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This week’s Theme Thursday was bursting with excitement with Color Wars! Dressed in their team colors and full of camp spirit, the kids spent the day participating in friendly competition. During our mid-morning break, the field came alive with relay races that had everyone cheering! Campers took turns sprinting and bear crawling their way to […]

After an unforgettable week of games, challenges, and nonstop excitement, Color War has officially come to a close at Short Hills—and what a competition it was! Yesterday morning, campers gave it their all in the final round of events, including team handball, a high-energy game of knockout, and a classic egg-and-spoon relay race. Camp spirit was at an all-time high, […]

This past week, the Youngsters have been putting their creativity and coding skills to the test in our Youngster WeDo class! The campers began by assembling their Lego race cars, a task that develops fine motor, creativity, and problem solving skills. Next, the Youngsters used WeDo coding to program their Lego cars to move forwards, […]

It’s been an exciting day at Short Hills, packed with hands-on learning, creative thinking, and the launch of one of camp’s favorite traditions—Color War! In our Python programming class, campers have been hard at work learning how to write interactive code. Today, they created a number-guessing game that randomly selects a number and asks the user […]

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 […]