Summer 2010 Program

Nine Weeks: June 21 - August 20, 2010
For boys and girls ages 5 to 15

Open House: Saturday April 24th from 10am - 2pm
April Vacation Camp: April 19-23

WELCOME TO CAMP WOODHAVEN

Welcome to Camp Woodhaven's 2010 season. Summer camp is more than a place, it is an experience. Creating special camp experiences requires extensive planning from staffing to programming to assigning each camper to the best possible group. Nestled in 67 beautiful acres in West Boylston, our summer day camp is the perfect setting for a wonderful summer of memories.

Our Staff team is made up of caring people, whose ultimate aim is to provide the very best camp experience possible for your child. Whether your child is with us all summer or for just one or two weeks, the time they spend here will be memorable and full of treasured experiences they can have nowhere else in the world.

At Woodhaven, your camper participates in a traditional camp program. Campers travel with their assigned group through four blocks of programming coordinated by a “Specialist” and two blocks of elective programming which is directed by their group leaders. We have seven “Specialist” areas your camper will attend throughout the week. At Arts & Crafts, our projects are often coordinated with the theme for the week. The plans change each week to allow those campers who attend the entire summer the opportunity to work with a variety of mediums. At Drama and music, there will be new songs to sing, Christian skits, and other drama skills taught through games and group activities. Some campers can volunteer to use what they have learned in drama and music to perform for chapel. Sports could be team play or a session of improving skills in a particular sport. Nature has all 67 acres of Camp Woodhaven for its laboratory. That's where everything from plant identification to bug catching to hiking to bogging and more will happen! Adventure is Camp Woodhaven's own special program for team building. Campers learn to work together to achieve goals they could not accomplish alone. Archery is an age appropriate personal improvement activity. Campers learn archery calls and safety practices, while improving their shooting ability. When campers go to the pool each day, the pool staff will guide them through their time there, providing a highly safety conscience atmosphere and a place where a child can improve their skills in the water.

Our bus company continues to be AA Transportation and there are now eight stops: Auburn, Worcester, Westborough, Shrewsbury, Marlborough/Northborough, Clinton, Bolton and Leominster. Some parents choose to car pool or drive their camper. If you are interested in the car pool list, please check the appropriate box on the front page of the Registration Form.

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Our Lunch Ticket Program, carried out at Trading Post, continues as last season! Lunches offered are turkey, ham or cheese sandwiches, or cheese pizza, chips and a drink. Ice cream treats, candy, snacks, and camp souvenirs are also available. Click here for our lunch ticket order form.

Your child will need a backpack for the necessities they'll need during the day at camp: swimsuit, ear plugs, plastic bag, a change of clothes, towel, swim goggles, water bottle, snacks, a hat, a poncho (camp happens, rain or shine), bug repellant (non-aerosol, please), a pair of sneakers and sunscreen.

Each of our campers' groups is privileged to raise and lower the American flag, choose three tunes for group sings and to offer the daily opening and closing Blessings during our Assembly periods at the beginning and end of our camp day. The famous gold Stars will be awarded on a daily basis at AM Assembly. The most favored songs from last summer were “The Rattlin' Bog,” ”The Purple Soup Song,” and of course, the camp mascot song,”Gray Squirrel.” This summer there are sure to be new ones mixed with the favorites. The Blueberry Forest is ready and waiting for camper footsteps. August is the season for blueberry picking and our campers are just the right height for that! The muffins they make are wonderful!

Our Overday program, complete with Evening Campfire will be held on Thursday evenings. Campers enrolled in this program will have a cook-out supper (hot dogs ~ which they cook themselves, chips, ”bug juice”,and watermelon). There will be another swim and a field game for these campers. After dinner, they will proceed to the campfire circle area, where parents, families and friends are invited to join in the fun and s’mores from 7 to 8 pm. Plan to meet us in the chapel if it is raining. The campers love it when they come up with their groups and choose a tune that they lead for everyone to sing along.

Please stop by for a visit during our Open House on Saturday, April 24, from 10 am to 2 pm. Come in and meet the staff, walk the grounds and enjoy a scavenger hunt and popcorn. We'll all be there to help with questions you and/or your camper might have. If you are a returning camper family, you are invited too. You'll be greeted by lot of familiar smiles, and we'd love to see you.

