2025 Dallas Summer Camps (Gathering Reviews)

The Dallas Zoo's Wild Adventures Summer Camps feature behind the scenes tours, games, creative projects, close-up animal encounters, and more fun!

These weeklong summer art camps focus on topics ranging from ceramics to comic book creation.

Musical Theatre Camps at Actors Conservatory Theatre will let your little star shine! Campers will learn about staging, choreography, music, and more. A musical will be performed at the end of each session!

Kids work with different mediums each day to explore weekly themes like the animal kingdom, magical beasts, and famous artists.

Whether campers are new to the stage or seasoned performers, Theatre Arlington has a camp for everyone! Kids will learn the performance and technical aspects of theatre. Subjects include acting, dance, voice, stage combat, costume design, construction, and lighting and sound design.

There are many aspects to a theatrical performance, and Stage West has them all covered! Weeklong camps will cover stage acting, singing and dancing, and each camp ends in a showcase for friends and family! Teens can participate in the Summer Conservatory where they will learn about acting, scene design and tech, ending the program with a fully produced performance.

Casa Manana's summer camps are designed for young actors of all abilities! The youngest campers will learn how to use their bodies and voices on stage through acting, singing and dancing, and older campers will experience and participate in professional arts training, with a performance at the end of each camp. Students with special needs, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and/or social/sensory differences also have an opportunity to explore the creative arts within an environment specially tailored to their needs.

The Fort Worth Zoo's Summer Zoo Camp gives campers the opportunity to explore the Zoo in a wild way! Get up-close and personal with activities like feeding the animals, behind the scenes tours, learning about the different zoo departments and there is even an overnight camp that includes dinner, a night hike, and a deeper look in to nocturnal animals!