Plenty of summer camps stop at 12, which leaves parents of teenagers hunting. This list only shows camps that take kids 13 and up, from day camps in the city to sleepaway camps farther out. We go by each camp's stated age rule, so check the range on each card: some take a wide span of ages, others are just for teens.
A sleepaway football camp from PSG Academy, held at a sports center in a walled park in Eaubonne, north of Paris. Teens train morning and afternoon in 8-a-side and 11-a-side formats, with video sessions and one-to-one feedback from coaches trained in the club's method. Two outings break up the stay: a Paris tour with a visit to the Parc des Princes, and a full day at a theme park.
A residential English camp for teenagers on a leafy school campus in Rueil-Malmaison, just west of Paris. Mornings are English classes. Most afternoons are trips to Paris sights (the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Montmartre, Versailles), and evenings bring games, karaoke and discos. Teens sleep in single rooms with shared bathrooms. It suits a teen ready for a summer away from home, at any English level.
English lessons and sightseeing in central London for teens, leaving from Paris by Eurostar. Mornings are small-group English classes with qualified teachers who are not the camp staff. Afternoons go to the city: Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, a Thames cruise and the London Eye, museums, Camden and Covent Garden, and the Warner Bros. Harry Potter studios. Kids sleep in a central hotel, with a French-speaking team leading all outings.
A sleepaway camp on the 50-hectare campus of École des Roches, a Normandy boarding school under two hours' drive from Paris. Kids pick one track: French lessons, intensive golf, tennis, padel, riding or electric go-karting, or an AI camp with robotics and coding. Afternoons mix cooking, arts, swimming and sport, with excursions to Paris, Versailles and Disneyland. Suits independent kids happy to share a room.
An English-immersion creative camp where teens make real work, guided by professionals from New York, LA, London and Paris. Teens pick a track: filmmaking (script, shoot, edit, screen it for parents), fashion and design (sketching, textiles, branding, a portfolio), or style (color theory, editorial makeup, personal style). A closing Red Carpet track brings film and fashion together in one production. Suits teens who want to create, not sit in class.
A holiday camp at L'École Koenig, a music school in the 15th arrondissement. Kids spend the week singing, playing instruments and acting on theater projects, and finish with a show they put together themselves. Sessions run in both French and English, so it suits bilingual kids. Siblings and best friends can go together. It suits kids drawn to the stage more than those after sports.
Magic Makers runs week-long coding courses in the school holidays at its centers around Paris, with an online option. Kids pick one theme, from Minecraft and Roblox game design to Python, web pages, robots and AI, and build their own projects in small groups. Sessions are half days, so the course fits around a morning or afternoon of something else. Led in French; the intro courses need no coding experience.
Sailing on the Lac d'Enghien, a lake in the middle of Enghien-les-Bains, about 25 minutes from Paris. Kids spend the session on the water with the Société Nautique d'Enghien, a club whose base sits on an island and is reached by rowboat. The club's fleet runs from Optimist dinghies to catamarans, and it also has a rowing section. A good fit for a first taste of sailing.
Hands-on tech workshops at a makerspace near Place d'Italie, run by Les Ingéniaux. Kids build and program Lego robots, design and 3D-print their own models, code games in Scratch or Python, and try woodwork and soldering with real tools.
Each stage is a short themed project for one age band, so beginners and kids who already code both find a level. Led in French.
Tech Kids Academy runs week-long holiday workshops at its own academy near Place Breteuil. Each stage has one theme: coding a video game in Scratch, Python or Godot, building and programming Lego or Micro:bit robots, or pixel art and 3D modeling in Blender. Groups are capped at 12 kids per instructor, every child gets a computer, and each kid goes home with a finished game or project. Led in French.
Tech Kids Academy runs week-long holiday workshops at its academy in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, across from the château park, steps from the RER A. Each stage has one theme: coding a video game in Scratch, Python or Godot, building and programming Lego or Micro:bit robots, or pixel art and 3D modeling. Groups are capped at 12 kids per instructor, and each kid goes home with a finished project. Led in French.
Summer acting workshops at Cours Florent, the Paris drama school founded in 1967, on its campus in the 19th arrondissement. Younger kids learn the basics of acting and build a short show they perform for family at the end. Teens pick a track: theater, film acting, improv or public speaking. No experience needed. Led in French, so it suits kids who follow French comfortably.
