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Summer Camp Guide

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We are committed to providing your child/camper a safe environment along with caring and experienced camp counselors and fun-filled days. Offering specialty camps from arts to sports plus everything in between and full day traditional style summer camps with popular themes each week all for ages 3-17 at 16 locations throughout Prince William County.

Note: Unless otherwise noted, Prince William County Department of Parks & Recreation Summer Camp offerings operate with basic health and safety requirements but are exempt from licensure and have no direct oversight by the Virginia Department of Education.
 
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Best Summer Camps

 

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Adapted Program

Disability Inclusion

The Department of Parks and Recreation offers inclusion-based programming.

Please find more information on our Inclusion page or contact Veronica Laughman, ADA Coordinator: [email protected].

Complete and submit the Inclusion request form.

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    3D Character Modeling and Sculpture

    Campers will learn how to digitally sculpt characters in a 3D space! Using software called Sculptris, campers will draw, develop, and sculpt their character and objects using a tablet and drawing stylus. Campers will also learn about sources on how to 3D PRINT their models.

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    Coding & Game Design with Scratch

    Introduce your camper to the wonderful world of programming! In this camp, campers will learn basic programming concepts using a simple drag-and-drop interface within the software Scratch. Campers will use their imaginations and implement creative thinking, while at the same time learning how to create and program simple games.

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    Sports Sampler

    Ready to get your child out and in the sports world? Don't know which sport to start them on? Sports sampler is a perfect way to get started! This is a parent & me camp, where you will get the chance to work alongside you athlete. Sports sampler will show you the basics to multiple sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, baseball, track and field.

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    Introduction to Pedagogy

    Ages 13-18. Minimum 3 years formal dance training, ballet training required. Are you interested in teaching dance? Have you ever wondered how your instructors create their lesson plans and how they know what corrections to give? In this camp, dancers will learn foundational elements of dance pedagogy (teaching methods).

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    Advanced Paddle Sports

    Ages 10-14. Learn more advanced techniques that you use in a kayak, canoe and paddle board while exploring the Occoquan. Campers should have some experience with kayaks and other watercraft before signing up for this camp.

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    Colonial Times at Rippon Lodge

    This four-day camp explores Virginia’s early colonial history and the Blackburn Family, the original owners of Rippon Lodge. Indoor and outdoor activities, crafts, foodways, field trips, and special guests included in this history camp.

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    History Camp Town & Country

    Have you ever wondered what it was like to live out in the countryside during the days of oil lamps and wood stoves? Answer these questions and more at Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre’s Town and Country Camp!

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    All Star Tiny Tots Tennis

    Here’s an introduction to tennis through fun games and activities designed to build hand-eye coordination and familiarity with the tennis ball and racket. (A tennis racket is required).

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    Dance Intensive Camps

    SBDCRC School of Dance offers affordable, high quality Summer Dance Intensives for students training seriously in ballet and other styles of dance. Our intensives provide students the opportunity to take a daily ballet class, pointe technique (for those already approved for pointe), jazz, lyrical/contemporary, modern and Progressing Ballet Technique for conditioning.

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    Ultimate Music Camp

    Learn Now Music introduces campers to a variety of musical instruments and concepts including guitar, violin, voice and movement. Campers participate in musical games, crafts, musical listening excerpts, related projects and MORE!

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    My First Lemonade Stand

    Let's sell lemonade! Young campers become "lemonade entrepreneurs" and learn how to make yummy lemonade and earn money selling it!

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    Coding & Game Design Camps

    In Coding and Game Design with Scratch, campers will learn basic programming concepts using a simple drag-and-drop interface within the software Scratch. Our Jr. Lego Robotics class combines the exciting world of Lego with programming to manipulate and program your own personal robots. In "Coding in Minecraft", campers will learn how to program robots called “Turtles” inside the world of Minecraft.

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    Future Millionaires

    Join us for this unique financial literacy and business camp with various daily themes: personal finance, investments, entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation.

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    All-Star Baseball Camp

    Our baseball camps are built on skill building, sportsmanship and fun. This baseball camp is a summer camp where kids aged 7 to 12 are trained in skills such as pitching, hitting, fielding and base running. Our instructors will be pushing your player to improve their game and providing top-notch baseball instruction and create unforgettable summer memories!

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    Let's Go Skate!

    Summer Camp at Veterans Memorial Park is the place to elevate your skills and stoke your passions. Skaters will be placed into age/ability groups. Learn or improve on key skateboarding basics and tricks: ollies, manuals, kickflips, and more! Camp also features skate games, park activities, safety equipment tips and contests!

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    All Star Youth Tennis

    The camp focuses on fundamental tennis skills with upbeat drills and exciting games. The camp emphasizes working with a partner, good sportsmanship and tons of fun! Please feel free to bring your favorite tennis racket if you have one, but rackets and balls will be provided if needed.

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    Champion Youth Tennis

    Through fun, skill-building games, beginners and advanced beginners learn and develop fundamental tennis strokes. Students are encouraged to repeat this class until they feel confident with all the basic strokes. Participants must provide their own tennis racket.

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    Ocean Explorers

    Campers will enjoy a wide variety of themed activities – arts & crafts, games, stories, STEM activities, and much more!

