2024 Summer Camp Guide for Lakeland + Polk County

Enroll now in a summer kids fishing camp and learn boat safety, fishing techniques and enjoy bass fishing on the Chain of Lakes in Winter Haven. This hands-on camp also includes education regarding fishing with different types of bait, seeing different animal species in their habitat and even stopping in the sandbar to take a swim and cool off.

The goals of the camp are to take each camper and improve their knowledge and their skills as they relate to freshwater fishing. The instructors make sure each camper improves their abilities whether they are a beginner or a veteran fisherman.

Spots are limited, reserve your week now!!!

A summer your child will thank you for… Karate Beyond’s Ninja Camp is an exciting day camp experience in Lakeland. Offering a multitude of fun and constructive activities which includes the popular Karate Beyond Ninja Program. CONVENIENTLY LOCATED on South Florida Avenue next to Dairy Queen and Jimmy Johns; classes are especially friendly to students that are new to martial arts. This camp has LIMITED AVAILABILITY and will accept a small number of students per day. ACT QUICKLY!

Why Karate Beyond Summer Camp?
+ Small Groups for extra care and attention
+ ALL-INCLUSIVE… NO FIELD TRIPS
+ Time AWAY from their electronics
+ Develop social skills and making new friends
+ Fun, exciting, and constructive activities

Daily Themes:
Mondays: NERF Wars
Tuesdays: Light Saber Battles
Wednesdays: Team Ninja Warrior
Thursdays: Board Breaking

This is a fun soccer environment for boys and girls of all skill levels. If your new to the sport or an advanced player, our coaches will provide a fun learning environment for all.

This camp is specifically designed for players who want to learn the fundamental skills of soccer. Emphasis on correct technique is maximized by small group instructions. There will also be small-sided games, providing more touches on the ball and a ‘World Cup’ format competition to allow players to compete in a competitive environment.

We are excited to announce another super-awesome lineup of Bricks 4 Kidz camps for the summer of 2024! We have a full summer of half-day and full-day unique camps. Each week has a different theme, and each day our campers experience a new adventure with several different types of activities like motorized LEGO® robots, LEGO® mosaics, 3D color brick builds and more! Campers get to take home fun crafts and a custom-made LEGO® minifigure, and have photos taken of all the LEGO® models they build throughout the week! Everything is awesome at Bricks 4 Kidz Summer Camp! 

Join the Civics Leadership Academy (CLA) at Polk State College and experience hands-on learning at the leadership level. At the Civics Leadership Academy, students will work in teams to identify an issue they are passionate about within their school, community, or city and then create a solution for the issue.

Our school strives to instill the basic life virtues of discipline, respect, integrity, and confidence. These qualities have been the foundation of the martial arts student since the beginning. The staff of Family Martial Arts Center helps reinforce each quality trait through Leading by Example. Our staff takes pride in the personal relationship that we have with all our students. We believe in offering programs that meet the needs of the community, provide quality instruction, and fair prices that everyone can afford.

Summer Day Camp Activities include games, crafts, movies, and martial arts classes. Our optional field trips include theme parks, bowling, Family Fun Center, swimming, laser tag, and skating just to name a few. These field trips are an additional cost and students not attending the day’s activity will enjoy a fun day at the school.

Weekly TaeKwonDo Classes are optional but are included with tuition.

Are you ready for an unforgettable summer filled with fun, cheer, and tumbling? Look no further because our jam-packed Cheer and Tumbling Summer Camp is the perfect place for you! Your children are guaranteed to learn the fundamentals and advanced skills in tumbling and cheerleading, through the use of highly effective drills, obstacle courses, individual coaching and more!

Master Choe’s offers an action-packed summer experience, filled with daily martial arts training, special field trips, enrichment classes, along with group games and activities.

NO ELECTRONICS ALLOWED Students will practice traditional social skills with team building and challenges both physically and mentally! Students will be divided into (2) groups by age, maturity.

Field Trips include Movies, Local Parks, Water Parks, Arcades, Swimming, plus MEGA trips! Choe’s has been providing martial arts training in Lakeland for over 40 years. To register or get more details call (863) 665-0488 or visit the website.

