We’ve rounded up our top picks for 2023 Christmas Camps in Hong Kong. There are heaps of choices guaranteed to keep kids entertained and busy over the winter holidays.
Bookmark this page as we continue to update
ACTIVE Multi-activity Camps
Minisport
By providing children with early exposure to sports, Minisport, a specialist in Early Years sports, aims to assist your child in mastering the fundamental skills of six different sports: tennis, football, basketball, rugby, athletics, and hockey. Enrolling your child in their Winter Camps will not only broaden their understanding of the world of sport but also allow them to forge new friendships and create lasting memories.
To ensure personalised attention and optimal learning, Minisport maintains small groups with a maximum of 10 students. This ensures that each child receives ample support to refine their sporting abilities and explore new athletic interests. Additionally, as a special bonus, every student will receive a complimentary camp shirt! Give your children something exciting to anticipate during the holiday season with the exceptional Winter Camps offered by Minisport!
Dates: Camps run from 18-22 December (week 1) and 27-29 December (week 2)
Age: For 1.5-2.5 years: Enjoy 60 minutes of fun-filled activities each day
For 2.5-3.5 years: Choose from AM (90 mins) or PM (60 mins) camps
For 3.5-5.5 years: Engage in 2.5 hour camps with a beach trip in week 1 (return bus trip included)
Location: Camps take place at Victoria Park, Tamar Park, Nam Cheong Park, Tseung Kwan O Velodrome Park, Sha Tin Park and Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park. All camps for 3.5-5.5yrs have a beach day included.
Cost: Week 1 – $1,500-$3,750 for five days (before discount); Week 2 – $900-$2,250 for three days (before discount)
Special Offer: Get 20% off if you book before 24 Nov and 10% off before 8 Dec
Contact: WhatsApp: +852 5409 6512; Email: [email protected]
Website: www.minisport.hk
Move For Life
Let the awesome team at MFL take your kids on a journey of social/emotional development, creative expression, and musical and physical intelligence through dancing, games, arts and crafts, stories and more.
Little Movers is for ages 2 – 5 years and offers dance, multi sports, indoor games, arts and crafts, stories, free play, and sensory activities. Move Monkeys covers ages 6 – 12 years. There are dance classes in different styles (Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballroom/Latin) plus yoga/stretch, arts and craft and games. Koala Bop holiday camps for kids with special education needs and physical disabilities. These classes are full of dance, arts and crafts, sensory play, story time and games.
Dates: 18 – 29 December 2023
Age: 2 to 12 years old, plus SEN up to 19 years
Location: Pok Fu Lam, Central, Tseung Kwan O and Mong Kok
Cost: $550 per day; 10% off when you book five or more days
Contact: WhatsApp — 5577 8047, [email protected], www.moveforlife.asia
Africa Center HK Multi-Activity Camp
Afro Multi-Activity Camps are for kids of all ethnicities and aim to connect and empower the next generation. With the goal of helping kids develop relationships, confidence, and skills through multiple activities, the camps are full of painting, dancing, designing, cooking and more. Camp fees include an African buffet lunch.
Dates: late December
Age: 2–13 years
Cost: 2–5 years old $750/day, 6–13 years old $1,000/day
Location: Africa Center, 12/F, Hillwood Road, TST
Contact: 9260 6185, www.africacenterhk.com
YWCA
There are more camps this year than ever! From basketball to Mandarin, Chinese calligraphy to fencing, gymnastics to cooking, LEGO to Christmas ornament decorating, Minecraft to tennis, and oh so many more, the YWCA is your one stop shop for camps galore.
Dates: 20 – 31 December 2023
Age: 2 to 10+
Location: varied
Cost: from $500
Contact: www.clle.ywca.org.hk
Camp Woodland
Explore, learn, play, develop new skills and make new friends with the dynamic and engaging multi-activity programmes at Camp Woodland. Activities include gymnastics, yoga, rugby, basketball and more!
Age: 6 months – 7 years
Contact: https://woodlandschools.com/camp/
Lifelong Labs
Kids absolutely love the project-based, industry-informed, and future-focused curriculum. From industrial design to fashion, short film production to life and food science, don’t miss the chance for your child to discover their passion.
