In San Diego, kindergartners to high school students can discover fresh pursuits, build friendships and develop passions at summer camp. You can find San Diego camps through the Parks and Recreation Department, area museums and schools. Children who enjoy the ocean can learn to surf while creative children who’d rather raise a paint brush than a shovel may prefer art camp. For campers who favor the spotlight, junior theater camp is just the thing.
Girls eager to play in the water and live the summer surfer lifestyle will want to attend surf camp. In a safe and comfortable environment, Surfer Girls Surf Camp offers three-to-five day and five-day overnight camp sessions for girls from beginner to intermediate. Taught by certified instructors, campers are placed in small groups of four. First instructed on dry land, campers will then experience surfing in various weather and wave conditions. Campers will learn about ocean safety and CPR. At the camp’s completion, they receive a first aid certificate of completion.
Surfer Girls Surf School
735 Santa Clara Place
San Diego, CA 92109
858-427-0644
alohasurfergirls.com
Kids who'd rather rock during their summer can enroll in Day Jams Rock Music Day Camp with one-week day camp sessions for school-aged children entering third grade through grade 10. Initiated by the National Guitar Workshop, Day Jams Rock Music Camp centers on musical technique and skills, and the process of establishing a band. Beginners to experienced players attend instrument class to learn and improve their musical skills in guitar, drums, keyboards and voice under the guidance of a band director. In small working groups of eight, campers participate in designing and creating promotional band material. By the end of the week, campers will have written an original song and performed live with a recorded performance.
Day Jams Rock Music Day Camp
San Diego French-American School
6550 Soledad Mountain Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
800-295-5956
dayjams.com
The New Children’s Museum has art-based one-week summer camp programs for school-aged children entering first grade through high school. Working in small group settings, camp programs focus on project-based learning working directly with a professional artist. Past summer program themes have included basic felting techniques to explore texture and color, and painting like the master painters. Themes for older campers include kinetics, working from recycled corrugated board, film-making and screen-printed apparel and art production.
The New Children's Museum Camp
200 West Island Ave.
San Diego, CA 92101
619-233-8792
thinkplaycreate.org
Held in the historic Casa del Prado building in Balboa Park, San Diego Junior Theatre camp offers camp sessions for aspiring actors ages four and up. Week-long sessions include half-day or full-day. Younger campers experience the creative arts through singing, movement, play-acting and craft activities. Campers entering first grade through 12th grade participate in up to four classes a day in the areas of acting, voice and dance, puppetry, mask-making and stage make-up. Campers present an open performance at the end of the session. Experienced Junior Theatre campers can partake in accelerated classes and specialty workshops to further develop their skills. These advanced performance camps require an audition with a one-minute song.
San Diego Junior Theatre
Balboa Park
1650 El Prado, Suite 208
San Diego, CA 92101
619-239-1311
juniortheatre.com
