All About L’Alliance New York’s Summer Programs

Looking for a joyful and enriching way for your toddlers, kids, and teens to spend their summer break? Search no further than L’Alliance New York’s Summer Camps and Classes! These French immersion programs at our Manhattan, NY and Montclair, NJ locations are open to all levels of French speakers from ages 1-18, and attendance is flexible—children aged 3-11 can sign up for either all eight weeks or one-week increments of our drop-off Summer Day Camps, Teens can join week long immersion classes ages 11-18 and we also offer 45 to 90 min classes for toddlers aged 1-5. 

“Learning a second language at a young age has incredible benefits. It helps children develop stronger thinking and problem-solving skills while also opening their minds to new cultures and perspectives,” explains Marie-Catherine Glaser, Executive Director of the Montclair Campus & Preschool of L’Alliance New York. “It’s a gift that can support them for a lifetime!”

Each year’s Summer Day Camp falls under a theme (previous subjects have included the Tour de France, The Nine Arts, and the Summer Games in Paris), and 2025’s is Nature Detectives. Through hands-on projects, field trips, and engaging activities, children will learn about everything from water cycles to composting to the food chain to recycling. So not only will they strengthen their language skills (there are myriad benefits of starting bilingual education when they’re young), they’ll also become more aware and passionate global citizens.

 

Summer Day Camps run from June 23 to August 15, 2025—read on for some highlights of this season’s exciting offerings.

 

Day Camps for Toddlers

Kids ages 3 to 5 in both Manhattan, NY and Montclair, NJ will become Les Petits Détectives—better advocates for the planet through weekly lessons focusing on the natural world around them, plastic pollution and water cycles, composting and growing plants, the food chain and habitats of various animals, climate change and weather patterns, recycling and waste reduction, and green energy.

Activities will include meeting and learning from park rangers, bread baking, flower pot painting, various cooking sessions with seasonal fruits and other local ingredients, kite and mobile-crafting, creating reusable bags from old clothes, candle-making, drawing projects, and much more.

 

• Read more about each weekly Manhattan toddlers camp curriculum here.
• Sign up for Manhattan toddlers day camp here.
• Read more about each weekly Montclair toddlers camp curriculum here.
• Sign up for Montclair toddlers day camp here.

 

Day Camps for Kids

Kids ages 5 to 11 in both Manhattan, NY and Montclair, NJ will explore similar subjects as their toddler Les Petits Détectives cohorts, but Les Détectives will build on these lessons through exciting, connected field trips.

Each week includes a trip for both Manhattan and Montclair campers, which involves visits to nearby museums (like The American Museum of Natural History and Montclair Art Museum), parks and gardens (including Central Park and Van Vleck House & Gardens), zoos (Turtle Back Zoo and the Central Park Zoo), markets and farms (the Montclair Community Farms and Union Square Greenmarket among them), and several other exciting and educational locations.

 

• Read more about each weekly Manhattan kids camp curriculum here.
• Sign up for Manhattan kids day camp here.
• Read more about each weekly Montclair kids camp curriculum here.
• Sign up for Montclair kids day camp here.

 

The various drop-off camps run both half days (9:00 am to 12:00 pm) NJ is 8:30am to 12:30pm and full days (9:00 am to 4:00 pm) NJ is 8:30am to 3:30pm with an option for extended programs from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, NJ is until 6pm. Ready to sign your little ones up for the unforgettable summer fun? 

 

Register here today for either the Manhattan, NY or Montclair, NJ L’Alliance New York Summer Camps and Classes!