Kids Summer Camps 2025

It’s time to start planning ahead for those nine precious weeks of summer vacation, and there are dozens of exceptional local summer camps to choose from. Kids can breathe in fresh air while kayaking or paddling on a lake, build muscles hiking and biking in the forest, hone hockey skills or rip the duck in lacrosse. They can also try making pottery, painting a masterpiece or coding their own computer game. There’s no end to what your children can try out this year! Visit our Kids Camps in the Hills web page for an up-to-date guide to all the possibilities.

Classic camps

There’s a little bit of everything at traditional full-day camps with a good mix of outdoor fun, sports and games, plus arts and crafts. Daily adventures at the Town of Caledon’s summer camp include group games, science experiments and nature exploration. The littles learn outdoor skills like orienteering and building a shelter at TRCA’s Albion Hills Field Centre in Caledon, or try horseback riding, hockey, rock climbing and jousting (yes, jousting!) at Teen Ranch. Kids Inc. in Hillsburgh boasts a heated saltwater pool, play forest and outdoor stage, while Mansfield Outdoor Centre offers guided hikes, survival-skill training and campfire fun. And kids swim outdoors, go biking, learn stop motion animation and more at YMCA Cedar Glen Outdoor Centre just outside Bolton. 

Super sports

Children focus on volleyball and basketball at the Athlete Institute in Mono, or tennis, squash and more at Headwaters Racquet Club in Amaranth. The Hill Academy in Caledon is well known for its soccer, hockey and lacrosse camps, while young golfers tee it up at Shelburne Golf & Country Club or Lynbrook Family Golf Centre in Amaranth. Players run for the bases at Field of Dreams Baseball Camp in Caledon. In Orangeville kids flip out at Twisters Gymnastics. In addition to swimming and watersports in the Caledon quarry, C3’s Camp Quarry offers slacklining, beach volleyball and more.

All about the arts

There are loads of arts-focused camps in Orangeville, including theatre camp at Theatre Orangeville; dance camp at Academy of Performing Arts and Studio 3; and drawing, painting and sculpting at Maggiolly Art, Pottery Parties Studio and Ricky Schaede Art Studio. Kids let their imaginations take flight in art, music and more at Shelburne’s Streams Community Hub, and channel their inner musician at Bolton’s Hit That Note Music Studio. Kids can explore sculpting, screenwriting and ’zine making at the Raise-An-Artist Project in Ballinafad.

Saddle up

It’s easy to find an equestrian summer camp when you live in horse country. Erin’s Greyden Equestrian Centre has camps for first-time and beginner riders. Caledon Equestrian School teaches not only riding but also barn skills and stable management. Learn good horsemanship at the Rusty Jade Ranch in Caledon or Cantercall Riding School in Mono.  

Science rules

The Museum of Dufferin in Mulmur offers exciting themes that have kids putting on their thinking caps, while coding, robotics and Minecraft await at STEM Camp in Orangeville. Sharpen academic skills with half- and full-day camps at Megamind Learning Centre in Caledon.