10 Exciting Summer Camps In Chennai For Children To Enjoy Themselves & Express Their Creativity!

Looking for some interesting summer camps in Chennai to send your child to, so that she/he can spend the vacation learning new skills and also having fun? This list of unusual summer camps in Chennai is just what you need!

Summer is here and there are lots of summer camp options for children in Chennai to help them have fun and learn new skills. These summer camps in Chennai offer a break from the hectic academic schedule of schools and coaching classes and let children have some non-competitive, team-based and practical learning experience.

Updated with the latest summer camps of Chennai in April 2019, by Kanupriya Kumar

Here is a list of exciting summer camp options for children in Chennai:

Arise n Shine School of Excellence

Age group: 2-12 years

Activities: Multi activities from outdoors to theme-based activities

Address: Near Anna Tower Park, No 14, Y Block, 3^rd Street, Anna Nagar, Chennai 600 040, TN

Website: http://myarisenshine.com/programs/summer-camp/

Phone: +91 86950 76007, +91 44 4358 6781

Arise n Shine is offering a multi-activity camp that is action oriented, with lots of outdoor adventures and theme-based activities. The center offers lots of creative thinking and exploration opportunities to children. It teaches them learning through play and teamwork.

British Council Summer School Course for children

Age group: 7-17 years

Activities: Creative minds, Forward thinkers

Address: British Council Division, British Deputy High Commission, 737 Anna Salai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 002

Website: https://www.britishcouncil.in/english/courses-children/summer-school

Phone: +91 44 4205 0688, +91 120 456 9000, +91 120 668 4353

This summer British Council is helping develop children’s critical thinking and problem-solving skills through their theme-based summer school course and making them future ready. It is offering courses in life skills such as creativity, leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. The curse includes special features like digital learning, public speaking, creative writing, and learning through films and other media. Every child on the course will get an opportunity to participate in the Global Young Learners’ Art Competition organised worldwide.

Roboedge – Robotics classes in Chennai

Age group: 8 and upwards

Activities: Assembling, connections and programming of robots

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/RoboEdge-307411426404499/

Address: 48/28, 5th Main Road, Ramalinga Nagar, Virugambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600092

Website: https://roboedge.business.site/website/roboedge/

Phone: +91 99529 43588

The robotics training class teaches children how to build robots and provides certification upon completion of the course. Children learn to make robots through practicals and hands on experience. It’s a three months program with weekly classes. Each class is 2hours 30 minutes long. The course fee is Rs 6,000 for 3 months which includes books, certificate, and innovation CD content.

Step Junior League by the Hindu

Age group: 7-9 years, 10-12 years

Activities: Narratives, role plays, speeches, writing dialogues

Address: STEP, The Hindu Group, Kasturi Building, 859-860, Anna Salai, Chennai, TN 600002

Website: https://registration.steptest.in/jl2

Phone: 1800 3000 6063

Step Junior League Summer Camp is a unique interactive workshop to boost children’s communication skills and self confidence. There is focus on developing reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in English. There are both individual and collaborative activities that include role plays, narratives and speeches. The Programme also gives a certificate from The Hindu.

SPACE INDIA – Exploring life through science

Age group: 8 and upwards

Activities: basics of stargazing, observing through telescopes and binoculars, hunting famous constellations

Address: Flat no # 3, First Floor, TNGO Colony Extn, Adambakkam, Chennai – 600 088

Website: https://space-india.com/space-astronomy-clubs/

Phone: +91 73388 19951, +91 73388 19950

Email: info.chennai@space-india.com

This year SPACE India has organized a workshop called ‘Into the Stars-A Summer Camp and Astronomy Workshop’ which focuses on stargazing, looking through a telescope and knowing about constellations. All these activities provide hands on astronomy education to children. The organization also runs space astronomy club for school students to teach them about basic space science concepts. It also offers certification for its astronomy-based courses for beginners and intermediates. Observing through a telescope, building rockets and interacting with other astronauts is all part of Space club’s activities for its students.

