If you're looking for activities to keep your kids busy this summer, then we have a great selection of camps this year on our Activities Calendar for Kids! Don't forget, you can filter the camps by category using the colored legend at the bottom of the page.
To give you a taste of what’s on offer, here is a selection of some of the camps we have listed:
Multi-activity
Many of the camps we feature on our site cover a wide range of activities to suit all tastes. Quite often they include some arts and crafts, a bit of music and dance, some sport, a touch of drama, and even some cooking. Some organizations prefer to group lots of different activities into one week, whilst others prefer to offer a choice of different camps each one focusing on a specific type of activity.
Some of the main providers of multi-activity camps we have listed on the site are:
- La Bulle D’Air: For kids age 2 to 9 years (in Petit-Saconnex and Grand-Saconnex). Parents stay with the younger kids age 2-4 years. Activities include music, art, drama and dance.
- Key English School: You can be sure that there will be lots to capture your children’s imagination at this year's series of camps for children age 3 to 14 years. Various locations in Geneva and Vaud.
- Gymboree Play & Music: Ideal for young kids age 3 to 5 years, with a focus on art projects, active play, and music. Based in Geneva.
- Champittet Summer Leadership course for children age 12 to 17 years is a great place to develop communication skills, goal setting, time and stress managemement techniques.
- Village Day Camps are running camps for 4 to 14 year-olds on 3 different themes: Multi-activity; Football; and Language (English and French).
- Ecolint Summer Camps is offering an exciting array of camps for kids across its 3 campuses this year, including creative play, circus, cookery, multi-activity, multi-sports, gymnastics, soccer, dance, music and theater.
- The Chatterbox is running a series of camps for children age 3 to 5 years. With great titles such as Dog Day, Rock & Roll T-shirts, Tom Thumb Circus, Flamenco Dancing and Mission to Mars, we are sure your kids will have lots of fun!
There are yet more multi-activity workshops provided by established camp organizers such as Atelier Feuille Caillou Ciseaux, Chantemerle School, L’Ecoline, and Collège du Léman. I’m sorry, but we can’t possibly include them all here!
Whilst multi-activity camps are certainly popular with the kids, many children prefer to focus on one particular type of activity: these are kids who see themselves as perhaps arty or sporty but not both! Here is a taste of some of the camps, focusing on one specific activity:
Sport
- The International All American Basketball Camp held in Geneva is a favorite with both boys and girls age 7 to 20, not just those who attend the day camp but also those wishing to take advantage of the full residential program of activities.
- InterSoccer is popular with boys and girls, age 3 to 13. Numerous locations throughout Geneva, Vaud and neighboring France.
- Coerver Coaching is offering 4 weeks of summer and pre-season soccer camps for players age 6 to 14.
- Playball Summer Camps are ideal for younger kids (age 2 to 8) and are packed with sports, learning new skills, sportsmanship, team work and outdoor fun.
- GO Dive scuba-diving lessons - private teaching or small groups, from age 12 years.
- JoTo Tennis is running 4 different levels of camps throughout July and August.
- Golf Geneva is running summer camps for kids age 4 to 5 and 6 to 9 years at the beginning of July, in Geneva and Bellevue.
- Led by former NBA / FIBA player Antoine Gillespie, the Basketball Challenge Camp is targeted at boys and girls age 8 to 16 years.
- Mountain biking and Kayaking for kids age 10 to 14 years with the Service des Sports de la Ville Genève.
- Kids Up is running circus camps for kids from 5 years of age in both Geneva and Lausanne this year.
- Sisters n Sport has organized netball camps at the International School of Lausanne, Institut International de Lancy, and GEMS World Academy-Switzerland over 3 separate weeks in July and August this year.
Creative
There is a huge range of creative camps for kids in this region. If your child is into arts and crafts, music or cooking, then take a look at:
- Julie’s Summer Music Program
- Just Sew Geneva’s sewing camps
- Safran Cuisine’s cooking camps
- Creative Monsters’ summer sessions
- Naomi Middelmann’s art camps
- Kohlene Hendrickson art and creativity workshops
- Atelier "Les Mains Habiles" creative workshops
- Kids Up circus camps
Languages
Any families wanting to use the summer holidays to improve their child’s language skills should find the following courses useful:
- Active Languages is offering a series of conversation classes for teenagers throughout July and August.
- The GEMS Language in Action Summer Programme includes 3 courses, a bilingual one for children age 4 to 6 years, and French and English courses for older kids up to 16 years-old. With professional musicians amongst the teaching staff, you can be sure the kids will have lots of fun on these camps!
- Although listed under Multi-Activity camps, the Key English School is primarly a school for teaching the English language to both Anglophones and non-Anglophones. The aim of the school is to make language learning fun, so that kids often don’t even realize they are learning a new language.
- The Hungry Caterpillar/Fun with English are offering camps in the Nyon area for various age groups.
Technology and Maths
For those interested in new technology, there are many new camps emerging in the region with a focus on making technology fun for children.
- New this year, Techspark Academy is running a series of technology courses for teenagers at the Campus des Nations in Grand-Saconnex. Covering the development of apps and computer games, robotics, and digital photography and film, you are bound to find something for your child! All courses are taught in English by top EPFL students.
- Futurekids offers a series of workshops targeted at different age groups (5 to 16) and covering popular topics such as robotics and building your own video games. With centers in Geneva, Nyon and Lausanne, the classes are run in French but you can ask if the instructors also speak English when you enrol.
- In addition to its “A la carte” half day, full day or full week summer workshops using lego bricks, Bricks4Kidz also offers a series of week-long camps focusing on robotics (Mindstorms® and Wedo®) at their center in St. Sulpice, Vaud.
- We really like the new camps being offered by Peak Results in Gilly this year. Incorporating maths in a wide range of fun activities (and helping kids brush up on the skills required to pass their exams), the camps have been divided into 4 main themes this year: Restaurant in a Week; New Recruits; Pirates & Peglegs; and Escape Camp. Targeted at kids age 5 to 17 years, the camps include at least one overnight stay somewhere in Switzerland!
Others
If your child doesn’t fit into any of the above categories, then this camp may be of interest to you:
- The organization, All Special Kids, is running a series of week-long bilingual camps for children with special needs and related learning differences. With activities ranging from multi-sensory games, arts and crafts through to outdoor trips, drama and music, children will learn a variety of creative communication and social skills. Tutoring in specific subjects is also offered to those children who might benefit from extra support during the holidays.
For the full list of camps on our website, visit our Activities Calendar for Kids. If you would like to recommend a camp to us that has not already been listed on the website, please send us details via the website.