If you have any questions or concerns while filling out the forms or you wish to have a personal tour, please call the camp office.

508-835-9883

THINK SUMMER!

2010 ELECTIVE INDEX

Click the link below to view the themes and electives for the 2010 summer program. Below the link is a discriptive list of the many activities your child can participate in each day at camp.

2009 Themes and Electives

Basketball: Traditional game.

Bean Art: Take a design, colorful beans, glue and make a great piece of art.

Bocci & Stuff: Bocci, croquet, badminton, marbles and more.

Bogging: Bring your old sneakers and visit Charlie’s Pond or The Lost Pond at Woodhaven. It’ll be mucky fun and scientific (biological, too).

Broom Hockey: Traditional hockey played with straw brooms and tennis balls. All the running fun imaginable and you don’t need skates or padding!

Capture The Flag: Traditional game.

Car Wash!: Buckets of suds and sponges make for a wild and wet fun time. Bathing suits recommended for this elective.

Cheerleading: Design, practice and perform your cheers at Assembly. Make your pompoms and decide what to wear for this fun elective.

Clay: Pinch, roll, pummel and sculpt your item…could be a dragon or a dish or a boat or a bear... your choice! We use air-dry clay from Amherst, MA.

Clowing: Face painting and mime.

Cookout!: Learn what kind of wood to gather, how to build different kinds of fires and to cook something yummy to eat.

Dodgeball: Traditional game.

Drumming: Grab the Jembes, bongos and anything else that makes a noise and jam.

Fancy Frames: Make your own gorgeous cards with cut outs, stickers, ribbons, glue, sparkles, spangles, etc. to express yourself.

Gimp 101: A real chance to work on those fancy stitches. Make a tornado or a twister! Beautiful colors make this a great walk-about art!

Golf: Try your hand at golf! Special cut-down clubs. See what you have to do make a putt and experience this ancient, interesting game... Camp Woodhaven style!

H2O Party: A Woodhaven favorite! Water games galore! Relays, H2O Volleyball and more.

Kickball: Traditional Game.

Lawn Games: Croquette, Bocci, Sandlot Golf, Jarts, Tag, Statue, Badminton, Relays and more. On Monday, with staff guidance, campers design what they want to have happen each day. They consider the weather and resources and the fun begins!

Leather: Design your piece, use a beveler, slicker, the stamps with a mallet, finishing with your choice of dye color and polish will give you a great key fob or wristband! You are the artist!

Parachute Games: Get out the balls and that giant wonderful parachute and fun just simply begins. This activity is sure to bring smiles and giggles.

Pirate Maps: Scorched edged parchment paper, quill pens, special inks. Ahoy, mates!

Pony Beads: Gleaming colors, transparent and translucent, lots of them! Activities will go from stringing them to making wristbands, headbands and key fobs on a loom.

Prints: Print on paper, fabric, cardstock. Positives, negatives, paint and rubbings will all play into this elective.

Puppets: Use bags, boxes, sox, yarn, buttons, etc. to make great critters.

Quilling: Snowflakes, animals, even your name can be make from this colonial art. Paper curls of all sizes and shapes with all the colors of the rainbow.

Relays: Over the line, waddle through the cones, climb the wall, scoot through the tunnel and more! This group will design their courses and then have fun running them!

Sandcastles: Sticks and stones and piles of sand turn into moats, castles, draw bridges, roads, ditches, flying flags and anything your imagination can come up with and your hands can do!

Scavengers: Decide which day you will do the Blueberry Forest Trail, Charlie’s Pond, The Lost Pond and The Old Tree Trail! Fill your water bottle, retie your sneakers, put on your bug repellant and grab your hat! There may be a treasure!

Secret Codes: A favorite! Includes authentic CIA Codes used during the Civil War, riddles, clues, maps and mysterious envelopes to open. All of Woodhaven could be included in these journeys!

Sidewalk Fun: Chalk drawings, jump ropes, jacks, Chinese jump rope, marbles, hopscotch, 4 square and ga-ga! The group chooses their favorites…..let the play begin!

Soccer: Traditional game.

Stick Art: A shingle, some glue and sticks can come to be an amazing sign! It’ll look like it’s ancient! And you get to choose what it says! Could be your name!

Tenniball: Traditional baseball with tennis balls and racquets.

Thumbprints: Fun making your fingerprints into art on fabric and paper.

