Hey, Camp Fans!

We’re announcing the winners to our ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest right here on the Blog. Come back each weekday to see who else won; it might just be you. This year, we have more prizes, more laughs, and more fun! And, now for our third $50 winner—congratulations to….

Gigi S.!

Camp was amazing! The first day me, and my bunk mates won a trophy. We had a lot of contests to win the trophy. The first contest was a thing where you have to come up with a word that starts with the letter they give you before the other team does. Next contest you take 1 person from each team, blindfold them, and give them a pool noodle. You have to work with your team to get 3 clothespins on the person blind folded with a pool noodle on the other team. If they hit you with a pool noodle you have to go to the back. I was up first, and I could not believe my first try I got one on. Contest 3 was all about telephone the game they whispered to each team a word at the end it still has to be that word there was 3 rounds of it. Then all the teams aka cabins met up in a big circle to decide who competes in the final contest you get in by winning those 3 rounds. Me and my team were in the final round! It was me, and my team aka girls cabin woohoo vs. another team aka boys cabin. The 4 contest! The last contest was one player from each team gets shaving cream put all over their face. On my team that was me! The rest of the team tries to throw Cheetos on the shaving cream. At the end they count the Cheetos the team with the most Cheetos on the shaving cream person's face wins. Of course my team won woohoo go girls cabin! The one other thing I for sure had fun at is the blob! Me and my friend named the blob bob. We bowed, and said all hail king bob the blob. At first I was excited, and scared at the same time, but when I went on the blob I knew it was meant to be. The water was perfect that week. It was the best first sleepaway camp ever! I am going to go there every year!

Thanks for this great submission, Gigi—woohoo! It’s wonderful to hear that you had SO MUCH FUN this summer! Camp Highlander sounds like an awesome place filled with awesome people. I’m glad you enjoyed yourself so much—especially during your time on king bob! I wonder how many Cheetos you had on your face! Haha! Sounds like you had a blast.

If any of our readers want to take a closer look at Highlander, check it out by clicking right here. Come back tomorrow to find out who our fourth $50 winner of this year’s ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest is! Who knows?! It might be you! If your entry is announced a winner, you’ll receive an email with the gift certificate code once all other winners have been disclosed. As always, thanks for reading!

- John

Hey, Camp Fans!

As the summer season makes its subtle shift into fall, it’s nice to look back and reflect on the fun that you had. That’s why, when the camp season is over, we’re always excited here at Everything Summer Camp to keep with our traditional ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest.

We decided to up the ante this year! We have ten winners for prizes of $50, $100, and the grand prize of $300! Today we're announcing the first of our six $50 winners.

Today’s winner is JW! Congratulations, JW! You’re our first $50 prize winner! JW spent some fun summer days at Camp Hayo-Went-Ha this year for camp! Read all about it in his kind of hilarious letters home...

Thanks again for your submission, JW! We’re so glad to hear how much you loved your time at camp after the first day. Way to stick with it in the beginning. Isn't it amazing how quickly things can turn around at summer camp?! Good thing you brought some comforting friends along like Green and MI Dog!

For anyone else interested in Hayo-Went-Ha, you can check it out right here. Tune in the rest of this month as we continue to announce our prize winners. Tomorrow we'll have our second $50 winner. Once our winners have been announced they’ll receive an email with the gift certificate code. As always, thanks for reading, Camp Folks!

- John

Hey, Camp Fans—Hard brake! *URRRRrrrrrrrr!*

If you’re reading this and you plan on participating in our ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest but have yet to actually enter your story, then stop what you’re doing and visit our submissions page right now—click here! Take your entry, put it into the submission field, fill out the other fields, and hit submit. Or you can opt to upload your camp story too—whichever method you prefer.

Today is the last day for taking submissions, however, so make with the haste before the cutoff cuts you out of this year’s contest!

We want to hear from as many of our readers as possible! This has quickly become one of our favorite times of the year; not only does it mark the close of our busy season, but we also get to hear about all the accomplishments and friendships you made as well as what fears you may have overcome or simply what your favorite part was about going to summer camp!

We hope you’re as excited as we are to find out who among our participants will be winning the gift card prizes. To reiterate the breakdown from previous posts, there will be the first round of winners made up of six participants who won the $50 gift card to our site. Next, there will be three $100 gift card winners. And then we have our grand prize winner of a $300 gift card.

Make sure you don’t miss out on the fun! Tune in a couple weeks from now on Tuesday, September 7^th when we reveal our first random winner and publish their entry right here on the Blog to kick off this year’s ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest collection. Maybe it’ll be yours! Looking forward to it, Camp Fans! And, as always, thanks for reading!