Paris Sport Vacances is the City of Paris holiday sports program: week-long courses in city gyms and sports grounds, each led by qualified coaches. Kids sign up for one discipline, from judo, archery and badminton to rugby, basketball, athletics and circus. Some courses pair the sport with a cultural workshop at a partner venue, such as making a radio show after a morning of badminton.
A French summer camp run entirely in English, in a château with 12 hectares of parkland among the Mâconnais vineyards. Campers get 10 hours a week of game-based English classes in groups matched by level, then spend the rest of the day on baseball, cheerleading, tie-dye, themed games set in Hollywood or the Far West, and campfire evenings with s'mores. Screens are left behind.
Paris Université Club, a multisport club founded in 1906, runs this week-long tennis camp on courts in the south of Paris. Kids work on every stroke in the game, and since groups are set by level, it works for a beginner and for a kid who already plays. A tennis-plus-multisports option mixes in other sports for kids who want variety.
Club Aladin is a French nonprofit that runs colonies de vacances (sleepaway camps) at its own centers in the south of France, with departures from Paris. Each stay has a theme: treasure hunts and sand yachting by the sea at Leucate, or fossil digs, pony riding and cabin building at Le Hameau de Moulès, a restored 19th-century hamlet in Aveyron. Stays are led in French.
A week of tennis at Passing Club, a neighborhood club in the 20th arrondissement. Tennis comes first, with racket workshops (badminton, urban tennis, ping-pong) and a little multisport mixed in. Groups are set by age and level, so a beginner and a club player each get the right pace. Kids on the full day eat a hot lunch and an afternoon snack at the club's annex nearby.
An English-language sleepaway camp at a château in the Mayenne countryside, run by a French and British team. Mornings are three hours of English with mostly native-speaker teachers, through workshops, role play and grammar. Afternoons are activities: archery, fencing, climbing, zip-lining, swimming and team sports, or tennis with a British coach. Evenings bring games and parties. Suits kids ready for a week away from home.
Hands-on science courses at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, the science museum in La Villette. Each course takes one theme, such as coding, 3D printing, volcanoes, dinosaurs or robots, and a specialist guide runs it through experiments. Most kids make something, by hand or on screen. Courses run from half a day to a few days, so they suit a short science break, not a full week.
Plenty of summer camps stop at 12, which leaves parents of teenagers hunting. This list only shows camps that take kids 13 and up, from day camps in the city to sleepaway camps farther out. We go by each camp's stated age rule, so check the range on each card: some take a wide span of ages, others are just for teens.
A sleepaway football camp from PSG Academy, held at a sports center in a walled park in Eaubonne, north of Paris. Teens train morning and afternoon in 8-a-side and 11-a-side formats, with video sessions and one-to-one feedback from coaches trained in the club's method. Two outings break up the stay: a Paris tour with a visit to the Parc des Princes, and a full day at a theme park.
A residential English camp for teenagers on a leafy school campus in Rueil-Malmaison, just west of Paris. Mornings are English classes. Most afternoons are trips to Paris sights (the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Montmartre, Versailles), and evenings bring games, karaoke and discos. Teens sleep in single rooms with shared bathrooms. It suits a teen ready for a summer away from home, at any English level.
English lessons and sightseeing in central London for teens, leaving from Paris by Eurostar. Mornings are small-group English classes with qualified teachers who are not the camp staff. Afternoons go to the city: Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, a Thames cruise and the London Eye, museums, Camden and Covent Garden, and the Warner Bros. Harry Potter studios. Kids sleep in a central hotel, with a French-speaking team leading all outings.
A sleepaway camp on the 50-hectare campus of École des Roches, a Normandy boarding school under two hours' drive from Paris. Kids pick one track: French lessons, intensive golf, tennis, padel, riding or electric go-karting, or an AI camp with robotics and coding. Afternoons mix cooking, arts, swimming and sport, with excursions to Paris, Versailles and Disneyland. Suits independent kids happy to share a room.
An English-immersion creative camp where teens make real work, guided by professionals from New York, LA, London and Paris. Teens pick a track: filmmaking (script, shoot, edit, screen it for parents), fashion and design (sketching, textiles, branding, a portfolio), or style (color theory, editorial makeup, personal style). A closing Red Carpet track brings film and fashion together in one production. Suits teens who want to create, not sit in class.
