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provide your child with the chance to develop
character, learn valuable life skills, make new
friends, and discover new interests. Finding the right
summer camps for your child are as important as helping
them find the right college! At
MySummerCamps.com, our goal is to help parents
find kids and teen summer camps in Canada and the USA
that will meet the needs of your child.
The key to finding the right summer camps is to
first ask some questions. What do you and your child
hope to achieve from the camp experience? Does your
child have any special interests that they want to
explore? Is a lot of structure desirable?
Once you've answered these basic questions you will be
able to select the type of summer camps appropriate for
your child. Camps fall into two major
categories-traditional camps and specialty camps.
Either type of camp is capable of providing a
fantastic summer experience. Traditional Summer Camps
Traditional camps offer a variety of activities
including outdoor recreation, arts and crafts,
individual activities, team activities, and more. Kids
at traditional camps select their favorite activities
from a list and spend as much or as little time on
each activity as they choose. Traditional camps are
best for children who love to do many different types
of things or who are easily bored.
Traditional camps can be day camps or sleepaway camps.
Day camps allow children to participate in camp
activities during the day but stay at home with
parents during the evening. Sleepaway camps are camps
where kids stay at camp under the supervision of adult
guardians for a week or a month at a time. Specialized Summer Camps
Specialized camps focus their instruction on one
activity like dance or basketball. This type of camp
is geared towards children intent on improving
performance in the specialized activity. Children who
are extremely motivated in one specific activity and
who can concentrate on one thing for long periods are
best suited for specialty camps. Summer Camps News for Campers, Parents, Directors, Job Seekers and Vendors Grant helps Central City camp open second site
Mike Rhoades, Greg's son and Camp Oasis' director, said the camp hosted some day camps this summer and is renovating buildings and building connections with ...
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Welcome to Celiac Camp
It's the first day of Celiac Camp, the only camp in Northern California especially for kids with celiac disease, and the only such free camp in the country. ...
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Summer camp's gone, but not memories
Pine Hill filled its buses with kids every summer, because it met a need. It solved a problem for a new generation of working parents: Where can the kids go ...
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Horse camp's a fun ride
The camp runs from 8 am to 4 pm each day, but the Bondurants also offer lessons for riders of all ages and those with disabilities as well as summer camps. ...
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Powell connects with youth at camp challenge
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell visited with children from Camp Challenge, a summer camp for low-resource middle school students, Thursday at the ...
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Nadine Andreas Foster Home kids have an active summer
Many organisations arranged summer camps for the children, providing them with an abundance of activities to choose from. Several organisations contributed ...
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Easter Seals to hold weekend respite camps
In addition to the weekend camps, Easter Seals will host two weeklong summer camps in Cozad. Easter Seals is doing what it can to spread west and provide ...
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4-H camp Grant Walker to celebrates 85th birthday Oct. 27
It has been the scene of fun-filled summer days for many generations of Louisiana youth. On Oct. 27, the LSU AgCenter's 4-H Camp Grant Walker, in Pollock, ...
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Camp lets adults create art
BY MARIA SONNENBERG SATELLITE BEACH - During the summer children's camp at her Art 'n Soul Studio, Karen McDonald often caught the gleam in parents' eyes. ...
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Nuclear Physics Boot Camp Preps Future Scientists
The metamorphosis of a student into a full-fledged scientist takes years, but the Exotic Beam Summer School helps accelerate so to speak ”the process. ...
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4-H science camp earns top ranking
"We knew we had to make it fun since the kids were spending two weeks of their summer vacation doing this," Galloway said. "We took them to the Oregon Coast ... [ more ]
Louisiana Lions Crippled Children's Camp 50th Anniversary
The camp, founded in 1957, is built on 170 acres of land. It holds seven camp sessions each summer, each one week long, from June to August, for children ...
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Hard work and hope symbolize boot camp for dropouts
The program has been expanding in the past few years, admitting a record number of wayward teens this summer. To enroll, applicants must be free of drugs ...
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Scout camp marks 80th anniversary
Millie Kittrell, whose son Trey is in Troop 284, said they will try and use his commission from the fundraiser to go toward summer camp and a Canadian canoe ...
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Shell We Camp - at The Painted Turtle
As the evening's program states, "Through educational, therapeutic, safe and just plain fun summer camps and year-round programs, The Painted Turtle ...
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