Do you want MORE for your child this summer? Join Minds in Motion summer camp and become part of an exciting kids program in Lakeland! Our summer program offers a wide range of experiences including STEAM activities, creative play and imagination rooms, computer stations, video games, outdoor areas, and a STUDIO for whole body fitness and theater arts. They will be having such a great time, they won’t want to leave. Your child will have a wide variety of opportunities for field trips and experiences.
Get more out of your summer program!​

Supernova Summer Camp at Nova Athletics is a perfect way to ensure your child has an AMAZING Summer. We are NOT an ordinary summer camp, we are a Gymnastics, Tumbling, and Hip-Hop Dance summer camp. Whether your child is brand new to the sport or has been doing the sport for years, our camp has much to offer. So don’t forget to sign your child up for an AWESOME Summer!

Our camp age is 5 and up. Every child will be trained on all the gymnastics apparatuses, tumbling equipment, and learn new dance techniques. There will be rope climbing, fitness, obstacle courses, and so much more.

We are gearing up for a full season of awesome STEAM-themed Summer Camps! Our STEAM themed camps are so much fun, your child with not even know they are learning a little something too! Demand for camps is high and capacity is limited so don’t delay, enroll your child today!
Lakeland Camps – First Presbyterian Chuch on Lake Hollingsworth

The main focus of our Summer Fun Program is to provide a place where children can be in a safe environment, have fun, and make summer memories that will last a life time! Our Summer Camps Ages are from 3 – 15.

Our staff consists of professional caregivers that love spending time with children and help them have fun! We have great activities, water fun days, movie time, weekly field trips, chapel, and so much more!

Are you ready for the best summer of your kid’s life?! At WonderHere, we believe childhood is something to be cherished, preserved, and enjoyed. Our summer camps will leave your children FILLED with wonder. This is our NINTH year of summer camp, and we have fun down to a science! Each thematic week, children will experience hands-on activities, exposure to new hobbies and skills, weekly movie day and water day, and team competitions! Campers will get to interact with nature and farm animals. And daily free play, of course!

Elementary Camps (AGES 5-12)
Your elementary-age child is sure to have a blast at summer camp. Hands-on activities, free play, cooking, games, team competitions, time at the gardens and with farm animals (can you say Alpacas?!)… and so much more. And best of all, they get to learn, play, and create friendships… all in a safe, caring environment.

Minis Camps (AGES 4-5)
Minis camps are perfect for 4-5 year olds who love to wonder! Week after week, children will get to experience the same camp themes as their elementary friends, on a smaller scale. Smaller child-to-camp-counselor ratios. More free play and less structured activities. Calmer afternoons with fewer transitions. All the things you love about camp… but Mini-fied!

Additional Summer Camp Options: Evening Summer Camp Dates, WonderHeroes Summer Camp specially designed for children with varying needs, and a Summer Camp DAY PASS on Mondays – visit camp website to learn more

XP League Summer Camps are designed to engage kids at many different levels. Not only do kids get to meet new friends and improve their skills in the games they love to play, but they will learn about teamwork, communications, sportsmanship, esports health, nutrition, esports psychology, stretching and exercise, mindset and motivation, boosting focus, and so much more.

The YMCA is one of the nation’s largest providers of out-of-school programming and has a long, rich history of over 100 years in providing top-notch summer camps to parents across the country. All camps are a full day camp unless otherwise noted. Visit the website and check out the PROGRAM BROCHURE for more info on each camp.

Lakeland Family YMCA (South Lakeland)
3620 Cleveland Heights Blvd., Lakeland
• Day Camp (ages 5-12)
• Pre-K Camp (ages 4-5)
• Aquatics Camps (ages 3-12)
• Sports Camps (ages 6-11)

Fontaine Gills Family YMCA (North Lakeland)
2125 Sleepy Hill Road, Lakeland
• Day Camp (ages 5-12)
• Aquatics Camp (ages 6-12)

YMCA Par 3
• Golf Camp (ages 5-16) – separate listing – see details

HOW TO REGISTER – You can register online or at any location.

