Best Summer Care in Seattle, WA

Infant Care

Nasteho Childcare is a comforting, safe and welcoming environment where children can learn, play, and grow. Our main goal is to help each child build confidence, social skills, and independence through age appropriate activities and guidance.

Preschool Care

Nasteho Childcare provides a nurturing preschool environment where children learn through their imagination and exploration. Everyday helps children practice communication, creativity, involvement, and independence in a fun engaging way.

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Summer with Goddard

Summer with Goddard is an exciting 12-week program filled with lots of outdoor play and fun learning experiences. It’s an extension of the school year featuring outdoor adventures and child-led exploration all in a caring environment.

Summer Camp

Voyagers Summer Camp is all about exploring the world around us and learning about people, places, and things that many of us have only seen on TV or in books. Voyagers (campers) have the flexibility to select from a variety of exciting topics that will take them on incredible journeys to far-off destinations where they will learn about people such as Louis Armstrong, places like the Great Wall of China, and things such as the Eiffel Tower! Prices are subject to change.

Moon Beams

Our preschool program for 3–4 year olds nurtures independence, friendships, and a love of learning. Through play, art, stories, and outdoor exploration, teachers support social skills, problem-solving, and creativity in a joyful, caring environment.

Blue Skies

Our older toddler classroom bridges the journey into preschool. With caring teachers and playful routines, children grow in independence, language, and social skills, preparing to join our preschool program with confidence and curiosity.

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Coding and STEM Summer Camp

*CAMP DATES: June 22 - August 14* Our next-gen labs are a total vibe. Tech and pop culture icons deck the walls. Energetic music plays. STEM pros recruited from elite universities share their knowledge, inspiring campers to bring their visions to life, from apps and games to AI bots and viral videos! Each session blends hands-on learning with campus exploration and traditions for a one-of-a-kind recipe for summer magic.

Summer Session

Six week experience with gardening, neighborhood walks, soccer coach and science. New children can start in Summer.

Pre-Schoolers

The preschool program uses a play-based, emergent curriculum that emphasizes social-emotional development and character building in a mixed-age classroom setting.

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Bears

The Bear Room fosters self‑sufficiency, curiosity, and independent conflict resolution through child‑led play. Seven activity areas support exploration, and children leave as confident, capable communicators ready to navigate new experiences with independence.

Orcas

The Orcas Room builds kindergarten‑ready skills through child‑led, play‑based learning. Children practice collaboration, problem‑solving, numeracy, literacy, and community engagement, with city outings reinforcing confidence, responsibility, and a genuine love of learning.

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Nurture and Grow Infants

Due to our small setting and mixed age group, unlike larger, childcare settings we always have arms available for snuggles and holding kids. Our little kids look up to and enjoy the older kids. We have the flexibility to follow the babies schedule and needs. We focus on personalized care.

Nurture and Grow Preschool

Our older kids learn, empathy through being a blended class. We break into small groups to do more complex and challenging preschool activities. Our preschoolers love to bake & prepare snack as part of their daily activities. We are happy, kind, emotionally, intelligent, and smart when we graduate!

Petah's Little Hatchlings

Petah's Little Hatchlings (2–12 months) offers loving infant care with ASQ-3/ASQ-SE milestone tracking and individualized lesson plans. We nurture early school readiness through nature-based language/pre-literacy, early math play, movement, sensory exploration, and gentle ECO-STEAM.

Petah's Creek Turtles

Petah Villages blends nature-based inquiry with early foundations in literacy, math, and science Children engage in guided outdoor investigations, build vocabulary, problem-solving, and executive function, practice eco-stewardship, and grow social-emotional competence through collaboration in nature

Preschool

Play-based, full-day preschool that nurtures the whole child socially, emotionally, cognitively and physically. The program emphasizes sensory experiences, social interaction, and learning through play and project-based activities. Children spend at least two hours daily outdoors. Daily activities include arts and crafts, practical life skills, and story time.

Preschool

The Learning Tree's Montessori program fosters independence and a lifelong love of learning in a child-centered environment that emphasizes emotional and social development. The program provides an academically rich space with outdoor classrooms and guides children toward developing individuality while learning compassion and community.

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Just Kids

Just Kids is a drop-off language immersion experience - created for young learners ready to explore Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, or French on their own. Held on weekends, this 2-hour class gives children the space to play, socialize, and learn in a fully immersive, teacher-guided environment.

Language Play Immersion (Mornings)

Our Language Play Immersion program now offers flexible half-day weekly sessions in Spanish and Mandarin, perfect for families looking to build consistent language exposure without a full-time commitment.

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Summer Day Care

Licensed summer day care with 3-day or 5-day options. Dedicated staff and engaging weekly themes. Limited to 20 students for 10:1 student-teacher ratio.

