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.
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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
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)
Kids Joke Sites
Published June 29, 2015 Funny , Funny letters , Jokes , Letter ideas , Letters to camp 1 CommentTags: Clean Jokes, Funny, Jokes, Kids Jokes, Letters to camp, Overnight camp, riddles, sleep-away camp, sleepaway camp, Summer camp
Humor: the top challenge when writing to kids at summer camp
Did you know that writing funny letters to kids at summer camp is the top challenge for letter-writers? The good news: relief is sight…
One of the best ways to amuse your summer camper is to include a joke or two in your letters and emails. Following is our updated list of kids joke sites, most of which have clean jokes that you can send to your younger campers.
Jokes are like a gift that keeps on giving: once you share a joke with your camper, they can share it with their friends too. And it will give you something to talk in your letters as well. Continue reading ‘Kids Joke Sites’
A Good Disconnect
Published July 19, 2012 Electronics , Letters to camp , Musings , Opinion , Overnight camp , Parenting 1 CommentTags: Cell phones, Email, Hollee Actman Becker, Kidsicknes, Letters to camp, Mashable, Musings, Overnight camp, Parenting, Slate, sleepaway camp, Suburb Babble, Summer camp, Time
When I was growing up, kids didn’t have the constant electronic tether to their parents that they do today. It caused the inevitable problems of course – for instance, never knowing where my brother was at dinner time (and having to call everyone in the neighborhood to find out), going to the wrong mall entrance to get picked up and missing our mom, not knowing when she’d get there to pick us up, etc.
CampLib #3: Toilet Trouble!
Published July 15, 2012 CampLibs , CampLibs , Downloads , Fill-in-the-blank letter , Funny , Letter ideas , Letters to camp Leave a CommentTags: Camp letter ideas, Camper, CampLib, CampLibs, fill-in-the-blank letter, Funny, Funny letters to campers, Letters to camp, Mad Lib, Overnight camp, Parenting, sleepaway camp, Summer camp
Even More Fill In the Blank Fun
If you’re in a hurry, click here to download. Read on for more details.
Our first two CampLibs™ (Wake Up and About Your Room) were so popular that we’ve created our next CampLib in the series, Toilet Trouble! Continue reading ‘CampLib #3: Toilet Trouble!’
CampLib #2: About Your Room…
Published June 16, 2011 CampLibs , CampLibs , Download , Fill-in-the-blank letter , Funny , Funny letters , Letters to camp 8 CommentsTags: Camp letter ideas, Camper, CampLibs, fill-in-the-blank letter, Funny, Funny letters to campers, Letters to camp, Mad Lib, Overnight camp, Parenting, sleepaway camp, Summer camp
More Fill In the Blank Silliness
If you’re in a hurry to get the CampLib, just download here. Read on for more details!
Our last, er, first CampLib(tm) was such a hit that we’re out with our next in the series – About Your Room! Continue reading ‘CampLib #2: About Your Room…’
You’re Not Alone
Published July 29, 2010 Funny letters , Jokes , Letter-writing advice , Letters to camp , Musings Leave a CommentTags: Camper, Funny, Funny letters to camp, Letters to camp, Overnight camp, sleep-away camp, Summer camp
Frustrated with letter-writing?
Let’s face it, this whole camp letter-writing thing does not come naturally in this age of 140-character spurts of insight. Heck, putting pen (quill?) to paper seems downright, well, medieval!
And the letter-writing requirement only multiplies the longer your child is at camp (our kids spend 7 weeks) – and the more kids you have. My poor mom wrote 4 letters 6 days a week. She told me that she spent entire mornings writing them. The worst part – the more she wrote, the less she had to write about (she couldn’t talk about her mornings after all!)
But it’s OK. You’re not alone. We’ve all been there (and if we haven’t, well then something’s not quite right). Heck, I think of letter writing as a battle of wits. I spend the entire summer trying to outwit my kids with clever, funny, witty stuff in each and every letter. By this time of summer, I’m zapped! Trying to squeeze humor out of routine is tough. Inventing stories is hard. It got so bad last year that I left the letter-writing to my dog.
Need ideas for more interesting letters?
Try humor or injecting interesting tidbits or mixing it up.
Although it’s not always easy, letters to camp is not a war or attrition. It’s an act of love to your camper. Inject love and humor and authenticity and you’ll have great letters to camp.
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