How to Find An Overnight Summer Camp

Posted by The Popular News Today on Monday, October 10, 2011

By James Lorenz


Thinking of Sleepaway Summer Camps this summer? If so you probably have many many questions. These might include: How to find a camp?, How much will it cost? What are the activities?. This blog is designed to give you a few helpful hints.

Types of Camps - Generally speaking, camps can either be day or overnight camps. The difference between these two types is those [under | belonging to] the latter provide accommodations to kids for a specified period of time, usually ranging from one to nine weeks. Day camps, [meanwhile |on the other hand], do not have facilities to allow for a residential program.

Overnight camps come in 2 general forms coed and single gender. Each of these camps have specific areas that they excel in. For instance a single gender give a child to not worry about the other sex...just have fun. Yet coed camps are more like the real world and help kids to enjoy activities wile not being concerned of the other gender.

Now it's time to look at programs and camps philosophy. Talk to the directors and be sure that you and they are a good match. Programs include sports camps, academic camps general camp, and much much more. You can even find Lego camps for those kids who love to build.

Activities - If you're just looking for a general camp that offers fun activities for kids while teaching them to be more self-reliant and more sociable, you should make it a point to know what activities to expect in your average camp. This way you will be able to gauge if your child is really ready to go to camp. The following are the most common camp activities:

Physical activity - There are as many camps as there are sports, So it's just a matter of finding the activity you want to get better in and going and improving your skills.

Arts & Crafts - Photography, film making, wood- and metalworking, and crafts like crocheting and cross-stitching are all activities that are emphasized in programs that are specific to the Arts. If that is an area your child finds exciting an Arts camp is for you.

Education - Most brochures providing summer camp information emphasize the inclusion of educational activities in their program to assure parents that their kids will also learn while having fun. The activities in this category are designed to promote academic enrichment - like gardening activities to encourage children to study Biology; or are meant to help kids cope with lessons in school, such as an ESL program to aid foreign students studying in the US.

Tripping - As campers get older many want more adventure in their summer. Tripping camps take kids on trips, canoe, backpack and bike out into the wild to see mother nature. Teens love these experiences since they allow children to be responsible for themselves.

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