Purchase College provides unique and fun opportunities for students to spend the summer exploring the visual, performing, and digital arts guided by experienced instructors and practicing artists. 

Youth programs for grades 3-8 encourage exploration of a variety of artistic genres—from creative writing, filmmaking, and photography to acting and creating epic virtual reality adventures. 

Precollege programs for grades 9-12 allow high school students who are motivated artists, performers, musicians, filmmakers, writers, or scientists and/or have an interest in pursuing these disciplines on a college level to pursue their passion or to create work to bolster college applications. 

Programs run one, two, or four weeks. Participants can choose between exciting and inspiring programs in app creation, architecture, creative writing, digital arts, filmmaking, journalism, music, performing arts, theatre, visual arts, and video game development.

PYT offers a seven-week day camp for children entering 1st through 12th grade with full-day and half-day options. Founded on the principle that children should be taught by top, vetted professionals who themselves have received the best training and enjoyed successful careers, PYT brings in only the most qualified instructors from NYC to comprise its faculty.

PYT's summer camp offers students an opportunity to study theater intensively over a seven-week period. Students are exposed to every aspect of musical theater, including both the performing arts and technical elements of theater. Students spend the first half of each day working on acting, singing, and dancing technique with top faculty. Special guest teaching artists, many of whom are currently on Broadway, visit students weekly to delve into specific areas of interest. In the afternoons, students rehearse for their end-of-summer musical, a large-scale, professional-caliber production.

The Secret Theatre provides an eclectic mix of plays, musicals, children's theatre, dance, and other events. It's also the headquarters of the Secret Theatre Academy, which has been providing some of the best musical theatre and drama instruction in Queens for over 9 years. Classes offered include Drama, Broadway Musical, Film Acting, Tap, and even one-to-one private lessons and audition coaching. The faculty is led by writer/director Richard Mazda, who teaches all classes for tweens and teens.

The STA also offers several day-camps which have become very popular. During the week-long camps for winter and spring break—as well as throughout the summer—students create and perform a whole show in just 5 days. Campers participate in fun theatre games, build social skills, collaborate on an original script, and then present a fully realized show for family and friends.

Registration is open—come show your stuff!

<p>At play:ground NYC&#39;s summer camp, play:ground&#39;s Governors Island play lot is a blank slate, ready to be transformed into a land of your own imagining. Trained playworkers help create an environment of exploration and creativity. Young adventurers have the chance to work with tools and building materials free for use, work with fine art and handcrafting materials, have the option for daily field trips to other areas and projects on Governors Island, and practice creative collaboration and group problem solving.​ Camp runs for ten 1-week sessions.&nbsp;Multi-week and&nbsp;sibling discounts are available, and play:ground NYC is&nbsp;offering two scholarships per session which will partially reduce the fee. Following its huge success last summer, play:ground NYC is thrilled to be bringing back its &ldquo;girls only&rdquo; session at The Yard! Any campers who self-identify as female, trans, and gender non-conforming are welcome.</p>

New Pond Farm Education Center offers all-new summer programs for preschool and elementary school students. 

Preschool Camp (ages 4-5): New Pond Farm Education Center looks forward to welcoming your budding naturalist for mornings of discovery and fun. Hands-on activities include explorations in the center's woodlands, stream, and marsh; fun with friendly program animals; a morning with the farm animals; and nature crafts.

Summer Camp (ages 6-7 and 8-9): During five action-packed days in July, 6-9 year-olds will become beekeepers, farmers, naturalists, vegetable gardeners, chefs, artists, treasure hunters, and scientists. They'll get outside and have fun while forming friendships with campers from surrounding towns and cities, swimming in the crystal-clear pool, exploring 102 acres of woodlands and wetlands, and enjoying loads of games and activities.

For more information and registration, please visit the website.

Destination Science is a fun science day camp for curious kids ages 5 to 11. For over 20 years, Destination Science has proudly focused on STEM learning through science-based activities. Destination Science camp is a great place to experience fun, hands-on science during the summer to encourage year-round learning—with three science stations daily plus games, spirit days, rallies, and all the fun of camp.

Camp themes include:

• STEAM Inventors & Anti-Gravity Racers Camp
• Playspace Engineering & Spy-Tech Camp
• Galactic Space Training Camp
• Robot Island & Movie Makers Camp

Kids' Camp! at Fastbreak

Calling all children ages 3 – 6, Kids’ Camp at Fastbreak is back and better than ever! Each week campers have the chance to engage in a wide variety of activities such as field games, arts & crafts, story time, sports play, science experiments, dance parties, scavenger hunts, and more all while exploring exciting weekly themes and making new friends. Whether you join for a day, a week, or the entire summer, Fastbreak’s energetic and professional staff ensure that your child’s summer is one to remember.

Sports Camps at Fastbreak

Fastbreak Sports offers flexible multi-sport and sport-specific camps for children ages 3 and up. Join for summer, the next school holiday, or put together your own private camp for your next day off. Fastbreak’s coaches stress the importance of hard work, team camaraderie, gracious winning and losing, celebrating successes, and learning from mistakes. They recognize that sports training builds character, not just athletes. Offerings include:

• Half-Day Multi-Sport Camp (ages 3-6, outdoor)—Sports skills and game play
• Full-Day Multi-Sport Camp (ages 6-12, outdoor)—Basketball, flag football, dodge ball, soccer, hockey, and more.
• Full-Day Basketball Camp (ages 7-14, outdoor/indoor)—Skills, drills, and game play.
• Elite Training Academy (ages 12 - 18, indoor)—Next-level basketball training.

Visit the website for a schedule and more information.

Fastbreak also offers classes, parties, leagues (basketball and flag football) and training.