Organizations throughout the city are busy making plans to offer summer camps with a variety of themes, including acting, sports, art, skateboarding, field trips and reading, while offering students a chance to get involved in safe and fun activities during the upcoming school summer break.

Over at the Delray Beach Playhouse, Sue Easton said they are offering a Beauty and The Beast Jr. Summer Camp and also a Summer Acting Camp running weekly from June to August.

“Adam Crowe, our improv coach, will be teaching the acting students drama and improv. The theme is be what you want to be, early in the week students write scripts, they rehearse as actors and then on the ending Friday of each week they perform their work for family and friends,” Easton said.

This is the seventh year the Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 Lake Shore Drive, has hosted the Summer Acting Camp and the first year for the Beauty and The Beast Jr. Summer Camp.

“The kids really love the improv,” Easton said.

At the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave., Loanis Menendez-Cuesta, reference and young adults librarian, is busy working on a summer camp reading program for teens.

“We’ll be finalizing that information in April but we’re looking at it running from just after school gets out to mid-July,” Menendez-Cuesta said.

For gymnastics-minded campers, Mitch Greenberg, owner of The Little Gym, 5130 Linton Blvd., said a spring camp will start on March 29, focusing on students ages 3 to 8.

At Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., a Clown’n Around Summer Camp will be offered by Rich Pollack, a resident who has worked as a clown entertaining local children for the past few decades.

At the Milagro Center, 340 SW Sixth Ave., the focus will be Heroes in Training and offer weekly field trips and five art classes.

Also in the southwest portion of the city, Catherine Strong Park Summer Camp, 1500 SW Sixth St., is open to the first 15 participants, and will include camp favorites like field trips to nature trails, swimming, educational games, arts and crafts.

Also, the city-operated Hobbit Skate Park, 505 SE Fifth Ave., will offer summer skate park field trips.

“We’ll be visiting other fun skate parks; trips will range from Miami to Orlando. All trips will leave from the Hobbit Skate Park,” Delray Beach Parks and Recreation Department marketing and special events coordinator Danielle Beardsley wrote via e-mail.

A Junior Lifeguard Program will be offered by Delray Beach Ocean Rescue. The Out of School Summer Camp will be offered by Delray Beach Parks & Recreation and feature camp staples like recreation activities, literacy and academic programs, field trips and lunch. That camp will be held at the city of Delray Beach Community Center, Pompey Park and Pine Grove Elementary School.

For more information visit or call the city’s public information office at 561-243-7190.