Redding kids’ summer day camps that still have openings for 2025

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• Redding offers various summer day camps catering to diverse interests like arts, sports, and academics.
• Camp locations include Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Old City Hall, Redding City Ballet, and the Redding Riverfront Playhouse.
• Costs vary depending on the program, with some offering discounts for siblings or free options available.

With the school year’s end a month away, Redding summer day camps for children and youths are signing up campers.

Day camps offer kids with varied interests a chance to develop their skills and try new things without living away from home. Participants go to a Redding venue for a couple of hours or a full working day, then return home in the evening.

Day camps provide structure for kids used to school schedules, camp organizers said, and they gives kids the opportunity to make new friends who live in the North State and who share their interests.

Here are camps that have openings as of early May, each with themes that cater to children’s interests.

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City of Redding summer day camps

City of Redding/Redding Recreation hosts camps at the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Redding Aquatic Center, Redding MLK Center and other city venues.

There’s a preschool program and camps are for older youths and adults, but most outdoor activity camps are for ages 6-12. Camp names include Learn to Sail (which requires a parent present), Tennis and Pickleball, Skateboard Camp, Nuts and Bolts of Construction, Gym Rats Basketball Camp, Camp Eureka for STEM learners and Farm Camp.

Most programs cost $100-$205, and last three to four days.

For more information, go to cityofredding.gov and click Summer Adventures and Camps, or call 530-225-4095.

Art, ballroom dance and cartooning camps at Old City Hall

The Shasta County Arts Council offers art camps with a different theme each week starting in June at Old City Hall, 1313 Market St. in downtown Redding

Most camps are 9 a.m. to noon, or 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays. Most cost $100 per week. The price includes art supplies. To sign up, call 530-921-0680 or email [email protected].

New this year are cartooning classes for ages 10 and older ($30 per class, $120 for the month). These are from noon to 2 p.m. on Fridays in June.

Half-day Ballroom Boogie Dance camps ($100) are Mondays through Fridays the weeks of June 16 and July 7. Age groups are 10-13 and 14-17 years old.

For cartooning and dance camps, call 530-241-7320 for information; register online at shastaartscouncil.org.

Redding City Ballet summer tap and dance camps

Redding City Ballet hosts week-long summer ballet and tap programs for ages 2.5 to 12 years old at 935 Locust St.

Dance camps are weekday mornings, except for all-day intensives (by audition and for all ages). Cost arrange from $68 to $220.

RCB also offers evening summer classes for ages 7 to adult by reservation or drop in.

For more information, call 530-709-1205 or register at reddingcityballet.org/classes.

Redding Riverfront Playhouse theater camp

Redding Riverfront Playhouse’s Children’s Summer Theater Camp starts June 9 at the theater, 1950 California St.

This camp is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays, with performances on June 26-29. The camp is designed for children “interested in either theater tech or theater performance, said playhouse spokesperson Malorie Glavan.

This year, attendees will stage and perform the play “Clever Jack and the Magic Beanstalk,” based on the popular fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Cost is $300 per camper. There’s a $50 discount for each additional sibling who signs up.

For more information, go to riverfrontplayhouse.net, email [email protected] or call 530-221-1028.

Shasta Public Libraries’ summer reading program

The Shasta County Library in Redding hosts its free Summer Reading Program from June 1 to July 31.

Participants in two age groups — 0 to 5, and 6 to 12 years old — can win prizes for reading books.

Library branches in Anderson, Burney and Redding also host children’s story hours, and free classes, activities and programs for kids, teens and adults this summer. Most last for 90 minutes to half a day. Some programs require a parent or guardian attend with their child.

For more information, go to shastalibraries.org or call 530-245-7250.

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