Early Childhood Opportunities, Summer Camps and Activities

The program follows an Illustrative Math Curriculum with a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to math, enabling students to learn mathematics meaningfully.

The Cambridge Children’s Circle offers small play-based vacation week and summer programs rooted in fostering young children’s social and emotional development and going on daily city-wide adventures.

Join us for Summer Lacrosse Wednesdays, no experience needed, just a place to have fun and play lacrosse with your peers for free!

We've created orienteering courses throughout the city of Cambridge to get you and your family outside and moving around. Check out our map courses on our website!

We offer a progression of map navigation activities for home-schooled students who want to learning individually or in a group.

Join us on the basketball courts this summer! We offer recreational basketball for children, youth, and teens ages 8-19 that take place in the evenings at outdoor courts around Cambridge.

We offer young players a chance to play hockey outside over the summer. Our league will focus on skills, drills, and game competitions for new and experienced players of all identities.

Cambridge Camping's CCAccess scholarship program makes unforgettable camp accessible to all, offering day and overnight options.

We promote the earliest parent-child relationships by helping parents manage the care of a new baby.

We're offering week-long Model UN day programs for students from all over the world to work together and address global issues.

JOYweavers celebrates children and families with great summer programming! We offer accessible, inclusive programming for children who benefit from a smaller setting.

We offer a summer camp where children play sports activities all day!

We offer a tuition-free summer program where youth learn about gardening, STEM activities and experiments, environmentalism, leadership, and team building games.

Qualifying individuals can apply to receive affordable internet access and a new laptop.

Habitat Nature Day Camp has been engaging children since 1974.

We offer summer ballet classes and dance programs, primarily for children of all levels ages 3-10 years-old.

We offer summer jobs to Cambridge teens, from age 14 through the summer after they graduate high school.

We provide an engaging and empowering summer dance program for children and teens.

We offer a summer camp option for 3 weekly sessions for current 1st-6th graders. Each week has a different topic as the central theme.

Enjoy a selection of local, family-owned and operated food trucks every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space, with plenty of outdoor seating options available!

Join us for a math-focused summer! Kids entering grades 3-8 will play math games, learn to do art and music with a math focus, and become better solvers of non-standard, hard math problems.

Our overnight camp provides activities and intensive workshops in performing arts to youth from low-income families.

We host summer break theatre camps for 8-12 year-olds, led by professional actors and teaching artists from Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Join us for one or for both!

We offer campers a fun way to spend their summer exploring their favorite subjects and activities with our classic, specialty, and sports summer camps!

We offer STEM programs at various locations across New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts to children ages 4-13.

Our summer camp helps campers decide what they learn and do.

This is a free-of-cost STEM summer day program aimed at students with low income and/or low exposure to STEM.