Summer will be here before you know it, and if you’re looking for some great ways to keep your child engaged in a safe, friendly, and enriching environment, then StyleBlueprint’s Summer Camp Guide has some great options.
DANCE & ARTS CAMPS
School of Nashville Ballet Summer Camps
Address: 3630 Redmon Street, Nashville, TN 37209 • (615) 297-2966 ext. 910 or [email protected]
Dates: May 20 – July 26, 2024
Cost: $300
Ages: 4-10 years
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
Help your young artist strengthen the scope of their imagination at School of Nashville Ballet this summer! Designed to foster creative development through physical activity, their half-day summer camps are the perfect place to let your little one roam, imagine, and play! Each program helps children gain an appreciation for the arts by learning and acting out each ballet’s story, practicing choreography, creating crafts, watching video performances of Nashville Ballet productions, and experiencing their own ballet classes! Weekly themes include “Animal Adventures,” “Fairytale Fun,” and “A Chorus Line.”
Watkins Young Artists Programs
Address: 1900 Belmont Blvd. Nashville, TN 37212 • (615) 460-8625 or [email protected]
Dates: June 3 – July 12, 2024
Cost: $400-$1,500
Ages: 6-18 years
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
Watkins Young Artist Programs help kids and teens develop creatively as they cultivate artistic skills. Their programs are best known for an incredible teaching staff of artists, designers, and educators. Parents regularly comment on the quality of instruction, noting that they appreciate their dedication to hiring real art teachers who focus on allowing students to explore the creative process. Overall, they place a strong emphasis on problem-solving, designing, communicating, and creating. Classes are small (12 students) to provide individual attention.
Camps for younger artists work on projects in mediums like plaster, clay, paint, collage, and embroidery as they explore an exciting weekly theme. Older students work on projects in more focused art and design disciplines such as illustration, photography, and printmaking. Additionally, their high school program focuses on disciplines directly related to creative majors at Belmont. High school participants can expect to create portfolio pieces in painting, drawing, sculpture, fashion design, architecture, interior design, and more!
Summer at White Brick Art Studio
Address: located near Green Hills area • (615) 943-0055 or [email protected]
Dates: June 3 – June 28, 2024
Cost: $350
Ages: 5-14 years
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
Summer at White Brick Art Studio offers small, well-planned visual arts camps for artists ages 5-14. Each intensive session will be led by two certified art educators and will be limited to 12 students. Small groups allow for individual attention to each artist with a fun group dynamic. Camps are designed to nurture creativity and build artistic skills in fun and engaging ways.
Nashville Shakespeare Festival Summer Half-Day Camps
Address: 2200 West End Ave., Nashville, TN 37203 • (615) 255-2273 or [email protected]
Dates: June 3 – June 28, 2024
Cost: $250
Ages: 8-17 years
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Summer Half-Day Camps allow students to have the room to play and learn at the same time. From crafting, writing poetry, building characters, and designing costumes, improv, stage combat, technical theater, and more, students gain confidence in their abilities while learning new ones. The atmosphere is relaxed but structured. Katie Bruno, their Education Director, tailors each camp experience to the age groups that attend. For some, this might be their first exposure to Shakespeare and his plays, which opens up so many avenues for creative expression and ignites a passion for the performing arts.
Kids play and learn at the same time at Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Summer Half-Day Camps. Image: Nashville Shakespeare Festival
SCIENCE & EDUCATION CAMPS
Adventure Science Center Camp
Address: 800 Ft. Negley Blvd., Nashville, TN 37203 • (615) 401-5073 or [email protected]
Dates: May 27 – August 2, 2024
Cost: $350
Ages: Kindergarten through 6th grade
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
Adventure Science Center is gearing up for a creative, innovative, quirky, fun, and educational year of camps for kids in grades K-6. Weekly sessions explore themes your children know and love while introducing STEAM concepts to ignite their curiosity. The science center inspires a life-long passion for learning and fosters an environment for creative problem-solving, teamwork, and critical thinking through hands-on activities, exciting experiments, and scientific explorations. Children will emerge with new friends and a newfound passion for learning in action.
