Vancouver Day Camps for Kids: SUMMER (5-day)

Attention: Junior adventurers, explorers, action heroes, and kids with endless curiosity!

Imagine your kid(s) exploring beaches, hiking on awesome local trails, sailing, and eating wild huckleberries, all in one week! Exploring, biking, sailing, building, creating, dreaming, laughing, and enjoying every precious moment are all experiences that define being a kid at camp. That’s what happens at Fireside Adventure’s Vancouver Summer Kids Day Camps.

When kids go to Fireside’s Vancouver Kids Day Camps, they develop a sense of independence, resilience, new skill sets, and connection with nature. Our day camps are about putting adventure awesomeness into all of our campers’ summers!

DATES
Ocean Adventurers
June 30–July 04, 2025
July 14–18, 2025
July 28–August 01, 2025

Where the Wild Things Go
July 07–11, 2025
July 21–25, 2025

AGES
6–12 (co-ed)

PICKUP AND DROPOFF
Douglas Park
Duration: 8:30–3:30

PRICES
$649.00 + GST
Deposit: $200.00 CAD + GST

Includes: Camp supplies and materials, paddleboards, lifejackets, experienced instructors, daily photos, admission

Does not include: Bikes – campers will need to bring their own bike and safety equipment for self-propelled travel days.

More info: office@firesideadventures.ca

High-quality programs that are small group, interactive, outdoors, priced appropriately, and creative

We know how challenging it is to find a Metro Vancouver day camp that is reasonably priced, land-based, and gives your children the attention and support they need. This is why we operate local and small group and mobile camp experiences for kids aged 6–12 where you get what you pay for. Our summer day camps are designed to provide a balance of fostering children’s social-emotional learning, outdoor skill-based training, creativity, and play.

Ocean Adventurers

Kid-friendly oceanography, marine biology, and ocean exploration

Is your child curious about the underwater world? Do they wonder about how tides work? Our Ocean Adventurers camp is magical for kids to immerse themselves in a magical marine world while exploring and having fun! We’ll strike the perfect balance between curiosity-driven science projects, beach exploration, and time to cut loose (including swimming, sailing, and paddleboarding!) And, of course, practising to become a young marine biologist…

Key activities:

• Ocean-based activities like sailing with the Jericho Sailing Club and paddleboarding;

• Science-based games and creative projects, like driftwood sculpture-making;

• Visiting and exploring ocean-focused places like the Maritime Museum, Fisherman’s Wharf at Granville Island, Pacific Museum of Earth’s Weather Alley, and the Beatty Biodiversity Museum to see the blue whale skeleton!

• Learning about local Indigenous perspectives and storytelling about the ocean world;

• Following a pirate’s map while building our navigational skills… to discover treasure with a surprising twist!

Camp favourite: Temporary terrariums! Build your own terrarium (or ocean aquarium) to reflect the oceanside biome! We release the creatures back to their larger home at the end of the day.

Where the Wild Things Go

Cutting loose in the wild and embracing the kid… within the kid!

Imagine your children biking along Stanley Park as the sun shines on the water and the birds chirp. Imagine them hiking peacefully through the forests learning to identify local plants. Get ready to take part in forest exploration, biking, expressive arts, foraging, fort-building and lots of fresh air!

**Biking is part of this camp, so ensure your kids have prior biking experience. We will have a proficiency test before riding at the beginning of this summer camp.

Key activities:

• Biking excursions (2 days) and bike safety/maintenance lessons

• Daily exploration of Stanley Park’s forests and beaches + the splash park;

• Visiting the amazing Cleveland Dam and Salmon Hatchery (last year’s highlight;

• Expressive arts experience including a Stanley Park art tour, chalk street art workshop, and forest art installations;

• Beat the heat and channel your inner scientist with a Science World experience;

• Junior wildlife science and Indigenous perspectives, including foraging and climate science, through exploration and educational games like ‘Predator and Prey’.

Camp favourite: Quest for the Lord of All Frogs: searching for Lord Froggerton at beautiful Beaver Lake while learning about species conservation and the various native, endangered and invasive frogs around Vancouver.