A joke a day can be part of a good letter-writing strategy for you and your camper. Since it can be difficult to find clean, kid-friendly jokes, we have updated our famous list of joke sites. Here are our favorites for 2025!
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Our Favorite Clean Kids Joke Sites
Published August 1, 2025 Funny , Jokes , Letters to camp Leave a CommentTags: Jokes, Kid-safe jokes, Kids Jokes, Letters to camp, Letters to overnight camp, Letters to overnight campers, Letters to sleepaway camp
Write with Intention
Published July 21, 2025 Inspiring Your Camper , Letter-writing advice , Letters to camp , Overnight camp Leave a CommentTags: Camp, family, How to write a letter to a child at overnight camp, Letters to camp, Overnight camp, Summer camp
Your letters to camp can have a big impact on your child. Take the time to consider what you want to achieve so you can help your child to thrive at overnight camp.
Continue reading ‘Write with Intention’Reflections on the Guadalupe River Flooding in Texas Hill Country
Published July 8, 2025 Letter-writing advice , Letters to camp 1 CommentTags: Guadalupe River Flood, Heroes, Letters to camp, Overnight camp, sleepaway camp, texas, Texas Hill Country
Today we’re taking a break from our usual light-hearted posts to offer some thoughts on this tremendous tragedy. We will also offer important suggestions on your letters to camp in light of this tragedy.
Continue reading ‘Reflections on the Guadalupe River Flooding in Texas Hill Country’Can AI Help You Write Better Letters to Your Camper?
Published July 1, 2025 Artificial Intelligence - AI , Letters to camp Leave a CommentTags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Help writing letters, How to write a letter using artificial intelligence, Letters to camp, Letters to overnight camp, Overnight camp
Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Microsoft CoPilot can help you craft thoughtful letters to your camper. Here’s how to use them effectively.
Continue reading ‘Can AI Help You Write Better Letters to Your Camper?’Beat the Mid-Summer Slump
Published July 30, 2015 Letters to camp , Musings Leave a CommentTags: Letters to camp, mid-summer
One of our kids, a counselor, came home about 2 weeks ago and the excitement was obvious – great campers, lots of exciting things happening at camp, bubbly anticipation of the second 3 1/2 week session etc. Then they came home 2 days ago and while happy, were a bit more subdued. Happy and content but subdued. I wondered what was happening… were they still enjoying their summer? Yes, of course they were, but more quietly.
I bet you’ve experienced the same thing from your full-summer campers
(ie kids who stay for the whole summer).
Send a Book to Your Camper
Published July 21, 2015 Educational , Inspiring Your Camper , Letters to camp , Sending packages to camp , Traveling 1 CommentTags: #GirlsCan, Books, Care packages, Citra Tenore, Letters to camp, Letters to Camp Store, Maddie Siegel, Meredith and the Mean Girls, sleepaway camp, Summer camp, Summer With a Twist
#GirlsCanWrite
Every year parents labor over what goodies to send their kids in a care package. Stickers? Card games? Stationery? Pens? Autographable pillowcases? Candy (if allowed by the camp)? Ah the possibilities are endless (and several are available in the Letters to Camp Store powered by Amazon).
How about this: send your camper a book, written by a kid like them. As it turns out, I am acquainted with two such authors, Citra Tenore (age 12) and Maddie Siegel (who wrote her book when she was age 9).
(See important note at the bottom of this post)
Sharing Current Events
Published July 15, 2015 Educational , Letter ideas , Letters to camp , Letters to camp topics Leave a CommentTags: FIFA, GOP, Letters to camp, New Horizons, Nuclear, Pluto, Politics, Presidential Campaign, What to include in letters, Women's Soccer
Share current events from home. The last ten days have provided unique opportunities to share soccer, political news, space news and more.
In the hustle and bustle of the school year, it
can be hard to share a special moment with your child. And if it seemed hard when they were home, you’d think it would be just about impossible when they weren’t even at home. And yet, letters – and emails – give you a unique opportunity to share experiences with your camper in a very personal way.
Let me explain.
Let’s go back to, say April. It’s 5:30 pm and you’re sitting down for dinner. Your kids come running to the table, rushed because one needs to eat fast so she can hurry back upstairs to study for a test, another can’t wait to text with their friend and the third child keeps stealing glances at their iPhone (which is supposed to be off the dinner table!) all through the meal. You barely serve the mashed potatoes before the kids start to get antsy and before you know it, another meal is over. It’s pretty hard to get air time to discuss, school, what’s new, and especially world events.
A whole new ball game
But when you’re writing letters to camp, it’s a whole new ball game. Sure you need to tell your son how the Red Sox are doing (not good), keep them updated on the weather (rainy), etc. BUT your letters also provide the perfect opportunity to mix in a bite-size dose of current events, science, and sports, as the last 10 days have shown. Continue reading ‘Sharing Current Events’
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