https://www.acacamps.org/blog/all-around-world-cultural-exchange-camp

You might call them international staff, but they’re really camp cultural exchange visitors! We love working with and learning from people from other countries — and there’s no better place to do...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/play-work-childhood

Guest post by Marla Coleman “Play is not a luxury we should ration, but rather a crucial dynamic of physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development for children of all ages....

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/processing-summer

Guest post from Green River Preserve in Cedar Mountain, North Carolina. Read the original at...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/brain-food-back-school-mondays-nutrition-expert-offers-tips

This blog from ACA’s Educational Ally The Monday Campaigns is designed to help you keep those healthy camp habits alive at the start of school! Some of these tips your child might have...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/10-2

Guest post by Marla Coleman 10-for-2. It often feels like we live 10 months for 2 months! Campers. Staff. Directors. (And dare we say parents, too?). Sadly, those precious...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/singing-campfires

What is something that everyone who has ever gone to camp has done that is virtually impossible to re-create in any other setting? Campfires, of course! Our camp is 76 summers old and there are some...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/longing-home

Guest post by Lydia Pettis When I was eight years old I spent four weeks at a summer camp for girls in West Virginia. My mother grew up in this camp, and I imagine she hoped I would grow to...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/helping-children-invent-future

Guest post by Scott Brody American fifteen year olds are lagging behind students from other nations in math and science, according to the results of an...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/7-reasons-why-your-middle-schooler-needs-camp

Guest blog by Anne Archer Yetsko When I Googled the phrase “middle school,” two of the top hits were “Middle school survival” and “Middle school: the worst...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/farm-campfire-experience

Guest post by Diana K. Rice, RD As a registered dietitian and staff member of The Kids Cook Monday, I’ve seen firsthand how efforts to...