Winter Break Camps Offer School Break Fun for Your Kids

Winter Break Camps offer your kids a fun way to spend their break from school! They'll participate in engaging activities that will make their school break memorable. We rounded up some fantastic options for Winter Break Camps for kids of all ages. Sign up soon! Many camps fill fast.

Break Camps at the Saint Louis Zoo

Winter Break Camp: Hot and Cold: Campers will get to experience a day of discovering and learning about animals that are able to survive and thrive in these extremes, and some that can even live in both!

Winter Break Camp: Wild Family Trees: What do wolves and painted dogs have in common? What about lions and cheetahs? Their wild family trees of course! With tours, games and more, we will explore the parenting and family lifestyles to see if they have more in common than just their shared ancestry. 

These winter break camps are for children in 1st through 5th grades and are limited to 20 participants each. Winter Break Camp: Hot and Cold is happening December 23-24 and December 30-31. Winter Break Camp: Wild Family Trees is happening December 26-27 and January 2-3. Both camps offer after-care.

Learn more and register at stlzoo.org

Winter Wonderland Camp at the Saint Louis Zoo

Winter Break Camps at the Saint Louis Zoo

Winter Camp Extravaganza at Miss Kelly's Gyms in Creve Coeur and Cottleville

Miss Kelly's Gym offers non-competitive, theme-based Winter Break camps in two locations that provide children an opportunity for fitness, fun and total development – not to mention a fantastic way to beat the chilly weather! All camps are gymnastics-based and feature a new, exciting theme each day! Themes include Winter Wonderland, Holiday Goofy Games, Pajama Jam, Dinosaur Ice Age, New Year's Beach Bash, and Pirate & Mermaid Adventure and Arctic Animals. Theme-related activities include games, obstacle courses, arts & crafts, and lots of imagination! Miss Kelly's offers flexible scheduling: You pick which camp days/times will work for your schedule. Sign up for one day or all week. 

Winter Break Camp at Miss Kelly's Gym

Camps at the Creve Coeur location will be held December 23, 2024, through January 3, 2025. Camps at the Cottleville location will be held on December 23 and December 30, 2024. Camps will be held twice a day, mornings from 9 a.m. to noon and in the afternoon from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Miss Kelly's also offers a full-day option from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (just bring a sack lunch). Camps are for children ages 3-10 who are potty trained. Members and non-members are welcome to attend. Visit misskellysgym.com or call 314-439-1100 for further information about winter camp at Miss Kelly's Gym in Creve Coeur and to reserve your spot. For camps at the Cottleville location, visit misskellysgym.com/cottleville or call 636-244-0358.

Cost for a single half-day is $40/ single full day is $80 for members. Non-members are welcome to attend at a slightly higher rate (please call 314-439-1100). Snacks and water are provided. 

 

Winter Break Art Camps at COCA

Sign up for Winter Break Camp at COCA and spend December 20-23 doing unique and fun arts learning experiences. You'll find favorites from COCA's popular Summer Arts Camps all taught by COCA's faculty of experienced teaching artists. Winter Break Camps are available for ages 3-10. COCA camps are designed to engage all types of learners, and all art supplies, culinary camp groceries, technology supplies and equipment are included in the camp price. Before and after-care are available. Themes include Artists Toolbox, Chocolate Factory, Circus COCA, Circus Circus, Comic Books & Graphic Novels, Creating Bluey, Farm Fresh, and Monster Experiments. Learn more and register at cocastl.org

Winter Break Camps at COCA

Winter Camps at Craft Alliance

Whether your young artist wants to sculpt with molten glass, learn to weave, or throw on the potter’s wheel, Craft Alliance has a camp for them. Their team of professional teaching artists know how to engage students with new skills while having fun. Winter Camps at Craft Alliance will be held at its expanded location in the Delmar Maker District. Holiday camps provide young artists the outlet for exercising both critical and creative thinking through clay, fibers, metal, glass, and more. Camps are designed to engage youth in learning new and fun studio techniques by making amazing art works. Winter Camps at Craft Alliance will be held December 26-28, 2024, and the following themes: kinetic craft, pottery, metalsmithing, handbuilding, melting metal, flaming glass, and more. Learn more and register at craftalliance.org

 

Winter Camps at Upper Limits

Winter Break Camp at Upper Limits Climbing Gym in Maryland Heights offers a chance for your kids to stay active, learn new rock climbing skills, as well as learn about equipment and climbing techniques. Campers ages 7-15 take part in team-building activities, fun games, and opening climbing in the climbing gym. Camps are broken up into half and full-day camps. Half-day camps run from 9 a.m. to noon and full-day camps run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Camp dates are December 23-24 and December 30-31, 2024. Learn more and register at upperlimits.com

Winter Break Camp at Upper Limits Climbing Gym

 

Camp STLAG: Winter Break Camp at the St. Louis Artists Guild

Winter Camp at the St. Louis Artists Guild allows students to take art classes that develop their abilities and imaginations as they push themselves beyond what they think they ere capable of achieving. The STLAG Winter Camp sessions for Young Artists (ages 10-13) and Teens (ages 14-18) on January 2 and 3, 2025. Themes for Young Artists Camp include Digital Painting & Illustration and Watercolor Painting. The teen camp is themed Watercolor Still Life. All materials are included.m For more information and to register go to stlouisartistsguild.org.

Winter Camp at the St. Louis Artists Guild

Winter Break Camps at Olympia Gymnastics

Is your child ready to learn new gymnastics skills, explore ninja courses on awesome equipment, run obstacle courses with creative themes, play games, build forts and lots more over winter break? Then Olympia Gymnastics is the place to be! Olympia Gymnastics offers innovative Winter Break Camps led by highly trained, background-checked and safety-certified instructors, many of them former gymnasts who have grown up in the Olympia system. Programs are available for kids from the time they can walk until they are teens! Olympia Gymnastics has been serving the St. Louis metro area since 1979. Building happy, healthy, confident children is the foundation of Olympia's philosophy. Winter Break Camp is held at the Olympia Gymnastics location in Ellisville. Learn more and register at olympiagymnastics.org.

Winter Break Camp at Olympia Gymnastics & Ninja City in Ellisville

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