The school holidays come around quickly and it can be a struggle as a working parent to find childcare. Here’s a great list of Easter holiday clubs and camps for kids running around Oxfordshire that will keep your kids entertained. Click on the links in red below for further information. For family days out, check out what Easter events in Oxfordshire 2024 in the What’s On for Kids Guide.
SPOTLIGHT HOLIDAY CAMPS
Ultimate Activity Camps – outstanding holiday childcare for 4-14 year olds in the school holidays, where the children’s welfare and having fun are the primary concern! Children enjoy a fantastic range of sports, games and art activities every week led by engaging staff at amazing locations
- Oxford (Headington)
- West Oxford
- Faringdon
- Moulsford (near Wallingford)
- Brackley
Oxfordshire Easter Holiday Clubs for Kids
Oxford Active Camps – children’s multi-activity camps are for children aged from 3 to 14 years and have a wide range of fun activities for kids to enjoy during the school holidays. With venues at top independent schools with outstanding facilities from indoor and outdoor swimming pools to sports playing fields, woodlands and 100’s of acres to explore.
Active Adventure focuses on all things outdoors, muddy and wet. Its suitable for those new to bushcraft as well as those who are at home in the woods or on a kayak
Kid Active Holiday Clubs (Headington, Oxford) – offer children aged 4-12 a fantastic mix of high and low energy activities. The exciting timetable is delivered over spacious indoor and outdoor areas offering arts and crafts, construction, board games, toys, music, dance, bouncy castle and all the sports.
Bright Sparks Events Easter Science Holiday Clubs involve a day, jam packed full of science tricks, messy experiments, fun games and science crafts. This Easter their holiday workshops for children aged 5 to 11 years will have an Extraordinary Animals theme.
- Wantage
- Ardley (near Bicester)
- East Oxford
- Oxford
- Abingdon
- Begbroke (near Kidlington & Woodstock)
- Didcot
- Witney
The Oxford Boat Adventure is a holiday camp with a difference, on the land and on the water. Children experience outdoor life around a secluded lake close to Dorchester-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire. With tailored adventures for children in Reception to Year 10, the exciting holiday camp runs during the Easter, Summer and October half term holidays. A complete escape from technology check out our holiday camp review.
This Easter they have 3 days camps tailored by age running from 8th to 10th April
Cygnets Art School are running holiday workshops in Abingdon and Didcot this Easter holiday where kids aged 5-13 of all abilities can learn real artistic techniques using quality materials under the supervision of artist-teacher Dot! Workshops are every weekday 10:30am – 2:00pm from April 1st – April 12th
The North Wall is back this Easter with creative workshops for 8 to 12s and 12 to 17 year olds. If you love to draw there are half day illustration workshops too.
House of Fun Holiday Camp – my boys have been here before and had a great time. They’re family run and have a huge amount of energy and lots of variety from sports to crafts and cooking. The multi-activity camps including cookery, sports and arts & crafts for 5-12 year olds in every school holiday, with sites in Oxford and Abingdon. Children choose all their activities each day, and through a safe, fun environment under the supervision of a fantastic team of friendly and experienced staff, giving children the chance to just be kids.
Calling all budding engineers – ibrick at House of Fun is excited to invite you on an all-new Lego adventure. Action-packed holiday camp days for children aged 6-13 years old, using bespoke ibrick kits to design, build and innovate with mechanised Lego models.
- Cumnor, Oxford
- Cutteslowe, Oxford
- Didcot
Elite Youth Sports Ofsted registered Multi-Activity Holiday Camps are suitable for boys and girls aged 4-13. They have an exciting programme of Sports and Elite Activities to fulfil the needs of energetic children looking to learn new skills, build confidence and make new friends while having fun!
Mini Professionals Dance Academy (Kidlington) – are hosting two Easter camps this year. They are suitable for ALL abilities and no previous dance experience is necessary. There will be 2 camps; the first week will be a dance camp, which involves classes in multiple genres such as ballet, jazz, lyrical, acro, contemporary tap and yoga. Week 2 will be a Musical theatre camp where the students will put on a production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Perfect for those who dream of being on stage and love dancing, singing and acting.
