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Summer Camp Archery
So let’s say you get to summer camp and you’ve never tried archery. Sure you’ve seen it on TV and you know it means pulling back an arrow in a bow, releasing it while aiming at a target, and hopefully hitting the target in the cent...
Summer’s for Getting Outside
In the recent debate over how many days kids should stay in school, it’s often claimed that they could learn more by shortening the summer vacation. More days studying math, science, arts and reading would make our kids more educated, it’...
Praise for Camp
Reviewing the parent survey comments about last summer’s camp program, we were pleased to hear such positive feedback. There were lots of comments, so we thought we’d share a few. “We are convinced that sending our daughter to Rock...
4th of July… Camp Style
The 4th of July began with everyone waking up to the sound of horses running down the cabin lines, and the equestrian staff yelling “The British are coming; wake up; wake up!!” Dressed in festive red, white and blue, the riders and their...
Middlers Go to Sliding Rock
Yesterday we took the entire Middler Line to Sliding Rock, the wonderful natural water slide nearby in the Pisgah National Forest. We loaded up all 75 (5-6 grade) campers and counselors and had an exciting afternoon and evening with lots of trips do...
The First Day of the First Session!
Campers! Counselors! Trips and Activities! We’re all here and ready to go. It feels so good to finally have camp open and to see everything in motion. After spending all year preparing for summer, thinking about the girls returning, and arra...
Crazy Fun!
Whoa, what’s going on here!? Is it a craft project gone horribly wrong? The results of a crazy painting game? A strange spa treatment of some sort? A super intense outdoor food fight? Nope. It’s actually a glimpse into one of our a...
Weaving at Camp
The most popular weaving activities for children at camp are the table-top looms. These are small weaving looms, usually between 6 and 24 inches wide, that sit on a table rather than standing on the floor. The shafts that move the “heddles...
Ya Gotta Love S’mores!
Let’s talk s’mores… Don’t you just love ‘em? You know how to make them. Take two graham crackers and a piece of plain milk chocolate, roast a marshmallow on a stick over a fire, and make a chocolate marshmallow sandw...
Fun Arts and Crafts
Here is one of the arts and crafts activities the girls enjoyed this summer at camp. Can you tell what it is? Pine cones tied to a branch with string— it’s a mobile. What’s fun is using different sized pine cones and then arranging...
Favorite Outdoor Activities for Children
Outdoors activities, like overnight camping, are one of the things children really look forward to at camp. Getting together with friends, hiking into the woods, setting up a campsite, having dinner around a campfire, making s’mores, and sleep...
Tie dyes are always in fashion!
One craft at summer camps that’s always popular is making a tie dye t-shirt. It’s certainly a classic thing to do, and while you might think of swirls and colors on shirts from the 1970s, tying and dyeing cloth is common all over the worl...
A gym sport game we love
It looks like a crazy, intense game of Dodge Ball! All the balls, the teams, the people zooming around grabbing, ducking, weaving, jumping and of course laughing the whole time. Games and other activities like this are always fun down at the gym, a...
It’s Archery!
A classic thing to do at sleep away camps— learn archery —and for girls at Rockbrook, it’s very popular. Whether you’re 6, 16 or somewhere in between, using a bow and arrow, and getting good at it, is really fun. A big part of it is...
