Summer is around the corner and the questions on many parents’ minds for the next 2-3 months are “What do I do to keep my child entertained and engaged during the summer? and “How do I keep them active and off the screens? Summer camps are essential when it comes to answering these questions for parents. By offering engaging, entertaining activities and social emotional challenges, your child is bound to find the spark that keeps them interested and active in their learning long after school is out.
1. Building Friendships
Summer camps are the perfect venue for building connections and forging friendships between children. Children sign up with old friends and leave with new as they play games, work through problems, and create lasting bonds. Seeing children exchange contact information at the end of a camp is the most rewarding experience, knowing they are fashioning a connection that will grow with them.
2. Intellectual Creativity
During summer camp, your child has the opportunity to create, build, and develop their own curiosity and creativity by engaging in activities that enhance their mind. Whether that is following a set of LEGO® instructions, engaging in new activities, or creating their own original designs, they are enhancing a skillset that will follow them into their future.
3. Problem Solving
Problem solving is a challenge that your child will face for the rest of their lives. Learning to problem solve at an early age by working through problems with their peers to find solutions will allow your child’s mind to develop this skill and keep problem-solving long into their future. Children have ample opportunities at camps with Snapology through our programs such as robotics, engineering and fun themed programs!
4. Soft Skills (Collaboration, Communication)
During camp, your child will learn to work with peers from diverse backgrounds ensuring their ability to work together and communicate. Whether it is to engineer a LEGO® build, problem solve to find solutions, or to just have fun, soft skills are a necessary part of life. Learning to enhance these skills in a fun atmosphere will make certain they understand the benefit of these skills.
5. Fun!
Children come to summer camp to be engaged in sports, games, robotics, art and many other activities, but the most important thing they will do is have fun! Running, playing, collaborating and working out their energy in a healthy and safe way is a boon to parents knowing they have left their children in an environment that will help them flourish in creativity, excellence, and life-long skills.
6. Critical Thinking
Watch your child’s ability to think critically grow as they work through problems, analyze solutions, and develop innovative ideas. These critical thinking skills will follow them as they move through their school career and into the future that they build for themselves.
7. Avoid Summer Slump
As many parents are aware, summer can be full of bored children with too much time and energy on their hands. Children can spend many hours on screens, dulling their minds with countless hours of shows. Summer camp is the solution to this! Summer play and activities that keep childrens’ minds sharp and their interest high is the perfect mixture of bright minds and healthy bodies.
8. Broadening Their Horizons
Summer camps are a recipe for new hobbies, innovative play, and independence. Through summer camp, your child may try something they have never had the opportunity to experience before. Allowing your child to expand their current pastimes and interests keeps them active in pursuing new skills and activities.
9. Confidence Building
At summer camp, children have daily opportunities to build their confidence. At Snapology camps, children build their confidence by constructing and sharing their creations, trying new things, and working through new and tough challenges. Encouraging failure as much as success allows them to persevere, build grit, and try, try, try again!
10. Flexibility
As parents and educators, we know that children communicate in different ways. While working side by side with their peers, your child will learn to collaborate, adapt, and be flexible when new challenges arise. This flexibility will not only give them new opportunities for growth, it will help them understand others better.
Snapology of Harrisonburg recognizes that summer camps are a wonderful opportunity for academic enrichment, social development, and FUN! Our STEAM-themed summer camps can help build the blueprint for your child’s future through interactive, hands-on challeneges and activities. Summer camps are just around the corner – enroll today!
Thank you to our friends at Snapology of Lehi, Utah for this blog post.
