Smithtown Summer Camp

Taste Buds Kitchen runs cooking camps at its kitchen studio on West Main Street in Smithtown. Summer camps are five-day weeks of three-hour days: a morning camp for ages 4 to 8 (9:00am to 12:00pm) covers measuring, mixing and working safely in the kitchen, and an afternoon camp for ages 9 to 13 (1:00pm to 4:00pm) moves on to recipe reading, knife skills and burner skills. Campers make sweet and savory recipes each week and take home food samples and recipe packs. Most camps can be booked by the week or by the day, and early drop-off and late pick-up are available for an added fee. The camp page also lists an advanced teen camp for ages 13 to 17 at select locations and a counselor in training program for ages 10 and up, so check the Smithtown schedule for those. School break camps for ages 4 to 13 run on days off during the school year, as one-day or five-day camps. All menus are nut-free.

Gold Medal Gymnastics runs a summer gymnastics and ninja camp at its gym on West Main Street in Smithtown, for boys and girls ages 3 to 12 (campers must be potty trained). Camp runs in the morning, 9:30am to 12:30pm, in an air-conditioned gym, and families choose 3, 4 or 5 days a week for one week or several. Each week has its own theme, and days mix gymnastics, ninja and tumbling with arts and crafts, with instruction indoors and outdoors. Campers bring a snack, and a one-hour Lunch Bunch extension is available.

Summer Streeters Day Camp at Sid Jacobson JCC brings the best of the JCC community to a camp setting, serving children from age 3 through Grade 10. The program offers flexible half-day and full-day options with activities including swimming, arts, cooking, dance, drama, gaga ball, and travel camp experiences. Campers enjoy the heated pool and diverse enrichment programming designed to engage children across multiple age levels.

Summer at the J is the Friedberg JCC's day camp for children entering kindergarten through 6th grade, held at the JCC at 15 Neil Court in Oceanside from 9 am to 4 pm with extended care available. The camp strives to provide an inclusive camp experience and runs a separate inclusion track for children with disabilities ages 5 to 13. Older kids entering grades 7 through 10 can join the L.I.T. leadership program at the same site. The Friedberg JCC is also a partner agency in Island Quest Day Camp at the Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds.