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Go to camp for free? St.Philip’s College offers free STEM camp

Posted 29 April 2012 | By | Categories: Science, Summer Camp Guide, Technology, Teens, Tweens | 1 Comment

If you’re on a budget and haven’t found that perfect summer camp for your middle schooler, SA Busy Kids just found a San Antonio camp that could be a game changer for you. It’s the Science and Math Summer Academy  (SAMSA) at St. Philip’s College in San Antonio. For three weeks in July, your child [...]

Art camp scholarship applications now due for SW School of Art

Posted 05 January 2012 | By | Categories: Camps, Teens, Tweens | 1 Comment

One of South Texas’ best art camps, the Southwest School of Art, offers annual scholarships for a limited number of campers. The camperships are based on need and artistic merit and are awarded on a first come, first served basis. Applications are being accepted now through February 10, and you will need a teacher recommendation. [...]

It’s camp time: 4 summer camps to sign up for right now

Posted 03 January 2012 | By | Categories: Summer Camp Guide, Teens, Tweens | 2 Comments

Too early to start thinking about camp? I think not. Some San Antonio camps are already opening up registration, and if you want to get in the game, you’d better get your pencils sharpened, and those applications filled out. Here are four camps that are waiting to hear from you. San Antonio PREP (Pre-Freshman Engineering [...]

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 [...]

SA Parks & Rec offers another great summer

Posted 24 May 2011 | By | Categories: Outdoors, Summer Camp Guide | No Comments

Parents looking for a safe, structured environment for their children this summer need look no further than the Parks and Recreation Department’s Summer Youth Program. Hundreds of children sign up to participate but there’s always plenty of room at Community Center and Elementary School sites. Registration for community center sites is offered at any of [...]

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 [...]

Computer camps in San Antonio – not as few and far between as you might believe

Posted 18 March 2011 | By | Categories: Summer Camp Guide, Teens, Tweens | 6 Comments

I was just introduced to this amazing new website xkcd.com, which describes itself as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. It’s really just one very funny guy sitting behind a computer who apparently enjoys words with no phonetic pronunciation and astronomy. I struggle with his comic above, because while I want to cheer [...]

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Free camp?

Posted 19 February 2011 | By | Categories: Bargains and Freebies, Summer Camp Guide | No Comments

Just a reminder…the deadline is approaching to apply for the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented scholarship program. But, even if your child isn’t in the GT program at school, the site still has an awesome summer camp guide available for download. Click right here to get it. My favs: Camp Invention, fun with [...]