2025 Last Minute Summer Camp Guide
Some say that the early bird gets the worm, but life is all about going with the flow! Whether you’re just starting your summer camp search or your plans have recently changed, you are in luck! We’ve rounded up a huge variety of camps that still have openings! Act fast as space is limited. Make this summer your kids’ best one yet.
Acting for Kids & Teens
Portland’s Acting for Kids & Teens offers dynamic summer camps for all levels where young performers explore improv, voiceover, scene study, and filmmaking. Led by industry pros, each camp builds confidence, creativity, & acting skills in a fun and safe environment.
Ages 6-18+
Adventure Camp
Each themed week includes a field trip, as well as art projects, water activities, and more on their 26 acre campus! Adventure Camp is a program by Southwest Bible Church in Beaverton, OR. Use promo code NW2025 for $50 off at registration!
Grades incoming K-5th
Anthony Newman Sports Camps
At ANSC choose from Basketball, Soccer, Multi-Sport and Tennis camps. They welcome all levels of players. Each day is full of a variety of sports and games. See why their camps are preferred by everyone year after year!
Ages 6-13
Brainbox Science
maginative STEAM and critical thinking camps at Brainbox Science offer a user’s guide to the mind. Kids play games, design experiments, solve mysteries, tackle creative challenges, and have a blast. Camps run 9 – 3 at the Lloyd Center. Extended care available.
Grades 3 – 9
Ethos Music Center
Ethos Music Center offers fun, accessible, culturally-responsive music education for Portland’s youth, year-round, since 1998. Their engaging week-long summer camps include rock band, choir, jazz, piano, strings, and music tech. Sliding-scale from $225-$425; some are free with application.
Ages 5-18
Fine Art Starts!
Portland’s best Art Camp for K-8! Draw, paint, sculpt, and make digital art under a magical canopy of trees! Small groups, skilled staff. Step-by-step and self-directed exploration. New projects daily! Full & half days. Payment plans & financial aid available.
Grades K-8
Friends of Tryon Creek
Grow, learn, and have fun outdoors! Observe the forest hiking tree-lined trails and crossing bridges over Tryon Creek. Hone your nature science knowledge. Express your creativity through arts and crafts. Play games, build forts, and make friends.
Ages 6-14
Happy Hollow Children’s Center
They are an inclusive Summer Day Camp for children 2.5-5 and School Age Groups (Kindergarten to 2nd Grade – 5-8 Years). They offer weekly enrollment full-day camp or half-day camp and drop-in day options as well!!
i9 Sports
Sign up for an experience filled with fun and inclusiveness combined with sport science and the elevated experience of Nike programming so that every young athlete will thrive and shine bright! Join i9 for a one-week camp like no other. All Skill Levels, Boys and Girls.
Ages 5-12
Imagine Theatre Summer Programs
Join Imagine Theatre for one of their four summer youth offerings! Whether it is a week-long day camp, a teen two-week intensive camp, or some morning workshops, there is something for all youth to participate in!
Ages 7-18
Kids Like Languages
Kids Like Languages offers fun, immersive Spanish camps designed to spark curiosity and build confidence through games, art, music and cultural activities.
Ages 4-11
MJCC Summer Day Camp
MJCC Day Camp provides quality, age-appropriate, super fun programs including swimming, cooking, Jewish culture, nature, sports, and more! Flexible options 8:00 am – 5:30 pm. Open to everyone! Experience a sense of joy, community, spirit and fun. Register Today!
Ages 3-15
Northwest Children’s Theater
Hang with Hagrid, swim with Nemo and dance with the Newsies! Half-day and full-day camps are offered all summer long across 5 locations in Portland, Beaverton and Sherwood. Choose from 30+ camp titles, like Peter Pan, Tangled and more!
Ages 4-14
OMEGA Gymnastics
OMEGA keeps your kids active with supervised play, gymnastics instruction, crafts and games. Choose weekly half day or full day options. Camp shirt and annual family membership required for all attendees. See website for more details.
Ages 3.5 – 12
Oregon Children’s Theatre
Summer Camps at OCT encourage students to imagine, learn, and grow both as performers and individuals. They offer a wide variety of camps at every experience level. Spend your summer building confidence and collaboration skills, becoming better performers, and having fun!
Ages 3-18
Parkour Visions
Sign your kids up for Parkour Visions’ Half & Full Day Outdoor Summer Camps! For 18 years, they have been coaching PNW Kids safe falling, parkour skills, and more. They’ll have a blast while building confidence and skills for life!
Ages 4-18
PJA Summer Discovery
Open to everyone! PJA offers enriching classes from experienced, professional teachers who are excited to teach topics they are passionate about. Learn coding, experiment with string arts, construct elaborate Lego sculptures, dive into the game of chess, and more! Half-day and full-day options.
Ages 4-15
RecTennis powered by USTA PNW
RecTennis Summer Camps are packed with games and learning at parks and schools near you! Keep your kids active and engaged in a fun, supportive atmosphere that promotes healthy lifestyles, fosters social connections and inspires a lifelong love of tennis.
Ages 5-17
The Everybody Dance Project
The Everybody Dance Project offers weekly themed camps full of dance, play and fun! Dancers make new friends while learning skills in ballet and tumbling, and learn a routine to perform at the end of the week. Camps offered M-F 8:45am-1:30pm with aftercare add-on from 1:30-3:30pm. Locations in NE and SE Portland.
Ages 3-10
Tucker Arts Camp
Voted best art camp in 2022, 2023 and 2024! Over eight weeks, children in preschool through fifth grade explore the art through crafts, music, and visual arts. The campus in SE offers an organic garden, treehouse studio, goats, and gym.
Ages 4-5th grade
Villa Sport Athletic Club’s Adventure Island Summer Camp