Youreka Adventure Camps

Age group: 9-17 years

Activities: Adventure based learning camp; outdoor challenges, archery, nature exploration, rock climbing

Email: programs@youreka.in

Website: https://www.youreka.in/summer-camps.html

Phone: 1800 103 3301

Youreka has adventure camps in some of the major cities in India. The one in Tamil Nadu is at Yercaud and is at a height of 5,100 feet. It has the unique distinction of being the highest permanent nature camp in South India. There are lots of new and exciting activities at the Youreka Summer Camp 2019 with exciting new campsites, challenges and exploration of new places. Utmost care is taken for safety and security of all the campers. There are 8 campsites to choose from and lots of age appropriate activities for all the participants.

Little Millennium Summer Camp

Age group: 2-6 years, 6-10 years

Activities: Crimson colours, bingo beach, animals, science, dinosaurs, summer fiesta

Address: F-27, F-Block, 2^nd Street, Anna Nagar East, Chennai 600 102

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/littlemillenniumannanagareast/

Email: littlemillenniumannanagareast@gmail.com

Phone: +91 89395 33133

Making learning fun through activity based hands-on experience. Little Millennium is offering an exciting range of activities for the little ones as well as older school going children in maths, science and art. Enroll to unleash your child’s creativity and make learning a joyful experience for them.

Sporty Beans Camp

Age group: 1.5-8 years

Activities: Soccer, Baseball, Hockey, Volleyball, Basketball, Cricket, Golf, Rugby, Tennis

Address 1: Ambattur Lions club middle school, PV Rajamannar Salai, K K Nagar.

Address 2: Seed Academy, No. 1, Kalyani Nagar, Kottivakkam, Chennai – 600041.

Address 3: Rangaswamy Street, Kothandam Nagar, Mugalivakkam, Porur, Chennai -116.

Website: http://sportybeans.com/

Phone: +91 98844 65047, +91 99160 24278, +91 9941400666

Sporty Beans is providing multi-sport programmes for children in a social, non-competitive team-based environment. The summer vacation camps help children break up the school holidays with plenty of skill-based sports, creative exploration and fun. The sessions are available in mornings and evenings with lots of fun activities like art and craft, sponge painting, story-telling, sports related quizzes and debates included in the day’s activities.

Design Exploration Program

Age group: Class 7 to 12

Activities: Architecture, design and Fashion

Address: AG-22, 4^th Avenue Main Road, Shanthi Colony, Annnanagar, Chennai

Website: https://www.dqlabs.in/dep/

Phone: +91 96000 78100

The DEP offers children studying between class 7 to 12 an option to channel their creativity and explore career options in architecture, design and fashion. They learn concept development of design, prototyping, ideation and presentation. The batches in Chennai are going to run from mid-April to mid-June. DQ Labs hosts an exhibition in the second week of July in which it showcases the work of its students over the past four weeks.

Thamizh Mozhi Koodam

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ThamizhMozhiKoodam

Activities: Tamil language training, Tamil culture, traditional development

Address: Door No 3, First Foor,23/10, Devanathan road, Opposite to Kamatchi Amman Super Market 600028, Chennai, India

Website: https://www.thamizhmozhikoodam.com/

Phone: +91 92821 33333

It is a unique organization which provides Tamil language training summer camps. They specialize in conducting summer camps for children which have Tamil Read, Write and Speak workshop, Bharathiyar poems, Thirukkural and Tamil literature stories. Children also learn through traditional word games, proverbs, riddles and more. They are given an opportunity to sing in choir based on Indian ragas and based on the poetry of national poets like Iqbal, Tagore and Vallathol. Thamizh Kalai Koodam team share and train the kids on theatre skills , Voice modulation, Expression Exercise and lot more.

Let us know in the comments below if your child has experienced any other interesting summer camps in Chennai and if you would recommend them.

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