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School Break Camps: Holiday and Spring Break Camps That'll Keep Kids Busy on Days Off

Texas Rock Gym Camps. Photo courtesy Canva
Texas Rock Gym Camps. Photo courtesy Canva
3/3/24 - By Elizabeth R

If you don't have travel plans and need to find a few spring break camps, then you're in the right place. After all, parents can always use extra help when schools are closed—not just for spring break, but for weeks off during the holidays, not to mention those non-holiday long weekends. 

From The Heights to Bellaire and the arts to aviation, we think you'll find something perfect for your family in the camps we've rounded up here. As an added benefit, some places offer holiday camps on long weekends when schools are closed and summer camps too! Speaking of summer, popular camps fill up fast, so check out our favorite free and affordable camps in the Houston area and more camps for kids of all ages and interests in our Houston Summer Camp Guide.

 

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Holiday and Spring Break Camps in the Inner Loop

The ARTZ

The Heights - Age 2 and up
Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break, Winter Break, School Holidays
The Artz strives to provide a safe and productive enviroment where kids ages 2+ and adults can learn all things aerial and circus related while building self confidence. Choose from summer and holiday camps, as well as weekend and after school classes. Private instructional aerial and circus parties are also available. READ MORE

Crossing Borders International Camps

Rice University - Ages 4 and up
Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break
Crossing Borders International Preschool's summer camps offer a fun curriculum for students to learn a second language using songs, games, and vocabulary. Special Friday activities include splash days, movie days, cooking days, and more. READ MORE

Discover Gymnastics

The Heights - Ages 3 and up
Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break, Winter Break, School Holidays
Discovery Gymnastics serves over 2,000 children through various gymnastics classes and camps. Both competitive and non-competitive classes are offered, as well as parent-child, tumbling specific, rhythmic, and fitness classes, homeschool classes, and special needs classes. You can also book birthday parties or sign up for different camps throughout the year. READ MORE

Artmix Studio

Upper Kirby - Ages 4 and up
Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break, School Holidays
Budding artists draw, paint, and sculpt their way through camp as they explore culture, landscape, artists, and artisans. At the end of the camp session each camper will walk away with a special collection of their artwork. In addition to in-person camp options, artmix is also offering virtual camp options.  READ MORE

Houston Arboretum & Nature Center Camps

Memorial Park - Ages 4 and up
Offering: Spring Break, Winter Break, Summer Break
Explore nature and all it has to offer through one of the Arboretum's week-long day camps. Each week campers dive into a different aspect of nature through interactive indoor and outdoor activities and adventures. Campers must be registered according to the age they will be at the time of the camp. Half day, full day, and after camp options are available. READ MORE

Alley Theatre

Downtown - Ages Kindergarten through 8th
Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break
Alley Theater offers an experience that brings creativity, applause, and new friends to your kids. Children will explore big ideas and questions connected to award-winning children's books as they learn about acting, storytelling, movement, and markerspace. READ MORE

The Health Museum Discovery Camps

Museum District - Ages 5-10
Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break
Kids dive into the world of health, science, and STEM through interactive activities in veterinary science, biology, chemistry, and medicine. Games, crafts, videos, and presentations keep kids learning during each of the week-long sessions. READ MORE

Holiday and Spring Break Camps in South East Houston

Houston Botanic Garden BotaniCamp

Park Place - Ages Kindergarten through 5th grade
Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break
This plant-centric nature camp for K-5 students features weekly themes that delve into flowers, farms, gardens, insects, waterways, herbs, and more. The curriculum is inquiry- and sensory-driven, so kids can get hands-on for learning opportunities that go beyond simply observing.  READ MORE

Space Center Houston Explorer Camp

Clear Lake - Ages 4-11
Offering Spring Break, Summer Break
Explore the world of space exploration and STEM through engaging and interactive activities, challenges, and experiences throughout Space Center Houston.  READ MORE

Lone Star Flight Museum Camps

Clear Lake - Ages 9-14 Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break
Explore flight and aviation in camps that teach history, technology, space exploration, and beginner flight school training.  READ MORE

Holiday and Spring Break Camps in West Houston

Texas Rock Gym Camps

Memorial - Ages 7-17
Offering: Spring Break, Fall Break, Winter Break, Summer Break
Texas Rock Gym offers young people the opportunity to explore their limits and conquer their fears while providing a safe environment geared towards teamwork and problem-solving while climbing. READ MORE

HIT Indoor Baseball and Softball Camps

Memorial - Ages 6-12
Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break
HIT Indoor offers a softball and baseball skills summer camp from 9am to 2pm, and for kids ages 6-12. Campers are split up by age and ability and learn the essentials of fielding and batting from coaches and high school-age assistants. READ MORE

Bach to Rock

Memorial - Ages 4 and up
Offering; Spring Break, Summer Break, Winter Break
With the help of the music pros at Bach to Rock, children of all skill levels will get to play real instruments, put on performances with friends, and unleash their inner rock star. Full- and half-week camps along with half-week and day camps are available for your musical camper. READ MORE

Houston Gymnastics Academy

Bellaire - Ages 3-12
Offering: Winter Break, Summer Break
At Houston Gymnastics Academy you will find mom and me classes, preschool programs, recreational programs, competitive teams, a tumbling and trampoline team, summer camps, party options, and other program options. Children can begin classes as early as 1 year and progress from recreational gymnastics to competitive gymnastics as they master each level. READ MORE
Little girl at a STEM camp. Photo courtesy of Code Ninjas
Little girl at a STEM camp. Photo courtesy of Code Ninjas

Holiday and Spring Break Camps With Multiple Locations Across Greater Houston

Mad Science of Houston Camps

Age 3-12
Offering: Summer Break, School Holidays
Hands-on activities provide campers the opportunity to explore science in a fun and exciting way. Each week of camp explores a different science-related theme and the days are filled with experiments, interactive demonstrations, and take-home projects. Additionally, virtual camp options are available for anyone who wants to take part in the Mad Science summer camp experience from their own home.  READ MORE

Kids Robotic Academy

Ages 3.5 and up
Offering: Spring Break, Fall Break, Summer Break, Winter Break
Camps at Kids Robotic Academy combine science, technology, engineering, and math to teach a variety of skills, such as problem solving, critical and creative thinking, and teamwork. Different types of camp target specific age groups with unique learning objectives and individual experiences. READ MORE

Code Ninjas Summer Coding Camp

Ages 5 and up
Offering: Spring Break, Summer Break, Winter Break
At Code Ninjas, kids can pick from multiple camp themes including app development, drone flying, building robotics, video game creation, website coding, and more. Camps teach kids valuable tech skills and encourage learning in an interactive and encouraging way. READ MORE

Space City Fencing Academy

Ages 6 and up
Offering: Winter Break, Summer Break, Spring Break
Space City Fencing Academy's recreational fencing summer camps and classes for beginners are unique, athletic, and fun all summer long. Its indoor program features world-class instructors for six-year-olds all the way up to adults who are interested in the exciting world of swordplay. READ MORE

Cordovan Art School

Ages 5-16
Offering: School Holidays, Spring Break, Summer Break, Fall Break, Winter Break
Professional art teachers guide kids on an adventure in themed weekly camps that include Live animals, Video Game Art, Super Heroes & Villains, Pets, Pokemon, Sea Life, and Anime. Kids of any skill level get to experience techniques using clay, watercolor, acrylics, pastels, paper mache, and more. READ MORE

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