What better way to foster a lifelong love of French, than starting with what campers already enjoy?
With a little something for everyone, we’ve selected themes for each week of summer camp, so campers can start with what they already enjoy to build their French skills. Each theme has unique programming, and runs twice throughout the summer.
Our 2026 summer camp themes are:
July 6-10 & Aug 4-7
Journey through a week inspired by the beloved game — but with a French-language twist. Blending creative, hands-on activities, outdoor challenges, storytelling, and daily Minecraft clan competitions – campers are engaged from start to finish.
July 13-17 & Aug 10-14
Designed for campers who love to build, invent, and explore, this week blends imaginative LEGO challenges, problem-solving missions, friendly team competitions, and French language learning that unfolds naturally throughout the day.
July 20-24 & Aug 17-21
Step into an epic Minecraft-inspired journey where every day brings a new adventure, a new challenge, and a new quest to solve. Campers explore biomes, decode secret messages, build creations, complete team missions, and more!
July 27-31 & Aug 24-27
In this exciting week, campers bring their imaginations to life through hands-on engineering challenges, problem-solving missions, and inventive LEGO builds. It’s packed with experiments, collaboration and creativity!
We’ve got exciting themes, but how will your campers spend their day?
For each week and theme, we have awesome camp games and activities, all built with that week’s theme in mind. Each activity is designed to grow French proficiency and confidence, helping kids to learn and use new words and terms, expanding their vocabulary without feeling like school – it just feels like fun!
Using our LEGO Inventors theme as an example, here is how your camper could spend their day:
9:00 – 9:30: Team Sorting and Banner Creation
Campers are divided by age and the Stream you selected into balanced teams. Each team chooses a name, signature colours and at least one invention symbol. They also write their own motto about creativity or problem-solving. Campers will learn and practice French words or sayings (depending on proficiency level) and present their creations to their fellow campers.
9:30 – 10:20: LEGO Puzzle Lock Challenge
In teams, Campers design a small LEGO puzzle box that hides a small treasure. Other teams must figure out how to open it (and if they get stuck, French clues will be given!).
10:20 – 10:40 AM: Recess Break & Optional Activity
10:40 – 12:00: LEGO Chain Reaction Machine
Campers create playful inventions called reaction machines – where one movement triggers another to ultimately knock over a final target!
12:05 – 1:00: Lunch Break and Optional Activities
1:00 – 2:00: LEGO Catapults
Weather permitting, we’ll take this activity outside! In this activity, campers will become engineers and inventors: designing and testing LEGO Catapults to compete for both accuracy (hitting a target) and distance (launching the farthest).
12:15 – 2:30: Snack Break
2:30 – 3:00: Clean Up & My Week at Camp Tournesol
At the start of the week, campers each receive their own 11×17 poster, where they write down their reflections, key French words or phrases (proficiency dependent) from each activity and day at camp. Counsellors will help campers capture their learnings.
3:00 – 4:00: Water Games/Structured Free Time
Depending on the weather, campers may spend this time indoors or outside, where water play can also happen (especially on warmer days).
4:00 – 5:00: Daily Wrap-Up Activity, Encore and Rock Star Highlights
It’s already time to go home after another a fun-filled day at Camp Tournesol! Note that pickup times may vary depending on whether or not you have purchased after camp care.
Depending on the weather, we will set aside time each afternoon get wet and wild! We bring water blasters, good old fashioned buckets, pool noodles, and make our own water slides. Always a favourite, there’s nothing like some water fun at camp!
Campers can participate in fun water games such as duck-duck-splash, water balloon toss, splash tag and more, with plenty of time for free play, allowing campers to explore and make their own watery adventures.
Each Friday, parents and guardians are invited to arrive one hour early for an optional drop-in, where your camper(s) can showcase what they’ve learned throughout the week (and maybe a special project too!).
This time for campers and their guardians to explore the Camp Tournesol experience is an opportunity for campers to shine and share their growth with families and friends. It’s the perfect conclusion to an incredible week, leaving campers, parents and staff with cherished memories.
With our goal of campers improving their French language proficiency and confidence, no matter what level of skill they join us with, our programming continually incorporates French learning in a way that just feels like fun. How do we do it? Read more about our approach.
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Let’s get their summer fun in 2026 started! Registering for camp is easy, but hurry – weeks fill up fast!
