Summer is just around the corner, which means school districts will let students out for the break. Parents looking for camps for their children have a number of options to choose from in Central Austin. This list is not comprehensive.

All Saints’ Episcopal Day School
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 3-6 years old
  • Dates: May 27-July 18; two-week-long sessions
  • Cost: $630-$765 per session
ATX Ballers Fun Summer Basketball Camps!ATX Kids Club
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 4-13 years old
  • Dates: May 27-Aug. 15
  • Cost: $475; financial aid available
    • Various pickup/drop-off locations, 2006 Philomena St., Austin; 1100 Kingsbury St., 6710 Arroyo Seco, Austin
    • www.atxkidsclub.org
In partnership with Capital Metro, children explore Austin using public transportation at ATX Kids Club. Campers travel in small groups to visit various city landmarks, learning about Austin history, art, culture and environment while developing self-confidence and independence. (Courtesy ATX Kids Club)
Austin Film Festival’s Summer Film Camp
  • Type: arts
  • Ages: 9-18 years old
  • Dates: June 2-July 27, weekly sessions
  • Cost: $275-$495 per session; discounts available
Austin Playhouse Theatre Camps
  • Type: arts
  • Ages: 5-12 years old
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 8
  • Cost: $195-$340
Austin School of Film
  • Type: arts, education
  • Ages: 10-17 years old, varies by camp session
  • Dates: varies by camp session
  • Cost: $595 per session
Austin Youth Fitness
  • Type: sports
  • Ages: 4-11 years old, option for middle schoolers to join as junior coaches
  • Dates: June 2-July 25 and Aug. 4-15
  • Cost: $325-$600 per week
Badgerdog Creative Writing Summer Camps
  • Type: arts
  • Ages: 3rd-12th grade
  • Dates: June-July
  • Cost: $400, two-week-long sessions; $550 three-week-long sessions
Battle of the Bands Music Camp
  • Type: arts, education
  • Ages: 12-18 years old
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 2, two-week-long sessions
  • Cost: $600
Big Blue Swim School Super Improver ClinicsBrandy Perryman Shooting Camp Inc.
  • Type: sports
  • Ages: 7-16 years old
  • Dates: June 2- Aug. 7; four-day-long sessions
  • Cost: $299 per session
Camp Latinitas
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 9-14 years old
  • Dates: June 9-July 18, varies by camp session
  • Cost: $350 per week; scholarships available
Chaparral Ice
  • Type: sports
  • Ages: 6-14 years old
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 8
  • Cost: $450 per week; prorated at $90 for partial weeks; hot lunches $8 per day
Camp Headwaters at River Campus
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 6-12 years old
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 1
  • Cost: $400-$500 per week
Creator Camp
  • Type: education, arts
  • Ages: 6-13 years old
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 1
  • Cost: $174-$266; discounts and summer passes available
Crux Climbing Center Summer CampGame Worlds
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 8-18 years old
  • Dates: May 26-Aug. 8, weekly sessions
  • Cost: $725 per week; discounts available
Girlstart Summer Camp
  • Type: day
  • Ages: 4th-8th graders
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 1, weekly sessions
  • Cost: $450
Girlstart camp programming includes hands-on STEM activities, learning about technology, collaborative team building and other activities. (Courtesy Girlstart)
Idea Lab STEM Summer CampsiKids U Camp
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 5-10 years old
  • Dates: June 9-July 28
  • Costs: $395
    • 7005 Northledge Drive, Austin; 4001 Adelphi Lane, Austin
    • www.ikidsu.com
Jump! Gymnastic Camp JumpKidStrong
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 4-9 years old
  • Dates: varies by session
  • Cost: not provided
Mad Science Camps
  • Type: academic
  • Ages: 6-12 years old
  • Dates: May 27-Aug. 15
  • Cost: $240-$390
    • 7300 Hart Lane, Austin; 1112 W. 31st St., Austin; 1500 W. Anderson Lane, Austin; 5110 Manor Road, Austin; 7501 N. Capital of Texas Hwy., Austin; 1314 Exposition Blvd., Austin; 1201 Lavaca St., Austin; 1314 Exposition Blvd., Austin
    • www.austin.madscience.org
Mariposa Spanish Immersion Summer Camp
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 3-8 years old; 9 years and older can apply as assistants
  • Dates: May 27-30, June 2-6; weekly sessions
  • Cost: $335-$360 per weekly session
