Specialty & Theme Camps
Transport your child to a world of magic! Our Specialty & Theme camps are unique, fully-immersive programs that provide campers with a week they won’t ever forget. From the moment they arrive until the second they leave, our campers journey through the adventures, challenges, and soaring moments of their favorite characters and stories in a truly one-of-a-kind experience.
May The The Force Be With You
Residential/Overnight Camp: Sunday - Friday
The First Order is back, and Camp Kern is in imminent danger! It is up to YOU to help us get rid of them! Join us for a full week of Jedi Training at the Jedi Academy of Camp Kern. Throughout the week, our Padawans will learn the ways of the Force, the art of the lightsaber, and how to calm their mind and trust their instincts. All these skills will be vital to help save our galaxy. At the end of the week, all Padawan campers will appear in front of the Jedi council to see if they have what it takes to call yourself a Jedi!
2025 Dates:
Session 1: June 1-6 (Unavailable for girls due to low enrollment)
Session 6: July 6-11
Availability
- Session 1
- Session 6
$875
"Somehow..... Palpatine returned."
Residential/Overnight Camp: Sunday - Friday
Your favorite fully-immersive camps now have a specially-designed program just for teens aged 13-16! Travel the galaxy, meet your favorite Jedi, chase your least favorite Sith nemeses, and marvel at intergalactic mysteries. This program will include opportunities for building leadership skills and there are no prerequisites for attendance.
2025 Dates:
Session 1: June 1-6
Session 6: July 6-11
Availability
- Session 1
- Session 6
$875
Wingardium Leviosa!
Residential/Overnight Camp: Sunday - Friday
From the moment you arrive, until you check out on Saturday, you will cease to be a Muggle, and will enter the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as a student. Do you have what it takes to learn Potions? Are you ready for daily Quidditch practice? Do you know your spell book forwards and back?
Tons of activity, imagination, and fun will fill this week. Come prepared to immerse yourself in the world of Harry Potter, while enjoying all that Camp Kern has to offer!
2025 Dates:
Session 2: June 8-13
Session 7: July 13-18 (Boys' spots sold out, waitlist available)
Availability
- Session 2
- Session 7
$875
Mischief managed
Residential/Overnight Camp: Sunday - Friday
Are you ready to take the next step in your Hogwarts adventure? Take on the role of a Hogwarts Prefect and prepare to lead your House against a variety of challenges, from both inside and outside the walls of Hogwarts! Designed for our older Hogwarts students looking for the next challenge in their wizarding education. This program will include opportunities for building leadership skills and there are no prerequisites for attendance.
2025 Dates:
Session 2: June 8-13
Session 7: July 13-18
Availability
- Session 2
- Session 7
$875
Residential/Overnight Camp: Sunday - Friday
Come along for a Medieval Camp Kern adventure like no other. Your fantasies will come to life as you build your character and work through the trials and tribulations that come in your path. A mysterious force is taking over, only the best can help defend Camp Kern and defeat whatever means it harm. Could that be you? There’s only one way to find out!
2025 Dates:
Session 4: June 22-27
Session 9: July 27-August 1
Availability
- Session 4
- Session 9
$875
Residential/Overnight Camp: Sunday - Friday
More goblins, more dungeons, more dragons! This newly-designed Dungeons & Dragons questline is geared toward our older, wizened adventurers. Grab your dice, ready your wizard staff and pack your mimic chest (if you can find it) and head to Ye Olde' Camp Kern. This program will include opportunities for building leadership skills and there are no prerequisites for attendance.
2025 Dates:
Session 4: June 22-27 (Girls' spots sold out, waitlist available)
Session 9: July 27-August 1
Availability
- Session 4
- Session 9
$875
Do you feel different?
Residential/Overnight Camp: Sunday - Friday
Have you always felt that you didn’t quite belong? Have things never seemed to look the same to you as they did to other kids? Does one of your parents seems suspiciously “god-like”? Then you are a great candidate for Camp Jupiter! Come spend a week at camp, training your body and mind into the hero’s physique you were build for. Daily quests, monsters to vanquish, and a god-written destiny await all who answer the call of heroes!
2025 Dates:
Session 3: June 15-20
Session 8: July 20-25
Availability
- Session 3
- Session 8
$875
“With great power…comes great need to take a nap."
Residential/Overnight Camp: Sunday - Friday
These adventures are not just for any half-blood, only the best can be tested by the next level or destiny, puzzles, and monsters. Pack up your swords and gear because your next big quest is calling your name. It’s time to answer the call.
2025 Dates:
Session 3: June 15-20
Session 8: July 20-25
Availability
- Session 3
- Session 8
$875
Earn your oak leaf
Residential/Overnight Camp: Sunday - Friday
Immerse yourself in the world of Ranger’s Apprentice! This is a fully themed week where you will be instructed on horseback riding, trail riding, archery, tracking, survival skills, stealth and Ranger missions. If you love Ranger’s Apprentice, this officially-sanctioned camp will test your strength, loyalty and commitment. Defend the kingdom from Morgarath’s Wargals, Skandian Raiders, and the fearsome Temujai warriors. Come as an Apprentice. Earn your Silver Oak Leaf. Become a Ranger.
2025 Dates:
Session 5: June 29-July 4 (Girls' spots sold out, waitlist available)
Availability
- Session 5
$895
Stay for the weeeeeeeeeeee-kend
Want to experience the magic of camp for two weeks or more in a row, stay at camp over the weekend AND take a day trip to Kings Island? Stay on for a Super Weekend Stayover at Kern! Participating campers must be enrolled for consecutive weeks at camp.
All campers laundry is cleaned in between weeks. Campers will participate in various activities at camp over the weekend and take a day trip to nearby Kings Island amusement park. The fee for the Super Stayover includes park admission, food, drinks and transportation.
Weekend Stayovers are only available to campers attending weeklong residential camp programs. Weekend Stayovers are not available for campers attending Sunrise Day Camp, Lil' Farmers Day Camp, First Camp, Taste of Kern, Traditional Day Camp, Boots & Bits Day Camp, or Frontier Village programs.
Space is limited! Make sure to select the Super Weekend Stayover Add-on on your Camper Application.
2025 Stayover Dates:
Session 2-3 Weekend: June 13-15
Session 3-4 Weekend: June 20-22
Session 4-5 Weekend: June 27-29
Session 5-6 Weekend: July 4-6
Session 6-7 Weekend: July 11-13 SOLD OUT
Session 7-8 Weekend: July 18-20
Availability
$120
2025 Summer Camp Session Dates
Session 1: June 1-6
Session 2: June 8-13
Session 3: June 15-20
Session 4: June 22-27
Session 5: June 29-July 4
Session 6: July 6-11
Session 7: July 13-18
Session 8: July 20-25
Session 9: July 27-August 1
If you have questions about our Specialty & Theme Camps, please contact MacKallie Householder, Teen & Family Director, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (513) 932-3756 (ext. 1530).