2021 Summer Camp Guide
Search more than 100 Tucson-area summer camps with help from #ThisIsTucson. Select or browse below. New search
Note: Due to COVID-19 health events, summer camp dates and times are subject to change.
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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - Outdoor Explorers: A Virtual Summer Camp (with hands-on kit!)
Dates: June 14; June 16; June 18
Where: Online
Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $120 Museum Members; $145 Non Members
Description: Join us for a week of virtual desert fun with Desert museum staff, animals, and other fellow campers! You’ll meet live animals, make and share desert arts and crafts, explore science in your daily lives, and make new discoveries around More..
Arts Express Summer Camps and Intensives
Dates: June 1-4; June 7-11; June 14-18; June 21-25; July 5-9; July 12-16; July 19-23; July 26-30
Where: Park Place Mall
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: From $435-$530
Description: Triple Threat Jr. Summer Camp: • Session I dates: June 1-11 • Session II dates: July 5-16 • Open to students ages 8-12 The Triple Threat Jr. Summer Camp will inspire creativity while encouraging beginning-to-intermediate students to explore and develop their skills in the More..
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson - Summer Camp at Frank & Edith Morton Clubhouse
Dates: June 7-11; June 14-18; June 21-25; June 28 - July 2; July 6-9; July 12-16
Where: Frank & Edith Morton Clubhouse
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Cost: Prices start at $60 for the entire summer.
Description: BGCT Summer Camp 2020 offers young people a variety of fun and engaging programs. Programs include: STEM/STEAM, Arts & Crafts, Sports and Recreation, Summer Brain Gain. More..
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson - Summer Camp at Holmes Tuttle Clubhouse
Dates: June 7-11; June 14-18; June 21-25; June 28 - July 2; July 6-9; July 12-16
Where: Holmes Tuttle Clubhouse
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Cost: Prices start at $60 for the entire summer
Description: BGCT Summer Camp 2020 offers young people a variety of fun and engaging programs. Programs include: STEM/STEAM, Arts & Crafts, Sports and Recreation, Summer Brain Gain. More..
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson - Summer Camp at Jim & Vicki Click Clubhouse
Dates: June 7-11; June 14-18; June 21-25; June 28 - July 2; July 6-9; July 12-16
Where: Jim & Vicki Click Clubhouse
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Cost: Prices start at $60 for the entire summer
Description: BGCT Summer Camp 2021 offers young people a variety of fun and engaging programs. Programs include: STEM/STEAM, Arts & Crafts, Sports and Recreation, Summer Brain Gain. More..
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson - Summer Camp at Pascua Yaqui Clubhouse
Dates: June 7-11; June 14-18; June 21-25; June 28 - July 2; July 6-9; July 12-16
Where: Pascua Yaqui Clubhouse
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Cost: Prices start at $60 for the entire summer.
Description: BGCT Summer Camp 2020 offers young people a variety of fun and engaging programs. Programs include: STEM/STEAM, Arts & Crafts, Sports and Recreation, Summer Brain Gain. More..
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson - Summer Camp at Roy Drachman Clubhouse
Dates: June 7-11; June 14-18; June 21-25; June 28 - July 2; July 6-9; July 12-16
Where: Roy Drachman Clubhouse
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Cost: Prices start at $60 for the entire summer
Description: BGCT Summer Camp 2020 offers young people a variety of fun and engaging programs. Programs include: STEM/STEAM, Arts & Crafts, Sports and Recreation, Summer Brain Gain. More..
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson - Summer Camp at Steve Daru Clubhouse
Dates: June 7-11; June 14-18; June 21-25; June 28 - July 2; July 6-9; July 12-16
Where: Steve Daru Clubhouse
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Cost: Prices start at $60 for the entire summer
Description: BGCT Summer Camp 2020 offers young people a variety of fun and engaging programs. Programs include: STEM/STEAM, Arts & Crafts, Sports and Recreation, Summer Brain Gain. More..
Children's Museum Tucson - Fairy Camp
Dates: July 19-23
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers; $125 for Museum members
Description: Join us for a mystical week as we explore the magical world of fairies! More..
Children's Museum Tucson - Getting Fizzy with It
Dates: June 7-11
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers; $125 for Museum members
Description: Have you ever wanted to make your own polyurethane foam or learn what happens when we drop a mint into soda? Spend the week filling your chemistry brain with knowledge. More..
Children's Museum Tucson - Kindergarten Kiddos
Dates: July 26-30
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers; $125 for Museum members
Description: Join us as we gear up for the upcoming school year by practicing our ABCs, 123s & sharpening our fine- and gross-motor skills! We will focus on kindergarten-appropriate academic skills and socio-emotional skills as we countdown to kindergarten! More..
Children's Museum Tucson - Kindergarten Kiddos
Dates: August 2-6
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers; $125 for Museum members
Description: Join us as we gear up for the upcoming school year by practicing our ABCs, 123s & sharpening our fine- and gross-motor skills! We will focus on kindergarten-appropriate academic skills and socio-emotional skills as we countdown to kindergarten! More..
