All camps have COVID health and safety protocols in place like social distancing, masks and disinfecting. For specifics check with the camp of interest.
Read on to learn more and for a complete list of summer camp ideas in Westchester County visit our Camp Page. Here's to a great summer!
Art Camps
76 North State Road in Briarcliff Manor, NY
Summer Camp 2021 will be A Maze In Pottery's 11th one! Sessions runs 3 half days: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9-12. Each week children will work on a different project. All projects are high-quality pottery pieces that the kids and families can use at their homes. They also incorporate some canvas and wood board painting plus some gardening ( in the pots) this year.
Children will be working on their project while learning several pottery painting techniques, they also will learn about pottery process; glazing, firing. They will have games and trivia based on a theme of the camp. This year's themes are Elements Room Decor, Star Wars room set, Mexican Fiesta dinner set, Beach Picnic snack set, “time to Pig Out”-breakfast set. Ages; 6 years and up, sibling discounts are available. Camp runs all summer long.
9 Main Street, Irvington, NY
Art XO Studio’s Summer Art Camps have something for every creative kid. Enjoy tie dye, painting, mixed media, clay sculpture, mosaics, and more. Plus, entertaining activities like hydrodip, paint archery and chalk rockets! They even do specialty projects like piñata making, paper mache' hot air balloons, and model building. It's the perfect balance of learning, growing, and freedom to enjoy what ever is inspiring you that week.
Convenient sign-up by the week, choose 1 or all 10 weeks of camp fun! All COVID protocols will keep your kiddos safe. Camp runs Monday–Thursday, either 10:00am–1:00pm or 1:30-4:00pm depending on camper age group. Morning camp is for ages 5-10 years, and afternoon camp is for ages 8-12. For full-day options, campers ages 8 and up may register for both camps, and enjoy a supervised break. Registration is open: artxostudio.com/camps.
168A Irving Ave. Suite 300A, Port Chester, NY
Summer activities at the FAS of Westchester will include two Summer Fashion Design Intensives for two age groups:
July 5th- 9th Group A ages 7- 12
July 12th -16th Group B ages 13-18.
TIME: 9:00am-3:30pm
The Summer Intensive at the Fashion Arts Studio is a week-long project. Students will be learning how to create an original garment to wear from sketch to sewing it up. This is truly fun yet requires critical thinking and problem solving. It combines left/right brain activity, creativity with technical skills. Each student will figure out how to make their idea from a fashion sketch to wearing it! And have an amazing time learning this! It is challenging and rewarding.
They will also offer Introduction to Interior Design intensive the week of July 19th -23rd.
Their instructors are industry professionals, professors at top design colleges such as Parsons and FIT. Their studio located in Port Chester is a renovated sewing factory from the early 1900s. The lofty feeling of the 20-foot high ceilings transport you to somewhere cool like Chelsea!
Join MADE: my art + design experience for the ultimate creative camp experience in their bright, colorful, art space in Mamaroneck, NY! 10 weeks, 10 unique themes. Pick one week or join them for all your faves - themes include Sweets & Treats, At the Zoo, Mythical Creatures, Around the World, and more! Each session features a mix of projects, from painting to hand-building with wet clay, mosaics and even tie dye. They make sure to keep a balance of teaching techniques and just plain having fun for a good time with beautiful finished handmade products.
Sessions are limited to 8 artists per week to allow for social distancing. Masks are required. MADE Summer Art Workshops are recommended for ages 7+ and run weekly Monday through Thursday from 10a - 1p. Visit their website at madeartstudio.com to register, and use code SUMMER21 to save $25 on registration through March 31. Sibling discount automatically applied at checkout.
112 S. Central Ave, Hartsdale, NY
2081 Boston Post Road, Larchmont, NY
Summer camps at One River offer students of all ages (Kindergarten through Teens) a series of progressive and creative courses across art, digital art, design, photography, filmmaking and portfolio development.
Weekly camps run from mid June through the end of August, with over 70 innovative camp themes to choose from- from Street Art Painting to Short Film Creation. Camps are offered in the morning and afternoon sessions and students can bundle classes for a full day option. Instructors are professional artists and designers in their field - providing students with a fun and hands on exploration of new media, ideas and techniques. This year new Advanced Intensives for older teens are offered in the late afternoon hours.
For more information please go to larchmont.oneriverschool.com or call 914-893-6111.