- Kidlington
- Abingdon dance holiday camp
SuperCamps Multi-Activity day camps offer a wide range of fun activities to keep kids aged 4-12 entertained during the school holidays.
NOX Gymnastics Camps (Witney) are designed to be a fun space for children (of all gymnastics abilities!) to learn, play and make new friends through the school holidays. A variety of activities makes every day different, including outdoor playtime, choreography, a variety of different sports activities, team building games, races, arts & crafts activities, and of course plenty of gymnastics! Camps running 2nd to 5th April
Jane Brooks intensive swimming courses offer intensive swimming courses during the school holidays designed to help children make rapid progress. I can give this one a personal recommendation as my kids have been and it really giving them such a boost in confidence and skills. So much so that they now have the regular weekly Jane Brooks swimming lessons.
Woodstock Gymnastics Club allows children aged 4+ to try new activities, make friends and develop their gymnastics skills using a wide range of apparatus. It’s perfect for all abilities whether its the chance to try gymnastics for the first time or to perfect those tumbles!
Vicky’s Holiday Club (near Witney) – wider range of activities including arts, crafts and sports.
Woodcote Pre-School (Woodcote) – Easter holiday club.
Get Active (Didcot) – fun-filled holiday camps with friendly support and encouragement to a child so that they can enjoy up to 9 activities per day.
Stagecoach Holiday Workshops (Faringdon)- have fun and develop some great new skills at the fabulous Stagecoach Holiday Drama Clubs and Workshops.
Artworks Holiday Classes (Oxford) – held in a huge, bright and spacious room at St Mary’s and St Johns Primary School, in a huge big room, aspiring artists will really enjoy. My eldest loved printmaking and we have his picture framed at home.
Ignite Sport (Oxford) – half-term holiday camps are suitable for 4-16 year olds.
Peapods Nursery School (Henley) runs a Holiday club for the Henley on Thames/Peppard area, during the Summer, Easter & Christmas holidays and all half term breaks, for children aged 1 – 8 years old.
Just For Kids Company (Bicester) – 3 days of crafts, games, music, dancing and chocolate fun.
Artworks (Oxford) – art classes for kids with a great range of different materials.
Super Star Sports (Kidlington) – provide a well rounded and affordable holiday camp programme for children aged 5-12 to enjoy.
Jamie Cassidy Soccer Camps (Bicester)
Premier Tennis Camps – The tennis camps are packed with ways to build skills, enjoy fresh-air fun and instill confidence.
- Oxford
- Abingdon
Serious4Sport – (Grove) children’s Sports Camps with a whole range of sports and activities
Springbox Gym Club (Henley) – general gymnastics and fun camp for non members and have fun, games & colouring while learning gymnastics
Longridge Activity Camps (near Marlow) – activity days are for young people between the ages of 8 and 12.
Next Thing Education – holiday tech camps allow children to gain technical skills from a young age enabling them to shape the future.
- Witney
- Oxford
WR Sports – multi activity camps and gymnastic workshops
- Oxford
- Abingdon
- Watlington
Just For Kids Company (Bicester) – musical theatre holiday camps
Imperium Sports (Kidlington) offer a wide range of physical activities and sport throughout the day as well as a crafts and games.
Junior Adventures Group – multi activity camps with a mix of sports, activities and creative sessions
- Thame
- Yarnton (near Kidlington / North Oxford)
- Oxford
- Abingdon
Star Hot Shots holiday camps are fun, energetic, creative and challenging enough to develop every child’s skills without overwhelming the less confident ones.
- Henley
- Goring Heath
Ridgeway Adventures Activity Days (South Oxfordshire, not far from Moulsford) a fun and engaging holiday club for 11 to 15 year olds.
TA Sport Stars aim to make every child’s experience on camp the best it could possibly be!
- Faringdon
- Wantage
- Shrivenham
Atlas Camp‘s (Brize Norton) multi-activity kids camps offer fun-filled school holiday childcare to children aged 4-14
Just Camps (Banbury) run fun based activity camps during every school holidays for children from 4-12 years
