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 a 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

5 Reasons why Metro Vancouver parents should choose Fireside Adventures’ Summer Day Camp

1. Unique Daily Adventures Across Metro Vancouver
   Fireside’s Summer Day Camps stand out by offering a new adventure every single day! This camp is designed to showcase the best of Metro Vancouver through activities like sailing, biking, and more. Children will experience the diversity and magic of their own backyard like never before!

2. Focus on Skill-Building and Social-Emotional Growth
   Our camp emphasizes outdoor skill-building and social-emotional learning. Activities like biking, hiking, and fort-building not only teach practical skills but also foster teamwork, problem-solving, and resilience.

3. Expertly Designed for Kids’ Enjoyment and Safety
   We prioritize keeping things small. Our small-group experiences ensure your child will receive individualized attention and support throughout the week. It also allows our experienced instructors to prioritize safety and inclusivity, ensuring every camper feels valued and empowered while having a blast.

4. Convenient, All-Inclusive Program for Busy Parents
   The camp is designed to be hassle-free for parents. With central pickup/drop-off at Douglas Park (near the King Edward Skytrain station), activity admissions, daily photos, and all supplies included, you can relax knowing your child is in good hands and fully immersed in a high-quality program.

5. An Affordable Adventure Packed with Value
   For $649 per week, your child will enjoy an unforgettable experience packed with exploration, learning, and fun. From sailing and biking to beach days and scavenger hunts, each day is thoughtfully planned to offer the maximum value for families in Metro Vancouver!

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 child exploring Stanley Park learning to identify local plants or meeting the tropical birds of the Bloedel Conservatory. 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

• Exploration of Pacific Spirit Park and Stanley Park’s forests and beaches;

• Visiting the amazing Watermania to enjoy the wave pool, waterslides, and more;

• Explore Queen Elizabeth Park’s Bloedel Conservatory and Pitch ‘n’ Putt;

• 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.