Playgarden Prep has focused on creating educational and developmental programs for the littlest learners since its founding in 2007. Playgarden schools and education centers use a combination of Montessori-based curriculum, tailored songs and language curriculum, and other popular learning methods such as Reggio-Emilia, Waldorf, High Scope, and Play-Based learning.

The Park Avenue location (located on 86th street and Park Avenue, on the 4th floor of the Park Avenue United Methodist Church) was founded in 2023 to expand program offerings to Upper East Side families, including:

• Preschool and Pre-K
• Early Learning Pods
• Enrichment Classes (Music, Movement, & Early Learning)
• Afterschool Pods (Reading & Writing and S.T.E.A.M.)
• Weekend Birthday Parties
• Summer Camp

All offerings at the Park Avenue location include time on the rooftop playground.

When Schools Out, RAS Camps Are In!

RAS Camps are your go-to for year-round childcare and nonstop fun. With hands-on projects, active play, creative time, and caring educators who know your community, whether your child joins for cozy Winter crafts, Spring-tacular adventures, or even just one of ten Epic Adventure Weeks, this summer, every day at a RAS Camp is packed with discovery and joy. 

Winter Break Camp: Mission Possible

Calling all brave builders, bold thinkers, and creative problem-solvers to take on a quest like no other. The Mission: Join the team, take on challenges, and use STEM skills to solve puzzles, build gadgets, and race against the clock.

Spring Break Camp: Quest of Legends

This Spring Break, give your kids the quest like no other. The Quest: Join a team of fellow adventurers to solve riddles, build inventions, and bring stories to life through hands-on STEM and literacy-inspired challenges. From brewing potions and decoding clues to crafting gadgets and capturing mythical beasts, every day opens a new chapter in your child’s own legendary tale.

Day-Off RAS Camps

Right At School’s Day-Off Camps have you covered all year long: from single-day holidays and short breaks to teacher workdays and early dismissals. Whenever school’s out, we’re open with full days of hands-on fun, games, and creative projects that keep kids active, social, and learning.

Summer Camps

Each week offers a unique and immersive adventure. From the Wonders of the World to our very own RAS County Fair, campers explore it all through hands-on experiments, building challenges, creative projects, team competitions, and more — all while making fun and friendship our number one priority. Plus, every day comes with the classic day camp experience…water games, crafts, sports and games for everyone and more.

Learn more and sign up for a RAS Camp near you.

Looking for something fun and active for your child during school break? Sign-up for Rock Climbing Camp. Activities include rope climbing, bouldering, games, king swing, and Sender City.

Rock Climbing Camp is now offered at all 5 Sender One locations, including LAX, SNA, Lakewood, Playa Vista and Westwood. Each location offers a variation in activities.

Space is limited, so register early.

Pricing and dates may vary based on location.

GYSTC is an educational organization, based out of Kennesaw State University, the works to increase and hone interest for science, technology, engineering, and math for students and teachers. Classes and summer camp options available.

The Movement Climbing gyms located in Harlem, Long Island City, and Gowanus offer a variety of climbing opportunities for every skill level and even for climbers as young as five. At all NYC locations, kids can participate in a wide range of youth programs including camps, teams, and birthday parties. The summer camps are perfect for kids ages 7-16 who are looking for adventure, to hone their climbing skills, build ahtletic skills, and to have fun. 

Movement Harlem is strictly a bouldering gym while the Long Island City and Gowanus locations offer bouldering and other types of wall climbing including belay, lead climbing, and rope climbing. 

All GIRLS Empowerment Summer Camp is hosted by Shield Women's Self-Defense System.

The Camp's main goal is for the girls have the most fun and empowering time, while becoming proficient in self-defense skills, boost confidence, and become physically and mentally stronger.

Camp is open to girls ages 8 to 18 years old.

This course teaches the girls on how to have confidence and how to be safe around bullies and strangers. They learn how to get away from a hair pull, grab from behind, chokehold, wrist grabs, and more. They also learn how to do Takedowns and Grappling.

Activities include:

• SHIELD Women's Self Defense Training
• FUN boat ride in the Marina
• Friday outing on a Water Bus
• Dance
• Yoga
• Meditation
• Core Workout
• Beach Day

SHIELD has been teaching self-defense exclusively for women and girls in the past 20 years.

Camp dates: See website (8 weeks)

Camp hours: Monday to Friday from 10am to 4pm.

Early drop 8:30am. Late pick up 5:30pm.

Drop off and pick up from 2 beautiful water-front locations:

- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday at The Dockweiler Youth Center - 12505 Vista Del Mar, Playa Del Rey

- Wednesday & Friday at Burton Chase Park - 13650 Mindanao Way, Marina Del Rey

SHIELD Women's Self Defense System has been taught for Santa Monica Police, LA Co Dept of Public Health, Fox Studios, NBC, UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, Kaiser Permanente, Delloitte, BuzzFeed, Lionsgate, and various companies, government entities, schools, and private groups.

Play On Philly (POP) provides high-quality music education to students, who would typically lack access, as a vehicle for life skills and academic achievement. POP provides intensive music instruction every day before and after school and over 25 performance opportunities throughout the year. Students range from pre-Kindergarten to 12th grade and are loaned an orchestral instrument at no cost. POP programming has proven results: students score ten points higher on standardized tests and have improved behavior and study skills. POP cultivates musical excellence, lifelong skills, and confidence.

K-8th grade students in the St. Francis de Sales School and Impact Charter School West programs receive intensive music instruction both before and after school (site dependent) for a total of 8 hours a week through studio and ensemble classes.

As POP students enter grades 7-12 and progress in their musicianship, they learn more challenging repertoire in the Chamber Program at the Music Center at The Howard Center for the Arts, which is part of Roman Catholic High School.

POP also hosts a multi-week, full day summer program for rising 1st graders through recent high school graduates in the Greater Philadelphia area. Summers spent with Play On Philly are a chance to have fun, meet new friends, and grow as an artist! Through studio classes, ensemble practice, and performances each student will improve their musicianship and will explore other forms of creativity and expression such as dance, physical fitness, and visual arts.

The Cold Spring Habor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium, founded over 140 years ago remains a Long Island must visit destination.

It is a one of a kind environmental education center, working trout hatchery and aquarium. The professional staff of educators and biologists presents comprehensive hands on environmental programs to over 8,000 students pre-k thru college in addition to over 30,000 visitors annually.  The aquarium exhibits the largest collection of live freshwater fish, reptiles and amphibians indigenous to New York.  The trout hatchery remains the oldest Long Island hatchery still working with over 40,000 fish to see and feed.