All year long, kids find themselves encased in rigid structure.
When summer comes, we give them what they desperately need — freedom to expand and evolve. At Steve & Kate’s, campers choose which activities they do, whom they do it with and for how long. For kids, this experience is pure joy. It’s also a kind of training ground for life, where they’ll need to be empowered and independent and resilient and responsible for their own decisions. Happy human-ing starts here.
Grown-ups adore freedom, too.
We’ve described the magical gift you give your kids when you empower them to make their own decisions. Now let’s talk hardcore convenience for you:
Buy a Summer Pass and send your kid to camp any day you want? Check.
Drop them off and pick them up whenever you want? Yup.
Long camp hours, all included in your camp fee? Totally.
Tasty meals and snacks, also included? You bet.
Get an automatic refund for unused days at summer’s end? For sure.
Coding. Sewing. Baking. Making. Sporting. Lounging. Every day, campers face the excruciating task of choosing from these and many more engrossing activities. Some select a mix of many. Others burrow deep into one or two. Every morning, they face a brand new day bristling with terrible trade-offs and tantalizing possibilities.
STOP-MOTION ANIMATION
Create animated art in our bustling Media Lab, as you breathe life into your stories via stop-motion “shorts” filmed on our purpose-built animation stages.
SEWING SALON
Use customized patterns and challenges—and a mix of hand and machine sewing—to manufacture bags, clothing and other fashionable, funky creations. This year campers can even use stencils to design their own fabric.
CODING
Absorb hands-on coding concepts using curated iPad apps with drag-and-drop platforms that cater to both early and advanced readers. Our approach gamifies the learning process to put power in the hands of new coders.
THE STAGE
Move and groove with motion-based games like Just Dance, or film your own music videos with friends. New this year campers can also make puppets for our custom theater. Want to burst out in song and dance, or act out a gripping dramatic scene? This is your big moment.
ROBOTICS
Leverage leading-edge robotic technology to empower your learning and problem-solving. Choose from guided activities and self-directed games, plus tools like robot landscapes and custom mazes.
BAKERY
Bake up a storm in our wildly popular test kitchen. Choose fillings, spices, and add-ons, explore new flavors, and customize confections to satisfy your discerning palate.
TINKER LAB
Release your inner innovator with crafts, inventor kits, 3D pens, and giant foam blocks. Construct take-home projects or collaborate on large-scale builds such as forts or thrones. Our hand-selected STEAM-based materials fuel your curiosity and inspire exploration.
S&K TRADITIONS
Participate in decades-old Steve & Kate’s traditions like Find Chuckie—our beloved, elusive, rubber chicken—and Friday Pie-Day—where you can cap off a productive week by treating friends and camp staffers to a refreshing pie in the face.
SPORTS & REC
Run, jump, throw, kick, play. Each site is equipped with go-karts and additional athletic gear optimized for the available fields and play spaces. Team up with peers and staffers to play sports, design games, concoct obstacle courses and more.
WEEKLY SPECIALS
Every day, experience a special, show- stopping activity. A giant inflatable, a musical performance or guest speaker, a movement class, obstacle course—anything’s possible. We’ll announce our official 2024 specials lineup this spring.
WATER PLAY
On a sweltering summer afternoon, nothing keeps you cooler than games and activities like water tag, inflatable slip n’ slides and giant sprinklers. Wherever space, weather, and local water restrictions allow ‘em, we provide ‘em.
LOUNGE
Enter a pulsating paradise of foosball, marble mazes and other indoor diversions. Retreat to a quiet corner with sensory objects, puzzles and fidget toys. Or immerse yourself in a selection from our library of books curated for all ages and interests.
At Steve & Kate’s, enough is never enough. So every week we supplement our main offering of awesome activities with thrill-inducing weekly specials. Here’s what’s coming this summer to your location:
JUNE 10- JUNE 14
Focus: Endless Summer. Join us for a week packed full of our summer favorites. Some highlights include: friendship bracelet making, Gaga Pit playing, scavenger hunting, Chuckie the Chicken finding and more!
Water Play
Monday-Friday:
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
Pie Day Friday!
Come to camp ready for our Steve & Kate’s Tradition of Pie Day Friday – Where campers & staff celebrate the end of the week with a whipped cream pie to the face!
JUNE 17 - JUNE 21
Focus: Endless Summer. Join us for a week packed full of our summer favorites. Some highlights include: friendship bracelet making, Gaga Pit playing, scavenger hunting, Chuckie the Chicken finding and more!
Water Play
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
Pie Day Friday!
Come to camp ready for our Steve & Kate’s Tradition of Pie Day Friday – Where campers & staff celebrate the end of the week with a whipped cream pie to the face!
JUNE 24 - JUNE 28
Focus: Little Picassos. This week we will be focusing on giving campers opportunities to express their creativity through curated art activities during art “studio” time. The week will end with a camper art show, showcasing the work they create at camp!
Water Play
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
Art Studio
Different art projects and prompts everyday!
Pie Day Friday!
Come to camp ready for our Steve & Kate’s Tradition of Pie Day Friday – Where campers & staff celebrate the end of the week with a whipped cream pie to the face!
JULY 1 - JULY 5
Thursday 7/4: NO CAMP. Closed for 4th of July
Focus: Splish Splash Water Week!
Water Play
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
Pie Day Friday!
Come to camp ready for our Steve & Kate’s Tradition of Pie Day Friday – Where campers & staff celebrate the end of the week with a whipped cream pie to the face!
JULY 8 - JULY 12
Focus: Endless Summer. Join us for a week packed full of our summer favorites. Some highlights include: friendship bracelet making, Gaga Pit playing, scavenger hunting, Chuckie the Chicken finding and more!
Inflatable/Rental: Rock Climb Slide
Monday-Friday
Water PlayMonday-Friday
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
2nd Annual S&K Talent Show!
Friday
Campers will prepare throughout the week for the talent show!
Pie Day Friday!
Come to camp ready for our Steve & Kate’s Tradition of Pie Day Friday – Where campers & staff celebrate the end of the week with a whipped cream pie to the face!
JULY 15 - JULY 19
Focus: Endless Summer. Join us for a week packed full of our summer favorites. Some highlights include: friendship bracelet making, Gaga Pit playing, scavenger hunting, Chuckie the Chicken finding and more!
Water Play
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
Pie Day Friday!
Come to camp ready for our Steve & Kate’s Tradition of Pie Day Friday – Where campers & staff celebrate the end of the week with a whipped cream pie to the face!
JULY 22 - JULY 26
Focus: Summerween. Halloween in July, need we say more?!
Water Play
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
Halloween Themed Crafts
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in daily Halloween crafts and costume making for our Summerween celebration
Mika Scott
Thursday, July 25th
Get ready to be amazed by Mika Scott’s spectacular drumming show and drumming lesson!
Dress-up: Summerween
Friday
Campers can come to camp in their favorite costume
Pie Day Friday!
Come to camp ready for our Steve & Kate’s Tradition of Pie Day Friday – Where campers & staff celebrate the end of the week with a whipped cream pie to the face!
JULY 29 - AUGUST 2
Focus: Storytellers. This week we focus on stories in their many forms and showcasing them around camp. Campers will have a chance to enter story challenges, create films/stop-motion animations to screen during our Friday film festival, and more!
Water Play
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
Perry Yan the Magician
Tuesday, July 30th
Get ready to be amazed by Perry’s spectacular magic tricks!
Pie Day Friday!
Come to camp ready for our Steve & Kate’s Tradition of Pie Day Friday – Where campers & staff celebrate the end of the week with a whipped cream pie to the face!
AUGUST 5 - AUGUST 9
Focus: Endless Summer. Join us for a week packed full of our summer favorites. Some highlights include: friendship bracelet making, Gaga Pit playing, scavenger hunting, Chuckie the Chicken finding and more!
Water Play
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
Wednesday, August 7th: RC Car Racing with Fundemonium!
Pie Day Friday!
Come to camp ready for our Steve & Kate’s Tradition of Pie Day Friday – Where campers & staff celebrate the end of the week with a whipped cream pie to the face!
AUGUST 12 - AUGUST 16
Focus: Carnival + Endless Summer. Join us for the best of the summer as well as some fun carnival prep/carnival activities.
Inflatable/Rental: Radical Jr. Inflatable
Monday-Friday
Water Play
Monday-Friday
Campers can take part in afternoon water play!
Bot Bashing with Fundemonium!
Monday, August 12th
Campers will have a blast battling each other with remote controlled robots in a special robot bashing arena
Lego Day with Fundemonium!
Tuesday, August 13th
Tallest tower contests, Lego building cards, Lego car bowling and more!
Carnival Workshops all week!
Campers can help build carnival games and make decorations for Friday’s big event
CARNIVAL DAY AUGUST 16
Carnival and Pie Day Friday!
Carnival Friday: Our amazingly fun, bittersweet camp finale! Enjoy a day filled with games, challenges, mini golf, double gameshow, prizes, snowcones and more.
Most kids take to life at Steve & Kate’s like the naturally hardy individuals they are. For some, especially our younger campers, it can take a little longer to get their wings. That’s why each camp has staff dedicated specifically to supporting our youngest campers. Helping these campers discover their camp magic is the whole point of our Youngest Camper Support Staff, and every time it’s exhilarating to behold.
Youngest campers fly solo, but there’s a net.
Food
Eat your heart out.
Life without delicious food sucks. That’s why our cuisine de camp features a mouth-watering array of tasty, nourishing grub. In partnership with fan favorite restaurants, we keep kids fired up with food they love — from piping hot pizza to salubrious Caesar salads to tangy tomato soup, and much more. Our menus include rotating specials as well as healthy snacks and sides kids can grab whenever their fuel gauge dips into the red. Chomp, chomp. Munch, munch.
What’s on the menu.
MONDAY
Cheese Pizza
(VG)(SF)
Turkey & Cheese Sandwich
(EF)(SF)
Bagel w/ cream cheese or vegan nut-free butter spread
(VG)(VV)(DF)(EF)(SF)
Creamy Tomato Soup w/ fresh baguette
(VG)(GF)(EF)(SF)
Salad w/ choice of dressing
Italian (VG)(VV)(GF)(DF)(EF), Caesar (GF), Ranch (VG)(GF)
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
(EF)(SF)
TUESDAY
Cheese Pizza
(VG)(SF)
Turkey & Cheese Sandwich
(EF)(SF)
Bagel w/ cream cheese or vegan nut-free butter spread
(VG)(VV)(DF)(EF)(SF)
Creamy Tomato Soup w/ fresh baguette
(VG)(GF)(EF)(SF)
Salad w/ choice of dressing
Italian (VG)(VV)(GF)(DF)(EF), Caesar (GF), Ranch (VG)(GF)
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
(VG)(EF)
WEDNESDAY
Cheese Pizza
(VG)(SF)
Turkey & Cheese Sandwich
(EF)(SF)
Bagel w/ cream cheese or vegan nut-free butter spread
(VG)(VV)(DF)(EF)(SF)
Creamy Tomato Soup w/ fresh baguette
(VG)(GF)(EF)(SF)
Salad w/ choice of dressing
Italian (VG)(VV)(GF)(DF)(EF), Caesar (GF), Ranch (VG)(GF)
Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup
(DF)(SF)
THURSDAY
Cheese Pizza
(VG)(SF)
Turkey & Cheese Sandwich
(EF)(SF)
Bagel w/ cream cheese or vegan nut-free butter spread
(VG)(VV)(DF)(EF)(SF)
Creamy Tomato Soup w/ fresh baguette
(VG)(GF)(EF)(SF)
Salad w/ choice of dressing
Italian (VG)(VV)(GF)(DF)(EF), Caesar (GF), Ranch (VG)(GF)
Signature Mac & Cheese
(VG)
FRIDAY
Cheese Pizza
(VG)(SF)
Turkey & Cheese Sandwich
(EF)(SF)
Bagel w/ cream cheese or vegan nut-free butter spread
(VG)(VV)(DF)(EF)(SF)
Creamy Tomato Soup w/ fresh baguette
(VG)(GF)(EF)(SF)
Salad w/ choice of dressing
Italian (VG)(VV)(GF)(DF)(EF), Caesar (GF), Ranch (VG)(GF)
Mediterranean Veggie Sandwich
(VG)(EF)(SF)
DAILY SIDES & SNACKS
Bananas
Yogurt
Graham crackers
Clementines
Pretzels
Snack Bars
Smartfood popcorn
Apple Sauce
String Cheese
Kettle Chips
*Items subject to daily availability
Fees
What camp costs.
Perhaps you are a grown-up who loves to plan. Or maybe you’re an expert of the fine art of logistical improvisation. Miraculously, our camp fees are designed to scratch both of your respective itches. Buy any number of Day Passes or a Summer Pass, and use them whenever you want during the summer. Don’t even bother to let us know when you’re coming — just roll up. If your plans change, don’t sweat it. We’ll automatically refund your unused Passes in full at summer’s end. How many other camps can offer you that level of flexibility?*
*Not one that we know of.
