Get ready for a summer of coding, hacking, invention and exploration at Bethesda’s KID Museum Summer Camp. In our unique maker camps designed and led by professional maker educators, kids use real tools and acquire real skills as they create fun, hands-on projects. Kids learn coding, robotics, design and engineering as they work together to solve problems and design solutions — for an enjoyable and rewarding summer experience! 

Learn what goes on behind the scenes at animal parks and zoos at our Jr. Zookeeper Camp! Help feed, groom and clean up after animals while learning about the responsibilities that come with caring for animals, habitats, conservation and more. Arts & crafts and play time on the park grounds, too!

The Summer Day Camp is the most traditional of camps at Bretton Woods. Campers spend their days playing field games, doing arts and crafts projects, learning group songs and games, and swimming under the guidance of experienced staff. Swim lessons are included in the cost of camp and a swim test is required for all campers each week in order to participate in free swim. Optional tennis lessons or soccer lessons are available.

Ages 5-12
Counselor in Training (CIT) program for campers ages 13-15.

The Bretton Wood Adventure Camp is a fun, active, educative, one-of-a-kind camp for youth. An environmental education component is embedded in a safe but challenging week of hiking, canoeing, fishing, rapid swimming, tubing, nature craft building, zip lines and rope-courses. State qualified and vetted staff provides a safe, fun and educational experience for all our participants.

Ages 6 to 15

Mr. Tony’s Adventure Camp gets campers out on a daily field trip on public transportation. Our home base is a Capitol Hill elementary school, but we get ALL around the city. Campers experience nature, spray parks, playgrounds, museums, and locally owned businesses. Get out, get local, and GO!

Register Here!

Camp Details:

June 22nd – Aug 7th
(7 Weekly Sessions)
8:00 to 3:30 with out aftercare
or
8:00 to 6:00 with aftercare

Introducing Key Bridge Kids Days, where eager youth can play, paddle, explore and make new friends, all in one summer! Led by skilled staff, kids will learn boating safety and skills to last them a lifetime. Space is limited and registration starts now, so don’t wait to sign up!

Create the planet you imagine! Art Works Now offers your child ten weeks of creativity where campers ages 5-12 will explore our world through the visual arts. Campers will create using a variety of age-appropriate art-making techniques, learn about new materials and artists, and play outdoors! Campers can look forward to new friendships, weekly field trips, in-house special guests, water play weekly, and an art show.

• Artists (Littles) | Ages 5-6
• Imaginers (Middles) | Ages 7-8
• Dreamers (Bigs) | Ages 9-12

Watch your child take the stage with their friends in a two-week, full-day camp at Glen Echo Park that culminates in a delightful ensemble musical performance.

Experience musical theater in a fun, full-day camp for grades 1 – 6. Your child will work alongside accomplished D.C. area theatre professionals and teaching artists during daily rehearsals in dancing, singing, and acting. With props and costumes, singing and scene-work, your child’s experience will culminate in a performance of a full, youth-appropriate show for friends and family. Please note that students are grouped with their peers, and casting is at the discretion of the director. Space is limited!

Every summer, the Shakespeare Theatre Company gives students between the ages of 7 and 18 the chance to dive into the world of one of the most celebrated playwrights in history: William Shakespeare.

Camp Shakespeare Teaching Artists create a unique curriculum aimed at optimizing students’ physical, intellectual and artistic development. All Teaching Artists are classically trained professional actors and educators.

Recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as one of 25 “Summer Schools in the Arts,” Traveling Players summer camps and  conservatories train actors by bringing classical theatre vibrantly alive.  Actors rehearse a play in small, supportive groups of only 13 performers.  Actors receive expert acting training, professional direction and designs and get to perform their shows 2-9 times.  Summer camps and conservatories in residence at The Madeira School.; transportation by purple bus included.  Need-based scholarships available.  Exceptional faculty; personalized attention; innovative training.  And super fun! 

Using the medium of creative play, our camps enhance language skills, fine and gross motor skills, and social and emotional development. Each weekly session has a different theme that will be explored through music, movement, stories, games, crafts, and more!​

Sessions include: All the Places You Can Go, Box Playshop, Jungle Jamboree, I Can Be Anything, Castle Adventure, Wizard Wonders, Australian Outback Adventure, Superheroes, Beach Days, Underwater Adventures and The Great Camp Mystery

The Salsa With Silvia Summer Camp is an all summer adventure that is designed to continue the school curriculum by exposing the kids to reading, writing, Spanish, math, science and other learning activities, combined with fun dance and music lessons, arts & crafts, field trips and more. The camp is divided in five sessions and each session is 2-weeks long. Each session has a different theme and focuses on a different style of dance.

Tippi Toes Dance offers a variety of fun dance camps! Your child has two opportunities to dance at Tippi Toes this summer and we guarantee they will have a good time!

Pom & Hip Hop camp is for children ages 5-9yrs old- they will have a blast moving and grooving to the beat, delving into two dance styles – Pom & Hip Hop!

Princess & Superhero camp is designed for ages 3-7. Your child will love arriving at the magical castle where they come dressed in costume and take fun, upbeat dance classes with enchanted Princesses, play games and do lots of fun themed crafts.

All of the camps conclude with a performance at the end of the week for family and friends.

The carefree days of summer are alive and well at Acorn Hill! The centerpiece of our day is play—free creative and unstructured play, indoors and outdoors—the true work, joy and developmental training ground of young children.

Outdoors, children experience our wooded playground, atop a hill adjacent to Sligo Creek Park. Sandcastles complete with moats and water, water play and mister, and bubbles are among the children’s playthings. Indoors, our teachers provide a rhythm of activities designed to bring balance to a child’s day, and a wealth of natural materials to give wings to the imagination.

Our week includes lively stories and puppet shows, singing and circle games, crafts, painting, gardening, baking or cooking, and a weekly nature walk. Our Summer Program is taught by experienced Waldorf early childhood educators. Children stay for lunch and bring a packed lunch from home. Half day and full day options. Full Day includes a 45 minute nap period. Indoor spaces are air-conditioned. Toileting mastery required.

iD Tech is the world leader in summer STEM education, with 450,000 alumni since 1999, and 150 prestigious campus locations including American, Georgetown, Caltech, and NYU. Students ages 7-19 learn to code, design video games, produce videos, design Fortnite-inspired levels, mod Minecraft, create with Roblox, engineer robots, model and print 3D characters, work with AI and machine learning, build laptops, learn about cybersecurity, and more!

Weeklong, day and overnight summer programs that instill in-demand skills and embolden students to shape the future. Just 5-10 students per instructor (maximum 10) so students can enjoy personalized learning at their pace.