If your imaginative child is looking to spend their summer creating art and exploring Ontario’s Attraction of the Year, the Aga Khan Museum’s Summer Camps offer an exciting way to explore their artistic talents! In these innovative day camps, kids aged 6 to 12 can learn more about the Museum’s artworks and artifacts. Plus, through hands-on making and outdoor activities, they will have fun creating their own artworks, designing and building their own games, and making new friends.
Inspired by the Museum’s upcoming exhibition, Game On!, this year’s camps explore games played around the world. Campers will discuss ideas about art, strategy, and creativity as they embark on exciting artistic adventures and gallery exploration.
Introducing a new theme each week, kids will join collaborative challenges that combine creativity, problem-solving, and imagination. Participants will also craft handmade game boards and pieces while experimenting with puzzles and storytelling. Throughout the summer, these camps will reveal the different ways games can connect cultures, inspire creativity, and unite people.
Aga Khan Museum — Summer Camps 2026
For six weeks this summer, Aga Khan Museum runs weekly camps from July 6 to August 14, 2026. There are two separate age groups: Junior (ages 6-8) and Senior (ages 9-12).
Junior Camp (Ages 6–8)
In the Junior Summer Camp sessions, young campers explore the nature of play through creativity and hands-on activities. From the design of global games to strategic and imaginative storytelling, campers will create custom board games, sculpt game pieces, build puzzles, and invent characters. Then, they can even test their games with their fellow campers through playful competition!
Week 1 — July 6-10 — Play Across Cultures: Games Around the World
Across cultures and generations, games bring people together! During this first camp week, participants will design and build their own versions of some classic games, such as Snakes and Ladders, Mancala, and dominoes.
Week 2 — July 13-17 — Master the Moves: Strategy and Puzzle Games
Kids love to think like inventors! This week, campers will become puzzle designers as they create tangram puzzle sets, strategy board games, and sliding tile puzzles.
Week 3 — July 20-24 — Quest Makers: Adventures, Maps, and Missions
Adventure takes centre stage this week, with the campers participating in imaginative quests and creative challenges! First, they will build their own quest board game, then create treasure maps, and assemble “I Spy” discovery jars.
Week 4 — July 27-31 — Let the Games Begin: Tournaments and Team Challenges
While the campers experience the excitement of competition, they also learn how to design games and challenges of their own. Outdoor activities and group challenges celebrate collaboration and sportsmanship through imaginative storytelling projects.
Week 5 — August 4-7 (Four-day camp week) — Puzzle Masters: Board Games and Card Games
In this camp session, the young campers get to dive into the creativity behind classic tabletop games! Investigating logic challenges like Sudoku and crossword puzzles, this week focuses on creativity, design, and playful thinking.
Week 6 — August 10-14 — Worlds of Imagination: Stories, Creatures, and Creative Play
Celebrating both imagination and storytelling, the final camp week lets the young artists sculpt and paint mythical creatures from clay, design sock puppet characters, and create interactive felt storybooks. Then, they will build rainstick musical instruments, invent imaginative tools, and participate in drawing challenges.
Senior Camp (Ages 9–12)
For older campers, the Aga Khan Museum Senior Summer Camps offer the opportunity to delve further into both game strategy and the creative process. Through hands-on projects, campers will strengthen their creative thinking, as well as their collaboration and problem-solving skills. Better yet, the activities encourage innovation and experimentation, and the campers bring their ideas and creations to life.
Week 1 — July 6-10 — Global Game Makers: Games Across Cultures
Starting their summer off right, the campers will explore how games connect people through all cultures and generations. Activities include designing their own chess boards, crafting handmade Mancala boards and clay game pieces, and creating decorative dice and custom domino sets.
Week 2 — July 13-17 — Play with Purpose: Games that Build Character
This week, the camp program focuses on the different ways games inspire the players’ empathy, resilience, and teamwork. In designing a personalized “Game of Life” board, campers explore how games can reflect personal values, collaboration and positive competition.
Week 3 — July 20-24 — Tactical Thinking: The Art of Strategy
This week, the campers will examine the creative methods of strategy, planning, and problem-solving through classic games. These games include chess, Battleship strategy boards, playing cards, and deduction games. Campers will also develop game worlds, character sheets, and battle scenarios to bring their strategic games to life.
Week 4 — July 27-31 — Story Worlds: Characters, Creatures, and Imagination
Blending storytelling, art, and game design, campers create their own fantasy worlds this week. Every step is covered, from developing hero and villain character sheets to sculpting mythical creatures from clay, to creating dice towers, customized dice and wearable magical jewelry!
Week 5 — August 4-7 (Four-day camp week) — Invent the Game: Becoming a Game Designer
The campers get to step into the role of game designers this week as they invent and test their own original character games. As they create character sheets and test their games, they experience the full creative process behind game development.
Week 6 — August 10-14 — Champions Arena: Tournaments and Legendary Games
Finally, in the last camp week, the campers will celebrate the thrill of competition, using skills they have developed throughout the summer. Of course, that means the campers get to participate in camp-wide tournaments of chess, checkers, and Snakes and Ladders!
Daily Camp Schedule
- 8:45-9:00 AM: Drop-off (15-minute parking is free during pick-up and drop-off only)
- 9:00 AM: Camp day begins
- 10:30 AM: Snack break (15 mins.)
- 12:00 PM: Lunch break (1 hour) (Please note: lunch is not provided. The Museum encourages campers to bring their own packed lunch, plus two snacks.)
- 2:30 PM: Snack break (15 mins.)
- 3:45 PM: Pick-up (Guardians MUST present ID for pick-up)
- 4:00 PM: Camp day ends (Extended care is not available)
Aga Khan Museum Summer Camps — Prices
Five-day week: $300 ($270 Sibling Discount); $270 Friends and Patrons ($243 Sibling Discount)
Four-day week: $240 ($216 Sibling Discount); $216 Friends and Patrons ($194.40 Sibling Discount)
All prices are per person per weekly session.
Get your camper ready for another brilliant summer full of expression and creativity — Register here!
Aga Khan Museum Summer Camps
Date: Weekly sessions from July 6-10 to August 10-14, 2026
Time: Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Aga Khan Museum
Address: 77 Wynford Drive, Toronto
E-mail: learn@agakhanmuseum.org
Facebook: @agakhanmuseumtoronto
Instagram: @agakhanmuseum
Website: www.agakhanmuseum.org
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