https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/kaleidoscope-opportunity-teaching-life-skills

Camp professionals know that camp provides the opportunity to teach life-long skills, such as creative thinking, decision making, and getting along with others. By developing goals for your program...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/programming-real-wild-wacky-wednesday

What day is it when hugs earn points and strange hats with funky costumes are the norm? It’s Wacky Wednesday — a fun-filled day where everything is topsy turvy, a bit bizarre, and very extraordinary...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/welcoming-teen-workers-school-work-program-can-help-you-find-fund-staff

Imagine a camp program with the power to improve the academic and social behavior of participants and to positively impact participants’ readiness for work, social development, and lifelong learning...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/growing-camper-understanding-typical-developmental-traits-children

Each camper will be different. They will come from different backgrounds, different family structures, and different socio-economic classes. However, just as they are different, they are the same....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/everybody-loves-somebody-sometime

"My sometime is now," the tune continues. In 1964, crooner Dean Martin knocked the Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" from their number one pop chart perch with that bit of wisdom. Almost fifty years later...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/succession-planning-raising-next-generation-leaders

What will this industry look like in twenty years? That depends on us. That's right; don't look over your shoulder to see who else is going to step up. As leaders of youth, we know that we shape the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/platform-growth

Day camps. Resident camps. Camps for girls only. Camps for boys only. Burn-victim camps. Camps for kids with cancer. Camps for kids who want to lose weight. Faith-based camps. Activity- or sports-...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/years-adventures-challenges-history-day-camp

Search the Web for "day camp" and the results are over 100 million hits. Although the descriptions vary greatly, the words "day camp" trigger a feeling of excitement and adventure. Many sites...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/desegregating-circle-m-day-camp-determination-succeed

It was July 2, 1964, and President Lyndon Johnson had just signed the Civil Rights Act. For us, the time had come to finally implement a plan to desegregate our white suburban day camp. We had been...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peter-january-2011

"Changing Lives — Enriching the World": These are simple words with challenging implications. I thought of the words above, and how poignant this concept is for ACA at this time — especially as...