Day Camps at Fort Edmonton Park are back! Your child can now explore Fort Edmonton Park through fun, unique and immersive experiences.
Make memories with new friends that last a lifetime through all 4 of our eras, including our award-winning new exhibit the Indigenous Peoples Experience. * We offer Pre-Camp and Post-Camp Care for a set fee. Pre-Camp Care is from 8:00 am to 9:00 am and Post-Camp Care is from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
See you at the Park!
Day Camps are available for bookings during July and August, Monday to Friday.
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Summertime Christmas (Ages 6-9) Keep the spirit of Christmas throughout the year by celebrating with Fort Edmonton Park this summer. Campers will experience the seasonal traditions and explore how early Edmontonians celebrated with customs from around the world. Join us for a jolly good time. |
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Get your kids unplugged and engaged in the world around them. Games, sports, and crafts - kids in the past made their own fun. Campers will visit the Johnny J Jones Midway to partake in carnival rides and games. Picnics with fresh lemonade will leave them refreshed and ready to start again. |
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Mrs. Egge’s Kitchen Kids - Junior (Ages 6-9) and Senior (Ages 10-12) No one bakes like grandma, except maybe great-grandma and of course, Mrs. Egge! Aspiring bakers will learn the secrets of home cooking on a wood-burning stove. You will bake treats and sweets throughout the week using historic recipes! Activities for older bakers can include baking cakes, and pies and sewing your own apron! After sampling their creations, tidy up and finish chores just like kids in the past, followed by some play in our gardens. |
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An evil time bandit is messing with history and needs to be set straight. Campers - History Heroes - will need to conduct interviews with characters from Edmonton’s past and discover clues to right this dreadful wrong. Participants will create their own detective tools and keep track of all the important facts in their top-secret files. It will require code cracking and other special tricks of the trade. Best suited to inquisitive and cunning junior historians. |
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Adventure at the Fort (Ages 6-9) What would a kid’s life in the fur trade be like? Campers will explore our 1846 Fort through activities like building a travois, tracking animals, and learning Indigenous games. Try your hand at creating traditional art from our cultural experts onsite, and learn more about the relationship between settlers and Indigenous peoples. |
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Edmonton Explorers (Ages 8-11) Come and explore all that Fort Edmonton Park has to offer as you travel throughout Edmonton’s history. Make new friends that will last a lifetime as you discover life throughout the ages. |
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Our Land, Our Stories (Ages 8-11) There is meaning in everything. Exploring both inside and outside of the Indigenous Peoples Experience, campers will discover how the living natural world is foundational to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis ways of understanding through land-based learning activities. |
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Voyageur Adventure (Ages 10-12) It’s the Voyageurs’ life for me! Get a taste of this challenging and adventurous way of life. Campers will explore our 1846 Fort. Campers will try their hands at creating traditional art from our cultural experts onsite, and learn more about the relationship between settlers and Indigenous peoples. The week comes together with a trip to the John Janzen Nature Centre where you will investigate habitats around the Nature Centre for tracks and traces that animals leave behind. |
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For more information on our 2024 Day Camps, please contact info@fortedmontonpark.ca.
