Summer Camp Program Director

It’s amazing how much energy working at camp can give you AND take away from you. Everyday, I go, go, go and give the campers my all. At about 5pm I hit the wall. Unfortunately, that’s when I am able to get office work accomplished. Grab me the No-Doze please. – Plus highlights of camp this summer…

Like it or not Harry Potter is still going strong, but you don’t have to do a Harry Potter camp. Have a generic wizards theme for camp.

I love holidays. Unfortunately each holiday only comes around one a year…until now.

Moo, oink oink, baaaa, meow…you get the idea.

Young kids love the idea of fairies, little magical beings that have wings. Tinker Bell has been the sidekick of Peter Pan for many years, but she is arguably more popular than Peter with some youngsters.

Survivor is a popular theme for camps. Just make sure you don’t vote campers out of camp.

Disney movies are popular with most kids and adults. There are a ton of movies that can be used for this theme. I’ll give you some ideas, but I’d love to hear yours as well.

I am a Camp Counselor. I have advanced degrees in psychology, philosophy, medicine, education, team-building dynamics and engineering, as well as advanced ping pong.

It’s the 25 Anniversary of the movie The Goonies. Whenever I think of treasure hunts I think of The Goonies.

Hot Diggity, we’re holding a contest!
Give us your best camp counselor tips, tricks, secrets and stories for a chance to win some great prizes.

Here’s a camp wide mystery that you can play this summer. Enjoy.

There are many ways to make music. I truly believe that music is in us all and can be a great outlet for us no matter what mood we are in. It can make us laugh, cry, shout, move, feel, and dream.

I’m not really the artsy type, but I do get the itch every once in a while. As a kid, however, I loved doing art projects as much as everyone else. Art has many faces and there really is an art project for everyone.

“Bring Me My Royal Papers!!!!”

A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a girl who lives in Australia. She wants to work at a camp in America and wanted to know which company she should apply to.

This is my all time favorite skit. If performing this skit with campers make sure you practice the variations you’ll be doing. If staff will be performing this skit keep the variations secret. It’s the improv part that makes it so much fun.

Last week, Terry, the programming manager at Sugar Bay, the only ACA accredited camp in South Africa, left a comment asking me for ideas for their 4 weeks of camp held during the World Cup.

Before I give my suggestions for their themes I wanted to take a moment and address the programming opportunity of this event that comes around every 4 years.

Ah, the Mosquitoes skit is another classic. I like to use an actual tent and sleeping bags for this skit. I also like to role up paper into a cone and with string or twine tie the cones to the heads of the actors playing the mosquitoes. Buzzzzzzzzzzzz

My script for this classic skit has 4 people in it. I have done this skit with only 2 people, and it’s just as good.