Although the idea of summer camp may invoke memories of wooded areas, residents of Brooklyn, New York need look no further than their own borough for summer programming. Brooklyn serves as home to a variety of summer camps for children from preschool through adolescence. These summer camps offer activities like sports, drama and art and keep children busy and entertained in a safe environment, while at the same time providing childcare for working parents.
Mill Basin Day Camp is located on Strickland Avenue in the Mill Basin neighborhood of Brooklyn. The camp welcomes children from pre-kindergarten through ninth grade and offers five different camp experiences that appeal specifically to children within a particular age group, such as preschoolers, third and fourth graders or young teens. Activities vary by age level, but generally include sports, arts and crafts, swimming in the camp's on-site pool and computers. Younger children also listen to stories every day. Each age level camp has at least one outing per week at a New York City attraction, and the oldest campers have the opportunity to spend four days away from the camp, visiting sites.
Parents have the option to send their children to Mill Basin Day Camp for four, five, six, seven or eight weeks. Camp runs all-day, five days per week, but students can attend as few as three days. Busing to and from the camp is available for an additional fee.
Mill Basin Day Camp
5945 Strickland Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11234
718-251-6200
millbasindaycamp.com
Aviator Sports and Events Center is located along Flatbush Avenue, adjacent to Brooklyn Marine Park and Floyd Bennett Field. The center offers two camp experiences: one for children aged three to five years and one for those aged five to 15 years. Physical activity is the primary focus of this camp with activities like ice-skating, swimming, gymnastics, rock climbing, martial arts, volleyball. football, laser tag, dance, soccer and lacrosse. Arts and crafts, drama and photography are additional past times at the camps.
Aviator Sports and Events Center allows campers to attend for as few as one week and and as many as eight weeks. Parents may elect for a three or five-day program. For the preschoolers, the camp runs for half of a day, while older students attend for the entire day. Daycare is available on-site for children of all ages before and after the camp day.
Aviator Sports and Events Center
3159 Flatbush Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11234
718-758-7500
aviatorsports.com
Park Slope Day Camp has four campuses in Brooklyn: at Camp Friendship on Eighth Street, at Adelphi Academy on Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge, at Public School 58 on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens and at the Holy Name School on Prospect Park West in Windsor Terrace. The program offers a variety of individual camps at its various campuses. One such option, Cirque d'Ete, teaches pre-kindergartners through fifth-graders acrobatics, music, clowning, costuming and other aspects of circus performing.
The Pee Wee, Junior and Middle camps are for children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. These three programs feature traditional activities like swimming, arts and crafts and sports. Field trips are featured weekly. Young teens in sixth through eighth grad can participate in On Wheels, a mobile program that consists entirely of day and overnight field trips throughout New York City and other locations like Hershey Park in central Pennsylvania. The length of the programs and schedules vary from camp to camp and from location to location.
Park Slope Day Camp
241 Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-788-7732
parkslopedaycamp.com
