Lancaster Recreation’s 2026 Summer Program Series!
9 weeks of fun: June 21, 2026 – August 21, 2026
Full-Day & Half-Day options available most weeks
Early Drop-Off & Extended Day options also available!
Give your kids a summer full of adventure, creativity, and friendship! From sports and arts to STEM activities and outdoor exploration, our programs help children learn new skills, make friends, stay active, and have a blast in a safe and supportive environment.
Early Drop-Off: 1 hour before program starts – $50/week
Extended Day: 1 hour after program ends – $50/week
Both: $85/week
All activities are held at the Lancaster Community Center, utilizing indoor and outdoor spaces depending on the program.
Don’t forget a Summer Program T-shirt – $15 at checkout to make your summer memories even more fun!
Nature Lab Explorers & Fairies and Dragons-- This session is perfect for curious kids who love science, slime, and a little bit of gross! Budding scientists will discover how our bodies battle germs, check out how birds use their beaks like special tools, and dig through real owl pellets to find surprise bones inside (eww… cool!). With fun experiments in solar power, digestion, color-changing flowers, and squishy polymer science, this week is packed with hands-on, “wow!”-worthy nature fun! & Enter the fantasy world of imagination where fairies fly and unicorns roam. Art-venturers unleash their inner elves as they conjure up fire-breathing dragons, transform colorful clay into silly goblin masks, and create winged fairies or armored knight dolls. Sculpt bedazzling unicorns with rainbow manes, design witch or wizard figurines, and build wooden fairy houses with real shells, stones, moss and more. Paint ceramic unicorn banks and create your own dragon or mermaid tshirts! With the aid of some very magical potions and spells (i.e. materials and techniques), campers experience painting, drawing, stained glass, ceramic, fabric, and clay art. Enjoy an enchanted week of two- and three-dimensional works of art! Fairies and Dragons storytelling is included, as well as surprises and humor. Fun, fantasy- filled ART-ventures!
Nature Lab Explorers- 1/2 day AM-- This session is perfect for curious kids who love science, slime, and a little bit of gross! Budding scientists will discover how our bodies battle germs, check out how birds use their beaks like special tools, and dig through real owl pellets to find surprise bones inside (eww… cool!). With fun experiments in solar power, digestion, color-changing flowers, and squishy polymer science, this week is packed with hands-on, “wow!”-worthy nature fun!
Fairies and Dragons- 1/2 day PM--Enter the fantasy world of imagination where fairies fly and unicorns roam. Art-venturers unleash their inner elves as they conjure up fire-breathing dragons, transform colorful clay into silly goblin masks, and create winged fairies or armored knight dolls. Sculpt bedazzling unicorns with rainbow manes, design witch or wizard figurines, and build wooden fairy houses with real shells, stones, moss and more. Paint ceramic unicorn banks and create your own dragon or mermaid tshirts! With the aid of some very magical potions and spells (i.e. materials and techniques), campers experience painting, drawing, stained glass, ceramic, fabric, and clay art. Enjoy an enchanted week of two- and three-dimensional works of art! Fairies and Dragons storytelling is included, as well as surprises and humor. Fun, fantasy- filled ART-ventures!
Jr. Scientist- 1/2 day AM-- This preschool program offers young children (ages 3-5) an exciting introduction to science as they explore the human body and our senses. Kids also experience the science of colors and how things move. They become paleontologists by searching for fossils in a mini dinosaur dig. They also take an exciting mission to explore planets, moons, and stars, then continue the science with take-homes.
