Kids activities
Kids in Alma: one municipal machine, honestly read
Camps, courses and the family shore -- at the strength the Ville's own surfaces settle.
Kids' activities in Alma: the Ville's machine, from Karibou to the camp de jour
Alma runs its children's life through one machine -- the Ville's Service des loisirs et de la culture, on quoifairealma.com -- and this page reads that machine at its true strength: a verified camp structure, a preschool programme, children's aquatics in annual sessions, library activities and a festival summer whose family layer is documented. Dates print only where the Ville's or organizers' own surfaces date them; the rest is structure, honestly labelled.
The machine's spine: the Ville's Service des loisirs et de la culture (418 669-5111), whose dated calendar is quoifairealma.com and whose 2026 tarification grid prices the town's drop-in life: activités libres (bain, patinage, piste d'athlétisme, hockey libre) at a single entry of 3,05 $ on the grid -- the Ville's own calendar page prints 3,50 $ adulte for evening-and-weekend sessions, and the two Ville figures are carried flagged, never merged -- a carte d'activités libres at 35 $ / 20 $, the Centre multisport indoor-track annual pass at 51 $, and bibliothèque membership free to citizens (25 $-45 $ for neighbours). Public skating is free on weekday mornings at both rinks.
The kids' bench
The camp and the break
The Ville's camp de jour is verified dated for the relâche (Mar 2-6, 2026, ages 6-15, on the Ville's own PDF) and structurally for summer in the 2026 tarification grid; the relâche programme ran Feb 28-Mar 8, 2026 with its camp techno (165 $ citoyen / 247,50 $ voisin) -- PAST, printed as the shape of the town's school breaks. Summer session dates were not cleanly extracted and none are derived here -- the Ville's guide publishes them. The camp tariff conflicts between two Ville documents, flagged unmerged, so no camp price is printed at all.
The weekly layer
The Ville's inscription-en-ligne machine runs five annual children's aquatics sessions and the Karibou preschool programme, and the bibliothèque carries its own children's activities through the same calendar. Off the Ville's grid, the Club de soccer Le Boréal opens its automne-hiver season from age 4, and the skating clubs take the youngest skaters -- the joining pages are the clubs' own.
The family spectacles
Festirame, the town's summer flagship, run by Festivalma on Place Festivalma and the Grande Décharge shore: the 53rd edition ran July 3-11, 2026, closing with La Grande Nuit d'Alma -- PAST at this build, carried as canon, never as a plan. One flag rides the record unmerged: the festival's own programme span reads 'du 3 au 10 juillet' while the Grande Nuit closing night fell on Saturday July 11; both readings print here, neither is silently preferred. The festival's heart is the water -- the rowing-marathon tradition of the Club d'aviron d'Alma -- and Parc Falaise, on the downtown shore, hosts its closing-fireworks tradition. The festival publishes a family-activities layer on its own programme. For the small runner, the Collège's La Collégiale keeps its 1/3 km free for children (5th edition Sep 20, 2026, PAST) -- the town's gentlest start line.
The firewalls a parent should know
Two, both protective. The Camp musical du Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean is Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix's camp, however regional its name -- it is that town's record, reached as a trip, never an Alma camp. And Dam-en-Terre, for all its family shape, verified no camp programme on its surfaces: it is a lodging and activity site (the day-trips pages own it), not a camp, and this page does not enrol anyone's child in a programme that was not published.
Common questions
What is there for kids to do in Alma?
The Ville's camp de jour (relâche edition verified Mar 2-6, 2026, ages 6-15; summer structure in the 2026 grid), the Karibou preschool programme, five annual children's aquatics sessions, bibliothèque activities, Le Boréal soccer from age 4, the skating clubs, family skating on the drop-in grid, and Festirame's family layer in July.
Is there a music camp in Alma?
No -- the Camp musical du Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean is seated in Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix. It is that town's record; from Alma it is a trip, planned from the camp's own surfaces.
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