All Saints Academy has 60 programs to choose from this summer during Saints Summer Palooza! All camps are open to the public. Visit the ASA Camp Website for dates and times for each camp.
RECREATION + INSTRUCTIONAL CAMPS:

• 3rd Grade Math and Reading Readiness (Rising 2nd-3rd Grade)
• A Bug’s Life (Preschool 2-1st Grade)
• Ahoy Matey! Pirate Camp (Kindergarten-3rd Grade)
• American Girl Doll Camp (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
• Animal Safari (Rising Preschool 2-Preschool 4)
• Beginner Dance (Preschool 2-Kindergarten and 1st-5th Grade)
• Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo (Preschool 2-2nd Grade)
• Camp Fun Continues (Preschool 3-5th Grade)
• Circus Camp (Rising Kindergarten- Rising 5th Grade)
• Construction “Junk”-tion (1st-5th Grade)
• Cooking Around The World (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
• Creativity Camp (1st-5th Grade)
• Dance (2nd-12th Grade)
• Field Trip Camp (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
• Film Culture Camp (Rising 1st-Rising 3rd Grade)
• Full STEAM Ahead (1st-5th Grade)
• Gearing Up for Middle School (Rising 6th Graders)
• Harry Potter Camp (Kindergarten-6th Grade)
• Just Add Water (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
• Kaleidoscope of Colors – Fun With Water (Preschool 2-1st Grade)
• Lego Camp (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
• Little Saints (Rising Preschool 2- Preschool 3)
• Math Camp (1st-3rd Grade)
• Once Upon a Time…Fairy Tale Camp (Kindergarten-3rd Grade)
• Rising Stars (Rising Kindergarten-2nd Grade)
• STEM and Robotics Camp (K-6th Grade)
• Summer Fun (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
• Young Explorers (Preschool 3-Kindergarten)

SPORTS CAMPS:

• Baseball/Softball Camp (Kindergarten-6th Grade)
• Better Way Skills Basketball Camp (1st-12th Grade)
• Cheer Camp (Preschool 2-Kindergarten and K-5th Grade)
• Lacrosse Camp (Kindergarten-8th Grade)
• MVP Camp (Kindergarten-3rd Grade and 1st-8th grade)
• Outdoor Games (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
• Saints Volleyball Fundamentals Summer Camp (4th-12th Grade)
• Soccer Camp (Kindergarten-8th Grade)
• Sports Camp (Preschool 3-2nd Grade and 1st-5th Grade)

Camp BLAST is the City of Lakeland’s highly successful summer enrichment program for elementary school-aged children. Activities include on-site supervised recreation and in-town field trips (skating, bowling, swimming, and the movies).

2024 Locations: TBD
Past locations for 2023 – Lake Mirror Auditorium, Sleepy Hill Middle School, Southwest Middle School, Simpson Park Community Center

2024 Registration:
Monday, March 18 at 9:00 AM. Camp BLAST registration will take place online via City of Lakeland – WebTrac. Create your WebTrac profile in advance to save time when online registration opens.

Camp READY! prepares rising and repeating kindergartners for academic success through hands-on, experiential learning centers (art, music & movement, cooking and reading-readiness) to build pre-reading skills while continuing motor, social and cognitive development.

Camp READY!+ prepares students for the first-grade level focusing on concept and confidence while reteaching and reviewing vocabulary, reading, and math sense.

Camp READY! Special Friends provides readiness skills for our friends with special needs.

Destination Aviation will engage campers in a variety of hands-on activities, including building a wing rib and launching model rockets. Campers dive deep into flight through experiential learning opportunities, hands-on demonstrations, and flight simulations. Destination Aviation allows campers to learn and engage in ALL aviation-related career fields. Campers will attend field trips to surrounding aviation industries, participate in a local exploration flight and hear from guest speakers.

Destination Aviation: Air Power allows campers to explore design, construction, and maintenance of airframe, powerplant, and electronics systems within aircraft.

Visit the Aerospace Center for Excellence website for 4 different summer camps for ages 6 – 17.

