Family Activities, Summer Camps and Activities

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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 help girls develop courage, confidence, and character through community service, exploration, workshops and adventures, including lessons in STEM, outdoors, life skills, entrepreneurship.

Kroka is a wilderness expedition school for young people based on an organic farm in Marlow, New Hampshire.

We offer a fun and inclusive wrestling classes for boys and girls with expert instructors and coaches.

We visit moms and dads of young children at a convenient location to share information about early literacy development, talking and reading with children, and community resources.

We offer a FREE summer program for students entering 8th grade whose families are Cambridge Housing Authority residents. Students receive a stipend.

We serve children and youth (ages 6-22) with disabilities by providing a super fun summer program full of outdoor activities, swimming, field trips, crafts, cooking, and more!

An Actors' Shakespeare Project and Central Square Theater Youth Co-Production
July 1- July 28 (Four Week Program / No Session July 4)

Supports families through home-based evaluations and services for children up to age 3 with or at risk for developmental delays.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture! Learn about the animals of the zodiac in this fun scavenger hunt across two museums, perfect for all ages.

We offer STEM programs every summer at various locations across New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts to children ages 6-13.

The camp provides an introductory sampling of hands-on science and engineering activities mixed with high school preparatory sessions.

We provide you with personal attention to improve your football skills and fundamentals.

We offer a fun-filled summer camp for ages 4 -13 with new themes and activities every week!

We offer regular programs, individual classes, and ZooCamp over the summer that features a curriculum of animal, science and conservation-based games and activities for children in grades PreK-12th.

We host a 6-week academy designed to expose participating youth to various duties associated with law enforcement as a profession through the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program.

Thousands of years ago, ancient people across the Mediterranean were connected to faraway places and cultures through trade. Learn more in this exhibition at Harvard's Museum of the Ancient Near East.