Explore 8 Summer Day Camps at Fort Edmonton park this Summer
Explore Fort Edmonton Park this summer with a week-long adventure that will have your kids exploring history while they step back in time from the moment they enter the gates of the park.
Create a week of adventure for your children this summer with Fort Edmonton Park Day camp experiences, from cooking to mysteries - there’s something in the Fort for everyone!
2025 Fort Edmonton Park Summer Camps
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. Hands-on activities include: baking festive treats like gingerbread and cocoa from scratch, designing stockings to hang by the chimney and building old-fashioned toys. Go caroling around our historic streets and don’t forget we play games during the holidays too!
Pursuit of Play | Ages 6-9
Get your kids unplugged with games and fun from the past. Explore how kids through the ages made their own fun, from scavenger hunts through our fur trade fort to baseball on 1920s street. Picnics with fresh lemonade and homemade treats will leave them refreshed and ready to play again. A visit to the Johnny J Jones Midway to enjoy carnival rides is the highlight of the week!
Mrs. Egge’s Kitchen Kids | Ages 6-12
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. For our younger kitchen kids, you will bake treats and sweets throughout the week using historic recipes. Activities for older bakers can include baking cakes, pies and sewing your own apron! After sampling their creations, kids will explore what life was like on the farm in the past, including playing games and having fun!
History Whodunit | Ages 7-10
An evil time-bandit is messing with history and needs to be set straight. Campers, our History Heroes, will need to conduct interviews with characters from Edmonton’s past and discover clues to right this 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.
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. Visit our Indigenous Peoples Experience and discover how the living natural world is foundational to First Nations, Inuit and Métis ways of understanding through land-based learning activities. Take a trip to the John Janzen Nature Centre and take a close look at how animals build their homes, what they eat and how they adapt to the city.
Edmonton Explorer | Ages 8-11
Come and explore all that Fort Edmonton Park has to offer as you travel through Edmonton’s history. Starting from our new Indigenous Peoples Experience, campers will discover the life and culture of Indigenous Peoples from our cultural experts. Race through our 1846 Fort with the voyageurs and play games just like kids did in 1885. Build your own historic toy and learn dance moves that were all the rage in 1920. Don’t forget a visit to our Midway, where all the lights, sounds and fun surround you. Make new friends that will last a lifetime as you discover life throughout the ages.
Our Land, Our Stories | Ages 8-11
There is meaning in everything. From language to family, to how we see the world, nature connects every part of life. 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. From the Indigenous world view, everything has a purpose, teachings or learning: there is meaning in everything.
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 while learning skills from the fur trade era, like how to construct a travois and fire-building. Try your hand at Indigenous games 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 for tracks and traces that animals leave behind, important knowledge for surviving in Edmonton’s wilderness.