217 E Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, NY
RAD ART School's summer art classes and mini art camp are now open for registration for kids age 7 through high school. All of their classes are grouped by age. For high school students, they offer special college portfolio instruction. RAD ART follows all COVID safety protocols and offers in person studio classes as well as online classes.
Located in Hartsdale, NY, RAD ART teaches drawing technique in pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, and pastel, and painting in watercolor, acrylics, and oil paints. Their main focus is to teach technique, usage of all media, creativity, and expression of individuality. Whether the student is a beginner, intermediate, or experienced artist, we provide instruction within the subject matter and medium of the student’s choice. RAD ART also offers graphic design classes, teaching the skills of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
For more 35 years, RAD ART School has served as an integral institution in the Westchester community. Our teachers have decades of experience teaching students of all ages and artistic backgrounds. RAD ART School is designed to provide personalized focus for each student, accomplished through small class sizes where each student receives one-on-one, individualized attention.
To inquire about and sign up for RAD ART summer classes, email them at [email protected], call 914-723-3131 or visit their website radfineart.com/.
154 E Boston Post Rd, Mamaroneck, NY
Sew Happy is offering seven weeks of mini camps for kids ages 7-13 in their creative studio in Mamaroneck, New York. Camps are for small groups (max kids 10) and include hand sewing, machine and hand sewing combo, machine sewing and fashion design. Themes include Selfie Time, Chill Out, Mouse-In-A-Tin, Sew Happy Fox, Me & My Doll and Fashion Design camps include fashion drawing, draping and fun fashion challenges. Each weekly camp runs for 2 hours per day and kids are encouraged to sign up for multiple camps.
Most projects are designed by Sew Happy, made in the USA, and the fabrics used are mostly made from recycled materials. Hand picked instructors are taught not only how to teach sewing but how to encourage and motivate children whilst overcoming obstacles and challenges. Sew Happy is teaching a traditional life skill but with a modern twist so that more children are interested in learning how to sew. For more info please check out their website sewhappyusa.net.
145 Palisade Street, Suite 401, Dobbs Ferry, NY
The Art Academy of Westchester, in Dobbs Ferry, is the home of the Young Academists Program (advanced art classes for children ages 10 and up) and portfolio development coaching for high school students. Summer classes run every other week in late June and July.
Drawing and painting classes, Summer 2021 classes are for children ages 10 and up. All levels welcome. Students sign up for each four-day week and are welcome to bring ideas of what they would like to create. The teacher will present to the class options of imagery to work from. Working from real still lifes is encouraged. Line, shape, value, texture, space, and principles of strong composition are some of the concepts we explore. Each week’s goal is to finish an entire drawing or painting.
Subjects for drawing: still lifes, portraits, landscapes, figures in actions
Subjects for painting: still lifes, landscapes, animals, other subjects.
Materials are included
Class times: Monday to Thursday, 10 am to 11:45 am
For more information please visit the Art Academy webpage artaw.org or call (914)-844-9063.
- Arts Westchester
- Bethany Arts Center
- Blue Door Arts Center
- Cedar Lane Arts Center
- Clay Art Center
- D.I.Y. Slime
- Katonah Art Center
- Ossining Arts Council
- Pelham Art Center
- Purchase College
- RiverArts
- Rye Arts Center
- Scribble Art Workshop
- Westchester Art Studio
- Young at Art
- Full program camps- see article: The Best Day Camps in Westchester County & Nearby 2021
Digital Arts & STEAM Camps
185 Old Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Camp Hudson is a hands-on STEAM camp based on the 26 acre campus of Hudson Lab School in Hastings-on-Hudson. Camp runs in theme-based 2-week sessions from 9:15am to 3:15pm daily.
Campers in K-5 rotate through different activities each day led by Specialist Educators: artists by training and profession, with backgrounds in fine arts, animation, performance art, industrial design, coding and more. They share a passion for working with children and support kids to “go deep”. Using real tools and lots of grit, campers capture the excitement and fun of invention by working through large scale collaborative projects, and smaller individual ones. Daily choice leaves plenty of time to explore the woods, play soccer or try some gardening.
Parent of a middle-schooler? Check out the 2-week design intensives, featuring small groups, award winning STEM educators, and exploration galore in areas ranging from woodworking and engineering, to circuitry and robotics, and so much more. Information on our summer programs can be found at hudsonlabschool.com/summer.
