Specialty Summer Camps in Los Angeles.
33 specialty camps in Los Angeles. Median week: $625; range $550–$725.
Specialty camps — the long tail in Los Angeles that don't fit the traditional / STEM / sports / arts buckets — cover everything from culinary to skateboarding to filmmaking to debate. They tend to be smaller, more expensive per week, and more variable in quality.
Top 20 camps
- CEE: Junior Bakers (PM) · West Hollywood · Ages 6–8 · $550/week
- CEE: Cooking (PM, Jul 6-10) · West Hollywood · Ages 6–8 · $550/week
- CEE: Cooking — Flavor Lab (AM, Jul 20-24) · West Hollywood · Ages 6–8 · $550/week
- CEE: Cooking — Flavor Lab (PM, Jul 20-24) · West Hollywood · Ages 6–8 · $550/week
- Pali Adventures · Los Angeles · Ages 8–16 · $2995/week
- Warner Star Summer Camps · Westwood · Ages 4–11 · $450/week
- Taste Buds Kitchen · Hollywood · Ages 5–14
- New Roads — Middle School Summer Treats Course (6-8) · Ages 11–13 · $200/week
- Warner STAR - Cooking: Culinary Scientists · Ages 5–11 · $450/week
- STAR Education - Cooking: Culinary Scientists · Ages 5–11 · $270/week
- Kids Like Me - Camp Sunshine · Ages 6–17 · $875/week
- Kids Like Me - Village Glen Camp (Adventurers) · Sherman Oaks · Ages 6–17 · $725/week
- Kids Like Me - Village Glen Camp (Engineers) · Ages 6–17 · $725/week
- Kids Like Me - Village Glen Camp (Sports Academy) · Ages 6–17 · $725/week
- Kids Like Me - CIT Program · Ages 14–17 · $725/week
- The Gourmandise School - Cooking & Baking Camps · Ages 6–17
- Life + Youth - Cooking with Colors (Ages 9-12) · Ages 9–12 · $625/week
- Life + Youth - Better Than Takeout (Ages 9-12) · Sherman Oaks · Ages 9–12 · $625/week
- Life + Youth - Baking Lab (Ages 9-12) · Ages 9–12 · $625/week
- Life + Youth - Culinary Tour of Asia (Ages 9-12) · Sherman Oaks · Ages 9–12 · $625/week
↘ What to look for
The smaller the niche, the more the instructor matters — ask who's running it and what they do the other 50 weeks of the year. Watch for camps that brand themselves around a hot topic (coding, podcasting, robotics) but staff with general-purpose summer counselors. The right specialty week leaves the kid with a real artifact (a film, a recipe book, a podcast episode) — not a participation certificate.