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Stretch & Twist
As camp time gets ever closer (wasn’t it just yesterday that we had closing ceremonies?) it’s time to jumpstart camp and get the ideas flowing. Continuing from last month’s column, and the January Programming Ideas article, here are some more … Continue reading
Getting to Know You
Activities, activities, and more activities is how we accomplish all that we do in the camping industry! Name games, team building and get-to-know-you games allow us to get inside the group dynamics of kids, campers, adults and retreat groups. The … Continue reading
The Ultimate Survivor
Traditional Programs “It’s time to vote,” “You’re fired!” “Will you accept this rose?” are phrases that have become a big part of our recent television and pop culture. How do camps turn these themes into programming that helps us to … Continue reading
Building for the Future
The best feeling in the world, besides knowing you have made a difference in a child’s life, is bulldozers clearing a site for the construction of your new building, which will also affect children’s lives for the better! Camp directors … Continue reading
Collaborative Programming
Every year we sit down as directors and hope to think up the new idea or program; that one program that will knock the kids off their feet with amazement and fun. The problem, though we do not like to … Continue reading