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Each holiday season, parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles
are faced with the hard decision of what gifts to give children—toys,
games, or the latest MP3 player? This holiday season, many of
us are giving the gift of camp.
Camp provides children with organized
activities, time for free play, a nurturing and safe environment,
and essential time in the outdoors—a great experience that
offers extraordinary learning opportunities and enduring memories.
This year, give children a gift that lasts a lifetime—give
them the gift of camp.
Parents and camp professionals have always
intuitively known that the camp experience benefits children—but
there is now research to back it. Recent American Camp Association
research confirmed that camps build skills necessary to prepare
campers to assume roles as successful adults. Parents, campers,
and camp staff independently reported growth in areas such as
self-confidence, independence, making friends, exploring and
learning new activities, and spirituality. Indeed, camp provides
growth experiences for youth that can benefit them through adulthood.
As this holiday
season approaches, we have the opportunity to offer our children
a gift that will provide them with time outdoors, a chance to
play, an opportunity for experiential learning and growth—plus
memories, skills, and experiences they will cherish their entire
lives. Let’s pass up the newest electronic toy this year
and give the gift of camp.
| Wrap Up the Perfect Gift
An American Camp Association Camp
Gift Certificate (PDF) means FUN! It means FRIENDS! And it means an experience
of limitless possibilities.
An American Camp Association Camp
Gift Certificate (PDF) means that you want the child in your life to Explore,
Discover, Learn the joy of camp!
Print
out this certificate (PDF),
and tuck it in a new backpack, roll it in a new sleeping
bag, wrap it around a new flashlight—or
put it in a traditional gift box complete with colorful
paper and a bow. No matter how it's delivered, imagine
the delight when the gift is opened, and the child discovers
that camp is in his or her future.
Camp
The perfect time, the perfect reason, the perfect gift! |
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