Weekly summer sessions run from May 27 to August 2 and explore themes from forensic investigation to wizarding worlds and paleontology. Sessions are filling fast, so learn more and register soon. Let the adventure begin!
Adventure Science Center’s mission is to open every mind to the wonders of science and technology!
Deer Run Summer Camps — Day & Overnight
Address: 3845 Perkins Road Thompson’s Station, Tennessee 37179 • (615) 794-2918 or [email protected]
Dates: May 26 – July 26, 2024
Cost: $399.95 – $849.95
Ages: Age 5 through Grade 10
Religious affiliation: Christian
Registration: Register HERE
Deer Run offers premier summer camps for your kids, teens, and family to grow “Deeper Faith. Stronger Relationships. Greater Adventures.” Deer Run provides a place where campers and families experience the outdoors, have fun, are adventurous, unplug, and connect with each other to discover strengths, forge friendships, deepen relationships, complete challenges, and create lifelong memories! Camps are fun-filled and action-packed, yet allow campers and families to experience the stillness and beauty of nature. Activities include zip lining, a water park, laser tag, archery, fishing, a 45-ft climbing tower, and more! They also offer a family camp.
Travellers Rest Historic House Museum Summer Camps
Address: 636 Farrell Parkway Nashville, Tennessee 37220 • (615) 832-8197 ext. 15 or [email protected]
Dates: May 28 – August 2, 2024
Cost: Varies
Ages: 7-16 years
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
Travellers Rest Historic House Museum offers a variety of exciting and unique summer camps each year, where campers truly turn history into an adventure and enjoy the next best thing to traveling back in time. They offer a safe, fun, and exciting atmosphere for children ages 7 to 16 who find history, archaeology, storytelling, arts and crafts, and the great outdoors a blast to study and learn. All camps are located on the grounds of the oldest historic home open to the public in Nashville, Tennessee, and focus on a different historical era or theme from the almost 1000 years of history our site covers.
Their week-long day camps from the end of May to early August offer a low camper-to-counselor ratio with no more than 20 campers per session and no more than 35 campers on their spacious eight-acre property at one time. They also offer convenient early care and after-care hours for busy parents on the go. Staff members cherish the opportunity every year to inspire the next generation of historians, archaeologists, historical artisans, and storytellers. It is their mission that, through history and education, your children will emerge from camp with new friends and a greater love for the past!
Tremont Summer Camp in the Smokies
Address: 9275 Tremont Road, Townsend, TN 37882 • (865) 448-6709 or [email protected]
Dates: June 10 – July 28, 2024
Cost: Varies
Ages: 4-17 years
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
At Tremont’s summer camps, live and learn inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Tremont offers summer learning experiences that foster an understanding of the beautiful Appalachian mountains and encourage a lifelong appreciation and stewardship of the environment. Campers will experience wonder, ask questions, and have fun learning about nature — and themselves! From backpacking in the wilderness to learning about the secret haunts of salamanders, Tremont offers a variety of summer camp opportunities to serve different interests, abilities, and age groups, including camps for the whole family! Choose from Discovery Camp, Girls in Science, Backcountry Ecological Expedition, Wilderness Adventure Trek, Discovery Camp, Firefly Camp, Family Camp, and more!
WonderRoots Camp at Ferntop Nature School
Address: 7731 Fernvale Road, Fairview, TN 37062 • [email protected]
Dates: July 8 – 11; July 22 – 25, 2024
Cost: $250 per camp
Ages: 9-14 years
Religious affiliation: Christian
Registration: Register HERE.
SCHOOL CAMPS
Battle Ground Academy Summer Camps
Address: 336 Ernest Rice Lane, Franklin, TN 37069 • (615) 567-9025 or [email protected]
Dates: May 28 – August 2, 2024
Cost: Starting at $152
Ages: Pre-K4 through 12th grade
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
In the summer, Battle Ground Academy is home to a robust camp program for children ages four and up. With half- and full-day options available, our on-campus programming includes more than 40 camps, ranging from art and cheerleading to coding and soccer. Students can hone their skills in an athletic camp, enjoy a breadth of activities in Cannon Ball Day Camp, or explore new passions in our arts and enrichment programs – or DO IT ALL by participating in multiple sessions throughout the summer. Led by qualified faculty, staff, and coaches, BGA takes pride in creating a friendly, welcoming environment at their camps. Their mission to ignite and nurture student curiosity, intellect, and character shines through interactions with all campers, regardless of their “home” school.
