With the long summer holidays, many parents will be anxious to get those Summer Camps booked. We’ve got you covered! Here are some of the best Summer Camps in Dublin for Kids and Teens for 2021. Keep checking back as we’ll be adding new camps all the time!

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Plan your summer with some of these fantastic summer camps in Dublin. From science and robotics to sports, drama and more – there’s something for everyone!

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2021 may continue to be different with some camps moved online and other providers limiting summer camp places. Please check the camp providers website or Facebook page to get up to date information. 

Summer Camps in Dublin for Teens

Learn It Senior Robotics Camps (11+yrs)

You will blast off for the red planet in a Mission to Mars Robotics Challenge, an exciting way to bring Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) concepts to life for the over-11s. Students research and plan their Martian mission, developing a robot to carry out automated tasks, culminating in our interplanetary challenge at the end of the week.

The Learn It Senior Robotics camps enable students to discover Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in a fun, engaging, hands-on way. This combines LEGO building with software and curriculum-based activities, which allows students to design, programme and control robots. They build robots and use software to plan, test and modify sequences of instructions from a variety of real-life robotic behaviours. Students gather and analyse data from sensors using data-logging functionalities such as graph view.

Following a curriculum devised by LEGO® Education, they start off with simple projects on Day One, learning about the basics of LEGO® Mindstorms programming, creating a vehicle and programming it to drive forward, turn and reverse. They then move on to the various sensors that we use during the week, learning how they work, their real world applications and how to programme them.

As the week progresses, students enhance their robot, adding new sensors, creating new programmes and taking on various challenges that are set each day. As the end of the camp approaches, they build a new robot based on what they have learned and take on our end-of-week challenge.

Alliance Française French Summer Camps in Dublin (13+yrs)

The summer courses for teenagers at Alliance Française are designed to complement classes already attended at secondary school and to lay the groundwork for the school year ahead. They provide a diversification and broadening of the language in an interactive and fun way, with a focus on interests and topics relevant to the participants.

3 groups are available: Junior Teens (for students going into 2nd Year & 3rd Year), Senior Teens (for students going into 4th (TY), 5th and 6th year) Preparation for Secondary School (for students going into 1st Year)

2 week programme every 2 weeks Monday to Friday 10am – 1pm 30 hours in total and teen camps take place from June right up to August 2021.

Savvy Teen Academy Summer Camps (15+ yrs), Dublin

The Savvy Teen Academy offer courses helping teens flourish at school, college or work, maximise fun and build a toolbox of skills to help with all areas of their life. It is not a course based on traditional school curriculum but students will learn and practice skills that are not taught in schools but that are essential to academic and professional success.

This year the camp will take place 26-29 July 2021, venue tbc.

Students will learn and practice skills that are essential to academic and professional success, but aren’t taught as such in school, such as:

• speaking confidently and persuasively in front of an audience
• studying smart, and not just hard
• making an excellent first impression in a professional or personal context
• overcoming shyness and coming across as respectful and confident in any conversation or exchange
• managing stress-inducing situations with poise and grace, without crumbling under pressure
• protecting themselves and coping in difficult situations requiring quick adaptation (moving out and starting college, coping with feelings of sadness or isolation, after a breakup for example)

At the end of the programme your teen will take home the best strategies, tried and selected by highly successful people – and use them for life.

Places are limited so book your teen’s place now.

Anyone4Science Teen Summer Camps, Nationwide

Anyone4Science are running online and in person science summer camps for kids aged 4-13 years and teens (1st-3rd year). Learn about the states of matter, viscosity, solar energy, light and sound, forensics and rocket science.

More Summer Camps for Teens in Dublin

• Trinity College Dublin’s Trinity Walton Club has exciting STEM summer camps for ages 13-17 years. They can enjoy a week of designing, collaborating and learning, all while making new discoveries, making stuff and making friends.
• Canoe Ireland run kayaking summer camps during July and August for ages 10-16. They have Junior, Senior and Advanced camps.
• Pine Forest Arts Centre offer Art Summer Camps for up to 16 years.
• Nova’s European Youth Cultural Project encourages children and teens from all nationalities to freely develop their creativity in a safe and supportive environment at their Filmmaking summer camps. Any child aged 11 to 17 can take part in the project which runs for 3 consecutive weeks during July at the Firhouse Community Centre.
• The Gaiety School of Acting run drama and acting camps for teens in July and August.
• ATC Language Schools offer summer camps for teens in film making & screenwriting, journalism, creative writing and digital identities online.
• Sport Ireland Campus in Blanchardstown offer gymnastic, football, inclusive and multi-activity summer camps for kids and teens.
• Rock Jam offer music summer camps for kids and teens at several locations in Dublin.

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Summer Camps in Dublin for Kids

Alliance Française French Summer Courses

Get the kids out of bed this summer with the Alliance Française’s French Summer Camps! Their online camps run from beginning of June until the end of August 2021. All children are welcome up to 10 years, whatever their level of French.

Science Summer Camps with Junior Einsteins, Nationwide

Junior Einsteins run hands on science summer camps at multiple locations in Leinster including Dublin, Wicklow, Meath and Westmeath. Children get to make and take home something most days including their own slime, fossils, model gliders, rainbow glasses and more! They wear Lab coats and goggles and take part in outdoor fun too including; Bug Hunts, Rocket Races, Dinosaur Digs. All camps are run by qualified scientists who have been Garda vetted and are fully insured.

