Summer Camps | In + Around Madison, WI

Thank you for once again making us the #1 Google Search Result for Madison Summer Camp!

We know you’re probably already exploring Summer Camp options for your kids and we’re here to guide you through the Madison area camp scene!

We’re organized by category and age (see below!).

As you review the camps in each category, you’ll find age appropriateness, descriptions and a direct link to the camp website.

There are so many awesome, unique summer programs for your kids in the Madison area, whether they’re into sports, adventuring, sailing, STEM activities, arts, animals, nature, or anything else!

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Here’s to SUMMER!

Kids Junction’s Summer Adventure Camp Jr. and Summer Adventure Camp classic are state licensed, discovery and enrichment programs designed to facilitate an environment of fun, learning, and self-discovery. These camps are for kids entering kindergarten through 4th grade.

Our Summer Adventure Camp Sr. program is geared to middle school students. It is for preteens and teens entering 5th through 8th grade. This traveling camp is a high energy, interactive program that will challenge the preteen and young teen offering loads of fun with extensive field trips, challenging outdoor activities, group games and sports, fun crafts, and team building opportunities.

Each camp takes age into consideration as we plan engaging daily activities and field trips. Your child will make new friends, create memories and have a blast at our camps this summer!

OVERCOME MATH LEARNING LOSS THIS SUMMER

The pandemic has had a major impact on everything, including our children’s math education.  The limitations of school’s virtual learning platforms and reduced time spent in school have resulted in demonstrable math learning loss for many students. 

Mathnasium of Madison Summer Programs are designed to overcome the challenges resulting from the pandemic and meet the needs of students by:

• Assessing each student’s current math skill set in order to identifying existing math concept gaps
• Developing summer math learning plans that will prioritize each student’s needs and target the most important skills / concepts
• Providing a structured curriculum which presents math concepts in a manner that children understand and then allowing students to get sufficient practice to master needed concepts

Mathnasium Summer Program students can access our talented Math Instructors in person at either our east side or west side locations or via our state-of-the-art online platform, Mathnasium @Home.

Summer program tutoring is available all summer, Mondays thru Fridays.  Flexible scheduling enables students and families to work around vacations and other summer activities.

Call or email to learn more about a Mathnasium summer!

Swim&Gym Camp is a summer camp in the Madison area for children ages 5 to 13 who love being active, trying new things, and making new friends. Enjoy swimming, yoga, basketball, soccer, dodgeball, karate, GaGa Ball, Mindfulness Exercises, and much more at Swim&Gym Camp!   We have created amazing field trip experiences that go with each theme.   This year we will be feeding zebras and giraffes, swimming and playing on a beach, visiting with local superheroes, and enjoying a cave!   Best camp EVER!!

In addition to fun outdoor activities, campers also get to experience a new theme each week of our summer camp.   We have Treasure Hunters, Secret Agents, Dairyland Days, Swim&Gym Got Talent,  Amazing Race,  Camp Hogwarts, and Animal Planet to name a few of our popular themes.

At Swim&Gym, our focus is to give each camper a fun, exciting, and truly rewarding experience they’ll never forget. With swimming lessons at SwimWest they’ll be learning water safety skills and stroke refinement to help them be strong, fit, safer swimmers.

In addition to being named the Best Summer Camp in Madison, our camp team has also been awarded a Channel 3000 Top Notch Teacher Award.

Camp Dates: June 1-August 26, 2022

Explore architecture, art, nature, science, and more at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin.

We build bridges between students and architecture.

Our summer camps make architecture, art, and nature exciting and accessible for students. Our student-focused approach means that we can meet kids where they are.

Architecture, rooted in STEAM, helps us understand how interconnected the world is. Students are guided in a wide variety of immersive experiences that expand insight, excitement, and engagement and change how they think about the world around them. Taliesin will inspire and motivate students who have curiosity and passion.

During the summer camps, students will understand the principles of Organic Architecture as embedded at Taliesin. Students will think about sustaining harmonious relationships between the natural and built environments.

We offer shuttle service to camp from Middleton.

Camp Dates: June and July 2022

Ages: Grades 7-12
Location: Baraboo, WI
Phone: 608-556-1135

Five-day camping week at Devil’s Lake State Park. Teens climb in a supportive environment, with experienced, professional instruction in belaying, etiquette, climbing movement, anchoring, and rappelling.

Teen Rock Climbing Camp offers teens a chance to unplug from their routines, engage with new friends and challenge their climbing skills in an outdoor setting.

Climbers will spend time exploring climbing routes and boulder problems in a supportive environment, with experience, professional instruction. 

Ages: Grades 4-8
Location: Madison, WI (various locations)
Phone: 608-556-1135

Madison-based day camp for mature 4th – 8th grade students ready to engage the responsibilities of self-care and teamwork essential to outdoor adventure. 

Each day, we will drive to a new adventure destination, explore beautiful parks or natural areas in the Madison area and develop and refine movement and outdoor leadership skills.

Examples of outdoor activities we will do each week include:

• Paddle SUPs down Badfish Creek, south of Madison.

• Climb and rappel 80′ cliffs at Devil’s Lake State Park, outside Baraboo.