- John

Hey, Camp Fans!

Summer gets busy fast—especially near the end; we all want to fit in as much fun in the sun as we can before the season ends. But make sure you don’t miss out on the opportunity to share your camp stories with our widespread camp community, not to mention win a cool participatory prize from Everything Summer Camp!

Throughout the month of August we’ve been and will continue to be taking your submissions into our ‘Share Your Camp Story’ Contest here at Everything Summer Camp. Get your memories written up or make a video and send your submissions into us—our final call is just exactly two weeks away on the last minute of August 31.

Don’t forget: Everyone who submits gets a $20 gift certificate to Everything Summer Camp as well as a chance to be one of our ten, random, and lucky winners! Once we have everyone’s submissions, we’ll randomly select our winners and publish each of the winners one day at a time leading up to our grand prize winner of a $300 Everything Summer Camp Gift Certificate.

We’ll also have three winners of the second-place, $100 Gift Certificate and six winners of our third-place, $50 Gift Certificate.

Storytelling is an extremely useful means for campers to cement all the fun memories and valuable skill sets that they learned at camp. It’s great to review the new experiences you’ve had to help yourself process and reflect on what you learned. Need help with some ideas of what to talk about? Check out the initial Contest announcement I wrote last month. 

Please include in your submissions your first name and your last name initial, the camp you visited, and how many summers you’ve spent at camp. Parents are more than welcome to send us their submissions based on camp from their perspective or their own camp experiences as well.

We love hearing your summer camp stories and can’t wait to receive a fresh new collection of stories from this year! Share your stories by clicking right here. And, as always, thanks for reading, Camp Fans!

- John

Hey, Camp Fans!

Not only are kids back from summer camp, but summer camp itself is back! Yes, the vast majority of summer camps are back up and running for the 2021 season after shutting down for the summer along with the rest of the world. I hope you all had a blast with camp reopening this year. And, along with the reopening of camp, comes the reopening of our ‘Share You Camp Story’ Contest!

We can’t wait to hear what a blast you all had this summer! With our return, we’re making just a couple adjustments to the contest. First of all, we’re upping our prizes—including our participatory prize which, as of this year, is a $20 Gift Card for our online store! See the rest of our prizes for ten lucky winners below. Secondly, we’ve created the option this year to submit your camp story to us in video format. Tell your camp story to a camera, upload your recorded video to YouTube, and leave a link to your video in place of your written submission.

If you'd like to submit your camp story in video form, maybe you'd want to include some props. You can deliver your story while sitting on your camp trunk or wearing your summer camp tee. Or show us the stuffed animal that brought you comfort while you were away!

What About?
There’s an endless list of things you could write about for your submission—a list of everything you ate while at camp, for instance. But the best submissions are written about the parts of camp that meant the most to you. Take your time to really set the scene for us. Tell us about your most memorable moment or talk about all the great people you met. Maybe you want to write about the camp you went to and why you think it’s the best!

Maybe you want to include what it was like to be denied the opportunity to go to camp last year and how it was to have the opportunity back this summer. Maybe you DID go to camp last year. In that case, how were things different this year? It may be a crummy part of our history, but we ARE recording history with these camp stories.

If you're still unsure what to share, take a look at our previous submissions by clicking right here and maybe you'll get some inspiration!

No matter what you choose to share, we’d love to hear it! Include your first and last name as well as the name of the camp you visited and how long you’ve been going to camp. Submissions must be 150 words to qualify, but go for more if want! If you're submitting a video, make sure the video is at least one minute and thirty seconds.

Submit your entry by clicking here. There is no entry fee. If you're under the age of 18, you'll need permission from your parent or guardian to participate in this Contest. We’re taking submissions from now until the very last minute of August.

And speaking of parents—we certainly love hearing from you as well; so don’t hesitate to enter your own submission if you’d like to share your own story. How did the experience go on your end? Has your kid shown a positive change in character and behavior? How did you cope with your camper being away? Did you learn any lessons? Tell us anything you want, really—we’re all ears!

The Prizes!
For this contest we’ll be picking ten random winners. Our randomized winner for first place will receive our top prize of a $300 gift card to use on our online store! Three more winners will receive $100 gift cards to our site. And six random winners will receive $50 gift cards. All other participants will get a $20 gift card to make everyone a winner! 

Tell us how camp went and submit your stories to be shared right here on the Blog! Check out the entry form for further details and, as always, thanks for reading!

- John