The Leffell School, 555 West Hartsdale Avenue, Hartsdale, NY
Challenge Camp is an ACA-accredited day camp in Hartsdale, NY offering summer enrichment learning opportunities for bright, curious children ages 4-15. Our cohort model of STEM & Arts project based electives includes active options enabling campers to challenge their minds and bodies. Courses range from 3D Printing, Chess, Coding, Cooking, Drones, Escape Room, Fashion, Lego, Magic, Makerspace, Minecraft, Music, Photography, Roblox, Robotics, Rocketry, Theater, Video Production, VR, YouTube and more!
Their Discover, Imagine & Create program is for students entering Kindergarten in the Fall. The Challenge Camp advantage is a customized program of selections based on the child’s interests, students follow their course selections for an entire session. Join them for a Summer of Fun & Learning!
41 S. Moger Ave, Mount Kisco, NY
Do your kids love playing video games? At Code Ninjas, we teach kids to code by building their own. We help teach kids become creators of content and not just consumers.
This summer, we are offering camps for ages 7-14 as well as a 1 week JRs camp for ages 5-7. Kids can learn to create worlds in Minecraft and Roblox, or learn to code games in Scratch and Python. We also have 3D Printing camps where they learn the basics of designing printable 3D models or they can learn to build their own websites using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
An estimated 1 million coding jobs go unfilled every year. Coding is an essential skill that helps develop creative problem-solving skills, resilience, and teamwork and it isn't being taught in 50% of the schools in the US.
At Code Ninjas, Kids have fun! Parents see results.
142 N Central Ave, Hartsdale, NY
Give your child the MOST-FUN-SUMMER-EVER through NYC's #1 STEM camp for 5-12 years old!
Your child will engage as makers and creators to build once-in-a-lifetime weekly projects! Woodworking, Roblox Coding, Mechanical Engineering... learning is endless to develop their own inventions to make a positive impact. Check out both Virtual and In-Person Camps.
Summer camp highlights: Soccer add-on, All-star NORY Educators, Emphasis on Soft Skills (resilience & empathy). Flexible schedule, for more info contact [email protected] or (914) 557-8694.
- ArchForKids
- Computer Adventures
- Curious On Hudson
- Destination Science
- Digital Arts Experience
- Future Stars
- Girls Who Code
- i2Camp
- iD Tech
- Mad Science
- New Era Creative Space
- Play-Well TEKnologies
- Purchase College
- Robocracy 4H
- Snapology
- STEAM Works Studio
- Think Space Studio
- Full program camps- see article: The Best Day Camps in Westchester County & Nearby 2021
Performing Arts, Drama and Musical Theater Summer Camps
147 Wheeler Avenue, Pleasantville, NY
Arc Stages is running their 16th summer of SummerStage theatre camp this year in Pleasantville! SummerStage comprises four groups: Little Theatre (K-1st graders), Young Actors Camp (2nd-4th graders), the Tween Workshop (5th-8th graders) and the Teen Intensive (9th-12th graders). Arc SummerStage meets Mondays through Fridays from 9am - 3pm, with two different three-week sessions in July and August.
Camp days are structured with classes in Acting Technique, Choreography, Improv & Theater Games, Stage Combat, Music and Vocal Technique, and more! The skills learned in these classes are incorporated into the musical theatre shows that are performed at the culmination of each respective section. Actors spend part of each SummerStage day in these fun classes, and part of the day in rehearsal for their performances! They choose and create their shows specifically with their actors in mind, and each actor is showcased on stage. Every group also receives Master Classes throughout SummerStage - including Shakespeare, On Camera, Mask and more - and exciting Special Event Days throughout. Every day is unique at Arc SummerStage, an experience not to be missed! More info at arcstages.org.
10 Washington Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Broadway Training Center (BTC) hosts their 29th year of summer programming in their beautiful outdoor classroom! They have open-air instruction scheduled throughout the summer. If circumstances dictate, a transition indoors to their historic high-ceilinged Studio complete with air purifiers and a Covid spaced grid (or Zoom), as needed. Summer at BTC hosts SEVEN incredible workshops to choose from for performing arts enthusiasts grades K-12. Join them for their one-week workshops: Rise And Shine, Stage to Screen, The Comedy Of Errors, One Act Festival, and Dance Collective; or their two-week musical theater programs: Young Actors Workshop and Teen Intensive! Visit their website for more about BTC COVID protocols including a limited course size of 11 participants per program.