• Hike the Ice Age Trail at Gibraltar Rock, north of Lodi, by foot.

• Ride single-track mountain bike trails at CamRock County Park, in Cambridge.

• Cook and camp overnight on a Wisconsin River sandbar (we camp overnight on Thursday evenings).

Ages: 3-16 years
Location: 2740 Ski Lane – Madison, WI
Phone: 608-445-3556

Studio Dansu is dedicated to educating and encouraging students to become knowledgeable, passionate, thinking artists.

With the goal of inspiring, nurturing, and sustaining a love of dance and theatre arts in all our students, Studio Dansu provides a comprehensive performing arts education to train the next generation of performers.

Our new extended 11-week Summer Session includes group classes and day camps that showcase different aspects of performing arts education, but also include arts and crafts, and many other fun activities for the Summer! Each week features a theme, such as: American Girl History, Ninja Warriors, Awesome Astrology, Broadway Bound and more.

Ages: Grades 2-12
Location: E10213 Shady Lane – Reedsburg, WI
Phone: 608-356-8200

Camp Gray fosters an experience of what is real through Christ-centered community, outdoor living, and moments of true joy.

A ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Madison, Camp Gray offers fun and creative weeklong programming where campers make new friends, grow in confidence, and deepen their faith.

A week at Camp Gray will be the best week of your child’s year!

Here’s what a camper parent had to say in 2021, “Camp Gray is everything I could ever want in a camp. From the amazing camp counselors you hire to the activities the whole experience is incredible. He came home happier than I’ve ever seen him and he can’t wait to return.”

Sign up now!

Ages: 5-12 years
Location: 4814 Freedom Ring Road – Madison, WI
Phone: 608-438-3003

Spartan Day Camp encourages personal growth in each child by providing both physical and educational activities. This exceptional program is facilitated by experienced professional educators. Anchored in this safe and supportive community, each camper will learn, explore, acquire new skills, feel valued for who they are, and develop a sense of belonging. Our structured program is designed to meet your child’s needs.

Spartan Day Camp provides a summer program shaped by fun, friends and nature, featuring science, natural wonder, independence and exploration.

Ages: 5-12 years
Location: 2125 McComb Road – Suite 102 – Stoughton, WI
Phone: 608-886-0140

Viking Day Camp encourages personal growth in each child by providing both physical and educational activities. This exceptional program is facilitated by experienced professional educators. Anchored in this safe and supportive community, each camper will learn, explore, acquire new skills, feel valued for who they are, and develop a sense of belonging. Our structured program is designed to meet your child’s needs.

Viking Day Camp provides a summer program shaped by fun, friends and nature, featuring science, natural wonder, independence and exploration.

Ages: Grades 3-12
Location: Madison, WI (various locations)
Phone: 608-890-3091

If you are a budding novelist, community activist, or a promising young journalist, the Greater Madison Writing Project has a summer camp offering for you! Serving young writers in grades 3-12 everyone will find something to get their creative juices flowing this summer! All sessions are facilitated by Greater Madison Writing Project Teacher-Leaders and provide a warm, welcoming, and supportive environment for all. Participants will be guided through writing exercises and have the opportunity to chart their own creative course. All writers will have the opportunity to celebrate and share their writing through a variety of publishing opportunities. Hope to see you at camp this summer!

Ages: 5-13 years
Location: 6901 Schroeder Road – Madison, WI
Phone: 608-271-1885

Welcome to Badger Gymnastics of Madison Summer Camp. We are pumped this summer to spend all 12 weeks in our 12,000 square foot facility and our outdoor camp area with your camper! Activities will include gymnastics, games, obstacle courses, water activities, art projects, messy experiments and more. We will also utilize our large outdoor area for “lot and field” play. Our high energy staffers are ready with themed games and activities for each week of camp. Our co-ed camp is open to children five to thirteen years old. We will conduct twelve, one-week sessions (you may sign up for one, multiple, or all sessions.)

Ages: Ages 7-18
Location: UW-Madison

Register today for Summer 2022! We can’t wait for your child to walk the halls of their dream campus, bond with new friends and mentors, and experience the magic that’s made us the world’s #1 tech camp for over two decades. Held at University of Wisconsin – Madison. Weeklong and two-week sessions for ages 7-18 in coding, game dev, robotics, creative arts, and more. Virtual Tech Camps and online courses also available.

Ages: 5-14 years
Category: Nature; Day Camp
Location: 1207 Seminole Highway – Madison, WI
Phone: 608-265-5872

Ages: 8-13 years
Category: Animals; Day Camp
Location: 5304 Reeve Road – Mazomanie, WI
Phone: 608-767-2593

Ages: 5-12 years
Category: Sports; Day Camp
Location: 797 West Dayton Street – Madison, WI
Phone: 608-262-0297

Ages: Grades 1-12
Category: STEM
Location: 1000 Edgewood College Drive – Madison, WI (Edgewood College)
Phone: 608-663-6912

Ages: 9-14 years
Category: STEM
Location: 6720 Frank Lloyd Wright Ave, Suite 104 – Middleton, WI
Phone: 847-363-9781