Age: 6 months – 7 years
Contact: www.lifelonglabs.org
SKIP
Paint & Play sessions run in the mornings during school holidays and offer a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities. Kids can explore and move freely from one activity to another as they wish. Outdoor play offers ride-on toys and slides plus climbing, balancing, sliding and bouncing gear. There’s also art and crafts, messy play (goop, slime, mud, playdough, water), quiet play (puzzles and books), story time, singing and dancing.
Dates: starting 18 December
Contact: www.skip.edu.hk
ProActiv Sports – Multi-sports
ProActiv Sports camps offer a diverse range of sports, activities, and team games. Kids will love the variety of playing basketball, tennis, volleyball and soccer in between games of tag, LEGO building some engineering tasks and dodgeball. Experienced coaches group children by age so each child receives the utmost benefit from their camp experience.
Age: 3 to 12 years
Location: Kellet School and Shrewsbury International School
Cost: From $2,200
Contact: WhatsApp: 9144 8759, [email protected], www.hk.proactivsports.com
Active Kids
Hands-on science projects, international chess, building and coding robots, creative cooking, art & crafts, and fashion design are all on offer with Active Kids. Each camper will have so much fun while developing skills and learning!
Dates: 19 December 2022- 6 January 2023
Ages: 3 – 17
Price: $1,500 – $3,400
Location: ActiveKids Learning Center, Unit A, 1/F, Nan Sang Building, 86 Belcher’s Street, Kennedy Town
Contact: +852 3480 4188, [email protected]
Additional Options
The Little Gym — Gymnastics holiday camps. www.thelittlegym.com
Kinder Kicks – The September to December schedule is now open for multi-sport activities. www.kinderkicks.hk.
Adventure And Outdoor Winter Camps
Ark Eden
Waterfall hikes, organic farming, tree climbing, wild cooking and campfires are all part of Ark Eden’s nature camps. This camp is ideal for kids who crave adventure and enjoy the great outdoors. The themed camps nurture kids by building their confidence and skills through natural play. Book one day or a week.
Ages: 5 – 11
Location: 11 Tung Hang Mei, Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong (drop off at Central Pier or Mui Wo Pier)
Contact: 2988 5355, [email protected], www.arkedenonlantau.org.
The Backyard Gang
Two and three-day outdoor winter camps full of fun games, activities, and nature exploration.
Contact: www.thebackyardgang.com
Mountain Biking Camp
Ages: 7 – 17
Price: 3 day course $3,000, 4 day course $4,000
Location: Mui Wo, Lantau Island
Contact: +852 5117 0051
Additional Options
Camp APA: Asia Pacific AdventureThree and five-day outdoor holiday camps. www.asiapacificadventure.com
Outward Bound – www.outwardbound.org.hk
Treasure Island —www.treasureislandhk.com
Hong Kong Forest Adventures — www.hongkongforestadventures.com
Eminent International Preschool — www.eminent-education.org
Hebe Haven Yacht Club — www.hhyc.org.hk
Learning, Coding, Science, STEM/STEAM Camps
Mochy’s Christmas camps
Storytelling Meets STEAM (age 3-5) Multi-sensory camp shares the power of storytelling and learning through art, movement and science. Each storytelling session is followed by an activity designed around the storybook.
Christmas Extravaganza STEAM Makerspace (age 6-11) Curious young minds explore and discover the wonders of Christmas through a winter wonderland of STEAM. With a blend of educational and recreational fun, this camp promotes valuable STEAM skills through projects like Coding Ornament, Circuit Christmas Tree, Christmas, Mosaic Coaster, Flying Reindeer, etc.
Kidpreneur Launchpad (age 7-12) Designed to expand children’s horizons in entrepreneurship and financial literacy in a fun and engaging way by fostering a willingness to experiment, reliance on logic and evidence and focus on creative problem-solving.