Camp St. Cecilia
Address: 4210 Harding Pike, Nashville, TN 37205 • (615) 293-1625 or [email protected]
Dates: June 3 – July 19, 2024
Cost: starting at $150
Ages: Pre-K4 through 12th grade
Religious affiliation: Catholic, but open to all
Registration: Register HERE.
Camp St. Cecilia is a summer program designed to give girls ages 4-17 an opportunity to have fun while learning. Campers experience St. Cecilia Academy’s academics, athletics, and fine arts programs while interacting with faculty, students, coaches, alumnae, and parents. The camps offer excellent instruction for girls by experienced instructors. Each girl attending Camp St. Cecilia will be exposed to skills in various areas to develop her academic and extracurricular interests further.
Currey Ingram Academy Summer Programs
Address: 6544 Murray Lane, Brentwood TN 37027 • (615) 635-0245 or [email protected]
Dates: June 10-July 26, 2024 (no camp July 1-5)
Cost: $250 for morning electives, $200 for afternoon camp
Ages: rising 1st through 8th grade
Religious affiliation: None
Registration: Register HERE.
Currey Ingram Academy offers unique half- and full-day offerings for summer camp on their beautiful 83-acre campus in Brentwood. Programs are designed to both excite and challenge children with a wide array of interests and academic needs. They offer camps for children in rising grades 1st through 6th, as well as limited options for rising 7th and 8th graders. Currey Ingram Academy maintains a low camper-to-counselor ratio that allows for relationship building on a personal level, providing an individualized experience for your child to learn, grow, and have fun!
FRA Summer Camps
Address: 4700 Franklin Pike, Nashville, TN 37220 • (615) 369-4567 or [email protected]
Dates: June 3 – July 26, 2024
Cost: $200
Ages: Pre-K4 through 12th grade
Religious affiliation: Christian
Registration: Register HERE.
FRA offers a variety of summer programs that nurture and develop students’ passions. Each summer, over 750 students from the greater Nashville area spend between one to six weeks on campus, enjoying thoughtful and engaging camp experiences for enrichment and fun. Whether you are looking for a sports camp, a full-day option for your preschooler, or an academic experience, they have something for everyone. Their goal is to deliver a positive and seamless experience for campers and their families.
Harding Academy Summer Camps
Address: 170 Windsor Drive, Nashville, TN 37205 • (615) 356-5510 or [email protected]
Dates: June 3 – July 22, 2024
Cost: $250
Ages: Pre-K through 8th grade
Religious affiliation: None
Registration: Register HERE.
Join Harding Academy for summer fun! They have programs for everyone in grades PreK through eighth grade. Explore the world of stem in Minecraft Creations Stem, learn to cook in Cooking Around the World, and enjoy the great outdoors in Around About Adventure. Harding offers both half-day and whole-day options. Morning programs run from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.; afternoon sessions run from noon to 3 p.m.
Harpeth Hall Camps
Address: 3801 Hobbs Road, Nashville, TN 37215 • (615) 301-9286 or carol.garaby@harpethhall.org
Dates: June 3 – August 2, 2024
Cost: Varies
Ages: Pre-K through 8th grade, with special STEM Summer Institute opportunities for middle and high school students
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
Whether it is serving a tennis ball or serving others, catching bugs or catching basketballs, building LEGOs, or building business savvy, Harpeth Hall Summer Camps offer unforgettable experiences for girls in rising kindergarten through 8th grades. Registration is now open, and our most popular camps will fill up fast, so don’t delay.
Also not to be missed is Harpeth Hall’s STEM Summer Institute, a two-week premier program where girls use the engineering design process to solve real-world problems. Imagine creating hand-washing stations for communities in need or designing a better birthing bed for safer infant deliveries in Kenya. The STEM Summer Institute brings together middle school and high school girls from schools throughout Nashville to address local and global issues for a truly integrative STEM learning experience.
