It is our pleasure to welcome Camp Green Acres/MyCamp to our blog. They are posting a video every day this summer. [Green Acres/MyCamp is a day camp located outside of Markham, ON. Their summer video blog can be found here.] Travis AllisonTravis Allison is the Social Media Manager at Our Kids Media. A father [...]
Ready to wear
Katie Weber
Our Ready to Wear fashion design camp was visited today by designer Katya Revenko of Desperately Different. Katya shared a bit about her history (she’s been designing since she was 5 years old!), what inspires her, and about her design process. Katya also brought a couple of pieces from her collection to show us, including [...]
“Hanging” out in the Aerial Park @ Camp Muskoka
pritter
It was a beautiful Monday afternoon; the sun was shining, the wind was blowing, and most importantly, the bugs weren’t biting. On the first full day of the beginning of Camp Muskoka’s 2010 Summer Camp season, we headed off; water bottles in hand and maybe even a drop of sweat upon our brow. Before we [...]
Rockin' Start!
Katie Weber
Our first week of Design Camp is off to a rockin’ start! Participants in this week’s Rock Star camp were excited to have Andrew McCracken of Doublenaut drop by for a visit this afternoon to share his passion for graphic design and to show us some of the band posters he has made. The campers [...]
Camp Photos – a thought for Parents
Travis Allison
I was thrilled to see this summer camp photography comic strip from Edge City in a recent blog post. As we have discussed in CampNation (our podcast for summer camp directors and professional camp staff), camps are working to find a good balance between showing parents what is going on for their child at [...]
CampNation Facebook Contest Winner – Spencer Blake
Travis Allison
Facebook Contest – CampNation Music Video Winner We are excited to announce the winner of our CampNation Video contest: Spencer Blake with his original song “Take it Slow”. Spencer grew up at Cairn (see Cairn’s listing on camps.ca) and this summer he is working as their head of Adventure Programming. Spencer has won our grand prize: a Toshiba laptop and [...]