Dates: 18 December 2023 – 5 January 2024
Ages: 3 – 12
Price: $1,200 – $3,700 ($330+ per hour)
Location: K11 MUSEA, Aberdeen Marina Club, ESF (and more
Contact: WhatsApp 52953765, [email protected], www.mochygroup.com
Additional Options
Koding Kingdom – www.kodingkingdom.com
Growing IQ — www.growingiq.com.hk
Cobo Academy — Coding and robotics www.coboacademy.comThe Genius Workshop — www.g-workshop.com
Dance, Drama and Creative Camps
Faust
Faust’s highly sought-after holiday programmes offer children an exciting boost of creativity and confidence. The Holiday Theatre course helps children develop communication and self-expressive skills through drama-based challenges and acting exercises. Creative Writing workshops, held in small groups, teach new writing techniques to facilitate children expressing themselves confidently. Musical Theatre workshops focus on developing skills in singing, dancing and acting. Register online.
Dates: 18 December- 6 January
Ages: Holiday Theatre: 3-15 years, Creative Writing: 6-13 years, Musical Theatre: 8-15 years
Price: From $2380. Friends together discount: Save 15% for 3 or more children. Register here
Location: Sheung Wan (Faust Studios), Ho Man Tin (King George V School), Taikoo Shing (Hamilton Hill Kindergarten)
Contact: +852 2547 9114 or [email protected]
Elephant Community Press for aspiring writers
Creative kids will love these ECP writing workshops that guide them through the entire process of writing and publishing – from generating ideas to drafting and revision through to publication! Stories—real and imagined—enrich our lives no matter how old the writers are. ECP publishes kids writing to offer real readers for their work and the chance for every participant to experience the magic of seeing their words, thoughts and ideas in print. Workshops held over the holidays Dec 18-21 and Dec 27-29, 2023 or Jan 2-5, 2024. Get in early for a discount.
Dates: 18 December 2023 – 5 January 2024
Age: 4 to 16 years old
Cost: $1,200 – $3,400
Location: Unit 704, Lap Fai Building, 6-8 Pottinger Street, Central, Hong Kong.
Contact: 3487 3153, www.elephantcommunitypress.com
Helen O’Grady Drama Winter Camp
Children can participate in a wide variety of activities in drama lessons carefully devised to captivate interests and stimulate learning. These activities aim to develop ongoing confidence, self-esteem as well as skills in verbal communication. Activities include ad-libbing, music & movement, snippets, prop/costume making and a special performance on the last day for parents.
Dates: 18 – 29 December 2023
Ages: 3 – 9
Price: $1,560 – $2,900
Contact: Enquire online or call/WhatsApp +852 5565 3350
The Living Room Rock School
Give your child a creative and meaningful experience this Christmas with 3 days of fun playing in a real music band. Kids are put into a band situation in groups of around 4 and taught basic music theory, the dynamics of playing in a band and collaborating to write their own song. The camp culminates in a small concert where the little rock stars can shine by performing to family, friends and students.
Dates: 10am-3pm, 18-20 December, 21-23 December, 27-29 December, 2-4 January
Ages: 6 – 16
Price: Early bird $3,050 (Register and pay 14 days before camp starts), Regular $3,600
Location: 1/F, 90 Sun On Village, Sai Kung
Contact: www.thelivingroom.hk
Alternative Options
Ballroom Bees – www.ballroombees.com
Colour My World – www.colour-my-world.com
Stage Right! Youth Theatre — www.stagerighthk.com
Casita – Music, movement and sensory classes for younger kids. www.casita.com.hk.
Language Camps
Yifan Chinese language winter camps
Age: 3.5 to 12 years
When: Various dates from Monday, 18 December 2023 to Friday, 5 January 2024, view the full schedule here.
Where: French International School, Tseung Kwan O and Discovery Bay International School
How Much: $550 per day
Contact: WhatsApp: 9208 7611, [email protected], www.yifancamps.com
Alternative Options
The C Club — www.thecclub.com.hk/admissions
Featured image courtesy of Shutterstock; picture 1 courtesy of Active Kids; picture 2 courtesy of Friendly Guides & Ridespicture 2 courtesy of Faust; picture 3 courtesy of Babel; picture 4 courtesy of YWCA;
Related articles: