Eight to twelve is the age when kids start having opinions about their summer. These camps take that age group for a week or more of something they chose: team sports, climbing walls, art studios, coding labs, farm weeks and English-language day camps. Age rules vary from camp to camp, so check the range on each card before you book.
A week-long city holiday along Frankfurt's Museumsufer, run jointly by twelve of the city's museums and cultural venues. Each day the group visits two different museums for hands-on workshops, from printmaking and film tricks to writing and color, with a picnic lunch and play time on the Main riverbank in between. Kids who dare go up the cathedral tower. It suits curious kids who enjoy a new place every day.
The holiday camp of Eintracht Frankfurt's football school, at the Rebstock sports ground. Kids train twice a day in groups by birth year, plus a separate goalkeeper group, coached by former Eintracht pros and youth coaches. Every kid gets a full Eintracht uniform, ball and bottle to keep. The camp usually closes with a tournament, a visit from club mascot Attila and a certificate. Any skill level is welcome.
A holiday climbing camp at the German Alpine Club's indoor climbing center in Frankfurt. DAV trainers teach kids to climb on a top rope and to boulder: handling the rope, basic technique and belaying a partner. Days mix wall time with games and plenty of breaks. Kids who have never climbed fit in alongside ones who want to get higher up the wall.
A week at the Fun Forest high-ropes park on the Bieberer Berg in Offenbach, with climbing every day. Between climbs, trainers run team games built on trust and communication, ball games, abseiling, crate stacking and a climbing wall, plus crafts with natural materials. The team shapes each week around what the group wants, so not every activity makes it into every week. Suits active kids happy outdoors.
A week of English built around Frankfurt Zoo. Kids spend their days in small groups with a Helen Doron teacher, playing games, crafting and telling stories in English, and head into the zoo for guided tours of the animals (the tours are in German). Beginners are welcome. It suits animal-loving kids who learn best through play. Lunch, an afternoon snack and transit tickets are included.
A day camp run entirely in English at the Hesse state sports federation's training center in Frankfurt's city forest. Mornings are small-group English projects led by native-level teachers, with no classic schooling. Afternoons go to soccer, basketball, swimming, bowling on the in-house alley and team games, all in English too. Beginners are welcome. Kids can ride in daily with the counselors from Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and sleep at home.
An overnight holiday camp at the Wegscheide, a school camp near Bad Orb run by a Frankfurt foundation. Games, rallies and much of the day run in English, with leaders who help and correct, but there are no lessons or school tutoring. Campfires, hikes, sports and a disco fill the rest. It suits a kid who already enjoys using English and is ready for a week away.
A sleepaway camp at Wegscheide, the Frankfurt school country retreat outside Bad Orb. Each group lives in its own house with two counselors. Days mix games, sports and crafts with outings to the swimming pool, a barefoot trail and a forest history trail, plus a night hike. Between activities, kids roam the large fenced grounds, meadows and woods, with a bouldering wall, soccer field and playground.
Two-hour sessions at Zoo Frankfurt, run by the zoo's education team, each built around a different animal theme. Kids watch the animals up close and work out how each one is suited to where it lives, from the rainforest hall to the nocturnal house. It suits kids happy to spend a morning observing and listening. Parents don't join in, but one adult has to stay in the zoo.
A week of computing at EXPERIMINTA, Frankfurt's hands-on science center. Kids open with a code-cracking rally through the exhibits, then learn Scratch, wire sensors to Arduino microcontrollers and program mBot robots, sometimes ending in a robot race. No coding or electronics experience needed. Led in German only, so it suits kids who follow German comfortably. Run with Team Scientastic.
An English-language camp week run by Helen Doron English, with each day themed on a different continent. Kids play games, make crafts, try simple experiments and taste food from that part of the world, all in English with experienced teachers. Every afternoon the group heads out on an outing somewhere in Frankfurt. It suits kids who enjoy hands-on projects and want to use their English without sitting in a classroom.
A week of hands-on tech at Forscherfreunde's Frankfurt site near Günthersburgpark. Kids book one program: building and programming LEGO robots, or coding and logic challenges inside Minecraft. Screen and build sessions alternate with outdoor breaks, even in light rain, so send weather-ready clothes. A good fit for kids who like making things work; a kid who wants a sporty, outdoorsy week will find it too much time indoors.
Frankfurter Malschule is a small painting and drawing school, and its holiday academy runs through the Hesse summer break. Kids learn painting and drawing techniques in groups of up to ten, with teachers working to each child's own level. The school's classes cover watercolor, acrylic, pencil, charcoal and pastel, with art history told through stories. Suits kids happy to spend the day at an easel rather than outdoors.
A week in the woods with the Stay Wild team. Kids make fire with and without matches, cook over it without pots, carve, build shelters, read animal tracks and learn which wild plants are edible and which are poisonous. Groups mix ages and stay outside in any weather, under a tarp when it rains. It suits kids who like getting muddy; expect tick checks every day.
A week of holiday football run by FSV Frankfurt's football school, together with HIT RADIO FFH, at the club's own stadium in Bornheim. Kids rotate through training stations in small groups sorted by age, play plenty of matches, compete for prizes in a week-long Champions Cup and earn the DFB football badge. Beginners are as welcome as kids who already play for a club.
A week-long sleepaway football camp at the DFB youth training center in Ronneburg, run by former Bundesliga striker Dieter Müller and his licensed coaches. Kids train twice a day on technique, shooting, defending and small-sided games, with theory sessions and evenings of swimming, mini golf and beach volleyball. Each camp takes about 20 players. It suits football-mad kids ready for nights away; tablets and laptops stay home.
A week-long multisport day camp on the grounds of local club TGS Vorwärts in Rödelheim, with artificial and natural grass pitches, a beach volleyball court and a clubhouse. Kids try at least ten sports, from soccer and basketball to lacrosse, ultimate frisbee and dodgeball, in groups sorted by age. Younger kids start with movement games, older ones work more on technique, and nobody is pushed to perform.
Week-long holiday camps at Robot School, a coding and robotics school. Each week is one project: building and programming LEGO robots, making a first Scratch game, stop-motion or AI-assisted filmmaking, 3D printing, VR game design, or Python for older kids. Beginner courses need no experience.
A good fit for kids who like to build and tinker, less so for kids who want to be outdoors all day.
Week-long holiday camps on the sports grounds at Rosenhöhe in Offenbach, run by the learning center selbst-bewusst-lernen. Weeks alternate between an all-round games and sports camp and a football camp, with girls-only groups in some weeks.
Kids get a hot meal plus fruit and drinks all day, and go home with a camp T-shirt, ball and medal. Staff work with kids in schools and kindergartens year-round.
Field hockey day camps run by Eintracht Frankfurt's hockey section, one of the largest hockey clubs in Hesse. Beginners learn the basics and club players push their game further, on the club's own pitches in Riederwald and Niederrad.
A good fit for sporty kids curious about a team sport. The shorter performance camp is not for beginners: it takes club players only.
Sportclub SAFO is a Frankfurt hockey and tennis club whose own coaches run camps in the Hessian summer holidays. Hockey splits kids into a younger and an older group, and older players get a training camp to prepare for the new season. A tennis camp for kids and teens runs alongside one for adults, so a parent can play the same week. Best for kids already keen on hockey or tennis.
A school-holiday climbing camp at KletterBar, a large indoor climbing gym in Offenbach with walls up to 18 meters. Certified youth coaches teach rope climbing, bouldering and the safety basics: tying in, belaying, lowering a partner and the partner check. Kids are grouped by age and level, so first-timers and kids who already belay both fit. Experienced climbers can start learning to lead climb.
An English-immersion day camp from Kids Camp America, an organizer that runs American-style summer camps across Germany. Kids spend the whole day in English, in groups sorted by age, and go home in the afternoon. A hot lunch is part of the day.
A good fit for families who want English practice that feels like a holiday rather than a class.
Summer workshops at the young people's theater in the Zoogesellschaftshaus next to Frankfurt Zoo. Kids and teens work with professional artists on theater, dance, hip hop, sound, photography and set-building, making their own theater around a yearly theme.
No experience is needed, and kids can join for single days or whole weeks. It suits kids who would rather make something than sit in the audience.
Ferienkarussell is the City of Frankfurt youth office's holiday program. Instead of one camp, it is a catalog of projects run with local partners: art and theater, media, music and dance, sport, and outdoor adventure. Some are single days in a neighborhood, others are week-long trips with overnight stays, like riding holidays or a swim and outdoor camp. Kids with and without disabilities take part together.
A week of outdoor days at the Naturfreunde youth group's house in Niederrad, on big grounds next to the Frankfurt city forest. Kids explore the woods and the animals that live there, cook vegetarian meals together in the kitchen or the pizza oven, make things, play games and go on one outing.
Every activity is optional, so a kid can drift off into free play whenever they like.
Tennis holiday camp at Makkabi Frankfurt's own Tennis & Squash Park, which has three indoor and five outdoor courts. Licensed coaches run varied drills and games in small groups sorted by age. Best for kids who like to keep moving; it is a sports camp first, run by a big multi-sport club.
Residential holiday trips run by the youth wing of the AWO welfare charity in southern Hesse, leaving by coach from Frankfurt. The mix covers tent camps, outdoor activity weeks in the German hills, and beach and canoe trips abroad for teens. Volunteer team leaders run the days, and some camps let kids vote on the program. Suits kids ready for a week or more away from home in a big group.
A residential English camp from Kids Camp America, with campers sleeping at Frankfurt's youth hostel in Sachsenhausen. Mornings are English lessons in small groups by level, taught by native speakers who also act as supervisors. Afternoons go to excursions and activities around the city. It suits a kid ready for a week away from home who wants more confidence speaking English.
Week-long tech camps from Robo-Studio, a Frankfurt coding school. Younger kids build LEGO WeDo models that move with motors and sensors. Older ones build and program LEGO Mindstorms robots, make games in Scratch, or write a first game in Python, and take their projects home. Project time fills the morning and afternoon, with outdoor play and lunch in between. Good for kids who like to tinker.
A small art studio in Eschersheim run by art therapist Michele John, where the holiday weeks follow what the kids want to make. She plans a loose program, and comics, manga, watercolor or acrylics can become the week's theme. Kids try different techniques and materials, play and craft, and spend one day outdoors drawing from nature when the weather allows. Each week ends with a kids' art exhibition.
Kinder- und Jugendzirkus Zarakali is a children's circus in Ginnheim that trains in two big-top tents. In its summer holiday workshops, kids try acrobatics, juggling, tightrope, trapeze and silks, unicycle, stilts and ball walking with the circus's own trainers.
The week ends with a short show in the tent for families. Zarakali has also run an inclusive week for kids with and without disabilities.
A nature and craft camp run by ecokids, a nonprofit outdoor-learning group near Frankfurt. Kids spend their days outside, often on the group's orchard meadow in Hofheim: whittling, mixing paints from earth, building marble runs and gnome villages in the woods, and eating together. Each program ties into the UN's sustainability goals. Suits kids who would rather build with sticks than sit indoors.
A riding ranch in the Lower Franconian countryside where kids stay overnight and spend their holiday with ponies and horses. Each child rides the pony they look after, in small beginner or advanced groups taught in the classic English style, and heads out on trail rides. Evenings bring a night hike, campfire, kids' disco and carriage rides. Boys are welcome: the ranch books them together so no boy is the only one.
Sportjugend Frankfurt, the youth arm of the city's sports clubs, runs open play days at three neighborhood sites each summer. Kids drop in for the day and pick what they like: bouncy castles, an inflatable climbing wall, table tennis, a boxing dummy, chess, puzzle and skill games, and arts and crafts, with an educational team keeping watch. It suits kids who like to roam between activities.
A week of tennis at the Tennisschule Behdad Rastegaran in western Frankfurt, run with the tennis section of FTG Frankfurt. Each day opens with warm-ups and other ball games (soccer, handball, volleyball, beach tennis, golf) to build coordination, then kids work on tennis technique and tactics in groups matched to their level. The week ends with a small tournament, and rain moves training into the indoor hall.
School-holiday bouldering at Boulderwelt Frankfurt, an indoor bouldering gym in Preungesheim. Coaches trained by Boulderwelt mix climbing sessions with team games and group activities. Kids can pick a single action day, a three-day course that teaches the basics, or a four- or five-day camp. Gym entry, rental shoes and lunch are included, so kids only need sportswear and a signed consent form.
A week of football for girls and boys, whether they are new to the game or already keen. Coaches run kid-sized drills on dribbling, passing, shooting and first touch, then mix kids into small teams for games, shooting challenges and mini tournaments. Coaching is in German and English, so it suits English-speaking kids too. The focus is on fun and teamwork, with no pressure to perform.
A multi-sport day camp run by Outdoor Kids at local sports clubs around Frankfurt. Each day brings a different sport, such as soccer, hockey, athletics and baseball, taught through technique drills, team games and relay challenges, with no pressure to win.
Coaches work in German and English, so it suits English-speaking kids as well as kids who want to try lots of sports before picking one.
A week on two wheels for kids who already ride or want to learn. Coaches work on balance, braking, starting off and riding with control, then take the group on short guided rides around the area.
Traffic training covers road signs, right of way and riding safely on the street. Staff speak German and English through the day, and kids bring their own helmet.
A week of hip-hop, street dance and modern styles for kids who like to move to music. Coaches teach steps and short choreographies through games, and kids add moves of their own, so nobody has to be a natural dancer to keep up.
It suits beginners and kids who already dance for fun at home. A child after formal ballet or competition training will find it loose.
A tent camp in the woods where kids live together like a tribe around one fire. They cook over it, burn their own wooden spoons, build a leaf hut, make a spear thrower and learn which plants they can eat and which water is safe to drink. There are stalking and camouflage games, orienteering with a treasure hunt, and secret night missions.
It suits outdoorsy kids ready to sleep in a tent and pitch in for the group.
Eight to twelve is the age when kids start having opinions about their summer. These camps take that age group for a week or more of something they chose: team sports, climbing walls, art studios, coding labs, farm weeks and English-language day camps. Age rules vary from camp to camp, so check the range on each card before you book.
A week-long city holiday along Frankfurt's Museumsufer, run jointly by twelve of the city's museums and cultural venues. Each day the group visits two different museums for hands-on workshops, from printmaking and film tricks to writing and color, with a picnic lunch and play time on the Main riverbank in between. Kids who dare go up the cathedral tower. It suits curious kids who enjoy a new place every day.
The holiday camp of Eintracht Frankfurt's football school, at the Rebstock sports ground. Kids train twice a day in groups by birth year, plus a separate goalkeeper group, coached by former Eintracht pros and youth coaches. Every kid gets a full Eintracht uniform, ball and bottle to keep. The camp usually closes with a tournament, a visit from club mascot Attila and a certificate. Any skill level is welcome.
A holiday climbing camp at the German Alpine Club's indoor climbing center in Frankfurt. DAV trainers teach kids to climb on a top rope and to boulder: handling the rope, basic technique and belaying a partner. Days mix wall time with games and plenty of breaks. Kids who have never climbed fit in alongside ones who want to get higher up the wall.
A week at the Fun Forest high-ropes park on the Bieberer Berg in Offenbach, with climbing every day. Between climbs, trainers run team games built on trust and communication, ball games, abseiling, crate stacking and a climbing wall, plus crafts with natural materials. The team shapes each week around what the group wants, so not every activity makes it into every week. Suits active kids happy outdoors.
A week of English built around Frankfurt Zoo. Kids spend their days in small groups with a Helen Doron teacher, playing games, crafting and telling stories in English, and head into the zoo for guided tours of the animals (the tours are in German). Beginners are welcome. It suits animal-loving kids who learn best through play. Lunch, an afternoon snack and transit tickets are included.
A day camp run entirely in English at the Hesse state sports federation's training center in Frankfurt's city forest. Mornings are small-group English projects led by native-level teachers, with no classic schooling. Afternoons go to soccer, basketball, swimming, bowling on the in-house alley and team games, all in English too. Beginners are welcome. Kids can ride in daily with the counselors from Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and sleep at home.
An overnight holiday camp at the Wegscheide, a school camp near Bad Orb run by a Frankfurt foundation. Games, rallies and much of the day run in English, with leaders who help and correct, but there are no lessons or school tutoring. Campfires, hikes, sports and a disco fill the rest. It suits a kid who already enjoys using English and is ready for a week away.
A sleepaway camp at Wegscheide, the Frankfurt school country retreat outside Bad Orb. Each group lives in its own house with two counselors. Days mix games, sports and crafts with outings to the swimming pool, a barefoot trail and a forest history trail, plus a night hike. Between activities, kids roam the large fenced grounds, meadows and woods, with a bouldering wall, soccer field and playground.
Two-hour sessions at Zoo Frankfurt, run by the zoo's education team, each built around a different animal theme. Kids watch the animals up close and work out how each one is suited to where it lives, from the rainforest hall to the nocturnal house. It suits kids happy to spend a morning observing and listening. Parents don't join in, but one adult has to stay in the zoo.
A week of computing at EXPERIMINTA, Frankfurt's hands-on science center. Kids open with a code-cracking rally through the exhibits, then learn Scratch, wire sensors to Arduino microcontrollers and program mBot robots, sometimes ending in a robot race. No coding or electronics experience needed. Led in German only, so it suits kids who follow German comfortably. Run with Team Scientastic.
An English-language camp week run by Helen Doron English, with each day themed on a different continent. Kids play games, make crafts, try simple experiments and taste food from that part of the world, all in English with experienced teachers. Every afternoon the group heads out on an outing somewhere in Frankfurt. It suits kids who enjoy hands-on projects and want to use their English without sitting in a classroom.
A week of hands-on tech at Forscherfreunde's Frankfurt site near Günthersburgpark. Kids book one program: building and programming LEGO robots, or coding and logic challenges inside Minecraft. Screen and build sessions alternate with outdoor breaks, even in light rain, so send weather-ready clothes. A good fit for kids who like making things work; a kid who wants a sporty, outdoorsy week will find it too much time indoors.
Frankfurter Malschule is a small painting and drawing school, and its holiday academy runs through the Hesse summer break. Kids learn painting and drawing techniques in groups of up to ten, with teachers working to each child's own level. The school's classes cover watercolor, acrylic, pencil, charcoal and pastel, with art history told through stories. Suits kids happy to spend the day at an easel rather than outdoors.
A week in the woods with the Stay Wild team. Kids make fire with and without matches, cook over it without pots, carve, build shelters, read animal tracks and learn which wild plants are edible and which are poisonous. Groups mix ages and stay outside in any weather, under a tarp when it rains. It suits kids who like getting muddy; expect tick checks every day.
A week of holiday football run by FSV Frankfurt's football school, together with HIT RADIO FFH, at the club's own stadium in Bornheim. Kids rotate through training stations in small groups sorted by age, play plenty of matches, compete for prizes in a week-long Champions Cup and earn the DFB football badge. Beginners are as welcome as kids who already play for a club.
A week-long sleepaway football camp at the DFB youth training center in Ronneburg, run by former Bundesliga striker Dieter Müller and his licensed coaches. Kids train twice a day on technique, shooting, defending and small-sided games, with theory sessions and evenings of swimming, mini golf and beach volleyball. Each camp takes about 20 players. It suits football-mad kids ready for nights away; tablets and laptops stay home.
A week-long multisport day camp on the grounds of local club TGS Vorwärts in Rödelheim, with artificial and natural grass pitches, a beach volleyball court and a clubhouse. Kids try at least ten sports, from soccer and basketball to lacrosse, ultimate frisbee and dodgeball, in groups sorted by age. Younger kids start with movement games, older ones work more on technique, and nobody is pushed to perform.
Week-long holiday camps at Robot School, a coding and robotics school. Each week is one project: building and programming LEGO robots, making a first Scratch game, stop-motion or AI-assisted filmmaking, 3D printing, VR game design, or Python for older kids. Beginner courses need no experience.
A good fit for kids who like to build and tinker, less so for kids who want to be outdoors all day.
Week-long holiday camps on the sports grounds at Rosenhöhe in Offenbach, run by the learning center selbst-bewusst-lernen. Weeks alternate between an all-round games and sports camp and a football camp, with girls-only groups in some weeks.
Kids get a hot meal plus fruit and drinks all day, and go home with a camp T-shirt, ball and medal. Staff work with kids in schools and kindergartens year-round.
Field hockey day camps run by Eintracht Frankfurt's hockey section, one of the largest hockey clubs in Hesse. Beginners learn the basics and club players push their game further, on the club's own pitches in Riederwald and Niederrad.
A good fit for sporty kids curious about a team sport. The shorter performance camp is not for beginners: it takes club players only.
Sportclub SAFO is a Frankfurt hockey and tennis club whose own coaches run camps in the Hessian summer holidays. Hockey splits kids into a younger and an older group, and older players get a training camp to prepare for the new season. A tennis camp for kids and teens runs alongside one for adults, so a parent can play the same week. Best for kids already keen on hockey or tennis.
A school-holiday climbing camp at KletterBar, a large indoor climbing gym in Offenbach with walls up to 18 meters. Certified youth coaches teach rope climbing, bouldering and the safety basics: tying in, belaying, lowering a partner and the partner check. Kids are grouped by age and level, so first-timers and kids who already belay both fit. Experienced climbers can start learning to lead climb.
An English-immersion day camp from Kids Camp America, an organizer that runs American-style summer camps across Germany. Kids spend the whole day in English, in groups sorted by age, and go home in the afternoon. A hot lunch is part of the day.
A good fit for families who want English practice that feels like a holiday rather than a class.
Summer workshops at the young people's theater in the Zoogesellschaftshaus next to Frankfurt Zoo. Kids and teens work with professional artists on theater, dance, hip hop, sound, photography and set-building, making their own theater around a yearly theme.
No experience is needed, and kids can join for single days or whole weeks. It suits kids who would rather make something than sit in the audience.
Ferienkarussell is the City of Frankfurt youth office's holiday program. Instead of one camp, it is a catalog of projects run with local partners: art and theater, media, music and dance, sport, and outdoor adventure. Some are single days in a neighborhood, others are week-long trips with overnight stays, like riding holidays or a swim and outdoor camp. Kids with and without disabilities take part together.
A week of outdoor days at the Naturfreunde youth group's house in Niederrad, on big grounds next to the Frankfurt city forest. Kids explore the woods and the animals that live there, cook vegetarian meals together in the kitchen or the pizza oven, make things, play games and go on one outing.
Every activity is optional, so a kid can drift off into free play whenever they like.
Tennis holiday camp at Makkabi Frankfurt's own Tennis & Squash Park, which has three indoor and five outdoor courts. Licensed coaches run varied drills and games in small groups sorted by age. Best for kids who like to keep moving; it is a sports camp first, run by a big multi-sport club.
Residential holiday trips run by the youth wing of the AWO welfare charity in southern Hesse, leaving by coach from Frankfurt. The mix covers tent camps, outdoor activity weeks in the German hills, and beach and canoe trips abroad for teens. Volunteer team leaders run the days, and some camps let kids vote on the program. Suits kids ready for a week or more away from home in a big group.
A residential English camp from Kids Camp America, with campers sleeping at Frankfurt's youth hostel in Sachsenhausen. Mornings are English lessons in small groups by level, taught by native speakers who also act as supervisors. Afternoons go to excursions and activities around the city. It suits a kid ready for a week away from home who wants more confidence speaking English.
Week-long tech camps from Robo-Studio, a Frankfurt coding school. Younger kids build LEGO WeDo models that move with motors and sensors. Older ones build and program LEGO Mindstorms robots, make games in Scratch, or write a first game in Python, and take their projects home. Project time fills the morning and afternoon, with outdoor play and lunch in between. Good for kids who like to tinker.
