Camps

Summer Camp 2025

Junior Chefs Kitchen is enriching young lives through an adventure in culinary and nutrition education. We are so fortunate to work with a Registered Dietitian who helps guide our curriculum, recipes and more with evidence-based nutrition information.

Our Camp gives your child the opportunity to have fun and explore cooking in a clean, safe environment. The curriculum will reflect our daily classes and be a mixture of cooking (and cleaning) and will revolve around an interactive theme with different lesson plans that will keep your child engaged. On any given day, your child might take a cooking class, prepare a meal for someone in need, meet a chef, learn about the history of various foods and cultures, arts and crafts, create their own recipe, get a little physical activity at nearby Jonquil park, and occasionally go on a field trip to visit a professional kitchen!

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What you can expect:

🥑 Fully prepare & eat two recipes each day for our Full Day Campers

🥭 Crafts galore

🌶 Movement activities to get the squiggles out

🍉 Games from our childhood - heads up 7 up?!

🍏 Board Games for a little friendly competition

🍞 Whole fruit snack + lunch provided

🥩 Daily trip to nearby Jonquil Park

🍔 Field trips to local restaurants for kitchen tours. Stay tuned for our Summer Camp 2025 field trips!

🧀 Chicago Chef collaborations & guest appearances

🍓 Fully licensed & CPR / First Aid certified staff

🍕 Fostering a Growth Mindset, teamwork, making friends and trying new foods!

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Pricing & Details:

🥦 Full Day 9am - 3pm: $650 per week

🥭 Full Day Drop In $140

🍌 Half Day 9am - 12pm: $350 per week

🍇 Half Day Drop In: $75

🗓 Recipes posted by February 15th

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Early Bird Pricing Discount of 10% runs through 3/31. Use Code: JCKEARLY2025 - sign up now, we will sell out & have limited room!

After-Care is available from 3-5pm for an additional $20 per day per child. Must be purchased at time of registration or no later than 1 week prior to the start of camp.

Ages 4+ for Camp > Kids will be grouped by age brackets, max 10 kids in a group.

Siblings get 10% off

Lunch & Snack Included - just bring a labeled water bottle & tupperware to pack-up leftovers in an eco-friendly way! Feel free to pack a NUT FREE Snack if you have a super selective eater, although we always create kid-friendly backups to ensure children are well fed!

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Weekly Themes:

🥑 Week of June 9th: Breakfast Beats

🥭 Week of June 16th: Around the World

🌶 Week of June 23rd: Colors of the Rainbow

🍉 Week of June 30th: Diner Delights (no camp Friday July 4th)

🍏 Week of July 7th: Pizza, Pasta & Bread, Oh My!

🍞 Week of July 14th: Cupcake Wars

🥩 Week of July 21st: Diner Delights

🍔 Week of July 28th: Breakfast Beats

🧀 Week of August 4th: Around the World

🍓 Week of August 11th: Colors of the Rainbow

🍕 Week of August 18th: Cupcake Wars

🥦 Week of August 29th: Pizza, Pasta & Bread, Oh My!

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Sharing some of our fave highlights from last Summer on IG: Suda's Lebanese, Avli Taverna, Sienna Tavern

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School's Out? Day Off Camp at JCK is ON!

Full Day Drop In $120
Full Day 9am - 3pm
After-Care is available from 3-5pm for an additional $20 per day. Must be purchased at time of registration or no later than 1 week prior to the start of camp.
Ages 4+ for Camp
Siblings get 10% off
Lunch & Snack Included - just bring a labeled water bottle & tupperware to pack-up leftovers in an eco-friendly way!

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Not seeing a specific day your school is closed?? Contact Us and we’re happy to help coordinate logistics.

Check out our Instagram Page for the latest glimpse into what our campers have been up to!