McKinney Roughs Nature ParkRaíces Summer Camp at Asian American Resource Center
  • Type: arts
  • Ages: 5-12 years old
  • Dates: June 9-27; June 30-July 18; July 21-Aug. 8
  • Cost: $420-$660 per three-week-long session
School of Design and Creative Technologies at UTStudio Preparatory
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 6-18 years old
  • Dates: July 15-17
  • Costs: TBD
Snapology
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 5-14 years old
  • Dates: May 27-Aug. 22
  • Costs: $295-$455 per week
Spilled Milk Social Club
  • Type: arts
  • Ages: 5-13 years old
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 11
  • Costs: $50 per child if enrolled for one or two weeks of camp; $85 per child if enrolled for three or more weeks of camp; $400 per weekly sessions; tuition assistance available
Sportball Austin
  • Type: sports
  • Ages: 3-9 years old
  • Dates: May 27-Aug. 15; varies by session
  • Cost: $240-$300 per week, varies by camp
The Art Garage
  • Type: arts
  • Ages: 6-14 years old
  • Dates: May 27-Aug. 15
  • Cost: $95 per day; $399 per week
The Rosendin Foundation Camp Build
This hands-on construction camp will teach campers how to build safely using construction tools. (Courtesy The Rosendin Foundation Camp Build)
Thinkery Summer Camps
  • Type: education
  • Ages: rising kindergarteners-rising 5th graders
  • Dates: June 2- Aug. 8; varies by camp
  • Cost: $425-$385 per weekly session
UTeach Outreach at UTUT RTF Media Camps
  • Type: arts, education
  • Ages: varies by camp
  • Dates: TBA
  • Cost: $300-$1,250; varies by camp
The UT Radio-TV-Film department offers camps such as stop-motion animation, storytelling, sound design, filmmaking, post-production, screenwriting and more. (Courtesy The University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio, Television and Film)
UT Sports Camps
  • Type: sports; overnight options vary by camp
  • Ages: K-12th graders; varies by camp and session
  • Dates: varies by camp
  • Costs: varies by camp
UT Sports Medicine Camp
  • Type: sports, education; overnight options
  • Ages: 12-18 years old
  • Dates: June 13-16
  • Costs: $699 overnight, $629 commuter
  • The University of Texas at Austin campus locations
  • www.sportsmedcamp.com
Wet and Wild Adventure Camp
  • Type: sports
  • Ages: 9-15 years old
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 15
  • Cost: $540-$600 per week
Young Rembrandts Summer Drawing WorkshopsZACH TheatreCamp Vamonos!
  • Type: day
  • Ages: 5-11 years old
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 8
  • Cost: $245 per week
kidsActing Studio
  • Type: one-week and multiweek theatre camps
  • Ages: 4-19 years old
  • Dates: May 26-Aug. 15
  • Cost: $305-$1,525
kidsActing Studio offers a theater camp with themes from "Descendants: Rise of Red," "Spider-Verse," "Moana 2," "Star Wars," "Annie," "Beauty and the Beast" and more. Show Choir camps will perform the songs of "Wicked," and campers can make their own scenes in the Acting for TV and Film camp. (Courtesy kidsActing Studio)
ESTEAM Learning Labs
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 4-16 years old
  • Dates: tailored camp session to the time frame needed by families
  • Cost: $450 per week
Summer Wonders
  • Type: education, arts
  • Ages: 1st-8th graders
  • Dates: June 9-July 25
  • Costs: $430 per week
Club SciKidz Austin
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 4-15 years old
  • Dates: June-July
  • Costs: $365 per week
Griffin School Summer Creative Camps
  • Type: arts
  • Ages: 11-14 years old
  • Dates: June 9-13
  • Costs: $300 per session
Dance DiscoveryFantastic Magic Camp
  • Type: magic, juggling, puppetry and games
  • Ages: 6-12 years old (Crestview location), 5-8 (Mt Playmore location)
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 15
  • Costs: $425 per week; discounts and scholarships available
German-Texas Heritage Society Sommercamp
  • Type: education
  • Ages: 3-10 years old
  • Dates: June 9-13; June 23-27; July 14-18, July 21-25; Aug. 4-8
  • Costs: $400 per week; after-hours camp $275
Shalom Austin JCamps
  • Type: religious, overnight
  • Ages: pre-K-9th graders
  • Dates: June 2-Aug. 20
  • Costs: $485-$545 for weekly sessions; $895-965 for two-week-long sessions
School of RockFirst Tee
  • Type: sports
  • Ages: 5-17 years old
  • Dates: June-August
  • Cost: $150-$350; scholarships available
Rock-About Kids Climbing Camp
  • Type: sports
  • Ages: 9-18 years old
  • Dates: June 2-July 18
  • Costs: $425 per session
Waterloo Summer Safety Camp