MBA Summer Camps
Address: 4001 Harding Road, Nashville, TN 37205 • (615) 369-5368 or [email protected]
Dates: May 28 – July 26, 2024
Cost: $80 – $500
Ages: Pre-K through 12th grade
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
MBA offers over 100 camps for boys and girls as young as four years old and up to 12th grade. MBA‘s summer camp season is highlighted by the All-Sports Camp, a one-week all-day camp for boys in 1st to 6th grade. At All-Sports Camp, boys participate in several fun sports throughout the day and lunch is provided. MBA also offers weekly camps for baseball, basketball, football, golf, dodgeball, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, tennis, rifle, and more.
In addition to sports camps, MBA offers a full summer of Enrichment Camps, such as Lego Camp and 615-Science Camp. Also, MBA continues to offer a great selection of co-ed academic prep classes with courses for debate, writing, math, language, and study skills.
Camp Overbrook at Overbrook Catholic School
Address: 4210 Harding Pike, Nashville, TN 37205 • (615) 292-5134 or [email protected]
Dates: June 3 – July 26, 2024
Cost: $275
Ages: 3 years – rising 1st grade
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
Camp Overbook provides a structured environment filled with summer fun. With hands-on experiences tailored for 3-year-olds to rising 1st-grade co-ed campers, every child is sure to leave with new interests and hobbies. Whether campers come for one week to experience their favorite theme or stay all summer, campers find comfort in the consistency of routine and the excitement of new weekly themes like Tasty Treats and Eats and Mad Science. Easily accessed from all major interstates in Nashville, Camp Overbrook is proud to offer before-care from 7:30 a.m. to 9 am and after-care from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Brentwood Academy
Address: 219 Granny White Pike, Brentwood, TN 37027 • (615) 523-0611 or [email protected]
Dates: May 28 – July 24, 2024
Cost: Varies
Ages: Pre-K – 12th grade
Religious affiliation: Non-denominational Christian
Registration: Register HERE.
Come experience the camp programs at Brentwood Academy, where they recognize that healthy athletic, academic, and creative experiences contribute to essential elements of a child’s growth. Their camp programs are an extension of a mission to nurture and challenge each whole person — body, mind, and spirit — to the Glory of God. They invite your family to join them as students are welcomed by and engage with Brentwood Academy faculty, staff, and coaches while exploring new adventures and making new friendships.
Camp Tiger Town at Saint Henry School
Address: 6401 Harding Pike, Nashville, TN 37205 • (615) 352-1328 or [email protected]
Dates: June 3 – July 19, 2024
Cost: $160
Ages: Pre-K3 through 8th grade
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
At Camp Tiger Town, you’ll find a range of learning opportunities, from athletics to academics to arts and more! The day camp offers boys and girls from pre-K 3 through 8th grade a chance to enjoy all the summer has to offer, with crafts, cooking, sports, robotics, science, and plenty of other fun activities, like their famous lunchtime dance parties. The camp also offers beforecare and aftercare. Registration Director Christie El-Shishini, along with the whole Tiger Town team, can’t wait to see you at Camp Tiger Town this summer!
Vanderbilt’s Clark Lea Youth Football Camp
Address: 2700 Children’s Way, Nashville, TN 37212 • (615) 322-3565 or [email protected]
Dates: June 10 – June 14, 2024
Cost: $250
Ages: Rising kindergarten through 8th grade
Religious affiliation: N/A
Registration: Register HERE.
Vanderbilt’s Clark Lea Youth Football Camp promises an action-packed, full-week experience filled with a dynamic blend of skill development, camaraderie, and spirited competition. Designed to cater to the diverse interests of young participants and a wide age range, the camp will feature specialized position drills aimed at honing individual skills and enhancing tactical understanding. Participants can also look forward to engaging in a variety of group activities, fostering teamwork, and building lasting friendships. Each participant should walk away from the week feeling like they have worked to improve their athletic abilities but also have built memorable experiences extending beyond the playing field.
Here’s to an adventurous summer!
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