We are excited to announce Summer Camp for ages 3-8. We will be exploring nature with new themes every week. Activities include: art/crafts, science experiments, investigating, trips to the gym on campus, and outside time. Plan your experience by the week or for the whole summer!

Learning Resource Center offers both an ACT Preparation Course and SAT Preparation Course to assist students who are preparing to take the ACT or SAT. These courses build confident successful students through an efficient and effective 1-week, 21-hour course by engaging in problem-solving strategies for analyzing and answering test questions, reinforcing skills through interaction and review, and building confidence while reducing test anxiety through test-taking strategies.

These are two different courses with separate registration required for each one.

Summer Coding Workshop – LRC’s Summer Video Game Design & Coding Workshop is led by a STEM educator to help students discover the fundamentals of code in an exciting and productive learning domain. For rising 6th and 7th grades (completed 5th or 6th grade).

LRC Mid Math Camp – The Learning Resource Center’s Mid Math Camp will aid students who have fallen behind in math and will reinforce important skills specific to grade-level math topics in middle school. Students entering 7th-9th grade in 2024-2025

Study Habits of Successful Students – The Learning Resource Center’s Study Habits of Successful students is designed to build confident, successful students through-time tested best practices. This interactive study skills program helps motivate and prepare middle school students to become effective learners in school and beyond. For rising 6th-8th grade students.

*Fee reduction available based on family income. Please ask about LRC’s Sliding Fee Scale or scholarships for deserving students in need.

Super Summer Success builds confident, successful students through time-tested best practices. Students will focus on academics by participating in high-interest, hands-on lessons while exploring math through writing and drawing, engaging in creative art projects, sharing in read-and-respond projects on key ideas, reinforcing skills through interaction and review, and savoring brain-healthy snacks to keep energy up.

*Fee reduction available based on family income. Please ask about LRC’s Sliding Fee Scale or scholarships for deserving students in need.

Our She Can Fly Summer Camp is intended for girls interested in aviation. Summer Campers will experience a one-of-a-kind summer camp that will introduce them to the world of aviation. Campers will learn about different aerospace career pathways from our very talented group of all female guest speakers. They will be taken on field trips and tours to local flight schools and various aerospace companies. Campers will participate in hands-on activities such as Redbird Flight Simulations, Aircraft Mechanics, and a local exploration flight!

**Both weeks offered are the same camp.

Visit the Aerospace Center for Excellence website for 4 different summer camps for ages 6 – 17.

Summer Campers will participate in an uniquely themed immersive experience in our Skylab Innovation Center. Our summer camp focuses on the science, history, and engineering of aviation as well as careers in the aerospace industry. Camps include in-depth explorations, hands-on builds and activities, science experiments, presentations, and much more!

Visit the Aerospace Center for Excellence website for 4 different summer camps for ages 6 – 17.

Take Flight Summer Camp is intended for those who are seriously interested in earning their glider license or private pilot’s license. After participating in ground school sessions, campers will get to apply their newly obtained knowledge in our Redbird Flight Simulation Lab. They will be taken on field trips and tours to various aerospace companies. Campers will engage in aviation workshops, learn flight planning, aviation weather, and the basic systems of an airplane. Campers will also have the opportunity to fly in a general aviation aircraft with a certified FAA flight instructor and log their flight time in their very own logbook. Think of this summer camp as a much-shortened mini-ground school.

**Both weeks offered are the same camps.

Visit the Aerospace Center for Excellence website for 4 different summer camps for ages 7 – 17.

Top Tier Kids Academy is ready for Summer Camp! Come have fun with us this summer. We are a brand new spot in Lakeland and would love for you to come check us out! We are now enrolling for our Summer Camp and we still have spots available for after school care to finish out the school year. Visit the link or scan the QR code to provide us your information and register for a tour of our new center. Your child will receive a camp pack that includes a TTK string bag to bring all their things in, a water bottle, and a camp shirt. A one time registration and supplies fee totaling $65.00 applies for enrollment. Camp tuition is $155.00/wk. Weekly field trips at an additional cost. Come have a summer full of fun and creative learning with us!