How To Get A Sleepaway Summer Camp

By: Lonnie Lorenz

Thinking of http://www.swiftnaturecamp.com/overnight.htm 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.

So your first choice is to decide if you want you want your child to return home each night. Most parent do, yet there are reasons that an overnight summer camp can provide additional learning opportunities.

So you have decided a sleep-away camp is going to be the camp for this summer, But now what? These camps come in two forms coed or single gender. Both have a valid benefit to your child. A boys or a girls camp reduces stress by eliminating the other gender... most important for young teens. Coed camps are more like life, and good one promote kids making friends rather than societies pressures.

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:

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.

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 - Summer is not a time for school but many camps provide learning opportunities. Some provide a college like structure while many others meld fun along with learning.

Adventure - Camp activities are not complete without making a foray into the "wild". As such, camps also include adventure activities such as hiking and camping outdoors.


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