Children's Museum Tucson: Let's Celebrate!
Dates: June 21-25
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers; $125 for Museum members
Description: Join us as we have a great celebration! We will be learning about different cultural treasures and festivities that are celebrated locally around the world. Let’s get ready to participate in the fun! More..
Children's Museum Tucson - Maze Makers
Dates: July 12-16
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers; $125 for Museum members
Description: Get ready to use your engineering brain as we spend the week designing, planning, building and testing all of the obstacle courses, big and small! More..
Children's Museum Tucson & Oro - Creature Feature
Dates: May 31 - June 4
Where: Children's Museum Tucson at the Downtown location, 200 S. 6th Ave.
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers | $125 CMT | OV members
Description: Have you ever wondered why a giraffe has a long neck, why a camel has a hump or how far an eagle can see? Join us as we explore the astonishing abilities that different animals possess. More..
Children's Museum Tucson - Our Icky Insides
Dates: July 5-9
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers; $125 for Museum members
Description: A camp that explores the science living in all of our bodies! We are going to learn all about our organs and how they help us every day. More..
Children's Museum Tucson - Out of This World
Dates: June 28 - July 2
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers; $125 for Museum members
Description: Get ready to jet into outer space! We are going to rocket through our solar system, past the Kuiper Belt and straight into the Milky Way, learning about different stars, planets and their moons along the way! More..
Drama Kids International of Tucson: Take 2! Musical Theater Camp
Dates: June 21-25; June 28 - July 2
Where: Christ Lutheran Church
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: $425 + $40 Academy Fee
Description: Take 2! students will spend two weeks rehearsing a full length musical, to be performed in front of friends and family! There are NO REQUIRED AUDITIONS, and ALL students have speaking, singing, and dancing parts, regardless of skill level or More..
Dates: August 23
Where: Held at the University of Arizona
Hours: 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: $449/week with code (you save $50)
Description: Due to COVID, most of our university partners are delaying decisions about on-campus programs. In the meantime, we invite you to join us for LIVE Virtual Tech Camps, and join our mailing list to receive the latest updates on our More..
Dates: June 28 - July 2
Where: Christ Presbyterian Church
Hours: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Cost: $75 for the whole week
Description: Our camp travels all across AZ! We have COVID-19 precautions in place to keep everyone safe while we enjoy and experience the summer camp magic of friendship, fun, and faith exploration. From small groups, to games, to crafts, to songs, More..
Presidio Museum - Archaeology Summer Camp
Dates: June 14-18
Where: Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Cost: $290 for non-members, $265 for Presidio Museum members
Description: Campers will learn how archaeologists really work through a series of hands-on activities that include prehistoric tools, excavating our simulated site, and analyzing the artifacts that they have found. More..
Presidio Museum: Bilingual Theater/Re-enactment Summer Camp
Dates: June 21-25
Where: Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Cost: $290 for non-members, $265 for Presidio Museum members
Description: Learn local history through role play, theatrical re-enactment and dramatization of historical events with guidance from historians, archaeologists and dramatists. Camp will be taught by a bilingual teacher who will provide immersion learning of Spanish with translation for non-Spanish speakers More..
Presidio Museum - Live History Summer Camp
Dates: June 7-11
Where: Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Cost: $290 for non-members, $265 for Presidio Museum members
Description: Camp participants will experience how people in the Presidio lived through a series of hands-on activities. These activities may include blacksmithing/tinsmithing, training to be a Spanish soldier, experiencing foods that are native to the Sonoran Desert, or even candle making. More..
Presidio Museum - Live Tucson's History Summer Camp
Dates: June 21-25
Where: Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Cost: $290 for non-members, $265 for Presidio Museum members
Description: Camp participants will experience how people in the Presidio lived through a series of hands-on activities. These activities may include blacksmithing/tinsmithing, training to be a Spanish soldier, experiencing foods that are native to the Sonoran Desert, or even candle making. More..
Dates: June 7-11; June 14-18; June 21-25; June 28 - July 2; July 5-9; July 12-16; July 19-23; July 26-30
Where: Reid Park Zoo
Hours: 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.; 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Cost: $175 for the week, $145 for the week for Zoo members
Description: Half-day, in-person summer camp AT the Zoo on Mondays- Thursdays with a 2-hour VIRTUAL session on Fridays. The in-person sessions include animal encounters, behind-the-scenes opportunities, and hands-on activities that teach about animal adaptations, animal habitats, and wildlife conservation. More..
Dates: June 7-11; June 14-18; June 21-25; June 28 - July 2; July 5-9; July 12-16
Where: Tucson Country Day School
Hours: 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.; 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $150 per week for 1st - 8th grade (8:00 - 3:30, Before and After Care available for a fee), $175 for Preschool - Kinder (6:30 - 6:00) 15% discount for payments received before May 15, 2021.
Description: Campers enjoy archery, swim lessons, free swim, STEM activities, project based learning projects like building, cooking, water conservation, and community building, along with art, virtual field trips, indoor games, a Lego wall and more! Join us for one week or More..