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Yesterday at Short Hills, it wasn’t just summer, it was Halloween in July! Campers arrived in costume, ready to celebrate with a full day of spooky, silly, and action-packed activities. From princesses and aliens to athletes and Star Wars characters, the creativity was on full display across camp. The day kicked off with a Star […]
Our Mad Engineers created and combined triangles into circles to explore the foundation of buildings. They tested if a bridge made of industry-grade materials (pasta and playdough) can avoid collapsing under a water bottle’s weight. From balancing bottles to launching ping pong balls, the campers were tasked with creating a Trebuchet, or a ping pong […]
Howdy, the Wild, Wild, West (Summit) celebrated Theme Thursday with a Country Western themed day packed with rowdy fun. The westerners certainly did not disappoint with their outfits. Campers came dressed head to toe in denim, boots, props, and a plethora of fantastic hats! During break time, the westerners learned how to line dance, a […]
Today at camp, we had an action-packed superhero-themed day! Our campers truly embraced their inner heroes, with costumes ranging from scientists to super-powered moms. To kick off the day, we hosted a Make-Your-Own Superhero Contest where campers earned Ivy Points for their creativity! They got to design their dream hero, choose a unique superpower, and […]
Fun in the Sun! Or Sun in the Fun? With Hurricane Debby on the way, our theme for this week: Fun in the Sun has been literally RAINED on. However, our campers came dressed to impress and we’re making the best of terrible weather! Our campers loved calling it “Sun in the Fun!” The campers […]
This week in Short Hills, we have our popular youngster shoebox theater class and we are so excited! This class is always so much fun! We enjoyed making puppets and participating in skits and entertaining our audiences. We made a simple shoebox into a puppet theater. We designed a background and theater curtains as a […]
This week in Short Hills, it’s color wars week! All week campers have been earning points for their team. To celebrate color wars week, campers wore their designated team color for theme Thursday and participated in fun relay races during break! Campers got to participate in Kam Jam, ping pong ball and spoon race, hopping […]
Our campers in War and Peace Games had so many great things to say for our blog! War and Peace Games is a fun interactive experience where we all have our own countries to control. We can interact with other nations and make choices about things like our military and economy. It is enjoyable because […]
This week in Short Hills, our campers got to dress up to represent different countries around the world! In honor of around the world day, we played a fun game of capture the flag during break! Campers were split into two teams, one team was trying to capture an American flag and bring it back […]
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 […]