Parents looking for summer camp for their children in the Pearland-Friendswood area have a number of options to choose from. This list is not comprehensive.
Alvin
Victory Camp
This is an inter-denominational camp that offers day and overnight camps. Activities include Bible lessons, swimming, outdoor activities and crafts.
Type: day, overnight
Ages: grades 1-12
Dates: June, varies on camp
Cost: $250-$279 (per camp)
Friendswood
Generate YM360 Summer Camp - First Baptist Friendswood
This is a week-long camp, in which students who completed sixth to 12th grade in the 2024-25 school year can travel to Dayton, Tennessee. The students will stay at the Bryan College campus to learn more about religious faith.
Type: overnight, traveling
Ages: grades 6-12
Dates: June 1-6
Cost: $449-$499 (varies by registration date)
Friendswood Summer Day Camp
This camp features activities in arts and crafts, games, swimming, team and individual sports, as well as field trips to local parks and attractions.
Type: day
Ages: 6-13
Dates: May-August
Cost: $150-$305
Chess Camp - The Knight School
This camp offers multiple week-long sessions throughout the summer, which involves learning new chess tactics each day through puzzles and movies, as well as chess tournaments.
Type: day
Ages: grades K-6
Dates: June-July
Cost: $175-$450
Manvel
SMART Core Labs
This education-based business offers engaging and educational activities, hands-on science, technology, engineering, art and math, or STEAM, projects, robotics and coding. The business also has a location in Pearland.
Type: academics
Ages: 5-10+
Dates: May-August
Cost: $325 (per week)
Ivy Kids of Manvel
This camp offers engaging activities with themed weeks that involve crafts, sports, cooking, coding, reading and games.
Type: academics
Ages: 5-12
Dates: May-August
Cost: call for pricing
Pasadena
Armand Bayou Nature Center - EcoCamp
EcoCamp offers active outdoor experiences, such as fishing, canoeing, pond exploration, insect collecting, bird watching, hiking and dip netting.
Type: day
Ages: 4-13
Dates: June-August
Cost: $170-$330 (per week), $60-$75 (single day)
Pearland
A B Sea Preschool
The preschool offers a summer camp for activities, including gardening, crafts and cooking, among other activities.
Type: academics
Ages: 2-8
Dates: June-July
Cost: $260 (per week)
Alpha Omega Gymnastics & Dance
This gym and dance academy offers themed camp weeks, which involve culture, crafts, science, fine arts, gymnastics, dance, in-house field trips and a water day.
Type: arts, sports
Ages: 3+
Dates: June-August
Cost: $177-$293 per week
Art Camp
This camp offers sessions with science, technology, engineering, art and math, or STEAM, projects. Each session offers opportunities for drawing, sketching, cartooning, painting, mixed media, sculpture and art history.
Type: arts
Ages: 6+
Dates: June-August
Cost: $250-$325
Bay Area Equestrian Center
Summer horse camps teach riding skills and equine knowledge.
Type: sports, day
Ages: 6-12
Dates: June-August
Cost: not released yet
Camp Invention: Discover
Camp Invention has hands-on science, technology, engineering and math activities.
Type: academics
Ages: grades K-6
Dates: June-August
Cost: $295 (preregistration)
Coomer Ballet Conservatory
This business offers weekly camps centered around specific themes. Other classes, such as workshops focused on Broadway routines, jazz performances and two weeks of summer intensives, are available as well.
Type: arts
Ages: 4-12
Dates: June 2-Aug. 8
Cost: $375 (per week), $25 (new student registration fee), extended care options available
Crosspoint Church Connect Camp
This camp includes activities, such as archery, crafts and outdoor games, as well as daily faith-based lessons.
Type: day
Ages: grades K-5
Dates: June 16-20
Cost: $247
iCode
This camp offers a variety of themed 5-day camps, including Minecraft, game development, programming, engineering, 3D printing and stop motion animation, among other themes.
Type: academics
Ages: 5-18
Dates: May-August
Cost: $459-$479 (per 5-day camp)
KidsU - University of Houston Clear Lake
KidsU provides opportunities for children to learn more about science, math, reading, literacy, technology or cultures.
Type: academics
Ages: grades K-7
Dates: June-July
Cost: $130 (per session)
Monart School of Art, Technology and Sports
This school offers activities in arts and crafts, sports, music and technology in week-long camps throughout the summer.
Type: day
Ages: 3+, varies on camp type
Dates: May 27-Aug. 8
Cost: $200-$450, $50-$60 (single day)
School of Rock
This music-based academy offers different weekly camps, with lessons for beginners, music theory, as well as a “Best of the 90s” camp, which will celebrate bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day and Weezer.
Type: arts
Ages: 5-12
Dates: June-July
Cost: $250-$450 (per camp)
Wonder Camp - Vic Coppinger Family YMCA in Pearland
YMCA Wonder Camp offers themed weeks that combine outdoor activities with hands-on science activities, water activities, creating and performing arts, and field trips.
Type: academic, arts, day, sports
Ages: 5-12
Dates: May 27-Aug. 1, 6:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Cost: $200 (per week), $45 (registration fee)
Webster
Kids Scuba Camp
Kids Scuba Camp offers educational experience leading to open water self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, or SCUBA, certification. Information is presented in written, video and lecture formats, which are practiced in a pool and open water environment.
Type: sports
Ages: 10+
Dates: June-August
Cost: $695 (per week)
Summer Warrior Camp
This camp offers interactive classes for kids to do martial arts, science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, activities, arts and crafts, movement and field trips.
Type: academics, arts, sports
Ages: 5-14
Dates: June-August
Cost: $119-$199 (per week), $75 (registration fee)