Camps are suitable for children aged 6 to 11 years and run from Monday to Friday 9am to 2pm daily.

How to Book: Online at www.junioreinsteinsscienceclub.com. Camps fill up fast so please book early to avoid disappointment

STARCAMP Drama & Multi-Activity Summer Camps, Nationwide

STARCAMP with Gala Retail will run Summer Camps from the 28th June to 20th August 2021. Camps are for boys and girls aged 4 to 12 years and are so much more than a performing arts camps. Born from a desire to instil confidence in children, STARCAMP offers a mind blowing array of activities for both boys and girls. This Summer they are also offering an online “STARCAMP SUMMER CLUB!” over 6 weeks with 1 new show per week from July 1st and a different theme each week which can be watched any time of the day or night once you become a member.

Learn-It Lego Education Summer Camps, Nationwide

Learn It Lego Education Summer Camps cover a variety of different themes such as Robotics, Mechanics Engineering, Construction, Science and Creativity. Camps take place at various locations throughout each city and county.

They have 3 different camps: Junior Engineers (6-8yrs) summer camps, Senior Engineers Summer Camps (9-12yrs)  and Senior Robotics Summer Camps (11+ yrs).

The Confidence Clinic Summer Camps, Nationwide

The Confidence Clinic Kids Summer Camps for ages 7-12 years are all about helping children to live their best life. The camps include games, yoga, fun lessons, mindfulness and guided meditations. Most of the camp will be outdoors weather permitting.

2021 Camp Locations:

• Dublin: Castleknock, Malahide, Stillorgan
• Kilkenny
• Blessington, Wicklow

Anyone4Science Summer Camps in Dublin

Anyone4Science are running online and in person science summer camps for kids aged 4-13 years and teens (1st-3rd year). Learn about the states of matter, viscosity, solar energy, light and sound, forensics and rocket science.

Let’s Go Multi-Activity Camps

Let’s Go Camps cater for boys and girls aged 5 – 12 years (children must be attending primary school). There’s an incredible range of action packed, fun filled activities designed to keep your child active during the holiday period.

Each Let’s Go! Multi Activity Camp offers two programmes of activities, one for the 5-6 year olds (children must be attending primary school) and the second for the 7-12 year olds. These programmes have been designed by an expert team of physical education teachers with your children in mind at all times.

Camps take place in various locations across Ireland.

Designer Minds Summer Camps

Designer Minds Primary Science, Design & Technology Summer Camps offer a week of educational fun and games in Science, Design & Technology with Ireland’s biggest and best STEAM camp provider. Designer Minds camps are suitable for children going into 1st class up to 1st year in September 2021.

ReCreate Summer Camps

ReCreate have two outdoor summer camps running at ReCreate this August focused on curiosity, creativity and care for the environment.

• The 4-day Space Exploration Camp 10th-13th August, 10am – 2pm each day, suitable for children aged 7+ years. You are invited to make, wonder, tinker and think about the planet we live on and what a creative adventure would look like if we were to travel to space. We will be using materials supplied by ReCreate to inspire curiosity and highlight the ease of repurposing commonly found items. Each camp explorer will make space and earth inspired artworks at ReCreate Space Station HQ.
• The 4-day Campertown Festival Camp 16th-19th August, 10am – 2pm each day, suitable for 8-12 years. Over 4 days, the young campers will use their imagination and ReCreate’s reuse materials to create sustainable bunting, dreamcatchers, windchimes, mobiles, birdboxes, and larger festival props like dens, storytelling tepees and upcycled seating. This camp, led by our headline act, Liz Smith, is all about learning how to festivalize your life, home and garden in fantastically new and sustainable ways. This camp includes a tour of ReCreate’s warehouse and a mini-festival event on the final day.

€100 per child (€80 per additional child), places can be booked online. Each camp limited to x12 spaces max (for COVID safety & fun factor reasons).

Other Summer Camps for Kids In Dublin

• Athletics Ireland offer kids the opportunity to come along and try a range of fun athletics activities in July and August.
• Whizzkids Discover IT run Summer Camps for kids aged 8 to 17 and mix indoor and outdoor action, with sports, code breaking & web design so kids have a fun & varied day. Camps take place during July and August in various locations across the country in top level universities and 3rd level institutions, thus giving kids access to great facilities. Camps run in DCU, UCD, Maynooth.
• FAI Summer Soccer School and Kelloggs GAA Cul Camps take place across Dublin in various locations.
• The School of Irish Archaeology have Archaeology Camps for ages 7 to 12 in Harold’s Cross and Malahide.
• Canoe Ireland run kayaking summer camps during July and August for ages 10-16. They have Junior, Senior and Advanced camps.
• Pine Forest Arts Centre offer Art Summer Camps for up to 16 years.
• The Chester Beatty Library have fun workshops running over the Summer Holidays.
• The Gaiety School of Acting run drama and acting camps for kids and teens in July and August.
• The Ark in Temple Bar offer fun Summer Camps for kids aged 6 to 12 years.
• Imaginosity has fun filled camps catering for children aged 4 to 9 years running during July and August.
• ATC Langauage Schools offer summer camps online for kids in French, Spanish, STEAM and Creative Writing.
• Sport Ireland Campus in Blanchardstown offer gymnastic, football, inclusive and multi-activity summer camps for kids and teens.
• Rock Jam offer music summer camps for kids and teens at several locations in Dublin.

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