BTC is a not-for-profit 501c3 Organization; Tuition assistance is available based on demonstrated financial need. Register before April 20 for 10% off AND receive a FREE piece of BTC Swag when you mention Westchester NY Moms!
144 Croton Avenue, Ossining, NY
For 21 years Mike Risko Music in Ossining has been offering opportunities for kids to rock in a band from concept to concert during Summer Rock Band Camp. Kids are placed in bands and learn how to write and play songs, they name their band, create a music video and perform in a rockumentary at the end of the week. Music themed art projects and other music activities round out this really fun program in which you can register for one week or more, half day or full day.
If musical theater is more your style, Mike Risko Music’s musical theater camp program is not to be missed! Kids can choose from one week programs in which they create a show complete with singing, dancing and acting. For kids who want to be in a musical theater production, they can join us and be part of a Broadway style show. This program rehearses in the evenings and a show is performed at the end of the summer. For info on either program, email them at [email protected] or call 914-762-8757. Visit their website anytime at Mikeriskomusicschool.com.
One North Broadway, White Plains, NY
The Play Group Theatre is thrilled to hold its inspirational and exciting Camp PGT in person and on-site for Summer 2021! At Camp PGT, you can jump into the performing arts in a safe and fun environment at our beautiful home in downtown White Plains. With BOTH indoor and outdoor rehearsals and classes, Camp PGT is the perfect place to spend your summer!
Camp PGT offers programs for students ages 4-17 with classes in Musical Theatre, On Camera, Shakespeare, Design/Tech, Playwriting/Playmaking, Sketch Comedy, Improv, and more. With offerings in 1, 2, 3, and 4 week programs, you can mix and match your perfect summer with PGT! Visit playgroup.org/summer to find out more about all of their Summer 2021 offerings and to register for Camp PGT today!
11 City Place, 3rd Floor, White Plains, NY
Professional Theatre Training in a Professional Theatre. Now in its 17th year, WPPAC's annual Summer Theatre Academy is the region’s top professional theatre training program for young actors.
This summer, they are delighted to offer a wide array of programs for students ages 7-17 and all levels of experience. Their camps, which range from one to three weeks, give students the chance to shine in new Broadway hits and beloved musical theatre classics. Students spend their days training with their team of theatre professionals, working towards a performance in their state of the art theatre. All camps end with a full production including lights, sound, costumes – the works!
Their location in downtown White Plains, along with their Before and After Care program, make STA the perfect fit for working parents. Summer 2021 shows include Legally Blonde, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan and Annie! For more information visit wppac.com.
268 Veteran’s Road, Yorktown Heights, NY
Yorktown Stage offers Summer Theatre Camp Workshops in one-week sessions from 9:00 am - 3:30 pm weekdays (extended hours available from 8:00 am - 6:00 pm) during the summer. No previous experience necessary. Children will develop a productive and positive attitude, advance self-esteem, expand communication skills, establish confidence, experience the thrill of performing, discover exciting new interests, make new friends, and enjoy traditional camp activities. Every camp week concludes with a performance Where Every Child Has a Chance to Shine! To find out more about camp, visit their website at yorktownstage.org and select ‘CAMP’ then ‘SUMMER CAMP WORKSHOPS’.
Yorktown Stage Kids produces three productions annually featuring future theatre stars aged 6-18. YSK productions are guided by the professional Yorktown Stage staff, including director, choreographer, music director, lighting designer and sound designer. Exciting production values are added with sets and costumes. The experience for our young actors is nothing short of fantastic! To get involved just SIGN UP. No previous experience necessary. All registrants are guaranteed a role in the show. Prior experience and training are not required. During the rehearsal process, hidden talents are magically revealed. Visit their website at yorktownstage.org and select 'YORKTOWN STAGE KIDS' the 'PRODUCTIONS'.
- Class Act Studios
- Future Stars
- Purchase College
- Random Farms' Kids Theatre
- SOOP Theatre
- Standing Ovation Studios at Lighthouse Youth Theatre
- TADA! Youth Theater
- Theatre O
- Westchester Sandbox Theater
- Westchester School of Speech & Drama
- Full program camps- see article: The Best Day Camps in Westchester County & Nearby 2021