Send holiday greetings via e-mail or mail at Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s, Easter, or special camp days like First Day To Register or 100 Days Until Camp Starts.

Create an online message board on your Web site or using a service like BoardServer or BoardHost. Encourage campers to discuss their camp experiences.

Call your campers and their families during the year to check in and see how they are doing. Campers love to hear from directors or seasonal staff that are still at camp.

Send newsletters to current and former campers. Campers want to hear what is happening at camp in the off season, how their favorite horse is doing, and what projects are underway for the next summer.

Scan newspapers and newsletters for current and former campers who are “in the news.” Clip a copy, and send to the camper with a congratulatory note.

Donate items or camp-weeks to fundraisers for schools, churches, and other organizations your campers and their families belong to.

Send a camp-related gift during the winter, such as cabin photos, ashes from the campfire, candles made during the summer, poems or songs that are special to your camp, magnets, pens, and calendars.

Invite campers and their families to participate in a work-weekend at camp in the spring to help spruce up camp (and build excitement) for the next summer.

Send personalized, handwritten birthday cards or postcards. Have counselors complete birthday cards for each camper during the summer and hold them until the correct month and then mail to the campers.

Host reunions at your camp or at a location central to an area where you draw a lot of campers. Campers reminisce about summer, bring new friends to introduce to your camp, and start planning for 2007!