklyn/Manhattan
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The Geek Forest
The Makerspace offers a Winter Break Day Camp for kids to participate in experimental STEAM projects, collaborations, self-learning, making, exploring, sharing & tinkering. Their day camp for younger kids (grades K-2) includes themes like “Lego Stop Motion Animation,” “CSI Investigation Lab,” “Pop Up Books,” and “Adventure Lab: Zip Lines and Parachutes!” Older kids (grades 4-8) spend the first half of the day in Maker Art/Design lab (“Storytelling through Comics”) and the second part of the day in Maker Gamer lab (“Dungeons and Dragons Campaign”). 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: Mid-Winter Break (2/17-2/21) / Ages: K-8th Grade / Location: Greenpoint (K-2nd Grade), Williamsburg (4th-8th Grade)
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Trail Blazers
They have a nature-focused day camp where kids (ages 4-10) spend time outdoors exploring nature in Prospect Park, building snow people, and learning how living things survive and thrive in cold environments before warming up indoors with a variety of exciting and educational activities. They also offer an overnight camp for kids (ages 6+) on their 1000 acre property located in Montague, NJ for two days (1 overnight); they get to participate in fun outdoor activities like sledding, exploring the frozen lake, and other snowy activities. Transportation from Brooklyn is included. DAY CAMP DATES: Holiday Camp (12/23, 12/26, 12/27, 12/30, 12/31), MLK Day (1/20), February Break Camp (2/17-2/21) / OVERNIGHT CAMP DATES: NYE Overnight (12/31-1/1), February Overnight (2/20-2/21) / Ages: Pre-K-5th Grade / Location: Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Montague, NJ
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Brooklyn Museum Winter Camp: Painting and Photography allows kids (ages 8-13) to explore portraiture through the camera lens and on canvas during four days of art-making inspired by their exhibits JR: Chronicles and Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley. Develop painting skills, learn to use a camera and make digital prints, and end the week by sharing work in an open studio. Dates: Mid-Winter Break (2/18-2/21) / Ages: 8-13 / Location: Prospect Heights
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NY Kids Club has a Winter Break Camp where younger kids (ages 2.5-6) get to participate in tons of activities like gymnastics, sports, science, cooking, dance, theater, karate, architecture, engineering, music, and yoga while interacting with colorful characters like the Snow Queen, The Winter Wizard, Snowflake Fairy, and Troll. Flexible day-by-day registration and half day options are available. Dates: Winter Break (12/23 – 1/3), MLK Jr. Day (1/20), Mid-Winter Break (2/17-2/21) / Ages: 2.5-6 / Location: All over NYC
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Prospect Park Zoo offers a School Break Day Camp on MLK Jr. Day where kids (K-4th Grade) investigate the science of the zoos from anatomy to zoology. The camp includes hands-on activities, scientific investigations, and animal encounters. There is also a longer Mid-Winter Break Camp (Feb. 17-21) where kids will join a team of researchers to investigate insect populations in the park, compete in bioengineering challenges, and design and conduct their own experiments. Dates: MLK Day (1/20), Mid-Winter Break (2/17-2/21) / Ages: K-5 grade / Location: Prospect Park
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SKATEYOGI 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). They have a 4:1 camper to instructor ratio. Price is $165/day for regular day 8:30am-3:30pm; $195 with extended day until 6 pm. 5-Day packs available. Dates: Monday 12/23, Friday 12/27, Mon 12/30, Tue 12/31, Thu 1/2, Fri 1/3, Mon 1/20 (MLK Day), Mon 2/17-Fri 2/21 (Mid-Winter Break) / Ages: 6-12 / Location: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
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Textile Arts Center offers full-day camp sessions where kids (ages 5-11) explore 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 (1/20) as well as a longer Mid-Winter Break camp (2/17-2/21). For the week-long camp, the students will explore a different activity each day (weaving, dyeing, printing, and felting). Dates: 1/20, 2/17-2/21 (Mid-Winter Break), 3/16-3/20 (Private School Break Camp – Brooklyn location only) / Ages: 5-11 / Locations: Gowanus, Greenwich Village
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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. *We have added additional camps to this list who are current advertisers upon request. Please note that we often know these camps through recommendation, but we don’t have personal experience with all of them.
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