Tag Archives: camp

Summer Camp Expo – March 3rd

Posted 27 February 2012 | By | Categories: All Ages, Summer Camp Guide | No Comments

So you can head online for all your camp info, but you may just want to talk to someone face to face. How about the camp expo this weekend? Featuring camps at SeaWorld, the YMCA, and UTSA, as well as others, the Southwest Preparatory School Educational Foundation is holding a summer camp expo at Wonderland [...]

Let epsilon be less than zero…and what does that have to do with camp anyway?

Posted 07 June 2011 | By | Categories: Camps, Elementary, Summer Camp Guide, Teens, Tweens | 1 Comment

Camp in 1973… • Pink lemonade (fondly called bug juice in my circles) • Jacks (onsies, bounce, twosies, bounce, threesies, bounce) • Swimming until my skin gets all wrinkly • Sack lunches featuring cream cheese and grape jelly sandwiches (don’t knock it till you try it) • Singing songs on bumpy buses • Coming home [...]

Bugs, bugs and more bugs!

Posted 04 June 2011 | By | Categories: Outdoors, Summer Camp Guide | No Comments

I love finding new camps! Especially unique ones. And this one fits the bill perfectly: Texas AgriLife Extension’s Youth Entomology Summer Camp. That means BUGS! Creepy, crawly, squishy bugs. If you have a budding entomologist, this is a camp not to be missed. Taught by Molly Keck, your little scientist will learn how to put [...]

2011 SA Busy Kids Camp Awards

Posted 31 May 2011 | By | Categories: Camps | 1 Comment

One of my favorite posts all year..where I get to pick the silliest, most fun, grossest camps around! Here are my pics for 2011. Each year, I pick some of my favorite camps to highlight. Hope you enjoy! The Awww, That’s So Cute Award: Waltz classes for kinder through 1st grade. Okay – I really [...]

Safety First

Posted 18 April 2011 | By | Categories: Outdoors, Summer Camp Guide | No Comments

I get my best blog ideas from questions readers ask me on twitter or facebook. Here’s the latest: where can I find good information about how to vet kids’ camps for safety? I love this question because safety is paramount…right above fun….on the best-camp-ever-ometer. Basically, safety falls into five essential areas: staff training staff to [...]

Spanish camps range from cooking to full immersion

Posted 24 March 2011 | By | Categories: Summer Camp Guide, What's Left | 1 Comment

I love it when friends ask me for information on camps! It tells me what people are looking for and how I might be able to gather information that’s really useful. Keep those questions coming. Here’s this week’s question: “I’m looking for Spanish camps for my daughter. Do you know of any?” I was a [...]

Boy under a canoe

Thinking about camp yet? How about applying for a campership?

Posted 02 February 2011 | By | Categories: Bargains and Freebies, Outdoors, Summer Camp Guide | 3 Comments

It’s getting to be that time of year again. Many camps are already wooing parents with discounts for early registration, while others are still putting together their programs. Now’s the perfect time for you to start doing your research to find that one, perfect place that will keep your child happy, occupied and safe this [...]

Summer Art Camp: Tower Power

Southwest School of Art camp scholarship applications available now!

Posted 06 December 2010 | By | Categories: Bargains and Freebies | No Comments

Let the summer camp planning begin! December ’tis the season for scholarships and camp applications…and Southwest School of Art is the first one out of the bag. In the coming days, we’ll be letting you know just when and where to start all your applications. Southwest School of Art is accepting applications for Summer Art [...]

How one bad lemon can ruin the whole bunch

Posted 06 July 2010 | By | Categories: What's Left | No Comments

Wow…I can hardly believe the Fourth of July came and went so quickly, and we’re half way through the year already. Where does the time go? Twirl is happily rooted in camp…although that wasn’t the case for the last several weeks. Anybody else had an issue with camp counselors spreading negativity? Kids coming home crying? [...]

Camps for special needs kids

Posted 31 May 2010 | By | Categories: Special Needs, Summer Camp Guide | No Comments

Camp CAMP has long been the gold standard camp for families with children who have special needs. But I’m delighted to see two new organizations beginning to offer this critical service to both the children and their families. First off, Eva’s Heroes. Of course, Eva Longoria has long been an advocate for children of special [...]