Our licensed program runs all day at elementary schools in Anchorage and Eagle River. Your child can join us for a week or the whole summer! Each day features a variety of hands-on activities where everyone has the opportunity to experience sports, arts and crafts, cooking, science, and community projects. Theme weeks, dress-up days, and more are all included. If you want your child to learn new skills, get outside, make new friends, play hard and have quiet time, then this is the program for you!
For families enrolled in our community center programs at Loussac Place or Tyson Elementary. The summer community center program is provided at no cost to families. For information, click here.
Daily Schedule
7am: Drop-off
7:30 am: Breakfast
9:00 am: Clean up
9:15 am: Morning Circle
9:30 am: Activity One*
10:30 am: Activity Two
11:30 am: Lunch and Outside
1:30 pm: Activity Three
2:30 pm: Activity Four
3:30 pm: Outside and Snack
4:30 pm: Activity Clubs**
5:15: Free Time***
5:30pm: Pick-up
* In groups, daily planned activities with games
** Camper interests (Pokémon, Star Wars, etc.)
*** Arts & crafts, lego room, etc.
Camp Activities
Creative Arts
Camp is full of creative experiences each and every day. We encourage performance art through skits and talent shows, hands on crafts using a wide range of materials from beads to paint to natural objects found outdoors, as well as special daily activities that tie into each weekly theme.
Team Building
Team building activities encourage leadership and communication skills, and challenge campers to step out of their comfort zone as they learn to trust themselves and others around them.
Cooking
Learning to follow a recipe and measure ingredients, making and serving snacks, and learning where our food comes from and how it gets to us is all a part of our camp curriculum.
Science
Mad science and laboratory experiments, new discoveries at NASA and in our solar system, STEM activities, and more will excite young scientists all summer long.
Nature and Outdoor Living
We explore our urban environment—from nature walks to outdoor scavenger hunts, we focus on learning about the plants and animals that live around us, how they impact us and how we impact them. We show kids how to engage with the natural world around them, why unplugging from technology is good for you, and the importance of getting outside each day.
Games
We've got traditional sports like tennis and soccer, group games like tag and Mafia, as well as indoor games when we need them. But we've also got some amazing camp games that you won't find everywhere—Gaga, Nine Square, and our version of the popular Color Campaign.
The Camp Fire Alaska main office operates on the ancestral land of the Dena’ina people. Camp Fire Alaska runs programing on the lands of the Athabascan, Yup’ik, Chup’ik, Sougpiaq, and Inupiaq peoples. We value and thank them for their current and historic commitment to and protection of this land. We pledge to assist, in partnership, in the environmental stewardship of these lands. We strive to learn more about the history of the Native peoples of Alaska and the historic trauma they have suffered. We commit to being an active ally through activities, actions, and organizational decisions and practices. We understand that this is a dynamic process through which our Land Acknowledgement practices, and statement will evolve as we receive feedback from tribal partners and acquire a deeper understanding of and from the Native peoples of Alaska.