Trekkers: Fill your water bottle, retie your sneakers, put on your bug repellant, grab your hat and you’re off hiking to see nature at it’s best!

Ultimate Frisbee: New-age game rules! Let ‘er fly!!

Volleyball: Traditional game or beach ball. You decide!

Weaving: Pretty colors and interesting textures make beautiful take-homes.

Wood Art: Build a ‘thing”, paint a plaque! Hands-on fun!

Woodhaven Review: Campers ferret out the highlights from the summer, borrow staff shirts, write a skit that teases the staff and ham it up! Closed house production-campers & staff only! It’s a hoot!

Yarn Art: Clear contact paper, colorful yarn and a pattern make great artwork. Simple and Colorful.

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2010 Dates and Hours of Operation

Nine Weeks: June 21 - August 20, 2010

HOURS:
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday - Friday.

Extended Day Available from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Price Schedule

$25

Registration Fee per child - DUE WITH APPLICATION

$224

1 week of Day Camp

$214

per week/per child for 2 or more weeks or 2 or more children attending

$204

per week/per child for 3 or more weeks or 3 or more children attending

$1000

8 week Leaders in Training Program - limited availabilty for students ages 13-15 (9 week commitment required)

$500

4 week Intro to Leaders in Training Program

$35

per week/per child for bus transportation

$25

per week/per child for Mornings Extended Day 7:00 am - 8:30 am

$25

per week/per child for Afternoon Extended Day 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

$20

per week/per child for Thursday Overday Program 4:30pm - 8:00 pm cookout

Early Bird discount:
Prepay in full before May 1st and deduct $10 per week!

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Leaders in Training Program

The Leaders in Training program is for 13-15 year old boys and girls. This group is limited to a small number of students and requires them to attend a minimum of 8 of the 9 weeks of camp. If LITs attend all nine weeks, they will receive a certificate that says they "completed" the LIT program. If they take off a week, the certificate will say that they "participated" in the LIT program.

The LIT’s learn safety, child development, first aid, and teambuilding. Participation in this program looks very good on their resume and on applications for scholarships. They are expected to work hard and participate along with the campers in their assigned group. Our LIT’s provide much of the energy and spirit that makes camp exciting for our campers. We appreciate them so much for that! They have a big responsibility as a role model to the younger campers.

The total program fee is $1000 for the summer. The cost is the same whether you take a week off or not. There is no early-bird discount for LIT Program.

New! Intro to LIT Program

This year we are implementing a four week "Intro to LIT program". The Intro to LIT program will allow thirteen year olds the opportunity to explore what it is like to be an LIT before they commit to an entire summer. The campers will learn about the LIT job description, camp organization and structure, and tools for leading younger campers in camp activities. They may choose between two four week sessions. The program fee is $500.
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Extended Day

Camp Woodhaven offers working parents an extended day program for early drop-off and late pick-up. The morning extended day program operates from 7:00am to 8:30am. The afternoon extended day program operates from 4:30pm to 6:00pm. The fee is $25 per week to attend the morning extended day, and an additional $25 per week to attend the afternoon extended day.

Thursday Overday

The Thursday Overday is a special campfire dinner for a limited number of campers. This program will run from 4:30pm to 8:00pm. The children will roast their own hotdogs for dinner and make s’mores as they have a sing-a-long around the campfire. The cost is $20 per camper. Sign-up forms for overday are sent home on Monday for attending campers and is also available on the website. Click Here.

Health Office

At Camp Woodhaven, there is a nurse on staff to handle any medical issues. This page displays some of the frequently asked questions about your child and their health at camp. Click Here.


Trading Post

At the Trading Post your children can take a break during the day to purchase a cool drink, ice cream, popcorn, nachos, hot chocolate, assorted snacks, and camp memorabilia.

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Woodgate Farm riding lessons: Just a quarter mile down the road is Woodgate Farm, which offers children a summer horseback riding experience. Please call Woodgate Farm directly for more information at: 508-835-3044, or visit their website at: www.woodgatefarm.com

Bus Transportation: For more information Click Here

Car Pooling: Camp Woodhaven offers a Car Pooling directory for parents that are interested in sharing the responsibility of driving their children to school. If you would like to be added to the Car Pool directory, please email the camp office at: info@campwoodhaven.com


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