Day Pass and Summer Pass fees cover the entire Steve & Kate’s experience, including lunch, snacks, activities and the entire day from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Includes: Lunch, snacks, activities, and all hours, 8am–6pm
Buy any number of Day Passes and use them anytime
Upgrade to a Summer Pass at any time by purchasing 30 Day Passes per a given child
Unused Day Passes are automatically refunded in mid September
Includes: Lunch, snacks, activities, and all hours, 8am–6pm
One fee covers the entire summer–That’s up to 49 days of camp in Santa Rosa!
If you purchase a Summer Pass and use less than 30 days of camp, we’ll calculate what you would have paid at the Day Pass rate and refund you the difference automatically in mid September
We will have water activities every afternoon–weather permitting! Please bring a swimsuit and towels to participate.
Campus Layout Notice for Last Week of Camp
Please note that during the last week of camp our host school will be utilizing some of their campus. Because of this, we will be moving indoor activities into wedding-style tents on the field for our last week of camp. While the camp layout will look a bit different this week, we are sure to have all of our activities still available!
Check out our virtual camp orientation for everything you need to know before your first day of camp, coming this spring. Once we get closer to summer, we’ll email registered families a link to our virtual, camp orientation. This will provide important information such as camp drop-off & pick-up procedures, how to check-in and check-out of camp each day, what to bring (and not bring), and a few more camp details.
Campus & Accessibility Details
Sonoma Country Day School is ADA-accessible
Testimonials
These people are very smart. You should listen to them.
Steve & Kate's was such an amazing place and opportunity for us; I am so grateful! My son started camp very nervous and shy about meeting new people and being in a totally new environment and ended the summer with incredible self-confidence and a new ability to self-start and play independently. I can't tell you what a huge impact camp has had on him--he told me the other day that he doesn't want to go to school, he just wants to go to Steve & Kate's forever! I have noticed such a huge change in him over the last few months, and I know the lessons learned at camp have stayed with him. He's found a strong interest in doing "projects": sewing, creating out of whatever materials we have laying around and he's able to stay engaged for so much longer than he was before he started camp. All of the counselors knew his name and made sure to say "hi" to him whenever they passed by--I'm so impressed with the enthusiasm and sweet care that they all took of him and all the kids. We have shouted our love for Steve & Kate's from the proverbial rooftops and are so excited that a few of his friends (as well as his little brother) will be joining him this summer--I can't wait for him to experience it again!
Melissa R.
(S&K parent)
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Here is my list of "Top 5 Things We Love About Steve & Kate's": 1) The staff. My family has experienced a few different daycares and camps...and occasionally we’d get the impression that the staff is there to just "watch" the kids. At Steve & Kate's the counselors are part of the experience! When you arrive, they greet you and your child by name. The entire staff truly seems to enjoy what they're doing and strives to make sure each kid is having a great day at camp. 2) The experience. Each day is different, fun and exciting at Steve & Kate's - and even though the kids are having a fun, they learn a lot at the same time. 3) The variety. There is something for everyone at Steve & Kate's. After I pick up my kids from camp, the entire ride home is filled with conversations about what they did that day. 4) The "your child's day at camp" updates. As a working mom, one of the BEST things about Steve & Kate's camp are the daily "look what your child is doing at camp today" emails. It's such a nice break in my work day when I get to see pictures of my kids having fun at camp or watching a video they created. 5) The convenience. My husband and I both work full time. So the early drop off and late pick up times work well with our schedules. (tip: do not even attempt to pick up your kids before game show is over...you'll hear the groans about it all evening!)
Kelly K.
(S&K parent)
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Staff
So much more than a job.
For our team members, giving kids the space to liberate their true potential becomes a kind of calling. Think of them as a high-energy, warm-hearted crew of child advocates who deftly balance two invaluable skills — that of providing structure and guidance, and that of staying the heck out of campers’ ways. If that’s not enough, they’re all background-checked and trained in CPR and first-aid. Say “hi” to them at camp — they’d love to meet you.
Events
Steve & Kate's Events
Join us at an upcoming virtual Information Session to learn all the camp basics. We’ll give a quick presentation and overview on our program, and then answer any questions you have. Please note that Information Sessions are open to all Steve & Kate’s Camps, and are not specific to any given location. All Information Sessions are listed in ET.
Contact us at anytime with your questions about life at Steve & Kate’s, or questions about life in general.
KAITY
she/her
We are excited to welcome Kaity to the Steve & Kate’s team this summer. When not at camp you can find her spending time with my family tackling a new project, or playing outside.
Kaity is most excited to help kids create some summer camp core memories this
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