A small art studio in Eschersheim run by art therapist Michele John, where the holiday weeks follow what the kids want to make. She plans a loose program, and comics, manga, watercolor or acrylics can become the week's theme. Kids try different techniques and materials, play and craft, and spend one day outdoors drawing from nature when the weather allows. Each week ends with a kids' art exhibition.
Kinder- und Jugendzirkus Zarakali is a children's circus in Ginnheim that trains in two big-top tents. In its summer holiday workshops, kids try acrobatics, juggling, tightrope, trapeze and silks, unicycle, stilts and ball walking with the circus's own trainers.
The week ends with a short show in the tent for families. Zarakali has also run an inclusive week for kids with and without disabilities.
A nature and craft camp run by ecokids, a nonprofit outdoor-learning group near Frankfurt. Kids spend their days outside, often on the group's orchard meadow in Hofheim: whittling, mixing paints from earth, building marble runs and gnome villages in the woods, and eating together. Each program ties into the UN's sustainability goals. Suits kids who would rather build with sticks than sit indoors.
A riding ranch in the Lower Franconian countryside where kids stay overnight and spend their holiday with ponies and horses. Each child rides the pony they look after, in small beginner or advanced groups taught in the classic English style, and heads out on trail rides. Evenings bring a night hike, campfire, kids' disco and carriage rides. Boys are welcome: the ranch books them together so no boy is the only one.
Sportjugend Frankfurt, the youth arm of the city's sports clubs, runs open play days at three neighborhood sites each summer. Kids drop in for the day and pick what they like: bouncy castles, an inflatable climbing wall, table tennis, a boxing dummy, chess, puzzle and skill games, and arts and crafts, with an educational team keeping watch. It suits kids who like to roam between activities.
A week of tennis at the Tennisschule Behdad Rastegaran in western Frankfurt, run with the tennis section of FTG Frankfurt. Each day opens with warm-ups and other ball games (soccer, handball, volleyball, beach tennis, golf) to build coordination, then kids work on tennis technique and tactics in groups matched to their level. The week ends with a small tournament, and rain moves training into the indoor hall.
School-holiday bouldering at Boulderwelt Frankfurt, an indoor bouldering gym in Preungesheim. Coaches trained by Boulderwelt mix climbing sessions with team games and group activities. Kids can pick a single action day, a three-day course that teaches the basics, or a four- or five-day camp. Gym entry, rental shoes and lunch are included, so kids only need sportswear and a signed consent form.
A week of football for girls and boys, whether they are new to the game or already keen. Coaches run kid-sized drills on dribbling, passing, shooting and first touch, then mix kids into small teams for games, shooting challenges and mini tournaments. Coaching is in German and English, so it suits English-speaking kids too. The focus is on fun and teamwork, with no pressure to perform.
A multi-sport day camp run by Outdoor Kids at local sports clubs around Frankfurt. Each day brings a different sport, such as soccer, hockey, athletics and baseball, taught through technique drills, team games and relay challenges, with no pressure to win.
Coaches work in German and English, so it suits English-speaking kids as well as kids who want to try lots of sports before picking one.
A week on two wheels for kids who already ride or want to learn. Coaches work on balance, braking, starting off and riding with control, then take the group on short guided rides around the area.
Traffic training covers road signs, right of way and riding safely on the street. Staff speak German and English through the day, and kids bring their own helmet.
A week of hip-hop, street dance and modern styles for kids who like to move to music. Coaches teach steps and short choreographies through games, and kids add moves of their own, so nobody has to be a natural dancer to keep up.
It suits beginners and kids who already dance for fun at home. A child after formal ballet or competition training will find it loose.
A tent camp in the woods where kids live together like a tribe around one fire. They cook over it, burn their own wooden spoons, build a leaf hut, make a spear thrower and learn which plants they can eat and which water is safe to drink. There are stalking and camouflage games, orienteering with a treasure hunt, and secret night missions.
It suits outdoorsy kids ready to sleep in a tent and pitch in for the group.
