Winter vacation camps

Full-day fencing camps whenever school is closed, September through May — footwork, blade work, games and bouting for beginners through competitive fencers. All equipment provided.

Outdoor school-break camps on a 47-acre preserve — maple sugaring in February, polar science, animal tracking and trail hikes led by naturalists.

Half- and full-day February break camp run by professional naturalists across 640 acres of forest, ponds and trails — winter ecology, shelter building and animal encounters.

Indoor break camp for the youngest kids — crafts, dance, bounce time, cooking, science experiments and soccer, with half-day, full-day and extended-day options.

Indoor tennis camp over December and February breaks — campers grouped by age and level, from first racquet to tournament players.

The North Shore's big summer camp opens its 32-acre campus for a Country Day–style winter break camp — sports, arts, STEM and recreation with full-day and half-day options.

Break-week workshops spanning art, ceramics, theater, robotics and chess at Great Neck's community arts center.

Full-day camps during December and February recess at the Glen Cove and Huntington Ys — swim, gym sports, arts and crafts, games and field trips.

School-holiday skating and hockey camps on two indoor rinks at the Junior Islanders' home — learn-to-skate through Hockey 101 groups.

Drop-off holiday camps on school-break days — gymnastics, ninja obstacle courses, trampoline, games and open gym.

Winter and February break day camp on a 33-acre preserve — live animal encounters, trails, the manor house live-animal museum and outdoor science.

School-break nature programmes on a thousand-acre preserve — animal tracking in the snow, trail hikes, the Wildflower Island and resident wildlife.

Full-day gymnastics and ninja camp over December and February break — the reliable answer to a week of rain and a kid climbing the walls.

Rock Band camp over the school breaks — kids form a band, rehearse all week and record a track in the studio by Friday.

The same band-camp format on the North Shore — instruction, rehearsal and a recorded track across a single break week.

Break-week coding camps with two-students-to-one-coach ratios — Scratch and Python for younger kids, Roblox and game design for older ones.

School-break coding and VEX robotics camps on the same 2:1 coaching model, at the Syosset studio.

Break-week art workshops across painting, drawing, ceramics and 3D printing — the county's most established community arts centre.

Wheel throwing and hand-building workshops for tweens and teens over the school breaks — everyone leaves with fired work.

Hands-on science camp on the waterfront preserve during December and February breaks — experiments indoors, preserve exploration outdoors.

Extra workshops, theatre performances and drop-in programming across the December and February break weeks, all indoors.

Musical-theatre intensives over the school breaks — singing, choreography and scene work, ending in a showing for families.

Holiday-edition day camp at the aquarium — behind-the-scenes access, marine-science sessions and animal encounters across the December break.