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An Amazing First Week in Saddle River Wow! This first week at the International Ivy Camp in Saddle River was incredible! We may be a small location but we are doing BIG things. Some of the activities include, bridge building, boat making, sheep brain and frog dissections, chicken leg anatomy, speech making, serious chess competitions, […]

We had a fun time yesterday! Summit had a wide variety of costumes not just from the teachers, but the students too! The campers had a lot of fun being superheroes, doctors, monsters, and more! For break we went to the playground, and played Gaga ball later in the day. We even had Jeff, come […]

 For all projects, we used Cricut Design Space, an application that has a canvas for users to design their own projects from scratch with thousands of images, shapes, and text options– or users can pick from many pre-set templates and designs. For our last couple of days, we worked on making t-shirts and sweatshirts using […]

Today campers and staff members got creative with their Halloween costumes for this week’s theme Halloween in July. It was a fun start as campers and staff members try to guess each other’s costumes at PUDO. During break we created some fun pumpkin crafts, and played our site favorite break game shark and minnows. Finishing […]

The post was made by the Creative Writing Class at Somerset during Week 4 of the 2024 summer. Q: What do you enjoy most about working with the campers/International Ivy? I love being silly and joking around. I also enjoy students who are filled with joy and kindness. My absolute favorite thing is at the […]

International Ivy is a summer enrichment program where campers have fun AND learn from the best teachers you have ever heard of! It is a place where campers can make new friends while exploring topics related to STEAM.  Every week campers can earn Ivy points by helping out other campers or adults, going above and […]

You may have heard of Christmas in July, but here at International Ivy we put our own spin on the holidays and celebrate the spookiest day of the year in the heat of the summer! Why would we wait until October to celebrate one of the greatest days of the year when instead, we can […]

This week at Wayne Camp, we have Murder Mystery Creation. Where the campers work together to solve mysteries while also learning how to create their own. I asked a couple of campers what their murder mystery was about, and they responded by giving me a quick blurb. The descriptions are below: First, we will begin […]

This week in Short Hills, it’s Halloween in July! Our campers showed up today in their favorite Halloween costumes. We started off our morning with some Halloween tunes and games! We were so excited to see all the amazing costumes. We love all the Halloween spirit our campers brought today, they never disappoint! Happy Halloween!

Camp Newspaper is a new class for 2024! Students of this class serve as the reporters of all things International Ivy at Basking Ridge. They write stories, take pictures, and layout the content for a newspaper to be published. The teacher, Melissa, guides students through the creative and journalistic process. Here is a snippet of […]