2021 Summer Camp Guide
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Note: Due to COVID-19 health events, summer camp dates and times are subject to change.
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Age 7, Age 12, $$ - $151 to $275, $ - $0 to $150, Central/Midtown area, West side
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..
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 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 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..
2021 Capoeira Mandinga Tucson summer CAMP
Dates: July 19-23
Where: Capoeira Mandinga Tucson Academy
Hours: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Cost: $195. Camp fee covers all camp activities and art supplies that will give your child a fantastic week of camp. Before/After-camp available daily 8:30 - 9:30 AM & 3:00-5:00 PM for extra cost.
Description: Capoeira Afro-Brazilian martial arts flow like dance. Combine strength, flexibility & confidence thru fun, challenging kicks, escapes, cool moves infusing positive powers of multiculturalism. Feel the beat of Afro-Brazilian music, Brazilian dance, Portuguese language, art & culture. Let's play! More..
Children's Museum Tucson - Brick Builders
Dates: June 14-18
Where: Children's Museum Tucson
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $155 for nonmembers; $125 for Museum members
Description: Use your creativity and critical thinking during this weeklong STEM camp where campers will have the opportunity to explore different building techniques in a classroom full of interlocking parts. 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: 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..
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..
The Circus Academy of Tucson - Circus Summer Camp
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: The Circus Academy of Tucson
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Cost: $250. 250 per week
Description: Students ages 7-15 can spend their summer days learning a variety of circus skills including stilts, tumbling, juggling, spinning plates, diabolo, poi, tightrope, trapeze, sling and more! More..