The long days of summer are here.  Have you made your summer plans yet?  Check out our 2012 MK Summer Camp Guide!  We feature some incredible camps for kids.  Take a look at our list of featured camps, and stay tuned each week for more additions to our guide!

We are excited to spotlight the following camps in this year's guide:

Academic Achievers-KinderPrep: Learning to Love Learning
     

BizzyGirls Inc- Santa Monica

Girl Power - at Pamper & Play

KIDSMUSE  at the Fowler Museum

Summer Science Adventure Camp- SM Pier Aquarium

UCLA ...

Description:  Academic Achievers is once again offering its popular learn/play at-home summer prep for the young ones, providing educational enrichment for 1-on-1 or small groups of 2 or 3. KinderPrep counselors are highly qualified early development tutors and learning specialists with advanced degrees who know the latest teaching techniques for phonics, beginning math, little wizard science experiments, geography, and much more as they provide fun and learning in your very own backyard.  Last year most of our 4 yr. olds were reading by the end of the summer and ...

Description: Girls will make their own product, write a mini business plan, make a logo and business cards. They will learn about visual display and marketing as well as have visits from fashion execs and girl entrepreneurs. There will be with lots of creative fun, great life skills and confidence building. Girls will get their own pop up store at Santa Monica Place to display products.


Dates:  Session 1 July 9-July 20 at Santa Monica Place

            Session 2 July 30- Aug 10 at Cheryl Fudge 1010 Montana Ave                                      

Hours:  Monday-Friday ...

Description:  Yoga & Art Camp for girls! This is going to be a truly wonderful experience, and we hope the special girl in your life can share it with us. They'll be treated to a week of health, creativity, friendship and fun..

Dates: June 25-29th
Hours Noon-3pm            
Ages: 5 -8 year olds & 9-12 year olds Noon-3pm
Cost:  $250 if you sign up by June 1 and includes 5 three-hour sessions, healthy lunch and materials. Late registration price is $280. 
Contact:  Carol 310 441-0797
For more details:  Click here 

Address:  Pamper ...

Description:   This year’s program is inspired by the exhibition Order and Disorder: Alighero Boetti by Afghan Women. Learn about this Italian artist, Boetti, and his work through engaging art-making activities and interactive games.Campers will design their own stenciled art work inspired by Boetti, explore letter-making using movement and shapes, discover the ABCs of the Botanical Garden on the UCLA Campus, indulge in some delicious alphabet soup, incorporate paint and chance to connect the dots,play fun-filled matching and memory letter games and much, much more! KIDSMUSE is developed ...

Description:  These day camps are just the right amount of science for a summer day! Each day we will explore a different theme through games, lessons and hands-on exploration -- looking at our local ocean, amazing ecosystems far away, the animals that inhabit them, and how each one of us plays a role in keeping them safe for the future.

Dates: Week Long Camp  9am- 2pm June 25-29, July 23-27 & July 30-Aug 3rd 

           Day Long Camp 9am-2pm Aug 7th-10th
              
Ages: Grades 1-5
Cost:  Week long $325/week Day Long $60/day ...

Description:  Our unique Summer Camps give children the chance to build age appropriate life skills and emotional intelligence, while they are busy having fun. Summer Camps at The UCLA Family Commons are designed to strengthen children’s awareness and sense of self as they grow.

The UCLA Family Commons Summer Camps utilize the full resources of our family wellness center and our location next to the beach in downtown Santa Monica. Activities may include martial arts, yoga, outdoor sports & games, drama, crafting, creating a comic book, neighborhood excursions and more ...

Description:  Venice Del Play is a small boutique camp that offers a creative personal approach to exploring the Ocean.We start and end each day with Yoga and in between there is a lot of fun with Ocean Safety and Marine life, Boogie-boarding & Body-surfing, arts and crafts, music and dancing, games, sports , kite-flying,Sand-Sculpting, and much more!

Dates:  Week 1 Week of July 2nd- 

             Week 2 Week of Aug 13th
Hours:  varies 
Ages:  4-10
Cost:  varies
Contact:  Carman 310.821.7377
For more details:  Click here 

Address:  The Santa Monica ...

Description: This Summer, Yoga & Art Camp at the reDiscover Center will create a space of imagination, playfulness, learning, and being. Activities including yoga, dance, gymnastics, art, and meditation will place value on experience. Time will be given to explore and feel, encouraging children to enter their inner world through sensation, story, and symbol. Tools will be practiced through yoga to strengthen foundations of health, well-being, and confidence. Children will engage with each other and the world through creativity, noticing, wonder, and love. With: Laura Fuller, Kara Masters, Emile Hassan Dyer ...