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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.
Camp Types- First choice, day or overnight. This is somewhat easy. Generally, younger campers do day camp for a year or two before heading off to residential camp. By age 10 all children should be at overnight summer camp.
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.
Apart from the said classifications, another bit of summer camp information you should know is that camps are likewise [categorized | grouped] according to their philosophy/focus, and how specialized their program is. There are sports camps, for example, wherein the activities revolve around a specific sport, such as baseball or martial arts. There are likewise academic camps that focus on a particular course, such as Science or Math. Then there are special needs camps for children who [need | require] special attention and/or cannot manage in a general camp, such as those with health conditions.
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:
Sports - So your child loves baseball, football, skating, gymnastics or what ever, there is a camp that will help him or her get better at that sport. These camps are generally a week or two and spend most of the camp time on that specific sport. The goal is to improve that skill.
Crafts & Preforming - So your child is one of those kids that loves the arts. Summer camp can help your child do better.Creative arts Camps include: photography, film making, , and crafts like crocheting and cross-stitching,wood- and metalworking and more.
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.
Adventure - Camp activities are not complete without making a foray into the "wild". As such, camps include adventure activities such as hiking and camping outdoors.
Bio: Swift Nature Camp is an Summer Kids Camps for Boys and Girls 6- 15. We provide traditional activities plus a Nature Camps Article Submission by Article Submission Express
