Summer Programs
Full Day Programs
City of Davis Parks & Community Services
Recreation
530.757.5626
Summer Quest, Rainbow Summer, and Specialty Camps offer a variety of exciting activities for children and teens entering 1st through 9th grades. You can fill their entire summer with programs that are so much fun they won't realize they are learning valuable skills! Camps vary in age requirements and price.
Camp Zone
Merryhill School
530. 297.5100
Operating out of Merryhill School, Camp Zone serves kindergarten through sixth grade students.
Child Development Centers, Inc
Birch Lane 530.758.7251
Chavez 530.753.3803
Marguerite Montgomery 530.297.5014
North Davis 530.756.4350
Patwin 530.756.1369
Pioneer 530.758.0611
Valley Oak 530.753.9223
Willet 530.758.8342
Camp Pure Fun
Camp Pure Fun, operated through Davis' Child Development Centers, offers summer programs for kindergarten through sixth grade children, including arts, crafts, movies, and field trips. Camp Pure Fun operates from 7am-6pm, and serves breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack.
Junior Tennis Camp
Davis Tennis Club
Community Courts, 14th & B Streets
530.750.0526
This weekly full-day camp caters to children 5-16 years, Monday-Friday. Afternoon activities such as swimming and snacks may be an option. All levels are welcome to participate in this USPTA instructional program. Student-to-instructor ratio is no more than 6 to 1, and clinics include ground strokes, serves, volleys, stretching, conditioning, games, and prizes.
Sunflower Summer
Davis Waldorf School
530. 753.1651
The Davis Waldorf School is one of more than 700 schools worldwide that integrates the arts into the basic subjects. The school follows the slogan of "schooling the head, hands & heart." The Waldorf approach allows children to learn through their senses, their imaginations, their emotions and their intellects. The Sunflower Summer Camp program is a nonacademic vacation program offered for children between 4½ and 12 years. Classes may be taken individually or combined for a full day program. The program has two three-week sessions, from mid-June through July.
Campus Recreation Summer Youth Program
530.752.1730
The Campus Recreation Summer Youth Program, administered by MU Programs & Campus Recreation, provides a number of partial & full day camps. PM Potpourri is offered as an option to create full day programs in conjunction with any of the individual enrichment programs. At 2:30pm, Potpourri staff will escort your camper from their morning program to the Potpourri meeting location at the Rec Pool. Each eventful afternoon will end at 5:30 pm at the Rec Pool, where happy, but probably exhausted campers are to be picked up.
Bowling 530.752.2580
Arts 530.752.1475
Horseback Riding 530.752.1730
Rafting & Backpacking 530.752.2580
The Young Artist
530.756.3949
The Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop will be offering The Young Artist week-long workshops for children 6-14 years old. Activities include dance, art, creative writing, theatre & improvisation games, snacks, and story time.
Partial Day Programs
City of Davis Youth Recreation
City of Davis Parks & Community Services
530.757.5626
The City of Davis Parks & Community Services offers a wide variety of partial day activities in addition to the summer specialty camps. Many of these additional programs are offered throughout the year, and include classes in drama, music, dance, and a variety of other enriching experiences.
Partners in Learning
530.753.9127
Partners in Learning offers a variety of one-, two- and three-week classes. Classes last between 1½ and 2 hours, and are offered for children between 4-years and high school age.
DAC AquaMonsters
530.753.5282
Davis Athletic Club offers a swim league for children 5-15 years of age.
DAC Goalgetters
530.756.3200
The Davis Athletic Club hosts this indoor soccer program for children 3 - 10 years of age.
Davis Art Center
530.756.4100
The Davis Art Center offers courses in music, dance, art, drama, weaving, clay, martial arts, and more for children and youth of all ages.
Duque Tennis Academy
530.756.6566
Offered through the Stonegate Country Club, membership is not required for participation in the Duque Tennis Academy. Summer morning camp [9am-noon, Monday-Friday for children 6-16 years is offered weekly; three-week sessions of USA Tennis 1-2-3 are offered for children 5-15 years.
Explorit Science Center
530.756.0191
The Explorit! Summer Science Program for Kids offers hands.on exploration into science for preschoolers to fifth graders.
International House
530.753.5007
The International House offers a variety of intercultural and educational programs and activities for families.
Kickit Indoor Soccer Camp
530.758.8437
Weekly soccer camps for children ages 4-9 years are held at the Merryhill School soccer fields.
SummerDarts Swimming
530.758.DART
The Davis AquaDarts offers two summer recreational swimming program for local children. SummerDarts is a 9 week program, which offer swimmers an opportunity to participate on a summer recreational swim team. The summer workouts emphasize the introduction and improvement of stroke skills, water fitness and basic rules of competition in a fun, flexible, program. Practices are held Monday through Friday.
UC Davis Sport Camps
Boys' and Girls' Camps
530.752.9339
UC Davis offers a variety of summer sport camps under the direction of UC Davis coaches with assistance from college team members. Camp dates, times, and fees vary with some partial day offerings as well as residential camps with kids staying in campus residence halls.