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2022 Summer Camp Guide

Brought to you by: Active Learning Centers

February 28, 2022

Summer is right around the corner, and that means it's time to start looking for summer camps! My kids get so excited each spring looking through all of the amazing options that the Lehigh Valley has to offer! I, on the other hand, get overwhelmed searching for the perfect fit for each kid. This year, Macaroni Kid Allentown and Macaroni Kid Bethlehem have teamed up to make this process just a little easier. Introducing, the best summer camps in the area! Click on the name of each camp for the more information, including dates and prices.


Active Learning Centers 

At Active Learning Centers, we do summer camp the way it used to be. Children spend most of their day outside playing. They have the opportunity to go to the swimming pool twice a week, go on field trips once a week and play at a local park at least once a week. The only things you won't find at this summer camp are TV's and video games... this is Active Learning Centers. We mean the "Active" part! 




The Art Establishment

The Art Establishment offers unique camps for the creative children in your life. From pottery to comics, felting to printmaking, Harry Potter-themed and more! These camps are for children aged 5 and up. 





Jewish Community Center of the Lehigh Valley

Camp Adventure lets kids be kids, with active, hands-on fun at every turn! Campers enjoy our newly-upgraded campus, which features outdoor activities on our sports fields and courts, two swimming pools, playgrounds, and our beloved paved scooter path. We are adding lots of surprise new elements while bringing back all of our traditional favorites from years past including specialty activities that make for great memories. In addition to daily swimming (with instructional swim for all Camp Adventure campers), children will engage in activities with trained specialists in athletics, arts and crafts, and science and nature. They will use their imaginations, fire up their sensory motors, engineer and build their own Lego designs, and so much more.




Camp Imagine

Camp Imagine 2022 - Anything is Possible..

This year we are offering six different day camps, which allow your kids to participate in educational experiences based throughout our city. With so many things to do, ranging from crafts specific to the camps theme to STEM and art activities, they are sure to use their Imagination and see that Anything is Possible...






Academy of Dance

If your little princess is looking for a magical week this summer, look no further! Academy of Dance offers camps for children ages 3 and up. There are also plenty of opportunities for older and more experienced dancers.... and even mamas who want to let loose and get in shape! 



Learning in Motion

Our five week camps begins July 11th through August 11th. Your child will enjoy literacy, math, science, and art lessons while exploring different attractions throughout the U.S.A.! Each day your child will explore music and different gross motor activities. We believe that children learn best when they are actively engaged in their lessons and have the opportunity to communicate with their peers. That is why all of our lessons are based on active learning. Join us for a summer of fun! 



The Musik Makers

The Musik Makers has four different summer camps for the musical kiddos in your life, for children in kindergarten all the way through twelfth grade! Whether your child is interested in becoming a future broadway star or staying behind the scenes and songwriting, there's something for them!



Dance Fusion

Building a lifetime of memories... THIS IS YOUR SUMMER! Dance Fusion offers a variety of dance camps for ages 6-17 years and special half-day camps for potty-trained children ages 3-5. All Camps run Monday - Friday. Full day and half day camps are available. Before/After care is also available at an additional cost. 



Creative Learning Lab

Creative Learning Lab offers full and half day camps and intensives for children ages 5 and up. Whether your child is interested in music, art, fashion design, or coding, Creative Learning Lab has a unique camp for you! 



Elite Sports Academy

Don't Bore Your Kids This Summer!! Bring Them To The Most Active and Youth Sports Minded Summer Camp Program In The Area!! Camp Registration Is Open Now!

Elite KIDS Summer Camps Benefits and Features:

  • A safe, fun environment for kids
  • No rain outs- indoor activies available for bad weather 
  • Huge variety of activities; including the Iron Mike outdoor batting cages 
  • Conveniently located in Emmaus, minutes from I-78 
  • Affordable price
  • No long term commitments




Banana Factory

ArtsQuest’s Summer Arts Camp at the Banana Factory Arts Center offers eight weeks of camp options for children ages 4-18. In 2022, your child will explore the world through different artistic processes as we examine a new continent each week. Choose from full-day and half-day sessions. In a full day, our youngest campers (ages 4-9) rotate through four different courses in 2D and 3D artwork, taught by our talented Teaching Artists. Projects are designed to promote creativity and freedom of expression while building artistic skill. Young artists are grouped together by age to explore mixed media, drawing, painting, fiber arts, printmaking, sculpture, and more inspired by the week’s themed continent. At the end of each week, students will demonstrate and showcase their work to family and friends at the Art Party! 

Studio Intensives are designed with teens and pre-teens in mind. These courses offer older campers (ages 10-18) the opportunity to explore new mediums in-depth. Each week, professional Teaching Artists will guide pre-teens and teens to explore and build foundational skills in a variety of artistic mediums.


Amazing Athletes

Looking for something part-time for your littlest athlete? Sometimes our youngest aren't quite ready for a half-day or full-day camp.  Look no further! Amazing Athletes offers shorter sessions for children ages 18 months - 6 years. These sessions are a great way to introduce your young child to a variety of different sports in locations throughout the Lehigh Valley.



Rising Light Ridge 


Rising Light Ridge (RLR), a ministry of the Tim Tebow Foundation, is thrilled to offer its 2nd season of rustic summer camp experiences! Children will participate in exciting activities where they can grow together physically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually in a community of belonging. 