A holiday camp at L'École Koenig, a music school in the 15th arrondissement. Kids spend the week singing, playing instruments and acting on theater projects, and finish with a show they put together themselves. Sessions run in both French and English, so it suits bilingual kids. Siblings and best friends can go together. It suits kids drawn to the stage more than those after sports.
Magic Makers runs week-long coding courses in the school holidays at its centers around Paris, with an online option. Kids pick one theme, from Minecraft and Roblox game design to Python, web pages, robots and AI, and build their own projects in small groups. Sessions are half days, so the course fits around a morning or afternoon of something else. Led in French; the intro courses need no coding experience.
Sailing on the Lac d'Enghien, a lake in the middle of Enghien-les-Bains, about 25 minutes from Paris. Kids spend the session on the water with the Société Nautique d'Enghien, a club whose base sits on an island and is reached by rowboat. The club's fleet runs from Optimist dinghies to catamarans, and it also has a rowing section. A good fit for a first taste of sailing.
Hands-on tech workshops at a makerspace near Place d'Italie, run by Les Ingéniaux. Kids build and program Lego robots, design and 3D-print their own models, code games in Scratch or Python, and try woodwork and soldering with real tools.
Each stage is a short themed project for one age band, so beginners and kids who already code both find a level. Led in French.
Tech Kids Academy runs week-long holiday workshops at its own academy near Place Breteuil. Each stage has one theme: coding a video game in Scratch, Python or Godot, building and programming Lego or Micro:bit robots, or pixel art and 3D modeling in Blender. Groups are capped at 12 kids per instructor, every child gets a computer, and each kid goes home with a finished game or project. Led in French.
Tech Kids Academy runs week-long holiday workshops at its academy in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, across from the château park, steps from the RER A. Each stage has one theme: coding a video game in Scratch, Python or Godot, building and programming Lego or Micro:bit robots, or pixel art and 3D modeling. Groups are capped at 12 kids per instructor, and each kid goes home with a finished project. Led in French.
Summer acting workshops at Cours Florent, the Paris drama school founded in 1967, on its campus in the 19th arrondissement. Younger kids learn the basics of acting and build a short show they perform for family at the end. Teens pick a track: theater, film acting, improv or public speaking. No experience needed. Led in French, so it suits kids who follow French comfortably.
Paris Sport Vacances is the City of Paris holiday sports program: week-long courses in city gyms and sports grounds, each led by qualified coaches. Kids sign up for one discipline, from judo, archery and badminton to rugby, basketball, athletics and circus. Some courses pair the sport with a cultural workshop at a partner venue, such as making a radio show after a morning of badminton.
A French summer camp run entirely in English, in a château with 12 hectares of parkland among the Mâconnais vineyards. Campers get 10 hours a week of game-based English classes in groups matched by level, then spend the rest of the day on baseball, cheerleading, tie-dye, themed games set in Hollywood or the Far West, and campfire evenings with s'mores. Screens are left behind.
Paris Université Club, a multisport club founded in 1906, runs this week-long tennis camp on courts in the south of Paris. Kids work on every stroke in the game, and since groups are set by level, it works for a beginner and for a kid who already plays. A tennis-plus-multisports option mixes in other sports for kids who want variety.
Club Aladin is a French nonprofit that runs colonies de vacances (sleepaway camps) at its own centers in the south of France, with departures from Paris. Each stay has a theme: treasure hunts and sand yachting by the sea at Leucate, or fossil digs, pony riding and cabin building at Le Hameau de Moulès, a restored 19th-century hamlet in Aveyron. Stays are led in French.
A week of tennis at Passing Club, a neighborhood club in the 20th arrondissement. Tennis comes first, with racket workshops (badminton, urban tennis, ping-pong) and a little multisport mixed in. Groups are set by age and level, so a beginner and a club player each get the right pace. Kids on the full day eat a hot lunch and an afternoon snack at the club's annex nearby.
An English-language sleepaway camp at a château in the Mayenne countryside, run by a French and British team. Mornings are three hours of English with mostly native-speaker teachers, through workshops, role play and grammar. Afternoons are activities: archery, fencing, climbing, zip-lining, swimming and team sports, or tennis with a British coach. Evenings bring games and parties. Suits kids ready for a week away from home.
Hands-on science courses at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, the science museum in La Villette. Each course takes one theme, such as coding, 3D printing, volcanoes, dinosaurs or robots, and a specialist guide runs it through experiments. Most kids make something, by hand or on screen. Courses run from half a day to a few days, so they suit a short science break, not a full week.
