Types of overnight summer camps include those with a focus on self-improvement, weight reduction and grief counseling. You can find camps with activities as traditional as model rocketry and riflery, to those nontraditional camps such as for example aviation, computers, language studies, golf, fighting techinques or community service. An overnight summer camp is also known as a sleepaway camp when campers spend their nights at the camp; some camps allow both daytime and overnight campers.

Camps are usually divided by gender – girls only, boys only, or co-ed and again by generation. Planning very early is important and you should be diligent in your efforts to visit camps through the peak season to create plans in advance of another camping year. Many kid campers are enrolled in summer camp by their parents early in the entire year, thus camps can fill up quickly but there are numerous camps still with unfilled spots, so search around for.

Camps often focus on specialties that include: adventure, art, computer, dance, music, religion, horseback riding, sports, theatre, and several, many others. The more artistically minded might consider arts and crafts, clowning, drama, photography, or dance to be important elements for having a well-rounded camp experience. Each summer, more than 10 million children and counselors attend day camps and overnight summer camps or sleepaways across the country.

Most camp counselors come in their late teens or early twenties and so are high school and university students out on their summer break. Will there be a special topic (e.g. religion, sports, educational, performing arts, arts and crafts) that you want your son or daughter will gain ability and experience in? Children will always have more individual attention and supervision with a lower number of campers per counselor.

Try to determine if the director incorporates a similar philosophy for running the camp as you do in parenting your child or children. Children or teens could typically explore subjects not used to them like marine science, photography, creative writing, community service, drama, magic, scuba diving, video production, comic book design, crime scene forensics, cooking, yoga, rappelling, tennis, etc. Camp tuition could be expensive sometimes; similar to travel insurance, there are now insurance policies for families sending their children to overnight summer camp which will cover last second cancellations, homesickness, medical emergencies and emergency evacuations.

Specialty overnight camps can range from $500 to $1000 weekly based on the program you choose. Non-profit camps can range between $1200 to $3000 for a month and $2500 to $5000 for eight weeks. There are lots of types of overnight summer camps with a concentrate on education that cater to students of differing ages and academic interests.

Although camp counselor jobs don’t usually pay perfectly, usually minimum wage or less, counselors receive do free room and board; many take the work primarily for the beautiful camping experience. Do you think, if you have more than one child, they would benefit from attending the same summer camp together? Some camps tend to be called adventure camps – having a very specific theme or interest; several programs emphasize skill development and personal growth through the adventures they provide.

If you find a traditional overnight summer camp or sleepaway camp that’s not the proper fit, or a cost that isn’t possible at this time, rest assured that there are plenty of other options that can keep your son or daughter occupied throughout the summer. Typically an overnight summer camp experience will leave a lot of wonderful lifetime memories for the kid or teen camper. Go over and evaluate the brochures and promotional materials thoroughly; browse the fine print. If you feel you will find a possibility you may have to cancel an overnight summer camp reservation, camper’s insurance will be a very good idea.