Open to all children ages 8-17, summer camps run 7 weeks with 6-day sessions each week. Programming is created around a model of small-group camping; 10 kids and 2 staff members split into “Family” groups! Enthusiastic, specially trained and certified staff will lead campers in outdoor fun such as:

  • Tent Camping - Rustic building free camp sites
  • Archery
  • Aquatics (Kayaking, Lake Swimming and Fishing)
  • Nature Walks
  • Nature Themed Arts and Crafts
  • Creative Free Play Space
  • Community and Team Building Activities
  • Sports
  • Musical Activities
  • Campfire Cooking (Dutch Ovens, Cast Iron Skills, and more!)
  • Bible Studies and Worship

Come and experience a summer camp Custom Made for them! Registration is NOW OPEN; sign up your child or grandchild today!


Star of the Day

Star of the Day’s award-winning summer musical theatre camps in Emmaus, PA are back for another season! “Winnie The Pooh Kids” is perfect for the young student just starting out in musical theatre, ages 5-11. Our new Summer Spotlight Little Stars will take place the last two weeks in June and culminate with 2 public performances. 

The first three weeks of August, we’ll welcome a new class of Summer Spotlight Academy students for a well-rounded musical theatre intensive. Students will be immersed in acting, movement, music, puppetry, stage makeup, stage combat, costume and set design, art, world culture, audition technique, and more. Student performers will also produce a fully staged production of Legally Blonde, Jr. 

Camp Details, Enrollment, and Pricing visit www.StaroftheDay.org

 


Bonus CertifiKID Deals

Science Explorers

This summer, topics include Far Out Space Academy, Fizz Bang Boom Bot!, Rockin’ Concoctions, Take a Dive, and Jr. Discoverers!

 

Science Explorers offers STEM summer camps for children ages 4-11 that aim to spark a passion for science using hands-on lessons designed to excite the mind and demystify the world of science. The week-long camps let children explore the wonders of science in an engaging, friendly, and exciting atmosphere. From creating fun experiments to participating in mind-blowing activities, campers will walk away curious and inspired.

 

Science Explorers is dedicated to providing families with a STEM experience that is educational, fun, and safe. Small cohorts of only 10-20 campers will keep everyone safe and engaged! Campers will also get to take home at least one experiment from each lesson, along with a Parent Page “lab sheet” with the science themes from that lesson and tips for extension activities.

YMCA Camp Mason

YMCA Camp Mason has been a place for campers from all walks of life, fostering deep friendships and lasting memories for more than 120 years. Located next to the 70,000-acre Delaware Water Gap, the comfortable facility offers a wide range of activities for all ages.  

There's a skate park, ropes course, hiking/biking trails, outdoor amphitheater, equestrian program, arts, cooking, water activities, and sports courts just to name a few offerings! Camp Mason is where your camper will have fun, learn essential skills, develop relationships and explore positive values, all while being celebrated for being themselves.

Camp Mason is accredited by the American Camp Association and their community is based upon the four core YMCA values of respect, honesty, caring and responsibility.  



Camp Netimus

If you are looking for a Summer Camp for Girls, where you can grow and have fun while building confidence, character, and lifelong relationships, Camp Netimus for Girls is your premiere choice.

Camp Netimus, a residential summer camp for girls, located in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania, is home to 145 sleep-away campers and more than 80 staff members who come from across the United States and from countries around the world. Camp Netimus was founded in 1930 and continues to provide an exciting and enriching summer camp experience for girls ages 7-16.

The Camp Netimus Directors believe there is real value in simply having fun. The goal is to provide girls with a caring, nurturing residential summer camp experience filled with moments of self-discovery and spirited activity. Instilled with the tradition of warmth, caring and companionship, Camp Netimus is a place where enduring relationships are born and lifelong friendships develop. Girls return to their summer camp year after year; many following the traditions of their mothers and grandmothers.

Campers can enjoy a variety of over 40 activities such as horseback riding, swimming, rock climbing, hiking, boating, canoeing, water skiing, sailing, mountain biking, tennis, photography, and crafts to name a few. Camp Netimus has been a Sleepaway camp for girls since 1930, and has helped thousands of girls have the summer camp experience of their life.

Challenger International Soccer Camp

This summer, learn new skills from an international team of soccer coaches - at Challenger International Soccer Camp!

Staffed by international and domestic coaches, Challenger camps teach a fun, technical, and tactical based curriculum, inspired by the world’s leading soccer nations. Challenger International Soccer Camps is featuring an exciting new curriculum for 2022 and once again they will be creating a multi-faceted on and off-field summer camp experience. With over 2,000 soccer camps in every state nationwide, camps include:

  • Tiny Tykes Soccer Camp for Ages 2 - 5: A fun introduction to soccer including games, activities, and adventures develop coordination, balance, running, stopping, turning, kicking, dribbling, throwing and catching.
  • Half-Day Soccer Camp for Ages 5 - 16: Great for new and experienced players! Each camp day includes individual foot skills, technical drills, tactical practices, small-sided games and coached scrimmages.
  • Full-Day Soccer Camp for Ages 8 - 18: A combination of the half-day camp program, along with additional developmental soccer practices, games, competitions, challenges and fun activities.


Breakthrough Basketball

Score big in 2022 - at a Breakthrough Basketball Camp!

With 300 basketball camps nationwide, Breakthrough Basketball coaches firmly believe that they have a very important responsibility and an amazing opportunity to have a positive impact on their players' lives.  Breakthrough Basketball Camps include:

  • Attack & Counter Basketball Camps with Don Kelbick
  • Ball Handling, Shooting & Decision Training Skills Camp
  • Essential Youth Skills & Decision Making
  • Shooting Camps
  • Scoring, Shooting & Ball Handling Camps
  • Elite Skills & Playmaking Camps
  • "Littles" Camp for K - 4th Graders
  • Overnight Camps