2025 NYC Summer Camps (Gathering Reviews)

iD Tech holds tech camps for kids across the country. Innovative courses for all interests, backgrounds, and skill levels are offered in design, coding, game development, robotics and more. iD Tech Camps blend instruction with fun camp activities such as tournaments, sports, board games, and campus excursions.

Kids will participate in a week of action packed fun! Activities include games, water slides, dance, karate, and crafts with themes like Dinosaur Week with Live Reptile Show and July 4th Celebration with Carvel Sundaes!

Kids will experience music, art, and more at Staten Island's DEA Music and Art Camp. Activities include musical theater and drama, musical instruments, rock band, visual arts, scene and prop making and more!

Jennie Utsinger said:  Campers enjoy swimming, martial arts, yoga, baseball, arts & crafts, games, archery, hiking, and more at the facility and take trips to locations including Top Golf, Yankees Game, Liberty Science Center, Dave & Busters, and mini golf.

Trail Blazers promotes experiential learning through outdoor adventure programs. Day camps include hands-on science experiments, group challenges, team building, nature exploration, art, and lots of outdoor play! Trail Blazers also offers several overnight camp options.

Situated on a 12-acre campus, there are soccer, baseball, and softball fields. Kids will enjoy playing on two basketball and three tennis courts. Swim in two in-ground pools and enjoy activities in the air-conditioned facility. There's also arts and crafts, hands-on science, dance, and weekly themed events. Kids are grouped by age with the older kids venturing out for trips. Transportation service is available.

Calling all adventurous kids! The Staten Island Museum's Earth Camp leads campers on an exploration of local wetlands and woodlands to learn about plants and animals. The young naturalists will build science skills while observing habitats and recording daily observations in a field journal.

During your time at the New York Aquarium's summer camp, your child will encounter many marine animals-sharks, sea lions, otters, fish. Camp activities include hands-on projects and experiments, animal encounters, exhibit visits, and beach exploration.

The Little Gym's summer camp combines physical activity, games, and arts & crafts with fun themes.

Jennie Utsinger said:  Spring Lake Day Camp is located on 30 acres surrounded by the Ramapo Mountains in New Jersey. Campers will enjoy an abundance of activities at the facility, which features a heated pool complex, water slides, a private lake with a 500 foot zip line, sports fields, tennis and basketball courts, hockey rinks, Ga-Ga pits, a motorized Go Kart track, ropes course, arts pavilions, a recording studio, computer and robotics center, and more. Busing is available from Manhattan.

The New York Film Academy offers an intensive exploration into a variety of topics for kids and teens. Students will learn how to apply the techniques taught in the program to develop their own style and exhibit their work. Camps include film, acting, screenwriting, 3-D animation, game design, and musical theater.

Playday offers a mix of multi-cultural, creative activities year-round, including a summer camp. Campers engage in a number of fun and creative indoor and outdoor activities and fun art projects.

Camp Koko is specially designed for younger kids, and centers around self-directed play, material exploration and building projects.The Soapbox Workshop supports creativity and innovation, as older kids design and construct their own soap box car using recycled and found objects. Kids can race their creations in the Annual South Slope Derby!

Barking Cat Studio allows kids to explore their creative side through a variety of mediums such as drawing, painting, and sculpting. Barking Cat Studio's Art in the City Summer Camp has weekly offerings by theme. Kids can attend the entire program or attend just the week's theme that sparks an interest. The day's activities include trips to museums and afternoon games and movement.

Brooklyn Game Lab offers year-round programming to teach kids how to play board, card, and role-playing games. Choose from traditional, mostly indoor Summer Lab or totally outdoors Summer Lab with activities including tabletop games, Dungeons & Dragons, outdoor Battle Lab in Prospect Park with foam weapons, and physical games involving discs, hoops, cones, beanbags, balls and more!