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    Wild About Animals

    Let’s get wild! Discover animals and their different habitats from around the world. Design toucans, stingrays, monkeys, camels, llamas, ostriches, lions and more. Create animals in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Each lesson will introduce fun art techniques while we explore STEAM concepts. This program is instructed by Abrakadoodle.

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    Sylvia

    In this camp, dancers will learn beginner to advanced beginner level ballet. They will take a daily ballet technique class, focusing on alignment, strength, and flexibility. After class, dancers will learn about the week's featured ballet and will be taught adapted choreography to present to parents at the end of the camp.

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    Circus Art Camp

    Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…the circus is coming to town in Abrakadoodle style! Stretch your creative muscles while you tame animal sculptures, create a 3D clown puppet and more. Be the ringmaster of your own imagination!

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    Animation Using Minecraft

    Campers will be introduced to basic animation techniques using Minecraft characters and stages. Campers will expand their observation skills and imagination by studying motion in reality and how it influences motion in animation. Campers will create various short animation exercises and projects by applying basic acting theories and animation principles to the scenes they create.

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    Storytellers Camp

    Campers enhance their writing skills and learn to work as a team in a creative setting. Campers collaborate in brainstorming sessions to select an original story idea, individual writing, and provide feedback and advice to their peers, promoting social and emotional learning. Campers aim to finish their own stories by the end of the program.

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Automated Wait-list

 

How Our New Waitlisting Works

If you are wait-listed for a camp, you will receive an automatic email notification. This email will contain a link to accept or reject the enrollment via your WebTrac account.

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Automated Waitlist

•    If you accept the enrollment, you will be prompted to complete the registration and payment process. You will not be able to enroll without completing this stepFailure to accept or reject the request within 72 hours of receipt of the first email will result in an automatic rejection and removal from the waitlist.
•    The waitlist process will close 14 days prior to the start of the camp, after which time registration is not guaranteed. Additional details on the automated waitlist process can be found here.
•    To ensure that you receive waitlist emails, please be sure to verify your email address in RecTrac.

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Make a Wishlist

If there is a camp you would like to save but are not ready to checkout, you can add the camp to your wishlist (even if it is not currently available for registration) and then add it to your cart at a later time.


Watch the Video Below to Learn How to create a Wishlist:

 

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Registration Now Open for 2025 Spring Break Camps!

Spring Break is almost here! Learn the safe and effective way to handle and shoot recurve and compound bows during Spring Break Archery, make new friends at Vets Spring Break Camp, make your best swing on the golf course during First Tee Golf Spring Break and so much more.
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Dont Take Our Word for It

Thank you for the outpouring of support you and your families have shared with us. While we can't share every good comment here, we wanted to highlight a few from 2024:

"Keep doing what you're doing. Great leadership great staff and great activities".

"The drop off and pickup were super easy and I feel that my children are safe".

"Ms.Virginia is wonderful! My daughter thoroughly enjoyed her time in Ms. Virginia's class and cannot wait to return next year!"

"My child is begging to go back next summer!"

"Olivia and Joslynn are phenomenal! Every time I drop off and pick up, they greet every child BY NAME! I'm impressed with the personalization the kids get even with the large amount of kids who attend! Their positive personalities are contagious!"

"Mr. Hines and the teachers are amazing! My daughter loves the camp (she is 6) and already asked to be back next year!"

"Perfect in every way."

"Id like to recognize Thomas for being very kind and thoughtful to our daughter as she struggles with social interactions in the camp. Our daughter also especially appreciated Ms. Amaya for her kindness and caring."

"My daughter had the best time learning a new type of dance this week. She came home happy and excited every day!"

"Your Soccer and Basketball coaches are excellent."

"I always utilize Vets over the years even though Dale City Rec and Chinn are closer to home. I trust the staff here with my kiddos all the way through Pre-K to middle school age. I will continue to bring them to Vets until they age out!"

"My daughter had to wear a hard cast but the staff were great in making sure she wore her cast protector so she could still participate in water play and pool day". 

"Loved the camp staff! The entire process was well organized and communication was clear."

"My kids cried when they realized this was the last week at Wingapo this summer. They aren't criers. Every day there is amazing!"


"I am very satisfied with this camp for my child with special needs. Thanks so much to the staff for their patience!"

"I have three kids enrolled, and I wish I could fill out three surveys because it was so awesome!"

"My kids got to this camp every year and love it each time! Thank you!"

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DPR would like to thank our 6,000+ campers and their families for an amazing summer in 2024 and for your continued support and participation in our summer camp programs!
The energy, enthusiasm, and excitement you bring to camp daily is vital to the continued success of our camps.
We wish everyone a safe and successful year and look forward to welcoming everyone back again in summer 2025!
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Summer Camp Photos

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Chinn Aquatics & Fitness Center
Sharron Baucom Dale City Recreation Center
James S. Long Regional Park/Gro
Historic Preservation

Silver Lake Regional Park
Lake Ridge Park
Locust Shade Park
Veterans Memorial Park
Pat White Center at Ben Lomond

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Parks & Recreation

email:  [email protected]
phone: (703) 792-7060 (TTY: 711)
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