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Hope Summer Camp

Hope provides five weeks of summer camp, focusing on enrichment field trips and opportunities in a structured but fun environment. Families purchase the camp by the week; each week has a theme.

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Drop-In Summer Care

Extended drop-in hours available through Summer! Join us as we play, laugh, craft, and explore. Little ones aged 2.5 - 8 years welcome to attend, and scheduling is made easy through our website. In July we will be exploring the theme "Art Throughout the World", and August will be all about Science!

Fiore Playgroup - Preschool Program

Join our half-day, play-based preschool program in the heart of Ballard! Now enrolling little ones beginning at age 2 and a half. While our Curriculum is NAEYC Accredited, we firmly believe that little ones learn best through play and hands-on discovery. Each day we sing, dance, craft, & explore!

Summer Quest Day Camp

Meridian Summer Quest Day Camp offers weekly themed sessions for children entering Kindergarten through Sixth Grade, featuring arts and crafts, sports, games, drama, and multiple field trips each week, plus on- and off-campus adventures that connect learning and play.

Summer Quest Enrichment

The Enrichment Camp program offers on-campus specialty classes where teens can pursue focused interests in theatre, robotics, visual arts, martial arts, and other hands-on activities led by third-party instructors and teachers.

Infant Program

The Infant Program prioritizes nurturing attachment through a caregiving philosophy inspired by the RIE® Educaring Approach, where every interaction from feeding and diapering to play serves as an opportunity for connection. Infants explore their environment with minimal interruption while receiving specialist programming in music and art, organic made-from-scratch purees, and outdoor time daily.

Toddler Program

The toddler program blends uninterrupted free play with teacher-led small-group learning, drawing from RIE® and Reggio Emilia approaches. Specialist instruction in art, music, movement, and cooking enriches the curriculum. Dual-language classroom options in Spanish or Mandarin are available, alongside organic plant-based meals prepared daily in-house.

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Infants

The infant program provides individualized care with a flexible, on-demand schedule where eating, sleeping, and activities are tailored to each child's unique needs and developmental pace. Parents are welcome to visit anytime, and breastfeeding is encouraged.

Preschool

The Preschool classroom uses learning centers with structured activities organized around weekly and monthly themes to help children reach predetermined goals. The classroom operates on a social, choice-based model where children select activities from a Choice Board and engage in decision-making throughout the day.

Montessori Primary Program

The Montessori Primary program serves children in a mixed-age classroom environment where guides trained in the Montessori method support learning through four curricular areas: Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, and Math.

Infant Program

The infant program provides individualized care with low teacher-to-child ratios, where teachers follow each baby's cues for feeding, sleeping, and play. Formula, diapers, and meals are included, and infants explore through music, sensory play, tummy time, and gentle interaction while receiving consistent one-on-one attention.

After-School & Summer Camp

After-school care includes homework help, outdoor time, enrichment activities, and meals; Camp Cosmo runs June through August with field trips and learning activities.

Summer Leadership Academy

The Summer Leadership Academy is an 8-week summer literacy and enrichment program that combines morning academics with daily enrichment classes, weekly field trips, team building, career readiness instruction, and financial literacy education.

College Career Readiness Program

The College and Career Readiness Program (CEO — Cop Every Opp) aims to counteract achievement statistics for youth of color through college preparation and job readiness programs.

Preschool

The Preschool program is the four- to five-year-old classroom in Building Blocks' play-based preschool, where the school creates a learning environment that is fun, safe, and nurturing while children develop skills for their future.

Juniors

The Juniors classroom is Building Blocks Nursery School's play-based toddler program, part of a full-time preschool where children look forward to coming each day in a learning environment that is fun, safe, and nurturing.

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Camp des Lucioles

FASPS is proud to offer our preschool summer camps for children 2 through 4 years at our Capitol Hill location. Whether your camper has no French experience or is a native speaker, camp activities, games, projects, and more are adapted to maximize learning and excitement.

Camp D'été

Camp d'été is a four-week French immersion day camp where all activities are conducted in French and adapted to support learners at every language level, from absolute beginners to native speakers.

Toddler Program

The toddler program follows a child-centered, play-based approach with theme-based activities targeting all domains of development. The program emphasizes social and emotional growth, helping children develop independence, self-confidence, and positive peer relationships through exploration, positive guidance, and strong parent-staff partnerships.

Preschool Program

The preschool program features a child-centered, play-based approach with a theme-based curriculum covering social and emotional development, mathematics, reading and writing, social studies, and art. Enrichment classes in Spanish, sports, music, and dance are available to support exploration and creativity.

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The preschool program is a Reggio-inspired, play-based community where children explore, play, and grow in mixed-age classrooms with intentionally designed environments that support curiosity and creativity.